Friends laugh at me because I buy games for others.

My brother is constantly on my ass because I "waste money" on giveaways.

My friends laugh at me for buying games at all. Apparently they prefer to just pirate stuff. Blah.

I'd say, probably, to you 'why are you wasting your money?'

Well, it's your money to begin with, by no means, even when I were your closest friend, I could tell what to do with your money. Your choice.

But unlike somebody has said in this topic, I'm not going to leech anyone. I have my full time job, I can afford games myself even the most expensive ones / bundles, and I have my pride. There's no reason to leech.

My friends never complain about my generosity, because they are the recipients a good amount of the time.

My friends are the same, they just don't understand xD Then again, the majority of them are console fanatics so...

Don't take my topic serious. My friends are cool. Obviously friends laugh at friends.

I know, every time I enter a giveaway I just think of what a loser the person must be to make one. I get a good laugh AND a free game, just perfect!

You seem to have a good attitude about it! Thanks for your giveaways, and cheers on being a good friend. Pretty sure most of my friends would get a big ? about the little that I have given away as well, and I don't blame them... but hey, it's a nice feeling. Especially when the people who get the games take the time to thank you and chat with you a bit. :D

The only people who do not understand generosity are those who have never experienced it themselves.

Once someone has been generous to them, they will understand.

Most of my friends would laugh at me if they find out I do buy games :P

Meh, just don't bother about them too much then.

This is the fault of our western capitalistic society. (I'm not saying that communism is good though.) People are taught to be selfish and always try to get more and more physical goods or money for themselves. Since kindergarten they are being told that the best things in life are to be a celebrity or a millionaire (or both).

I get the same thing from ppl for contributing to free software, they ask me "and how much money do you make on this?". When I say that none, but I get other stuff, like better free software for myself and everybody else, they say that somebody else could do it, and I'd get the benefits too. They just don't understand the spirit of a community, of working together and helping each other.

The world would be a so much better place if ppl had less incentive to get filthy rich, but instead didn't try to get more for themselves after they reach a reasonable living standard. Then they could use the extra funds to help other ppl.

I give games directly to my real life friends (about 50% of what I give here combined) off of SG. So they have nothing to complain about (except massive backlogs).

Bumpin' :3

nice, thanks, free bump

talking about giving anything away to someone for reasons of kindness always makes me feel horrible about giving something away to any one, of course thats just me, and i feel once you tell someone else about what you've done, its no longer about the selflessness.

They are just mad because you didn't give the games to them thus making fun of you for giving it to strangers/ covering up the fact they wouldn't be able to do it. Ignore them and find some kind of defect of them that they do with there money to make fun of them as a way of biting back. Honestly it's your money and you can do as you please, they are in no place to judge you honestly. Better then spending money on a bunch of useless stuff like drugs, at least your making ppl happy by gifting them games.

Sounds like they're not friends at all, but rather a group of douchebags disguising themselves as your friends. While I'm certainly not one to suggest ending any sort of relationships on a whim, I would really suggest that you keep your eyes and ears open in hope of some better company.

To be fair, I haven't bought any games specifically to give aw--okay, that's a lie, I did that ONCE. When Bastion was on sale on Humble Bundle, I bought a copy for a friend who had it on his wishlist. I have given away over a dozen games though, but that was all as part of bundles of which I didn't want/need all the games.

Get new friends

don't worry, everybody grows up, eventually :P

Some of my friends used to be laughing at me for BUYING games at all.

Please, don't introduce such friends to SG.