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Ban this crap?

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These "games" have already been marked with **, making giveaways for these 0 CV. That's quite enough, in my opinion

2 hours ago
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I didn't know that - so that's good to hear. Hopefully anyone trying to 'game' SG finds that out the hard way...
I don't even know why it irritated me seeing them... Guess I just woke up in a bad mood, lol.

2 hours ago
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Overpriced? Rude. They obviously paid 50$ for it.

Also I wouldn't link the Giveaways directly if I were you, calling out users and all. Maybe just link the trash's SG page. Anyways my workaround is blacklisting users who are notorious for many of these 'games'. But yes, it never stops reappearing, no matter how many of these you hide. These games keep getting made :(

I wish we could BL publishers instead.

2 hours ago
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I'm not sure I agree about using direct GA links if that's just your opinion - but have updated the links as you suggest in case it's against the rules? I was trying to call out the type of game, not the user specifically - and links to the game actually calls out more users?

I agree with you about banning the publishers though!

2 hours ago
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Someone told me to not do that when as a newbie, I shared a few public GA links in The Thread. I suppose this link is technically SG's front for a game, so it should be fine.

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👍

1 hour ago
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they should have no value what so ever on this site and cost 0p to join

2 hours ago
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I agree with that - CelestialFrog above says they give zero value to the creator - which is good. And anyone entering should check what they're giving 50p for and I agree 0p would be more appropriate.

2 hours ago
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I've won some, including this one: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/iFlcC/hidden-prototype-top-down-3d/winners and it's definitely worth the 50 points I paid for it. No need to ban things you don't like. You can hide them if they bother you.

2 hours ago
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Fair enough - valid opinion! Just interested to see what the majority think.

1 hour ago
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They should not be banned here, they should be banned over at Valve.

1 hour ago
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I thought Steam had banned a bunch before, that were clear asset flips / money laundering scams etc. I guess it's an on-going battle for them!

1 hour ago
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Agreed

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I dunno, I think they are charming. Not 50 euro/point worth, but if it was 2-3, I'd most likely enter them all

1 hour ago
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Personally I think the keys belong in the orphan key thread or just getting deleted.

Even so actually banning them (on this site) doesn't matter. People entering the giveaways are either bots or should know what kind of game they are getting. Someone is going to want it even if it's just a game collector after the +1. The rest can just hide the game or blacklist the user.

The gifters get nothing anyway. Maybe short level boost if the game hasn't been caught by the mods yet, but they are unlikely to win anything in that time.

However it would be mildly convenient if they didn't show up in the total for gifts sent.

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The gifters get nothing anyway. Maybe short level boost if the game hasn't been caught by the mods yet, but they are unlikely to win anything in that time.

Sadly, partly, wrong.
Some of this games will not be set to reduced or free, and for the ones that get set to it, it takes partly years..., because their price is constant high and not goes up and down.
Some members of my group have a user in their focus that is at the moment level 7 or 8 only from around 6 of such GAs.
It's absolute insane but that's the handling at the moment.

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