Does is work?
Yes. After a giveaway has ended you need the winners permission to delete the giveaway.
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If someone writes "you should agree to delete the giveaway..." this is not binding. It is a request, nothing more. If the winner does not agree to the deletion, there is no deletion.
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For me it's mostly a matter of style:
I'm completely fine with "In the unlikely event the key turns out dupe / invalid I'd highly appreciate if you agree to delete the GA."
However I'm rather annoyed about disclaimers like "By entering you agree to delete this GA if anything goes wrong."
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A highly gentlemanly n scholarly approach. . .I breathe it n swear by it ( on SG mostly ofc, but it could be ubiquitous, for all i know, for other spheres n walks of life). it goes without saying, more often than not it goes unappreciated, and in some cases (1st hand xp) creates open hostility - coz ppl are undeserving, spoiled dicks. but what can you do! fortunately, most can be reasoned with. for the rest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'm completely fine with "In the unlikely event the key turns out dupe / invalid I'd appreciate if you agree to delete the GA."
However I'm rather annoyed about disclaimers like "By entering you agree to delete this GA if anything goes wrong."
Indeed, that is my opinion on the matter as well :)
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I'm sure even the winner would feel unfair if he wins an AAA game but somehow the key isn't working and he lets the giveaway creator delete it.
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I just stated facts, I didn't take any sides.
that being said, I think both sides should just be nice in such a situation. The winner should probably agree to delete the giveaway, if the creator asked for it. The creator on the other hand should indeed ask nicely, and not try to act as if it was a rule. So, he should rather write "Could you please agree to delete...?" instead of "If it doesn't work, you agree...!".
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I remember the first time(?) we had a trade and the keys got revoked after redeeming(because of my dear! region). U just gave me a CD key for being reasonable/patient and I was amazed by that action!
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Then don't put up a giveaway, hand the keys you're unsure to some friends or dump them somewhere in a thread.
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You can't just delete one of your giveaways when it already has a winner. You always need the agreement of the giveaway winner (preferably posted in the giveaway so support can see this) to delete a giveaway after it has ended.
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No. It doesn't change anything officially, and they still need your permission to delete.
It's more of an etiquette thing where the person isn't 100 % sure about the key, but has a decent enough reason to believe it works and still wants to do something nice by giving it away. They're trying to clarify that chance exists and leave it up to you whether you want to enter knowing that (and hopefully encourage you to be decent if it doesn't work since you're aware and "agreeing,' even if non-binding).
Whether you actually agree to delete the giveaway or not is still entirely up to you. Though--in most cases--you're probably being a real jerk if you demand the key instead of agreeing to delete since they did try to warn you and their intentions were good.
Well... unless they slap that sort of warning on every giveaway. In that case, they're the jerkass for trying to use it like some sort of legal protection freeing them from the same rules everyone else plays by just in case any key doesn't work when we all face that risk.
The manners part is just discretion and context. The rules are always the same though: its up to the winner.
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all that stuff can be fixed if Steam makes the redeeming procedure in 2 steps(1: check the key, 2: activate the key-confirm activation))
just like what Sony did for Playstation
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People should read more, if you create a giveaway saying something and they don't read, the problem should be on the winner side, not the giveaway creator.
I've had to get the permissions to delete a giveaway 3 times because people can't read.
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I am totally okey with creator saying with soft tone and some creators abuse that i just saw a creator creating a train with more that 20 games all saying keys might not work and if keys do not work you must agree to delete the giveaway. I think it is little abusive to do it that way.
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That's not "because people can't read", that's because you can't make your own rules anymore (you used to be able to a long time ago, if I recall). It's the creator's responsibility to deliver a working key for the promised game ;)
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Ah, yes the region locks are such a bother! Thought you were also talking about the "you are obliged to agree to delete this giveaway" thing ;)
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People will never forgive you, EVER. I always watch out and try to remember what keys I used, what I gave to to others, e.t.c. People will NEVER forgive you. Especially the giveaways that say "no not sent gifts".
I made a stupid thread regarding my worriness about it, and guess what? People called out I'm an idiot. So don't be stupid as well.
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Does it really matter that he/she/apachehelicopter wrote that? Is that binding or they just kind themselves?
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