^This

Also, some might think that SG is a scam :D

^^^ Definitely this.

Eight months ago, I had never heard of SteamGifts. Once I stumbled upon it, I hesitated to join it because I didn't feel I needed to do so. (The games that were being given away were cheap games I could just buy, anyway.) Then I noticed some bigger titles, but I still hesitated because I suspected a scam. Finally, I tried it out, and the rest is history.

Then feel free to leave if that's your attitude.

... You've been here 3 days. What did you expect, that the site would fill up with giveaways for all the AAA games your little heart desires in that time? 80% of giveaways (at least public ones), right about, are for bundle games. Giveaways for AA / AAA titles are few and far between. There are enough giveaway groups to join though, which often share better games to their members. Although it is good and nice of you if your attitude is one of "I only enter for things I truly want to play". I've got quite the amount of wins (and accordant backlog) but every one of those is for a game / DLC I intend to play :)

With the new TF2 update by valve wouldn't most of those TF2 alts become obsolete? (unless there's already a workaround to it :X)

Relatively few people are aware of any benefit to having multiple Steam accounts. Fewer still are able to make use of this information. Even fewer are actually inclined to.

Having enough Steam accounts to even hit double digits, let alone more, is an extreme outlier. Meanwhile, millions and millions of people who are relatively ignorant of digital distribution entirely buy games at local retail outlets and register a Steam account when installing them.

I suspect 75-80% of Steam accounts being normal is an extreme low estimate. Your figure assumes a minimum of over 15 million alternate accounts out of something over 25 million Steam accounts in existence. Meanwhile, peak hours only show typically somewhere around 3 or 4 million active accounts at any given time. It's much safer to assume that something like 15 to 20 million accounts are abandoned, most of those being legitimate.

The proportion of alternate accounts in the active population would be higher, of course, but still shouldn't reach anywhere close to even half. I think even a third of active accounts beggars belief. There's just not enough people with the time and resources to consistently manage and maintain 3 to 4 million alt accounts who don't have better sense than to waste their time and effort on it when they could just as easily make several times more return on their investment with something more productive and useful.

Okay I was just curious because it seemed odd that there was this site for giveaways by steam users and not many people, in comparison to the number of people on steam, actually seemed to use it.

An illusion, my friend. Trick is something a whore does for money.

What's the point? The ill-informed who think they get CV just for posting the giveaway, and not after the winner marks it received?

I like how your post has absolutely nothing to do with the thread.

SteamGifts used to be a closed site with registration by invitation only. We will not be returning to that, and we certainly aren't going to contribute to referral spam across the internet. That's like saying there's not enough dog shit on the sidewalk. The site is publicly accessible and no one can hide it for themselves. We don't need people promoting the site. It's doing just fine; I promise. If we wanted to promote it, we have better ways than trying to turn our userbase into a bunch of little used car salesmen. That's got to be about the worst possible way to try and promote anything.

How about a big, fat, no. The site needs no advertising, it advertises itself. Aside from that, what would the referral reward be? Free CV or something else incredibly unfair and morally wrong? Also, the site's got enough users as is; if you ask me even too many, especially considering how many are shitty users (in multiple ways). Then there's the issue of it becoming extremely expensive to host if you don't want the site to experience more massive slow-down issues, as well as the fact that you'd need a bunch more people devoting a bunch more time in to support of the site.

(I'm against this.)

But hypothetically. Let's say there was a ref system?

What the fuck could be the rewards for getting new members? Only thing I can think of is more points (Which isn't really needed.) or special ref giveaways from cg.(Like if you brought in 5 people or whatever.) Problem is day one people would abuse the special ref giveaways.

So what is your idea. What exactly would they get from refs?

same here. i was looking for free games and betas and other shit. it was in one of the topics of th

I think I first was made aware of the site on SPUF as well, but don't recall exactly.

Or don't have $100 worth in games on their accounts. While ago, in the past i thought this website was some kind of scam system but i was wrong xD

You most likely mean he made a giveaway and expected a free game from it, right?

Fun fact: bundle games weren't even allowed up until a little over a year ago, when the bundle list was implemented at the same time as the contributor system, which, by the way, most people, including everyone on staff, hates. Its days are numbered. Way to go, whining about something completely unrelated to the thread and which you have a poor grasp of in the first place, though.

"Steam warns us not to receive gifts from strangers. Sites like SG basically have the risks."

What part of that sentence makes sense? What does it even mean? We should call in Robert Stack.

Actually it's not your account but only the game

Just a question, do you actually trust this site? Because of the info you're giving others you sound like you don't use the site at all.