Now we can manually maintain a list of "equivalent appids", this gives us power to do the following things:
- Check games that change appid (example: The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom: Deluxe Gold Edition).
- Check games that activate as RU or other region restricted (example: Dishonored).
- Check games that has a different name (and appid) in europe and usa (example: chess vs mate).
- Check the base game for GOTY, Deluxe, etc instead of whitelisting them.
As we keep entering more and more "equivalents" in the table the more accurate the "not activated" tool will be and the less whitelist items we'll have.
As always, please report any of this cases if you see them (even if the game is now in the whitelist, I'll remove it and fulfill the equivalence).
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Very cool.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™ Deluxe Edition (app/33229) is currently whitelisted cause it only shows up as Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction(app/33220), at least for me :)
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Added the equivalent and removed from whitelist :)
Thanks for the report!
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Hello, knsys
I'm trying to retake a little place on SteamGift and i saw i was banned from SGTools, i don't know where to resquest it so i ask you there :
Would you be ok to unban me please ? cause first of all i really do'nt know why i've been banned but nevermind, this doesn't matter to me i would just like to continue to send/win key.
Thank you
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You leaked a giveaway url from a protected sgtools train.
This is one of the few cases that gets you a permanent ban on sgtools.
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Is there anyway to get unbanned or to have a secound chande ? I just don't remember what i've done but if you say i leaked a giveaway its probably true.
Hope i'll get unbanned.
Have a nice day
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Penalties for leaking a giveaway url are permanent and final, sorry.
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Hey guys,I didn't even know about this tool until another user contacted me about 2 falso positives,if you run the tool you'll see 2 games non activated,and if you check my profile you'll see them there,
one game hasnt got a store page any more,I guess from region naming or something? It's has "nazi" on the store page,my game has"nazi" from the naming removed,must have been german version I guess. (Sniper Elite: Zombie Army)
The other,store page shows it regularly owned,the tool doesn't register it (SiN Episodes: Emergence)
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Added the german equivalences to the tool and now it shows them as activated.
Thanks for the report!
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The tool can't detect that I already activated Company of Heroes 2 - The British Forces :(
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For some reason you have "Risen 3 - Complete Edition" listed as bundled, but it's not. I'm level 4 on SG but only level 3 according to your real CV calculator. I think this is why. You can check my info on here and sgtools to see what I mean.
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It was bundled on 2015-09-05 with an effective bundled date of 2015-06-16.
It seems that it got removed from bundled list later, I'll manually remove it from the database
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I see something odd with the game Star Saviors. SGTools reports the game as unactivated for one user, but he/she didn't even win it according to SG.
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It could be a Giveaway that was deleted maybe. Something we would not see but the script may?
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Hi Yirg,
Star Saviors is part of Hyperspace Pack. That user won the pack and the tool checks for every entry inside the pack to be activated.
Since the game has stats on steamcharts it should be visible to sgtools, and there is only one steamid for that game.
Steam Charts: http://steamcharts.com/app/314450
Steam DB: https://steamdb.info/app/314450/
So unless something strange happens, it's a true positive.
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Thanks for the explanation. I still need to improve my manual validation skills :-)
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Someone sent me to this thread, my profile seems to contain some examples of GOTY/Collections that may help you improve your tool.
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hey there.
sgtools shows up that I did not activate the game Ukrainian Ninja (which is true), because I did not receive the game (see screenshot). A fix would be great :-)
ty!
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Happens with multiple copies. Only couple first names in alphabeticall order are shown. Real fix is on cg side.
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In the meanwhile, I think the tool should assume that the unlisted winners marked as Not Received, to prevent this false positive. The current implementation is worse, because causes some people to end up on blacklists and results in needless rerolls.
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The tool enters the GA to view all winners, but it's just not possible with group/ private giveaways like this one.
The tool guesses the more logical answer: "if 3 people marked it as received, the more logical guess is that this user got it too"
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Maybe at least mark it as a potential false positive? It's a bit unfair that because SG has limitations users will end up on blacklists.
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I'm doing the final checks on this. It'll have a section just like whitelisted or Dlc's
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Yes, that's true. 1am is not best time to think about all possible solutions )
Better to mark it as something along 'I've no clue, check by yourself".
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Nothing I can do about it, it's one of the rare cases when the tool is clueless.
When there is more than 3 winners and you are not displayed the tool enter the giveaway to look for the whole list of winners and search your name.
As you can probably guess, that giveaway is a Group Giveaway, so the tool can't enter to parse the full list of winners so it has to take a wild guess. The logical thing to do is: if 3 people mark it as received, the more logical guess is that this user got it too.
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I ran my own name, and Team Fortress 2 is showing up as non-activated on my account, but it's definitely there.
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Added to whitelist! I thought it was already there :\
Thanks for the report
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Darksiders using at least 2 appids, 50620 and 50640; the tool marks the game as not received when you have activated a different appid than the first one.
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Thanks for the report, added it to equivalence table
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Darksiders is still giving "false positives". There is an entry called "Darksiders - Ratings" (app id: 50600 ) as well.
Example: TinyPurple (Sorry Tiny for using you as an example) owns the game (you can see it in his library)
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HELP ME PLZ)
Hello! ia have problem with my lvl. On the site http://www.steamgifts.com/user/sTOnGrOs i have 2lvl. On the site http://www.sgtools.info/sent/sTOnGrOs i have 3lvl.
18.11.15 i have 3lvl on steamgifts and in the evning my lvl decreased second.
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/9r6v9
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I can't access the site due to:
The server returned a "500 Internal Server Error".
Could it be related to people discovering the new (and very cool) giveaway functionality?
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The demand was too high and the DB server started declining connections.
I've raised the maximum number of connections, but the hardware is limited. Let's see how it works out.
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Tweaked some things to lower the stress level of the DB.
Internal Server Error should be less likely to appear for DB congestion issues.
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Hello, I have an issue with:
Grand Theft Auto : Vice City RU
I am not sure if you can help me but the SGTools show that I didn't activate it. It seems to be legit since it doesn't show up in my profile.
Still the weird thing is - I can install and play it. I do see it in my library. When I try to open its community I end up on main page of the shop.
It seems to me that this is the game listed here https://steamdb.info/app/110700/ but when I put this ID in the shop I see nothing but the main page of steam shop. (seems to me that it kinda doesnt' exist in steam anymore - I'm not sure since I didn't find any info about it's delition or sth).
BTW. It also doesn't show my playtime in profile (and doesn't actually exist in "All games" in the profile) though I did play it for several hours.
Even writing to support and selecting GTA:VICE City makes this appear: "you haven't added this to your library"
So the real issue is:
SGTools users constantly report me :D and I don't want to uncheck received beacause I did receive the game which works just fine except not showing up...
If you need any proofs / screenshots / whatever other info - pls msg me.
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You might consider adding this to the equivalence tables or whitelisting it. The games are removed from the giveaway list, in February I believe, but some old giveaways still show up in profiles with the wrong app given. I do not believe Support would consider these violations as most users would not even realize they were not getting the correct version of the game.
Commander: Conquest of the Americas, Published by Paradox Interactive, Currently in Steam store.
https://steamdb.info/app/49300/
Commander: Conquest of the Americas
https://steamdb.info/sub/4857/
Commander: Conquest of the Americas Complete Pack
https://steamdb.info/sub/7383/
Commander: Conquest of the Americas Gold, published by someone else. Not currently in Steam store, now freely available on DLH.net.
https://steamdb.info/app/254020/
Commander: Conquest of the Americas Gold
https://steamdb.info/sub/31137/
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Can you provide me with some user who has problems with those games?
As I see in SteamDB both https://steamdb.info/sub/4857/ and https://steamdb.info/sub/7383/ contains https://steamdb.info/app/49300/ that is currently in store, so those should be safe.
About the gold ones, the second is a package containing only the first. So I guess the first will be the problematic. If we get an user that happens to have this problem we could try to link the gold edition to one of the base (49300 I guess?).
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The "Gold" app (254020) is the real problem. People often gave it away as the base game (49300) (or the complete pack) before they were all removed from the available create giveaway list. (They even still try to give it away as the DLCs for 49300.)
See an example
The user does not own 49300 but owns 254020.
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Thanks for the report.
Added 254020 as an equivalent to 49300 and he is now clean :)
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A question, I am probably missing something obvious but well..
http://www.sgtools.info/sent/kleidophoros
I see 59 gifts sent; should be 90.
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I think it's because it's not the number of gifts sent, it's the number of giveaways done where cv was given.
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So giveaways with less than 5 entries are not listed at all instead of showing 0 cv?
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Not sure, but i think so. It at least looks that way.
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Yeah, I checked my giveaways, it seems that is the case.
Maybe listing them as 0 cv or at least adding some info about this would be better I think.
Then again I am sure someone must have written about this before.
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Giveaway filtering tools leaves beta stage and got an entry in the top menu.
Seems that giveaways during the beta phase are working fine and with the addition of package giveaways the functionality is now completed :)
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Another equivalency table prospect to consider: Time of Shadows: Dawn of Magic 2
Similar to Check vs. Mate / Battle vs. Chess, these are the same core game published by two distinct entities.
Dawn of Magic 2
https://steamdb.info/app/33540
Published only outside North America by 1C Company
Time of Shadows
https://steamdb.info/app/33550
Published in North America only by Kalypso Media Digital
Example profile: http://www.sgtools.info/nonactivated/cojoha
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Added to the equivalency table, thanks for the report! :D
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idk if I am doing something wrong way - tried to use new GA feature for my private GA but it returns me 500 error :(
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I created a giveaway invite only + region restrict (I believe that this is the error reason) and I'm getting the message " Error: Giveaway is not private " in http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/manage
something that can be done?
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This appears to be a DLC that gets erroneously flagged as a missing game:
Natural Selection 2 Deluxe Edition Upgrade
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/25983/
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For some reason, Company of Heroes 2 is being flagged as a not activated win for my account, even though I own the game and have played 2.1 hours of it.
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Different appid's, added to equivalency list and you are clean :)
Thanks for the report
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Used the tool on myself, and just discovered that I won "Fate", but I got "Fate: Undiscovered Realms". Are they supposed to be the same?
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Nope.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/246840/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/276890/
Ask the GA creator for the right key, or ask them to ask support to change the GA to Fate: UR.
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Yes, they are slightly different, but they are not the same. Pity, I did not mean to bother the giveaway creator, but the best solution would be to change the giveaway, if possible. Will try!
Cheers!
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Wow, just discovered the newest giveaway tool. This is going to be very helpful for future giveaways!
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SteamGifts Tools is a tool in a form of a website that lets you do some interesting checks to steamgifts mechanics:
Link www.sgtools.info
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