Summer Seal is sleeping (keys are over for this day, but we might come back! You can follow us at twitter @frozenbyte to get the information immediately!). No more keys will be given out today and hopefully it will completely stop. It was abused greatly. Individuals have got hundreds of keys.

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since it's over steamgifts site runs much faster for me.

12 years ago
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Seeing all those Shadowgrounds giveaways made me dizzy. Its too bad people take advantage of others generosity.

12 years ago
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+1

12 years ago
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Thank God for filters.

12 years ago
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Yeah, just activated that shit haha

12 years ago
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I won 12x and received 0 keys. A waste of 6 hours

12 years ago
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Now being a contributor is useless? with hundreds of fake contributors? good joke.

12 years ago
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They'd probably still have keys, and still be running for people who actually want the game, if it wasn't for people playing for hours on end to win copies just for contribution.

I have no problem with contribution, but I do have a problem with the things it causes certain people to do.

12 years ago
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pls give me cdkey to this game :D

12 years ago
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No, shower lady.

12 years ago
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OH NO FREE GAMES, QUICK SOMEONE STOP IT! Seriously, suck a weird thing to complain about.

12 years ago
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Can you prove that any one particular individual got one hundred keys (let alone multiple hundreds)?

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12 years ago
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Dang, I can't have Flash on PC I'm ATM, so I couldn't try... ;_;

12 years ago
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People abusing things, very typical for a few to ruin it for many.

Happened to the coal during the winter sale too. I assume that is why there is no contests for this summer sale.

12 years ago
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A bit funny that OP talks about abuse when he made a CoD MW3 giveaway and didn't gift the game to the winner.

12 years ago
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Just like those who gave away multiple Railworks. $3.50 for $35 contributor value.

12 years ago
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Meh, big sale is big sale. They actually bought those rather than hitting the 'gimme free games button'. Blame the developer for the deep discount :P

12 years ago
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dont forget his bundle giveaway of Iron grip ;)

12 years ago
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Read the description of the giveaway maybe? ب_ب Seriously people can you not read?

12 years ago
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I don't care, frankly. If he wants a mark against his profile, he can have it. He shouldn't have made it if he didn't have it ready to buy.

12 years ago
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The giveaway says this:
"I will be buying this in 3 weeks to give away. Its a while away. But it will be sent in a few weeks."

If he was buying the game "in 3 weeks", then he should have waited 3 weeks to MAKE the giveaway.

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He didn't even bother to set the giveaway to START in three weeks. What a derp.

12 years ago
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darn i did not get 1 =(

12 years ago
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How exactly did people get keys? I missed it...

12 years ago
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They won at www.summerseal.com, by doing slots. (10 trys per 5 min, but its down now)

12 years ago
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After an entire day of having no luck at all with the slots, my last ten spins before it stopped got me every prize minus the normal Trine 2 coupon. :D

12 years ago
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Makes me sad because once I became a contributor people abused it. I hope all these people loose the contributor status they got from it.

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The real question is, how many people were intentionally "abusing" it, and how many were just getting rid of extra keys they got while trying for some other prize?

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I'm sure it's most. Yes that's a broad sweeping statement but I'm sure it's not far off.

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This explains why there was so many keys available today. I was running around today so I wasn't able to do any research. I entered a bunch of the giveaways on steamgifts but no luck so far. Hopefully soon :)

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everyone tried to get many keys i think. i played up to 100 spins and got 1 shadowgrounds, 2 trine 2 CE 75% off keys and one trine 1 75% off key. i have both games on steam because of an indie bundle, the extra key goes to a friend i think but not here.
i guess this summer seal was an advertize for frozenbyte. grab one or both shadowground keys and get a discount for their core game: trine. even though it was possible to get unlimited spins it doesnt mean we didnt abuse this thing. and when i see there were over 200 giveaways of no-paid keys i must say: yes there was an abuse. for some time the site wasn't available. i'm sure frozenbyte stopped it now. and as i can see lots of people took half of the day to get as many keys as possible to make several giveaways.

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Wow, some people got hundreds of keys? Damn, I felt guilty for getting 3.

12 years ago
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Must have dedicated a day towards it.

12 years ago
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Yeah, that's crazy. I could only assume that those people then traded the keys or sold them off or soemthing.

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Why not just make Steamgifts function differently? Why not have it so you can only open giveaways with items in your steam inventory? I can imagine that solving multiple issues about the "abuse" of these keys since it's such an important matter. Honestly I would rather have a community giving out the extra keys rather than hoarding them or trading them but that's just me. I find it annoying how people obsess and go mad over something as stupid as this.

"Nonsteam Purchased Games in the form of Redeemable keys no longer add to your total contribution. Games given this way still show up on a Users list of Giveaways but no longer add to their Contribution."

12 years ago
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FFS, not this shit again.

12 years ago
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If it appears to be such a HUGE problem why hasn't there been something implemented? Seriously.

12 years ago
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Look there's SteamGifts, whichs let's you give away gifts or keys AND THEN there's PlayBlink which is only for gifts. Now go pick your side.
Saying that keys wouldn't add some dolla to the giveaway creator is just plain rude

12 years ago
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I got a -75% vouchre and a game I already owned, used the serial over it anyway... lol

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I normally don't have a problem with this but today people just overkilled it.

There should be an option on the site for people to block games that often appear on here that they have no interest in entering. That way you could just block Shadowgrounds and not have to scroll through pages and pages on contributions.

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It makes everything wonderful.

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Yeah, no kidding they were abused greatly. Frozenbyte seems to have slept through the Coal debacle. I really wonder what they were expecing to happen. But it was a fun idea, at least, just ruined by people who expect everything for free and weren't taught not to be greedy.

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I just learned about this. I am kind of mad...

12 years ago
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I apparently won the games, but I never got the keys, whereas you can see the same people here posting about 6 of each XD

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