Yeah... quite stupid, since I activated way too many bundle games when I started PC gaming last year I am bound to finishing them and keeping most of the new ones I get on the backlog.

Still, the rules are the rules and I was stupid enough to not activating 2/12 won gifts, lesson learned the hard way.

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Well if you do not activate it your less likely to play it as you will have to take the time to activate it and install just to play it.

I know for most it may not make sense but it does to me,though in my case it more less has to do with a monthly cap.
i can easily ignore ones not activated knowing i have to take the time to activate it and then install it,not to mention despite having 3tb of hd space i am running out as i keep backups of all the games installed due to my monthly cap so if any big crash happens i will not have to re-download them from scratch.

Anyhow i know why he does it but even if i do not agree with the rules,they are the rules so i do my best to follow them.At this point though i have so many games i have not played i doubt adding another one will matter,but still drives me nuts having games i have not played not because i do not want to play them i just have to find time.

It's not that I want to hide them but I don't want to keep increasing senselessly my library without playing the games that are already there (maybe not 100% though, but I have some prime stuff there untouched), it might be some awkward way of thinking but well, I'm going to try at least (all steamgifts won games will be activated immediately though)

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It is... worst thing is that I got into a ton of great private GAs, did a lot of puzzles and a lot were from nice people on the forum, FML! When you get suspended your entries get ignored when choosing the winner

u wot? Never suspended? Being suspended is a part of becoming a man!

it can happen very fast..sometimes, maybe cause of a mistake or because the mod that has your case is an dick.

I dunno, maybe they saw both of them on my inventory, it was stupid to not activating them in the first place. DOH!

Some DLC, like the Payday Wolf Pack, are visible in your library. (Or at least should be if they've been activated)

Not exactly. It varies on a game by game basis, and even from one DLC to another. Certain DLCs should be visible in the library. Payday 1 DLCs (both the Wolf Pack & Soundtrack) are ones that should be.

Depends on how deep they want to dig. There is at least one way to check for DLCs

Yeah of course, what I meant is that I saw a previous discussion about a lot of people angry that their gifts haven't been activated and their solution was blacklisting since reporting didn't got them nowhere, and I do understand that that rule is in place to prevent exploiting a won gift (regifting, selling or trading it).

More accurately what I meant is that Support has new mods and now can cover ALL the rules better.

Not so much in their checking, though, I've been wrongly suspended already because their way of checking sucks ass but their superiority complex doesn't allow them to imply their own failure.

Don't worry man, it's all about chance and probabilities! Enter level restricted, group, private and (hopefully) whitelist GAs of games you like!

Literally I was depressed for 10 days of suspension and some epic GAs I had entered with less than 50-80 entries... I entered a +1 level restricted GA for a bundle game I want to play and just won it today :]

I haven't won ever since I joined u_u

Interesting conundrum... Maybe find a friend with steam installed who lets you use their pc to activate the key? (To your account of cause)

If I were you I would tell your case to the support BEFORE you will get suspended. Better to be careful, polite than making excuses later. Support-folks are common people as we are all, I'm sure they are understanding if you message them before you're in trouble - that way it's clear that you have honest intentions.

after reading the guidelines again, I see that they just say that the creator has one week to send the gift, and the winner should mark as received within one week after the giveaway ends. So I guess you can be suspended if you mark received and don't activate right away.

You are correct the mods are acting the same way they always have... I had a 4 day suspension when I first joined for activating a giveaway by mistake on an old account.....

Nothing has changed with this ruling.....

Well at least 1 user here didn't know about the rules, at least I encouraged someone to read the rules! Then about my quote, I don't know, maybe since the tickets flood that mods need to deal with I had the impression that they didn't have time to check who activated their gifts or not.

Edited a little bit my phrase though:

mods are getting really serious with checking that all rules are respected now

What 3 things? You have 7 days to claim your gift, it's just 2 easy steps:

1. Activate the gift on your Steam account
2. Mark the gift as won on Steamgifts.com

That's it :]

Really? I did activate them both, but there wasn't any option to appeal or submit a ticket

lol, really? I will re-read forum guidelines... didn't know that people were so quick to consider a comment as sexual harassment

Dah fak @ the last one. Are you sure that's all you said?

Probably cause girls get that kind of stuff all. the. time. if they're part of any online gaming community. I'm sure it must be tiring. I know if I were female I would for sure try not to share that except with friends because of all the unwanted attention. Compliments on personal appearance on a forum about giveaways/trading seem inappropriate. And I feel like it's done primarily for the benefit of the giver of the compliment rather than who they're complimenting: "Look at what I think about your appearance, please acknowledge my attraction to you." Who cares? You're just a random person on the internet.

Yeah, I activated 10 gifts and made the mistake of letting those 2 linger on my inventory, one for being a DLC and the other one for wanting to play it later on. Lesson learned for sure!

Also dis.

Calling out rule is the reason.

Mala suerte... I guess the logic is that you should have activated the first time you won it, but why didn't you? You didn't get the key or what?

I like dancing, but I hate falling.

You are the 3rd person on the thread who was suspended for calling "fake" a GA... I think it's a capital offense in SG, I'm happy to have never said that here!

Oh being suspended from calling out is least of your problems now. Now users who call out people sometimes that said user who they called out will falsely post negative rep on them and I should know I have gotten negative rep for calling him out. Ironically hes been suspended for same thing he didn't activate gift then again he also regifted so might be considered two things.

Muchas gracias!

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Yes, I understand that rule perfectly, it would never occur to me to trade or sell a gift I won here, although I must confess that before reading the rules I did enter some GAs with the idea of giving them away to some friends that would like those games way more than me.

And well, it would be nice to be contacted in some warning fashion about having 1-3 days to activate them or being suspended for 10 days, but at the same time there are too many tickets and very few support staff, so I can't blame them for enforcing the site's guidelines with an iron fist.

About the calling out I have little to no opinion, it depends if you do it once or if yo do it always, some users who wrote and had avatars of spoderman and dolan got banned (don't know how much time) for just commenting senseless BS all the time. In the end it depends how much a troll you are, it would be nice if there was some kind of warning, 2 or 3 strikes before a ban of several days perhaps, oh well.

Don't take it so harsh, everybody makes mistakes! The worst thing is that I knew the rules but somewhat thought I could manage to have those two gifts lying around for a month or two and then play them, so I accepted my punishment, learned from my wrong doing and decided to move on! Both winning and giving away games ; ]

That's actually pretty cool, so you've made SG history my friend! I'm glad that you've never broken any sites rules too, some of us had to learn the hard way

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