WooT i won my first gift BUT its Restricted :( so i cant use it, WHAT should i do??

Zombie Driver HD Brutal Car Skins

This is a restricted gift which can only be redeemed in these countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Republic of, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russian Federation

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http://www.steamgifts.com/about/guidelines

  • Gifts should be region free, and available to all users

I would contact the member that gave it away and ask that they re-roll for a different winner. That is what I would do. But you can flip all the tables in the room for all I care. Do you as you see fit.

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reroll report

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10 years ago
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You want to generate a train of threads like this one and another one of tickets to reroll???
Nah, OP should ask for a version he can activate and if gifter can't provide mark as NOT received.
Also do a ticket with the problem and give the item back.

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How in the shit does it generate a train of threads? Call it a shit train I suppose. Filled with bullshit. Unless of course each and every one of the winners are from the same affected region.. Holy fucking probability. Re-roll until it lands on one that isn't and be done with it. Case fucking solved.

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By region you mean 80% of area and the population in the world? Yeah, probabilities...
Basically your suggestion can end avoiding the problem some day, but it's not how the site is intended to work, and not following the rules isn't a good idea.
Reason of reroll:
My item only activates on some countries, there's a rule that says those items shouldn't be given away on this site, but I rather keep trying and rerolling until someone of these countries can win the giveaway, I don't care of rules. And of course I'm aware that maybe no one of those countries entered the giveaway, just keep rerolling until someone can activate it, many thanks :)
PS: Do it asap, please, I want to level up ^^

10 years ago*
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I just can't even your math. Yea yea rules rules. This is the Internet not some social democracy where everything runs as it should 100%.

edit* stop editing your bullshit, I don't care. I didn't even read what you edited. I just see you did. Good bye, go choke on a pistachio shell.

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Just because a website is on the Internet doesn't mean that there are no rules. You're right about one thing, it's not a democrary. The site admin makes the rule and enforces them as he sees fit. His site, his rules and anybody who won't respect them can bloody well leave and never come back.

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But does it even re-roll though....
And thanks for the blacklist, right back at yah.
And it isn't the site admin, asshat.
The site owner maybe, little bit of difference.

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Doing a giveaway that's against the rules, probably won't get re-rolled. It could get you suspended though.

cg is the site owner, and the site admin too. (See the Role: Admin on his profile?) They're both the same here.

10 years ago
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You are as your name suggests, simply 2D and simply drawn on. I don't wanna interact with you anymore.

10 years ago
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Thank you. Not having to deal with the likes of you is an extra ray of sunlight that brightens my day.

10 years ago
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Praise the sun.

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I hope you meant to say "Mark as NOT received."

If he was given a game he can't activate and marks it as received, he could be later suspended for not activating his wins.

The correct answer is to contact the gifter and as for a ROW version. If he cannot provide one, mark as not received.

10 years ago
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Indeed, thanks for the correction.
You also probably wanted to post asK instead of as :-)

10 years ago
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And if the giveaway didn't have the region restriction clearly listed in the description, I say the return of the region-locked game should be optional.

10 years ago
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The giveaway should not be re-rolled. One of the rules is not to give away region locked/restricted games.

The winner should mark as not-received or support can fully delete the giveaway and a new giveaway of the same item should not be attempted.

10 years ago
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As stated, it is what I would do.

Why do these peasants take my opinion as some sort of all being all seeing truth and want to refute me at everything. Bollocks I tell you, straight up balls in my mouth, you all taste like balls to me.

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What "you would do" isn't correct as per the site's rules. If you give incorrect advice to a problem, expect people to correct you.

It's not up for debate or opinion; there is only one correct answer and yours was not it. The balls in your mouth are your own, alongside your foot.

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It is correct if it is what I would do na-na na-na boo-boo
It isn't up for debate cause this isn't a debate at all
My foot remains ten toes down
Your balls still taste like balls

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Just because it's what you would do, doesn't make it the correct course of action.

Re-rolling would be simply giving away the game again, and as you pointed out in your first post, this is against the site's rules.
What "you would do" is not only incorrect, but a waste of time for all parties involved.

10 years ago
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Never said it was correct. In fact, if you look, you will see that I commented on someone's post (pretty much at the same time I posted my post) that said the correct thing to do and agreed that would be best thing to do.

Also there is official support that has to give solutions for dumb shit humans do. I didn't sign up nor get paid to support peoples issues. So my posts should be taken as such. I am not here to help. So do yourself a favor and stop trying to correct me or help me understand you, I already do. Take your teachings, I don't give a shit, shove them up my ass, so that I will have a shit to be had.

Good day to you madam.

10 years ago
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Contact the gifter and tell him that you can't use the gift,and ask if he could give you an unlocked gift instead. If he can't/doesn't want to/etc. mark as not received after 7 days.

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This will work well and is best.

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This is the best option.

10 years ago
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you can give it way in another websites that accept restricted gifts giveaways .

they accept restricted gifts and you can also achieve points for your rank upgrade too ^^ .

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And once they don't redeem their gift within the time period, this person will be back wondering why they received a suspension. Good idea fuckwit. Keep'em coming.

10 years ago
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Your abuse is unnecessary, especially as your own advice isn't correct.

10 years ago
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It isn't abuse nor advice. It is my opinion. You are welcome to disagree with it. As you have. And blacklist me from your meaningless trinkets as you most certainly will.

10 years ago
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Dude, you're calling people "fuckwit" over a harmless post. That's not an opinion, that's a shitty attitude.

10 years ago
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Pretty sure he's drunk again. A very angry drunk.

10 years ago
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Very very angry with issues. And I am not even sorry. Words are just words, the Internet is filled with them and I am just messing around 50% of the time anyways. Plus feelings, they are overrated.

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Dude, I didn't know bots had feelings to hurt, but we all have opinions, shitty or not. Don't teabag mine like it isn't right just cause you got left out of the game.

10 years ago
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Calling someone fuckwit is abuse, as for advice I was referring to your earlier post.

10 years ago
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There`s an option for Restricted gifts in creating Giveaway Page that you can checkmark it and then all users will notice that your gift is Restricted and then they can Choose to enter it or refuse it as well :)

10 years ago*
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Can you not see I don't give a fuck what some other giveaway site has to offer? You are border line referral linking at this point.

10 years ago
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The problem here is not with recycling the game on another site, but with the fact that on steamgifts you MUST activate the game you won on YOUR account as soon as possible otherwise shit might happen (regifting here is a big no no).
That's also the reason why region restricted gift are not allowed.

Peace.

10 years ago
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yeah . that is right and i hope SG change the rules and add options for giving away restricted gifts because it`s a fact that some users will give away their restricted gifts and you cant stop them with ban hammer ! instead you can legal it with good rules .

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Where is your Terraria, by the way?

10 years ago
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traded it with another game ( bioshock ) .

10 years ago
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you are supposed to activate games you win......in your account....

10 years ago
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so many SG investigator these day isn;t it . It a good thing though, only pity for the mod have to handle all of those report ticket

10 years ago
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Are you familiar with the concept of "Ignorantia juris non excusat"? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
Then also see the site rules (FAQ from the 'menu', "Can I enter a giveaway for a friend?" is the one related to your case, and to your suggestion)
And, no, I have not reported you, but there is always some chance that someone has.

10 years ago
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No he can't. It is against the rule to regift or trade your winnings. It must be activated on his own account, which he cannot do. The ONLY option is to seek a ROW copy from the gifter, and if the gifter can't provide one then just return the gift and mark it as unreceived after 7 days.

10 years ago
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Contact the giveaway creator, if they won't/can't provide a usable copy then wait seven days and mark it as not received. Don't ask them or support for a reroll as the next winner selected will more than likely have exactly the same issue.

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Thanks for the Advise everyone :)

10 years ago
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Just mark as not received

10 years ago
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I cannot understand the creator of the giveaway you won, what he was expecting giving you a region locked game? I think he is just stupid, but I saw some ppl even more stupid, marking their restricted games they won as received, even if they cannot activate it, so you did the correct thing.

10 years ago
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I did not see IF you already knew it was restricted copy. IF it was in fact declared restricted on GA description, and you entered anyway, then it's on you!. Now, IF it wasn't and you assumed it would be ROW (as we'd all do, because there's nothing saying it isn't row) then it's on GA creator and he should provide you with a ROW copy OR bear the mark of "not received". That's MHO

10 years ago
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Is against the rules doing restricted giveaways, so the creator cannot just write it on description.

10 years ago
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There are A LOT of region restricted GA's on this site at any time and people clearly state so in the description.
People just don't care about the rules.
Just look at Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf GA's, every second one is restricted...

10 years ago
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Support doesn't have the manpower to hunt those giveaways and will let them be. However, they will usually not re-roll if the winner is not from the same region. Making these giveaways is always risky for the gifter unless they have private groups where every member is able to redeem the game.

No mater what is written is the description, the fault will always fall on the gifter for breaking the rules.

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But still they get the CV if the one who won is from the same region, regardless that the rules were broken.

10 years ago
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I would rather have the giveaways and be able to get the game (if I live in the same region) that not having it at all, chances included.
I'm good with them doing them and declaring them. I've seen many of Overcast W&W and did not enter if it wasn't my region.
To make it simple: SG should allow restricted games and make mandatory to declare if it's restricted (and which regions, ofc) like GameMiner did. It still beneficts users and givers, what's wrong with that?

10 years ago
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For now is against the rules doing region restricted giveaways, but with recent big changes on Steam it should be considered, this will create even more support tickets because not all ppl will read about region restrict before joining giveaway and eventually win it, on gameminer their support is not bad, but they just don't care that good about things like here, if you win a region restricted gift there no matter was it saying it or not, nobody will care about it. Gameminer even allows giving away free games that are being given away, but it gives 0 contribution, but still spams the site, their support don't really cares that much, this doesn't mean SG should allow this too, if someone else is doing it.
And if allowing region restricted gifts this site will become most likely Polish, Russian and CIS Steam Gifts, and ppl could also just create even not region locked giveaways but only for some country, so they will have to mind something about this before allowing region locked gifts.

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Ok, I get what you're saying, it does makes sense, but if there isn't any real meassure to block them why haven't we (SG) got flooded with RUS and CIS games already?.
I know the drill in GM because I'm in there too, true, they seem not to care about such things, in fact if in 24-ish hours you don't "mark" it it's automatically marked as GOOD even it it was invalid. Support wont do a darn thing about it. I know because it happened to me.
No matter, going outside the topic.. What I wanted to say is, IF SG implements something properly, then we would get the good part while keeping the downside to a minimum.
Ppl don't read FAQs, granted, but if you make it mandatory to select region, or better yet, automatic checking by appid (can it be done?) then no tickets to support because of restricted game not declared!
Anyway, since Valve changed stuff and GM placed a checkbox for only showing ROW games, I don't see anything restriced (declared at least), but since I didn't win anything there since the changes, I don't know if it works or not.
But yeah I wouldn't want SG turned a cheapo site spammed with freebies... (oh wait that happened before! XD)

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The fact is that it doesn't matter what you or I think- it is against the rules and that should be enough.
We could now enter into a discussion about exploiting CV with restricted GA's and all that but I'd rather not :)

10 years ago
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Chill there :) I know it's against the rules (for now) but we're still free of speak our minds, don't we?. So, until revised (or not) it's all there is, an opinion, a simple harmless comment.
And no, we won't go into that, agreed. Happy gaming!

10 years ago
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I'm really sorry if I came across as wound up about it or having any negative feelings.
I would never attack anyone for expressing their opinion and maybe I haven't expressed myself as friendly as I could have but you'll have to forgive me because I'm doing some serious multitasking xD

10 years ago
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NP! It's all good Luxy! multitasking speaks highly of you, plus I do that too :)

10 years ago
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Well, long ago, I, too, won a region-restricted giveaway. For that, I was temporarily banned, and had to give back this useless gift. I don't know what kind of fancy tale the giveaway creator spun, but my proof was completely ignored.

So, don't even bother trying to do anything about it, I'd advise.

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Did you mark it as "received"? If you get a game that you can't activate, mark it as not-received unless the gifter can give you an unrestricted copy.

Otherwise it looks like you took the game and sold it off and you would be suspended for not activating your wins.

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Nope, I marked it as not received.

10 years ago
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That's quite odd then. I assume he sent a screenshot of the sent gift and support wasn't able to see if it was region locked or not.

10 years ago
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I don't know, nor does it really matter anymore. 'Tis just weird: http://puu.sh/fwtQ1/287c1d67e8.png

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