[Angry]Would you spare a minute to talk about SteamCrate?

What is steamcrate?

Sure

Go for it,i've got some time to burn,and by that i mean all of my time.

Never heard of it.

Apparently everything related to steam keys, steam game's skins and that kind of things that has to be with popular or semi-popular youtubers is basically a scam.

Its like they are accomplices in shady practices, everything is ok if they gain subscribers on his channel on the website.

Lessons to learn: These type of blind raffles are a form of gambling, and gambling rarely pays off.

Also, as much as I dislike Reddit, it does have a thread for other people who have experience with this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/4sn037/anyone_tried_out_steamcrate/

If you look at their "past crates" on their site (which I'm not going to link because it features obnoxious aggressive marketing and I'm in a spiteful mood today) you'll see that even the bigger-name titles they advertise with are from the past few months of Humble Monthly, along with a bunch of other various bundled stuff / freebies etc.

Never heard of it. Sounds like the best idea is to cancel your subscription and never look back!

This is the problem with "random" draws, you really never know what kind of crap you're gonna get.

If you paid 1$ it would be a lot for those

wow, sorry to say that you paid 25 pounds for absolute crap. most of these games were free or bundled anyway. you can get them for a few cents here on SG.

Everything that has "random" in its name or description... should be avoided.
If you're willing to spend money on something semi-random, buy the Humble Monthlies, they're surely worth much more.
12 per month, for 5-7 previously unbundled games worth between $120 and $150.

Yeah, it's bad. I watched those youtube unboxing, and even thought I suspected they would be rigged, I still didn't see anything that hasn't been super cheap.

But ouch this is really bad.

Lol 25 pounds for less then a dollar worth of games? sign me up

https://steamcrate.co.uk/previous-crates/

Previous crates have fall out 4 eh?

I guess that's the payment for the chance you can get "not so crappy game"...
If I were them, I'd buy some humble/bundle stars/indiegala hh bundles and then sell the parts of it and still get some profit, customers would be happy and they'd call their friends =d

Spakoyno and Stigmat are games from Dagestan Technology D Slightly better than games from Digital Homicide xD So expect them to be also free on gleam sooner or later xD

Как можеш да дадеш 200 лв на сайт, без да си проучил доколко е читав и какво ще получиш за парите си? Самият факт, че всеки получава различен бъндъл ясно показва за каква пародия говорим.... Правило #1 е да купуваш от доказани места - ако искаш 'blind buy', купуваш Humble Monthly или бъндълите на Square Enix, които поне си идват от дистрибутора и понякога са доста читави... И всеки получава едно и също, за разлика от въпросния пародиен 'crate'.

I mean, if you buy "crates" of random games, expecting to get anything other than shovelware, you're exactly the kind of sucker those kinds of sites are hoping for.
Never in a million years would I consider paying for something without having any idea what I'm gonna get or even what kind of stuff I'm gonna get hell, even humble bundle's monthly shows off the biggest game in the pack

In the words of the Forest Gump stupid is as stupid does

That's a lot of money for random games. Thanks for the warning op.

I did it. I got a refund!

I just wanted to explain a few things to anyone interested. All games are entirely random. This is clearly stated before purchase. Thus We cannot control what games you get, whether they be negatively rated, mixed or positive, triple A, or Indie - It is truly random. We have thousands of subscribers, and we survey them every month to get feedback on whether they like the games etc, we currently have 81%+ Extremely satisfied with games received, 12% Are Mostly happy about the games received, and the rest fall into the neutral > Unsatisfied categories.

We actively try to seek out exciting new games every Month to add to our pool, but we accept, we cannot please everybody 100% of the time.
Eitherway, we're not forcing anyone to signup, as we know it isnt for some people - And thats perfectly fine.

We are also taking into account feedback from every member that suggests something new, we are currently looking into introducing a 'guaranteed Triple A game' into every crate, along with several other ideas such as an elite crate, for higher quality games every month...

Thanks guys.

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they sound like crap to me, just sign up for humble monthly,at least you know the game keys wont be for free games.

I just have to say that these are some ballsy motherfuckers. Not even GMG or HRK have the guts to charge this amount. Why the fuck would anyone sub to this shit when HB monthly exists is beyond me.

Kudos to them for being worse than HRK and GMG :D

Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud.

I can't speak for whether the "random" distribution is rigged towards YouTubers, but I can say that--if the keys are truly a random selection of Steam keys--your experience is, frankly, what everyone should be getting. There are lots more shovelware games and games which had effort put into them but turned out bad/mediocre anyway than there are AAA and great indie games (or even good or decent indie games) on Steam.

I echo the people who say to subscribe to Humble Monthly instead. I personally don't, because I don't have the money to spend on games that I won't know what they are until after I pay. (What if they put in a bunch of games from genres I don't like? I'll be out 12 dollars that I can't really afford in exchange for keys for games I'll never play.) But Humble Monthly is curated--you're not nearly as likely to end up with a dud (let alone 9 duds out of 10 keys) as you are with random selection.

It's a bit misleading for them to call themselves Steamcrate, because it'll make people think that they're like the original LootCrate--i.e., specially curated stuff.

Isn't this the same as any kinda gambling/lucky dip that is done on the internet it's easy to scam it. I didn't read the links you posted but I'm guessing your saying it's not so random and they may be infact just bundles that they don't tell you what's in them and ofcourse they use youtubers as free ads throw them a couple good keys they say nice things subs try it same old scams. Yeah save your money mate sounds way too "random".

Honestly, anyone who falls for that crap has no one to blame but themselves. I'm not saying you're an idiot, but I'm not saying you were very wise thinking that these kind of things weren't scams 99% of the times either.