[ENDED] [FREE][Steam][Humble] Bomber Crew

It's my understanding that the developer/publisher can configure keys to do the same thing, they just typically don't. Similarly, there were previous threads where users stated Steam freebies were dropping cards for a period because they hadn't yet been set not to, so it seems it may perhaps completely be on the developer/publisher, rather than defaulting on its own when using a specific promotion method.

I can't see a definitive interpretation one way or another off the phrasing alone, so I can't say your interpretation was necessarily less reasonable than mine. Rather, that's just the perspective I hear nearly identical phrasing [eg, "tons of giveaways", "pretend [to be] generous"] from, so I thought I'd clarify based off that potential framework. I tried to keep my comment as generalized and comprehensive as possible but, if it wasn't clear, let me reiterate: I'm fully in agreement with you that there's no basis for complaining about the giving away of previously free keys in and of itself (just an issue of how some users approach the matter). As you say, that seems rather firmly in line with the core concept of the site.

To the contrary, the giving away of free promotion games hasn't been something to take issue with ever since cg officially enabled their inclusion, while simultaneously giving firm approval of their inclusion onto the site. Of course, someone could find it annoying that the site doesn't allow the ability to filter by [free, bundled, unbundled] list status- but that's something resolvable via soliciting a script creator or, if necessary, soliciting cg to implement the elements necessary for script creators to include the function.

Similarly, you could argue with that shift in policy in and of itself, but that's seperate to the users who are following site expectations in a reasonable and respectable manner. But, to address that consideration, given how free games (eventually) don't give CV and how you can further filter them out of considerations with SGT, their actual effects on the site are fairly minimal, outside of the occasional bit of front page spam (which is easily fixable by hiding the game).

In summary, I can see the "it's really sad" from the post about as it relates to the circumstances I mentioned in my previous post, but not in regards to individuals giving away free games overall.

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No, I think their logic checks out. The phrasing, not so much, but:

Also the poor they are giving it for have to pay a fee (points), while if they were just informed about free game, they would receive it completely for nothing.

Makes sense, and is in line with my initial reply to you. Read it as: "General users on the site are simply wasting points by entering something they could easily be getting for free- and, in a way, are almost being tricked into doing so- due to users posting the giveaway without informing entrants of the source of the game."

Their considerations past that are more a personal perspective based on that bit of logic, but I'm not seeing anything that's easily refuted, either. [After all, it's hard to really argue that someone'd likely be doing something deliberately unconstructive with good intentions. Some may be, but having such a perspective towards such individuals as a whole isn't unreasonable. Humans are humans, after all.] Most of their post, however, is just the reiterating of that first point which, as I noted before, is something commonly viewed in a negative light by the community.

That's what I said. People want to get credit for being the ones who are giving those games while the truth is they steal it to give it to somebody else. While, as I said Humble games are "infinite", so they can't be gotten from somebody to give to someone else, though many free key giveaways have such limit.

Also SteamGifts giveaway uses points to enter. So instead of getting game for free completely, people need to pay that, instead of using this for other giveaways. And the win chance isn't 100%, so You use points and prolly don't win it.

Geting credits for being generous is bad, if the person is not the one who actually have given the game. It just take the free key to give it to someone else. This is taking credits for someone else's generosity.

Also they maybe think they will get CV, even though they won't.

Only somebody who's intentions are bad would do that.