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Knytt Underground, Escape Goat and Bleed influx on GameMiner - why?

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Phitt

I'm curious, does anybody know why these games are given away on GameMiner in large quantities? There have been dozens of Knytt Underground and Escape Goat giveaways each day for a few weeks now and today lots of Bleed giveaways popped up. I couldn't find any recent bundles that included any of those games and on Steamgifts there is not an noticeable amount of giveaways either. Seems to be something only Russians have access to.

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Wolfus

IGN prime

10 years ago
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Phitt

Ok, thanks. Any reason why the giveaway difference between GameMiner and Steamgifts is so huge? There have been hundreds of giveaways for these games on GameMiner, but almost none on Steamgifts. Do Russians get IGN Prime for free or much cheaper than the rest of the world?

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MDuh

cuz they know it's just gonna be bundled. Might as well put it on gameminer

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Phitt

And only Russians know that? I somehow can't believe that. The difference is really 1 copy on Steamgifts versus 100 copies on GameMiner - and that even though Steamgifts is the larger site. Either Russians are much, much more generous than the rest of world (despite their relatively low average income) or there is more to it than meets the eye.

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ozo2003

multiple ign accounts?
+[]() you can regift on gameminer so those things go on rotation as well

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ozo2003

since when prime is not free? i paid for one month year or so back and been using it free since :)

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AtzeMD

some ppl had a bug which gave them free trial for like a year. dunno if this really got fixed

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madjoki

yes, free trial was removed :(

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Phitt

Oh, found this, so I guess my question is answered.

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Romanesco

I thought IGN had updated the system to avoid exploits? Does one still need to worry about trading games that has been featured on IGN? (I made an Escape Goat trade recently).

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Phitt

Quite apparently it can be exploited. The amount of IGN prime giveaways on Gameminer is mad, some people there have 50+ IGN prime games they give away. Of course there is a tiny, tiny chance that all those people have 20 IGN accounts they pay for, but somehow I have a feeling it is more likely they do the same thing the Russian guy in the thread I linked to did.

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Closed 10 years ago by Phitt.