do you remember?
perhaps this thread made you think it was coming back sorry if i ruined your expectations
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also i wanted to giveaway something but dont have anything right now so have a couple of orphan keys and let me know if you got it
R4RL3-HVH28-R5P72
0LLIQ-AHAKX-F4AE0
(switch first and last part)
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dont go looking for it, the site is dead, its been dead for like 3 years i think?
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Yes it was cool. The same goes for Playblink and Tremor Games
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iuHiPAtlDVe3M8nlw9PGgspGcEPfAuh6/view?usp=sharing
I made this video just a couple of days from closing.
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oh i forgot about playblink!
tremor games is dead too!? never knew, i got a lot of game from there :(
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Do I remember it? Yes, I do!
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was your profile archived? or did you navigate to it? i have no idea how to navigate to my browser to be honest
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well, I just went to archive.org and type in gameminer.net/profile/Ryzhehvost
In case if it's not stored you can also give a try to another domain, gameminer.ru , but it will be in russian language
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I remember the first event, so much people that make the site crash
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Yeah. It was similar to steamgifts but they had a premium currency you could use to enter giveaways (and make giveaways exclusively for this premium currency). I remember you could either buy it or get some by making giveaways. Anyway, it was a cool site. I liked the design a lot. I don't remember how or why exactly it went away, but I remember feeling a little sad about it.
Edit: also something else that was different was that you didn't need to activate your wins.
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I don't remember how or why exactly it went away, but I remember feeling a little sad about it.
Valve blocked all their bots used for trading gifts under "used to transfer gifts from cheap to more expensive regions". So users lost money. And from there it was just slippery slope, as site lost biggest advantage - user-free ability to send gift from creator to winner (like on SG you need to add winner, send gift, they need to confirm it).
Later russian currency dived in value, so they were getting less money from premium users. And at some point they decided it's no longer profitable to pay for servers etc. I think they also had some personal problems.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gameminer/announcements/detail/821172458406426249
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it was another site like steamgifts, in the sense that you joined giveaways for games(more details in the comment above yours), there were a couple of them before aside from steamgifts. Gameminer, playblink, galagiveaways, there was a french one i cant remember (i think it was cadeauxsteam or something like that), and also tremor games to a certain extent
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Yes I remember I won a few games from gameminer. Shame they didn't survive. It was nice having multiple giveaway sites back then.
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oh, yeah. nice times :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150326134902/http://gameminer.net/profile/ozo2003
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i haven't thought about it in a long loooong while and it just popped in my head, isnt it weird that i feel nostalgic about it?
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