I finally won Mafia III - or not...

Yes I've had a region lock on a wishlist game

Damn, that's a shame.

Won a multi copy game, redeemed fine, then got removed from our steam account after half a year (was from an indiegala bundle).
We contacted the gifter, but he didn't bother with a single reply.

i won Quantum Break last week. When i went to activate it, the steam didnt acepted the key, saying it had alredy been used.
I went to talk to the creator of the giveaway, and happily he gave me another key in the same day, and that one worked fine =]

Sorry to hear that, hopefully you'll get another chance to win the game!

Happened once, but I've been honestly more worried about the giveaway creator than anything else. Still curious what happened to this day... I just hope everything is fine and they simply decided to leave SG. It's been almost a year since they've been online.

Only once I had to mark as not received, unfortunately. But not wishlisted game anyway :)
It is sad in your case :(

My guess is he just made troll giveaways and thats it. Mostly ppl do this for GTA V lvl0 multi copy of the games etc...

Good luck with the game in the future mby u will get lucky

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Man, that must suck. I recently had won a key for Insurgency but it turned out that the key was region locked. It seems that the person didn't knew that so he apologized and we both agreed to delete the giveaway. (Ironically, I won that game in April 1st... XD)

So I guess that in a sense, I was lucky that time. Besides, the game wasn't really that high on my wishlist.

I hope that you have better luck next time, and thank you for the giveaways! :)

Fortunately, I never had problems with activating my wishlisted games. Mb cause i didn't win them :D
But month ago i won Siberia 2 and got activated key. Gifter told that he will give me a good key, but ofc he send me nothing during that week. So I just marked it as not received. Lame story.
Glad for you and for happy ending this story. So many kind people here!

Thanks for all your nice answers, experiences, opinions or bumps. I just wanted to tell you that I received a nice message from a user, AmanoTC, who sent me a key for the Mafia III Digital Deluxe Edition. As you can imagine, I appreciate this a lot, I am still overwhelmed that he did this for a guy he doesn't even know. Although this site (obviously) has loads of people willing to spend their money to make others happy with their gifts, I just wanted to highlight this special gesture. Thanks to you once more, Amano.

A couple of minutes later, I even got another message by another user unknown to me before, grashoppershigh, who wanted to help a SG-fellow out. Thank you as well.

If you want to, change your words of solace to some kind words for these users (or report of similar experiences). Apart from that, you can surely feel free to continue with the thread's topic. Seems that this is a relatively common thing, especially with lower levels/new users, at least I was surprised by the high number of "yes"-answers. I'm glad that it still worked out in some cases, though.

You really thought you will win a game there? O.o

I won't a GA where the creator created the GA 2 times. never got the key nor heard of him (still my only "not received" GA).

I've had it happen a few times, but it's never any skin off my butt so I don't sweat it. It's not like I'm "losing" anything if I don't win, I guess.

Most recently, a win was re-rolled because the creator thought I already owned it. It was a Sonic game, and part of another package on Steam that shows up as owning the complete package if you own any games from it. I had messaged the guy in the giveaway asking why it was re-rolled, thinking I had a red mark on my record or something and wanting to correct it.

And that's when the mod who re-rolled it, Fyantastic, stepped up and offered to buy the game and gift it to me on Steam. I declined the offer, of course - it was an honest mistake, after all - but I thought it was very cool of him to offer to do that, and worth posting here.

Once won a good game. Too bad user hasn't been online after the giveaway ended... Got it for myself later though.

Glad to hear things worked out for you :)

I've had a couple of not received wins and other that I couldn't activate because of regional blocks. The latest one was Stellaris, a game on my wishlist, but that unfortunately I couldn't activate and agreed to a reroll/deletion.

Thanks for the GAs!

SG users ruls, glad you had secret santa in mid year and thanks for GAs

Ahh... I always wanted to win any AAA game from a new reg user ^^

Twice for me. Once keys given were for a different game and the other time key didn't work, the questionable place it was bought didn't replace but just sent different games, so the gifter couldn't do anything there either.
But both times it were smaller games, so it didn't really bother me.

Most of the time when I've had problems with wins it's been invalid keys but they were all resoled when I contacted the GA creators. Usually little things like copy pastes gone wrong, last letter cut off type of stuff.
Glad everything worked out in the end for you.

Happened to me with Deadlight Director's Cut, a game I really wanted to play. Worst part is that SG then removed all my Deadlight entries and prohibited me from entering additional giveaways until support fixed the issue a full week alter. By then the bundle was over and people weren't making giveaways anymore.

I once won Don't Starve Together and was incredibly happy ^.^
but thanks to Steam, the GA creator needed to reroll. She was from South America, if I remember correctly, I'm from Germany, so I couldn't activate the gift.
She was very sweet and although I was a bit sad, I know it wasn't her fault and I'm glad that I could send the gift back to her so she could reroll and make someone else happy :3

That sucks. I'm in the exact same situation right now. In about 5 hours I'm going to have to mark Action Henk as not received, and I'd entered a lot of GAs. But now since the bundle's done there aren't any more. Still though, getting games for free, can hardly complain if one doesn't materialize ever so often.

I've won The Walking Dead (I don't remember which part), it turned out somebody's little brother has been using his PC. Seems like a standard excuse but I've said we can delete the giveaway so he wouldn't get 'not received' but they didn't care what happens to that account so I guess little brother could be real this time :P