Somthing that has to stop

Yeah,and there was usually only a few couple hundred people for each giveaway max :P

Yeah that's true. Good people everywhere.

Brilliant

Not everyone won Darksiders,

Some still did.

many didn't even know about the contest.

Then that's their problem.

It's not like everyone puts giveaways up for points.

It's not like all of them aren't either.

Still, it's something they WON, which others who'd actually play the game could have won, that they gaveaway. How nice of that.

Also, YES, I FEEL SO COOL ABOUT IT, I TOTALLY DO.

90% of the people who won darksiders already had it a priori of the contest. They entered with the sole purpose of re-gifting it here. I mean, who in their right mind would give a game like DARKSIDERS when they got it for $0?

This is why I gave away my darksiders copy. And honestly I am sitting on 4 indiegala bundles to give away that I am even debating giving on this site any more due to piss poor attitude of so many people.

I could. I could also give some spare half life games that I got when purchased the Valve Complete Pack as a gift on the forum. Or Skyrim if I purchased it twice as an accident, and thought, hey, why not give it to someone? But that kinda defeats the purpose of the whole concept of this site, doesn't it?

People just need to stop whining about this sort of stuff. It does not freaking matter if your gifter bought the game or not. Believe me, you won't care either if you won Skyrim from someone who got a few copies for free from Bethesda, or Gabe Newell, or whatever.

Which is why I'm against the contributor system in general; these are things that you can't avoid or filter out without removing it completely. You're right about the DLCs (not sure how they worked though...), but I see people being looked down upon for giving away Shadowgrounds like that too. I mean, if he gives away 50 copies of shadowgrounds, and even if only 10, then yeah, the intentions are clear. But if he gives away only one, it is never justified to call him out for it. You can't tell if he just wants to raise his CV or just wants to get rid of it because he already has it anyway.

Seems legit. It's the same Tony from Amazon who was giving away keys.

This. At least those who submit multiple copies of the free games.

I submitted one as a joke/protest (6 entries already), I should get banned too? I'd like to thing that rules aren't that strict since: 1) maybe someone really missed the CAG/8bitmmo giveaway, and 2) actually it's a free redeemable game, even if it's only a small DLC, someone is giving out and someone it's receiving it.
I still think a proper way is just adjust the contributor value to $1 USD and that's it.

Of course, if 1 user is found giving out 4094 copies of the DLC, then yes, ban them. That's not exploiting the DLC, but SG.