I was playing around in Steam, and needed to exit and restart it because I was getting a "No Connection" error when my connection was hooked up.

Just when Steam was exiting, I got a notification that I had a new item in my inventory. When I reloaded Steam, a notification came up that I had SIX new items in my inventory.

I checked, and here were the items:

2 coupons reading "25% OFF Broken Age Discount For Double Fine Loyalty"
1 coupon for "30% OFF Aqua Kitty)

and strangest of all...

3 gift copies of Terraria, which I did not own.

There's nothing in my e-mail indicating where this strange gift came from, and I didn't win a giveaway here.

So I'm just wondering if it's happened to anyone else as part of a promotion or something.

ATTENTION BEGGARS: I will not send the extra copies to people begging me for them. Please do not send me random friend requests.

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I got nothing

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Nice comment/avatar synergy.

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I got 4 Broken Age coupons...for Double Fine loyalty...seeing since I own all of their other major games on Steam....I can see that, plus one each for Rise of the Triad and Aqua Kitty...but no free games.

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No coupon, but I got one copy of Terraria. I looked under my account details it was added to my account as "Gift/Guest".

EDIT

The funny thing is I won the game last week...

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btw...Terraria is an AWESOME game, I've got 100s of hours in it...definitely take advantage of your gift and play that thing!

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Two stupid coupons for stupid game i never asked for and will never play... i am never soo lucky to get anything except stupid coupons. i dont even remember when i get some booster pack and i have a lot of steam card games...

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No worries then, just be happy my friend~

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Yeah got bioshock.

Nah, who im i kidding? just got some coupons, the same as everyone else.

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Trade me one? For space trader?

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No trading on SG. Read the Rules/FAQ.

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Didn't get anything :|

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Just got the 2 coupons.

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hm nope nothing here~

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Lucky! I only got a 25% off Broken Age coupon :/ And even then, going by other comments, I should have got more, since I own 5 of their titles, but oh well, it's not like I need any more (or that one for that matter).

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Broken Age Discount For Double Fine Loyalty - 25%, nothing else...

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Got nothing lol

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Got nothing, even if I own some Double Fine games :/

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If you want my 25% off coupon, just ask. :)

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I got nothing at all :(

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Nothing official there.

I realized that it could be removed... but that's all that could happen from this.

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Spoke too soon. The extra games I had in my inventory are now gone. The one I added to my library is still there for now though.

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People are already reporting the extra games disappearing from their inventory. So far those put in their library seems to hold... but they might get removed too.

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Figured there was no harm in trying. No sane company would take action against a user for adding a game to his library that showed up in his inventory.

Weird that there hasn't been any kind of official statement on this though.

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why don't I ever get anything? I hate you steam.

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Coupons I can see happening.... I'd ask steam out of curiosity.

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Right now, the prevailing theory seems to be that something in Steam's database messed up and made Steam think that prior purchases of single games were instead packs, like for example the 3 extra copies of Terraria coming from Steam's system thinking a purchase of Arma 2 (which I got from a bundle) was the Terraria 4 pack, and another single player game being mistaken for The Orange Box. In both cases, that immediately coughed up the "extra gift copies" into the inventory.

I've had something similar happen before. I bought Torchlight 2 when it had the original game as a pre-order bonus. Then I redeemed a bundle which had Torchlight in it, and suddenly my "gift copy" was in my inventory.

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Closed 10 years ago by Boffo97.