Why can´t Dark Souls, Euro Truck Simulator and Mafia II be given away?
And by the way it seems that Drift Streets Japan isn´t available to be gifted away.
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Dark Souls was free from the last GMG/Golden Joysticks awards but only for Europe.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 was free from a German site once with a voucher that got spread here, on Reddit, etc.
Mafia II is able to be given away despite what the list here says. Both it and Civilization V (base) were given away some years back during the Golden Joysticks Awards, but for some reason they were only added to the bundled list rather than being removed.
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I can't create giveaway for Beast Blaster. It isn't on the list either. Was it free before?
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Yeah, same here after seeing it's in the Cubic June Bundle
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Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises, now F2P
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329280/
Announcement: http://steamcommunity.com/games/329280/announcements/detail/590349216260117683
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Here is a little list of games that aren't included in your list all these games have been given away for free previously, I didn't double check if you can or can't make giveaways for it though.
Airstrike HD
Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded
ALPAGES: THE FIVE BOOKS
Atonement: Scourge of Time
Autumn
Axis Football 2015
Base Squad 49
BitRay
Block Story
Bloo Kid 2
Brawlhalla
Broken Dreams
Chicken Shooter 2
Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre
Forge of Gods (RPG)
Fractured Space
Goblin Defenders: Steel'n'Wood
Hard Room
Heartomics
Heartomics 2
High On Racing
Holodrive
Invasion: Brain Craving
Job the Leprechaun
Love is Blind: Mutants
Magma Tsunami
Meridian: Age of Invention
Mountain Crime: Requital
Nyctophobia
Operation Caucasus
Party Jousting Zombie Pack DLC
PERFECT ANGLE: The puzzle game based on optical illusions
Rabiez: Epidemic
RACE 07
RaceRoom Racing Experience
Relic Hunter Zero
Rhino's Rage
Rituals
Serena (I put this here because at one point you could have bought it but its free now)
Slipstream 5000
Solar Division
Square Heroes
Talisman Digital Edition
Terra Lander
The Orb Chambers
Timore Inferno
Top Trumps Turbo
Uriel's Chasm 2: את
Urizen Shadows of the Cold
Vox Populi Vox Dei 2
Voxelized (I put this here because at one point you could have bought it but its free now)
Weapons Genius
Wild Island Quest
Wishmaster
Withering Kingdom: Arcane War
Yury
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Thanks for the huge list! I have added those that are valid.
These games can still be created as giveaway :-
These games are removed from the giveaway list not because they are banned, it's because they are free :-
These games are not in Steam store, either they are renamed, or removed from Steam store :-
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Cool cool, glad to have been of help :) I was sorting through all my instant win (free) games and used your list to help me remember which are free.
And the free ones I mentioned because there were giveaways before hand, and so that means its possible to have bought the games and have it in your inventory to gift but you won't be able to do so now.
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The problem with that is that almost everyone has the games and if you do the giveaways then they could just not activate it and make a giveaway with it themselves and thus get a good give ratio which is unfair to people who buy games to giveaway and it is also a false giveaway ratio then.
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Well, it takes some time to update the Create GA list and this thread so I'd rather say if you got it for free it can't be given way.
Unless of course it was a single copy given to you by a dev personally, your brother or free with conditions like Freebies for IGM Prime subscribers.
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Actually it happens all the time. For example Victor Vran was in the BTA of a Humble Bundle a few month ago and was then given away for free just a few weeks later. So I'm pretty sure many people have legit (paid) keys that they can't giveaway anymore (like me for example but I'm just going to activate it myself since I was vaguely interested in it anyway) But since we can't tell which copies are bought and which ones are freebies it's just something we have to live with. Most people sticking around here long enough have at least 5 keys gone bad like that but you can still give them to your friends or trade them so they are not completly worthless, just for GAs (here).
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Chicken Shoot 2 it's not in the list and I can't gift it
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Some fresh free games: Candy Blast, Car Mechanic Simulator 2014, Evil Maze, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, Megabyte Punch, Paranormal Psychosis, Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, Strayed, Supraball & Yellow: The Yellow Artifact.
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That rule exists to avoid giving greedy hoarders the chance of exploiting the CV system with free games, so it's better this way.
You can find those previously free games on Indie Gala's giveaway section, where no such rule exists (yet).
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I think it's cool that people can't exploit free stuff when you put a list like that together, it just kinda messes up a train I was thinking about doing where I was gonna include SpaceChem --- only because it was my first win ever on SG. I never did understand what the heck I was doing in that game and actually all it really did was further damage my self esteem and make me feel stupid and ashamed and unintelligent.... Maybe this is for the best. XD
But then again, I did get that fishcake. Ah..... fishcake.
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Understood... generates a huge rain of tears
I just wonder if Streets of Rage 2 was part of some bundle for free/discount.
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I hate it that Streets of Rage 2 has to be treated so specially, compared to SOR 1 & 3. I'd just make a Streets of Rage 3 giveaway instead, but not to mislead others who want that particular game. Just sent a support ticket.
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UPDATE: This thread is no longer relevant! This thread will stay for a while, once it sink to the bottom of the forum flood, I will close it for good. Thanks everyone who contributed to this list! And thanks cg for finally decided to allow free games GAs.
Original post below
Games that were once free or exploited are removed from the giveaway list of the game. But since the list is now an auto-suggest instead of a dropdown, it makes me waste time scrolling the list of games to find that the game is not in the list...
A list of un-creatable games would be helpful.
UPDATE: Another better suggestion in the comments, is to show ALL games in the list, but grey-out the un-creatable ones and add a tooltip that explain why it cannot be created.
Thanks Rinarin for providing the official list!
And SleepyCat for the follow-up on the updated list!
Current list of banned games :-
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