To the cranky people

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For some reason, a fair few people, both on the forum and on Steam chat have taken to attacking me regarding giving away the keys. Particularly on Steam, some people have threatened to 'find me' and 'take action' if they are not given 50 keys or some garbage. Others have said 'I am reporting you to the police for selling stolen keys', and others have said on Steam 'you are a dickhead, why give away stolen keys you thief, you are only doing it for points'. (Obviously they have no idea how the point system works - if I was doing that, I'd make 25 individual giveaways.

It's pretty clear that the RUSE keys came from the 100% discount that the Ubisoft Australia store applied back in March. I've never claimed to have purchase them, and in fact, if you look at my original giveaway you will see I posted a screenshot where it says the total price of the keys was $0.00.

The sole and pure reason I am running these giveaways is so I don't just have the keys sitting there dormant doing nothing. Games are there to be played, and if I can give away 277 games to people then the world is just that little bit better.

If I was to publish the entire RUSE key list to Reddit or Facepunch like some people have suggested I should do, multiple people would try to activate the same key, probably getting banned in the process. Or someone would sell the key list, or at the very least attempt to.

I could've sold these keys for ~$20/pop on eBay, netting myself $5540 in the process. But I don't need the money, so I didn't. Nor would I expect recipients of the keys to sell them either. That's immoral.

I'm not doing this for the praise like fishpen0 suggested. Whilst it is appreciated, the thanks should be directed at those who purchased keys and are very generously donating them, or those who are giving away keys in a bundle they purchased. These are the truly generous people.

So we are all clear, this is the email I received from Ubisoft:

Your Recent Order on the Ubishop
ubisoft.cs@digitalriver.com [ubisoft.cs@digitalriver.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 1:40 AM
To: Name Redacted
Monday 21st March, 2010
Sydney, Australia

TO OUR UBISHOP CUSTOMERS

Last week, the Australian Ubishop site was showing that nearly all of its games were available for a 100% discount. This was obviously a systems error that has now been fixed.

As you were quick enough to act on this error, we would like to advise that Ubisoft will honour this sale at the full discount. We hope that you enjoy the games, and invite you to visit our website again to view our upcoming PC lineup, and our regular promotions. Admittedly, they probably won’t be quite as generous as the one you have just taken advantage of...

Best regards,
The Ubishop team

Finally, thanks to the mods. CJ, Cult and RJ (if I missed other mods, owners, I'm sorry :P). They are the true heroes here. They have built up a community of almost 5000 people in such a short time, and have improved the lives of so many by enabling gifts to be received easily. They should be thanked immensely.

13 years ago*

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Cult

If you can, pass me the names of people harassing you. Thanks!

13 years ago