Batten down the hatches, powder monkeys! We got a coin shop starboard!
And here I was about to ask where the Mechabolt GA's were coming from.
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Its like a record amount of weeks with overwhelmingly disappointing coin shop games.
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Such bad offers last time, have nearly 30000 coins and see nothing i would like to spend them. Have the bad feeling that the store will not make this "giveaways" any longer.
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Im honored that they offered such a nice and cool games.
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Theoretically it is possible that they'll offer two or more expensive games one would like in a row. Then 20k wouldn't be sufficient, you'd miss something you want for something you never wanted.
But that potential risk was only relevant in a distant past, they don't offer anything of value anymore.
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there was games for 30 and 20k at same time i wanted(wishlisted for long time), but i was at 16k...my heart was broken, thats why i prefer to keep coins for games i may play than use it for anything that i will never play
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It was given away free a few months ago.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/64R0Z/devious-dungeon-steam-free-keys
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Dead Cells and War for the Overworld were part of a special event 1 week long to incentivate sales, when people were getting a good chunk of chrono coins buying the deals. They were not one of the normal games added every 2 weeks to the store, So unless chrono does another special event like that, I can't see another game of that quality added to the store anytime soon.
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With so many ppl abusing with multiple account for all site such as lootboy, chrono,kinguin, alienware. It will be less and less chance for them to give mid level game.
They should lock it to steam account which the user must spend certain amount of money in steam to get in their offer. This can clear out a lot of bot account and multiple account.
Too many greed people.
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sadly in many ways, its too easy to work around it
for example how do you define how much someone has spent on steam? through api? through games they own?
remember that even for steamgifts its laughably easy to rack up your account level to the minimum of 100 euro or dollar having bunch of bundled games activated and whatsnot
Not saying the idea is a bad one but im saying that there are many loopholes in this.
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minimum steam level 25, minimum 100$ spent on steam account excluding any bundled games, add same ip check and allow redeeming keys only through the site to the linked steam account (extra checks to see if the user owns the game and if he added the game to his account after the giveaway, restrict giveaway participation if they don't), 95% of the abuse would be gone instantly.
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If you've been to the chrono forums, you'd see that other users either gift or trade games to each other, sometimes even a mod does that. So I don't think linking a steam account would be on their to do list.
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Tbh, I never checked out their forums. That's perfectly fine, if they are okay with bots, abusers or gifters etc they can choose not to take any precautions. I mean if they want to do something about it there are ways to do it, at least they should try to find out the bots and multiple accounts imo.
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They do take precautions and there have been examples of people getting banned for multiple accounts. Obviously their method isn't ideal as they still do exist, but tightening the freedom might ruin their small forum community who are legitimate users. Either way, when new chrono coin shop games get released, there is always time for me to get a title if I want it, so I don't believe that bots are a huge problem there yet.
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You haven't even completed your free community badge tasks xD You don't get your free/super cheap event badges either. Also it looks like you've never cared about the badges.
Of course every restriction will cause some trouble for legit users as well, but bot users with dozens of low level bots will have much bigger problems for sure. Currently, around level 15 means pretty much nothing because of the free community badge etc.
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Pretty good suggestions... in theory. Sadly, they're very easy to abuse in practice.
minimum steam level 25
Free badges are more than enough to reach a decent level: community badge + events from the past 3-4 years = level 20.
Add to that the years of service badge and the games owned badge, and you can easily fill in the gap with random trash.
Pretty easy with older accounts, especially the kind that are used to farm lots of shovelware collected from shady giveaway sites.
minimum 100$ spent on steam account excluding any bundled games
That's the same as Steam Gifts.
Just take a look around the site and see how well it works in keeping out undesired users (i.e. bots and alts, but also random opportunists who slip through in the short time window before games get bundle listed).
ip check
Dynamic IPs. VPNs. Proxies. Whatever floats your boat. In any case, circumventing it is child's play.
If you ever visited any medium/big Discord server (i.e. the kind where you sometimes need to ban people), not necessarily on the moderation team's side, you'll know how resilient some people can be.
allow redeeming keys only through the site to the linked steam account
Direct key activation would be effective, though only mildly, as given the demographics that should be supposed to fight, I wouldn't underestimate their greed (you'd probably be surprised to see how far they're willing to go for profits).
Not to mention the backlash such an action would receive, which I doubt they -or anybody, really- would be willing to face.
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Not sure if that'd be too effective, sure it'll reduce mass exploiting but it won't solve it, only piss off legitimate users.
Steam level is pointless, one of my alts is over level 25 and I only use them to farm cards. Meanwhile a bunch of real users don't bother with levels and are barelly over lvl 10 despite using steam for years.
Almost everyone has access to at least 2 IPs nowadays (house conection + mobile), and VPNs and proxies are widely used.
If you only allow activating the keys to the linked account gifting won't be possible anymore, I fail to see why would you stop that or how would it help.
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Well, even the last part alone would reduce the number of bots/abusers greatly. Just adding a check to see if they don't own the game and if they actually redeemed it on their account will cause people to lose their bot accounts on these sites. These promotions are meant to be used on your account anyway, they are not for gifting.
Btw steam level 10-15 is super easy with basic profile tasks and free badges but level 25 won't be so easy for sure. I mean you can have a level 50 alt but how many of those can you have?
Ip check is just a super easy filter to get rid of the people using the same ip on several accounts. Also it shouldn't be hard to catch those free vpn ips. Why would you even use vpn on a promo website? You are either using multiple accounts or trying to bypass some restriction.
Especially in alienware case, if they limit giveaways to min level 25 users and check if they actually redeemed them on their steam accounts, this alone will solve pretty much everything imo.
It's not a good idea to do nothing just because you can't stop 100% of the abuse by doing something. I'm fine with a 95% filter, however in the current state these sites don't do anything at all. Btw, linking phone number is also a good way to get rid of some of those multiple accounts.
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Pretty sure that if you ask to link phone number a lot of people would drop out even if they were using the site as intended, it's not like one can just trust any random site with that.
My point is that level restrictions has a possibility of cutting out legit users while dedicated multi-accounters could still get away with it, it's really easy (and cheap) to get a bunch of accounts to the required level if you look at the sheer number of leveling "services" out there. Don't forget that there are people out there with dozens of steam accounts, and setting a farming account actually does require a small investment (the reason why I only have two alts), if they're willing to jump through those hoops they're likely to jump through a few more.
IP is a pretty decent deterrent but some of us are still using dynamic IP internet, that could mess with the system.
I generally NEED to use proxies if I want to get anything from Alienware, main reason why I can't be asked most of the time.
The only real way to stop people from using multiple accounts is to force steam linking and checking for ownership, if they really don't want regifting then that's fine, but it also takes effort and it's not guaranteed to atract more paying customers (which I'd assume is the main purpose in the case of chrono's promotions) so I don't know if they're going to bother doing it.
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Snowball! - 4000
https://store.steampowered.com/app/546550/Snowball/
Cheap Golf - 4500
https://store.steampowered.com/app/616520/Cheap_Golf/
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Well, that's disappointing. But I'm accustomed to it now.
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Nothing to spend my coins. puff another 15 dys waiting for nothing chrono is going worse every round
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The good news is that there are only 2 more PixelJam games left to be added to the shop. XD
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This week's games
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure - 8000 coins
Knightin'+ - 7500 coins
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Chrono.gg - Coin Shop
New games every 2 weeks
NextLast batch: 29 May 2020 18:00 CETView this bundle on: Barter.vg
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