All he is gifting are Dark Messiah Might and Magic (MULTIPLAYER ONLY) which you can find on steamgames.com for free.

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But you can't, it is only through promotions that you can get those keys. Esq put them as Dark Messiah keys because the system does not currently register the two as distinct, just as the system doesn't recognize some of the packs on Steam properly.

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If you sign up on this free polish site it gives you free multiplayer keys and you just keep signing up for more keys. Hence why it's multiplayer only. I read that on the steam forums years ago.

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Well they need to fix that, cause this sucks to people who are actually legitly gifting.

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"Well they need to fix that, cause this sucks to people who are actually legitly gifting."

As a top contributor to this great website, who doesn't do that unlawful stuff, I second that.

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Lets be fair, although it may be frowned upon, there is nothing unlawful about it.

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Indeed. If he is getting more points, then maybe there is something unlawful to it.

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Everyone is getting more points, not just him.

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You use a fake proxy to get it...

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One one hand, Esquillax is sharing polish-exclusive deals with the members of this site, and doesn't gain any benefits from being a "top contributor"; on the other hand Esquillax isn't stating that the copies can be gotten free for polish members - or via a proxy for non-polish members.

I don't think Esquillax's intentions were bad; but it would've been nice to tell people the copies were and can be obtained for free with the giveaway description - if Esquillax reads this forum thread, I've no doubt in-hindsight they'd agree.

To reiterate an important point, Esquillax doesn't gain anything from being a top contributor; so there really isn't any need to hate them

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They do gain the extra points to gain entry to more giveaways plus all of the karma and positive stats on their profile.

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No, gifters do not gain any extra points whatsoever. There is absolutely no reward for creating a giveaway.

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Well, there is the bonus of having your name on the front page and appearing to be very generous. That's kind of a benefit, but I guess superficial in any case.

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If we're getting concerned over the gifters and not the giftees (say BlueLegion) then something's wrong here

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I agree. Regardless of how he acquired the games, as long as he did so legally, he is still giving away free games! Why are we complaining about someone giving away free games?

And to be honest, I have signed up on the site where you get the free copies and done it myself (and am currently gifting one copy of it), and its not exactly easy. I would say it took me 2 hours just to get three copies of it, after fiddling with proxies, emails and forum accounts. So to gift 25 copies of the game definitely took some effort on his part.

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Honestly I doubt Esquilax cares about being top contributor or being on the front page. I remember him mentioning in chat that he wanted to "single-handedly revive Dark Messiah multiplayer" :D

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It's Karma, that is why he wants to be top. This site is turning out more like Reddit by the moment, ugh.

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He's been giving games in steam chat long before this website came into existence, so no, I really doubt he cares about the recognition.

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Get the f*ck off with "karma". There's nothing about it, it's just what pines said, jeez whiners.

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He did nothing wrong in my opinion. I agree that he shouldn't be listed as #1 contributor, but it's just how the site works at the moment. U don't gift away games to be #1 on some kinda list. I'm pretty sure he only wanted to do something for the community ^^

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