I joined the site because i wanted free games. I had no plan on giving away games but only to leech.
Then one night, i had left over bundle.. One thing lead to another and here i am.
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Somewhat about 4 years ago... I just got my Steam account and I was looking around what I can do with that. Got here, got turned down because of 50$ limit. Got back again slightly more than a year ago - ha a number of games on Steam by the time. Thought it's pretty cool here, did stay.
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i joined to get free shit but i now earn enough to buy what i want (for the most part) so i give away what i dont want or already own. that may sound kinda shitey but my profile speaks for itself, im not the most generous sg member but i do my best given my means. the majority of my giveaways are public and from now on they always will be public, ive given away group stuff and private stuff but i have now recognised that isnt really in the spirit of this site so far as i can see it. i dont have a black or white list and never will, from now on what i dont give away in the forum, in the form of key drops, will always be public and i would urge more people to do the same.
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I joined for free game and get as many as I can XD
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Was introduced to this site through another forum.
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I joined to get free games. After some wins, I realized that I wanted to give back. I created some giveaways.
Win give give win give give ... Now I'm level 5. :D
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I had some duplicate keys that my friends all turned down.
Then I found this site, created a few GAs... was amazed on how many joined them...
Started a blog with ads as an experiment to see if all these entries would generate ad revenue to give away more games.
Created GA for Rocket League, got a few hundred visits... total ad revenue 0.03$....
....The experiment was a fail.... Will keep writing the blog though for my own sake mostly...
Solved my first puzzle.
Solved another one.
Created a puzzle.
Fell in love with this place, wanted to give more....
Will probably sell my house to create more GAs soon....
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It was during closed beta when the site was invitation-only.
I bought an invite code from a trader. Giveaways used to have less than 100 entries even for AAA games.
I never won anything.
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I joined to get free games, I stayed to get rid of extra bundle keys. Recently for some reason I wasted some money that was needed on food on buying bundles just to ga or a few cheap non-bundled games.
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I joined to trade. I was buying bundles and felt like upwards of 50% of the games were going to waste. I figured there must be a trading site someplace. Google brought me here.
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Like Madu, I joined SG for the "free shit" but then I started really liking the site and started giving away games. My wallet started to get hammered and it reached the point where I have nothing left (about the same time I joined 2hu)
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First time I came here with "Wow, steam games for free, really?! Looks liks a scam". And first won game on the first day! I was rather shocked and gave away my purchased Humble bundle after.
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i joined cause free games...
i stayed cause of the people
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I wanted to test if this "karma" thing also works if you are atheist ...
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In the beginning I only wanted to win free games, but then I have become active on our forum, the community has come closer to me, and I made my first giveaway. I've discovered that I love to give better then receive ;)
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Some years ago I had accumulated some gift copies. Steam had a sale of NyxQuest, 10 copies for $15 in November 2010, and I bought that (that was before bundles and I felt it was great value), and there were some other games that I enjoyed and bought gift copies for. Why I bought them is probably mostly because I've always been a gift hoarder, having boxes of knickknacks at home that I collected in the hope of giving them to someone someday.
Problem was it was hard finding people to give them to. I tried posting on some forums I frequented and on my Facebook page where I posted about PC hardware giveaways I came upon, and had (I think) about 40 likes at the time, but it was hard to find enough people to want the games (in particular all the copies of NyxQuest).
Then I found SG, which was just out of beta, and that was a place where no matter what you had someone wanted it. That was just what I needed, so I signed up and started giving away some games. I also used it to get more likes for my Facebook page (got to about 500), and made giveaways to my followers.
It was good fun, but at some point I realised that I was buying quite a bit of stuff on Steam while at the same time playing less and less, due to family, and decided to stop it, went cold turkey for a couple of months, and though I later returned to building my backlog I haven't gone back to deliberate gift buying since. I also got disillusioned over time, as I understood that SG has become a game rather than a site for charitable gifting. When I joined there was no CV, and I think the site was nicer then. I occasionally gift on the GOG forum, but probably won't gift on SG again unless a condition is added for "maximum number of gifts won".
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Well actually, I didn't even think that site like this one exists and I was searching for a trading site to try and trade my duplicate keys/ keys I don't need - and I found steam trades...BUT, steam gifts part looked so interesting but I felt like it would be rude to enter anything without paticipating myself first as well, so I made a few giveaways...and 1 year later I'm still here :) (mostly lurking and reading discussions) I still trade a bit from time to time but I prefer making giveaways.
Thank you for nice giveaways! Bump! :)
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Woah, no intent to offend but, your friend are some pretty freakin assholes! :c
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No, not really. I don't think it would have been better for them to take games they don't really want.
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It's not because of that...have you read it? It doesn't matter the answer, the important thing is to RECEIVE an answer. And also a ty if you took my keys and also used it immediately. It's the common use between friends, a person shouldn't even have to say that ! .-.
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Hi,
My question is pretty simple. What motivated you to join this site and give you games away?
I've been told that I don't have enough experience in this site to join most giveaway groups, which is fair enough, as I've only been a member for a few months. I have however found a lot of really generous people who give far more than they receive, as well as people who receive without ever giving back. To be honest, this site caters for both, from what I've seen. And that's why I want to be more active here. I love giving and a enjoy receiving, but I like giving far more.
The reason I ask the question in the first paragraph is to tell you why I've joined this site and find out what your reason is. I used to buy bundles when they looked interesting, and after a while I accumulated about twenty duplicate keys. So I figured that I'd ask some of my real-life friends if they're interested in free games (since I can't use them). I assembled a nice spreadsheet with the names of the games that I had extra, added pictures of the gameplay and the covers for each game as well as a link to the steampage for each title. I even wrote a small summary of each game that I'd tried, describing what I like about it. This spreadsheet was send to my friends telling them to let me know what they're interested in. So I waited. And waited. After three days I quietly asked if anyone had even looked at the list. I got a few uninterested responses, with my friends each seemingly reluctantly asking for a title. Kinda like they're doing me a favour. I'll be honest, that hurt a little, so I starting looking for alternative ways of giving away my keys without having to (almost) beg people to take it.
So I joined this site. Now I haven't been around for very long, and I haven't given away a ton yet, but that's going to change. The reason is that I recently got duplicate keys for Thief, Murdered: Soul Suspect and Alien Isolation. Surely my real-life friends would leap at these (I know. I don't learn quickly)? I didn't make the same effort I did the previous time. The names were WhatsApp'ed (is that a verb? Should be) to them. They each asked for a title again. So at least that was faster than before. However, did I get a thank you? Barely. The friend who took one of the games had to be prompted to simply tell me if it activated successfully. (I knew it did. He activated it minutes after getting it.) I got a thank you three days later.
So what does that mean? Well, I don't think I'll be giving away much to my real-life friends anymore. If I give away a title on SteamGifts and I don't get a thank you, it's a random stranger on the Internet. So I'm afraid that if I have extra cash or keys from bundles or both, I'll be unloading them here. On you. Sorry. :)
Thank you for sitting through my story. As a reward, here's a little something. If you win, I would appreciate a thank you. I really dislike it if someone wins and does not activate the key, so please activate. You do not have to say thanks for each game you enter, but if you do enter something, I'd like a bump. :)
Here's hoping this is the start of a beautiful friendship. Or something.
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