Oh, btw, forgot to ask, but is this thread in the wrong section, or have you just mastered hiding something while creating an interesting debate-topic? :P
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I had a copy of Contraption Maker that I wanted to get rid of. I couldn't trade it for anything I wanted, and none of my friends wanted it.
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Like many, i was also " O.o cool free games" dont need to spend money... How wrong i was..
So i give back when my wallet allow it!
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I registered to leech as much as possible, and then I started buying stuff to give away ;_:
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I had some extra games which I was trying to trade away (unsuccessfully) , then I heard about this site from a friend. He told me, you can give them away and you can also win games from other people. Joined, and since then I love it.
I was away for almost a year+, but I am back and my soul is ready =)
Thanks for sharing with us.
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My friend told me to join for the glorious chance of free games.
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i come to get free games, ended with addiction to giving away games :D
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pretty much same situation as you khalina. The people here that do give games away are so nice compared to other communities.
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honestly just for some free games. and 2 days after registering i already gave away my first game. just to raise my chances, to be honest. not to make others happy (that came later). won the first one a month later. it was Galactic Arms Race. yes, i was one of the lucky 86%! xD
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I was looking for a place to dump my leftover bundlekeys. Of course the chance of winning something I also found very tempting :)
Thanks for a great train!
Oh, and I would like to add that I really enjoyed reading through your story. It's a shame your humble gifts are not appreciated. Your real-life friends seem to be a bunch of ungrateful bratts (sorry). However, sadly not every winner here is going to thank you either. Some do though, and when they do, it feels really nice.
Welcome to SG! Wishing you a pleasant stay :D
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I was looking for a website to trade steam games. At that time Russian steamgifts were not regionlocked so I was looking for a reputable seller. (Prices were 50% or less of what I was used to pay).
I found it using google.
Never left.
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Much the same as your story. had a lot of codes to games I already owned and no-one seemed to want them. They took the codes but I never really saw interest or play time on them, and a lot no-one wanted at all. A waste, in my opinion.
So I looked for a place to get the games to people who wanted them, and I found this place. Never looked back.
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I joined for the same reason as you, but at that time i had only one friend at steam.
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It's unimportant. What matters is how to get out. I've leeched so much I'm unable to squeeze through the gate. I'm stuck here for ETERNITY ;_;
joking aside, It was free stuff that brought me here, but I'm staying mostly for the great ppl )
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I came a couple years ago looking to trade for a couple games (honestly never even noticed the giveaway stuff, and if I did, I paid it no heed.) Just about a month ago a friend of mine mentioned the site to me because he'd won something. When he explained people just give away their games, I came back to look and realized I was a member of the site already.
I had gathered so many bundle keys over the years but had nothing to do with them, I was just so happy to have someone to give them to that would actually want them. I stayed because its the nicest community I've seen online in a really long time and I wanted to see if I could make myself a part of it.
Also, the winters are so long it's nice to have something to do when I'm snowed in!
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I originally came because my co-worker was on the site, and told me about it. He gave away some games, and pretty much never won any. I came after I got a bundle with 2-3 games I had already given away to other friends, and figured it might make someone's day to give them away here as well.
I also entered quite a few contests, and actually won quite a few games in return. The site has been good both ways.
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Bumparu!
And giving away + receiving free stuffs c: The reasons are clear !
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Wait...people join for reasons other than winning games? :P But seriously, that is precisely why I joined.
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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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