Gala Giveaways, aka "Shitty Steamgifts.com"

first everything was a Doom clone, then everything was a Quake clone, then everything was a Half Life clone... same butt-mad cloning conspiracy that somehow runs rampant through the PC gaming community.

I got 232k points O_O dafuq at that site.
And then I start spotting giveaways that require 250 000 points and the game they are giving away is worth like 3 dollars. Better wait till leachers and trolls waste their points and then start wasting my own points :D

after like 5 giveaways you will have none trust me :)

sometimes the key is on the side

I actually like PlayBlink much better. Yes, it's nowhere near as good as Steamgifts, but it is much more well laid out than Galagiveaways, and acquiring points only by making giveaways is ridicilous. I only registered, blew my points and logged out of that site, never to come back.

ive won a game on PlayBlink and never recieved the key, fuck this shit

Not a very impressive necro.

Better point system? Their point system makes people be greedy and put 200.000 points for a GA of a shitty game. It's abussive.

A "better" points system which causes division, exploitation, and frustration for most involved.

People give out even more exploited games there because there's not just a disincentive against the practice as SG has, but an actual incentive: the more crap you put out the more entries you can get. The system then encourages this sort of behaviour by compounding the problem with its price setting and multiple entries systems. A gifter puts out crap to get more points to get the edge on commonly unfairly priced GAs made by people who themselves are trying to get as many points as possible, etc. And don't get me started on the new poker system. It's atrocious.

You know the in-site economy is inflated when the site operators routinely inject raw point boosts into the system (Injecting 'money' into a system -weakens- purchasing power, not enhances it). It's simply an unfair setup for the economically disadvantaged. Y'know, the very people gift sites are at least in part supposed to help support.

At least it isn't Gameminer's P2W system. Though from another perspective you could just view that as a heavily-discounted and very volatile steam store. Ex. $5 for a ~60% chance to win Bioshock Infinite. If it actually gives games away at all and isn't some kind of scam. Statistically I should have won something by now but I haven't. At least I didn't pay anything there.

the point system is dumb as hell in gala