you think?
Copy/paste repeat offender. Someone on my friends list had the same person (I assume, at least same profile pic) ask with exactly the same text and then heavily insulting them after getting a No. Don't let them get to you, just block and forget. Personally I ignore invitations without context.
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Ive kinda been wondering if theyre bots and that also makes me imagine theyre scammers- wich would fit, like the guy with lots of games and begging... maybe thats one of the tactics he uses, that thing running on auto it could work... i mean, you cast a wide enougth net...
Just recently i received a random invite i did accept because the user clearly was all about Tf2 (my most played game) so i tought he saw me in on a match... soon after i accept he is asking if id like to join a team for some upcoming tournament...
All seemed fine and i answered... but he was unable to aknowledge any of my answers - and spent the next days repeating the same 2-3 messages... my guess the bot programmed to recognize some answer but since i didnt say yes/accept neither no/refuse it defaulted to spam.
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Wasn't he asking for Dave Diver? Heard it like 5 times already, that guy seems to attack all sg community about it. Maybe we should put together on game for him, so he can rest in peace.
Edit. Opened the pictures - yeah, it is him, he apparently spam active users of steamgifts.
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Maybe we should put together on game for him, so he can rest in peace.
That would reward their behaviour and inspire others to do the same. Best course is probably ignore / block / blacklist.
Also, these are games they own and display on their profile, so they aren't as poor as they try to make it seem:
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Weird tactic, do you think it works? I have a hard time imagining that there's anybody willing to say yes and gift the game when begged by a rando out of the blue, but if they're doing it at such scale then it suggests that it has worked for them at least once in the past.
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That is more like question for Masafor, I believe he know users which were successful with stuff like that.
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Hahaha, you summoned me.
Sadly, yes, users are, sometimes, successful with begging. Woman react mostly more friendly on it as guys.
The same guy begged one of my friends too, with the same text and i assume with the same insults after getting a "no" :-D (screenshot in the last comment in this thread right now)
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Sadly, yes, users are, sometimes, successful with begging. Woman react mostly more friendly on it as guys.
And it is in any case wrong to reward such a behavior.
They should get the PC taken away (or getting a heavy virus that grill their cpu and/or gpu), thats they learn the lesson.
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I've had people adding me just to ask me to gift them stuff in the past and I simply blocked them, it seems like such a dumb way of begging, but I guess it works on some people.
Although I still tend to accept random invites if they come from an account that looks legit, most times is someone from here wanting to chat or something. The idea of someone with more than a thousand games wanting to beg for more is so counter intuitive that I can see why people give it the benefit of the doubt at first.
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I know users from sg that use or used multiple accounts with at least 600 games and up to ~2,5k games, as multiaccounts.
High level accounts on top.
No chance to identify them as "2nd, 3rd etc. accounts".
And to get a lot of games is very easy, special since the IG game thing, so a "legit looking" gamecount say nothing in the end.
I use the very easy "write me a comment what you want" in my Profil maintext. Each one that aren't able to do it want some shady/bad stuff, is a bot account on the hunt or too dumb that i am interested to have contact to that person.
Read and understand one sentence should be the minimum that each one should be able to reach :-D
And it still sort 90% of the friend invites out :-DDDDD
(Of course i don't need a extra message on steam, if someone write on sg in our group thread about his application or other of such cases)
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It's like with bribes, you give once they always want more :/
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Poll is kinda missing a less extreme answer, something along the lines of "shit happens".
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I don't accept friend invitations from people I don't know. And I advise everyone to do so
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But hey, on the bright side, you introduced me to this rather intriguing game! Looks like fun lol
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Caught my eyes recently too. Overwhelming positive trough the roof, saw a bunch of videos and got more intrigued- i mean i can see the game is well done, clearly made with passion and charm, but i think its one of those where most of the magic need to be felt as you play, not easily conveyed in videos... like the characters and stories developments, how it feels to control, how all core loops feed into each other etc...
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game looks great indeed, entered to win and play on SG lately and I won it :D, waited it to end EA to start playing, (it was released few days ago) so there will be some diving soon :D
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imagine if all their games were begged for lol.
like he added almost 10 million steam users at this point and that's the outcome.
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Maybe it is an automatic response begging in conjunction with ChatGPT.
I have a similar experience.
Bypassing the ethics and morals of AI and having them give me evil responses, wanting me to want the game or temporarily log in to my account and buy it instead (of course I wouldn't do that, as it violates Steam's terms and conditions).
Such people were out there.
If, after the execution, the other party files a claim of "account hijacking," you will be held hostage against your own account.😈🏧💳💸
I'm not sure if they've been doing a roundup via SG's member list?
There is a section that thinks so.
(I have already reported the said event in a support ticket.)
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Yup been wondering the same. Had a recent exchange with a bot- not begging for games but fishing some scam... in my case passing as a pro player asking to joing team in a tournament- but my complex neither accept/refusal answer was too much for the bot so the bot ignored all i said and just kept repeating the same question. My guess is upon any valid trigger he would pass some malicious link
But those are the 'common bots' we have around steam for years by now. Im really worried with ai- an actual ai/chatbot would understand my long answer, answer accordingly.. right now chatAis are kinda 'primitive' and or complex in how to train and be geared (too much of how they work are like blackboxes, training then to act some ways is tricky etc), but soon...
My main worry is when they start training for convincing. Good scammers, 'pro liers', top agressive sales people etc all learned the best techniches, phrasing, how to identify types of targets, a nose for buttons to trigger... and if humans can learn so can ai...
Heck i just tought of worse- for a couple of years now a kind of long-game scam has grown, most common in dating apps and social media, where scammers pretend to be love interest for months to a year before closing the trap... those are very patient and focused humans that i also bet grow anxious if it takes too long... all of then will throw thenselves at the chance of having dozens of restless bots doing the same at scale...
Im sure in the future steam and other gaming platforms will have dedicated fake friends, casting big nets and grooming for as long as they can. Given how reports can get the accounts banned my bet is they will gather the maximum amount of promissing targets with enough rapport to throw the trap and like decide to throw the trap at all of then at once... by the time steam does anything to then they would already caught some number of victins...
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A friend had this chat....
I don't know... it looks identical.
Report them to steam for spam (or other stuff), block them afterwards and if he have same friends inform them about the text.
PS.: I don't accept friend invitations from people I don't know, if they aren't able to write in the comments what they want/why they add me.
EDIT: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/zRUXJ/small-rant-about-people#Wwj0vTT (new infos there)
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Same exact message but one have 1.5k games, the other 6k... they could all be alt accounts grow over the years i bet with more then just begging...
But now i wonder something else- stolen accounts? Theyre easier to pass then freshly made ones... besides family sharing (if theyre used to get games for play) they can all run bots/scams and farm steamcards on top...
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Something else I dont understand is why you dont crop your images.
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on that front why even put them in paint, you can paste the screen snip straight to imgur with ctrl+v.
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can't; have to blur person name first because of calling out rule
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but why bother? it's just pointing out sth things not making it pretty or purpose for anybody to see every detail in it
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It was just a small joke on how some people post content on the internet.
I look att 9gag app often on my break and when Im going to work and read comments sometimes. One popular theme is how people crop their videos. I just thought it was slightly funny when I saw your images. :)
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It's actually nice that there are so few of them. I imagine that a lot more would be motivated to act like that if Steam wouldn't step in.
As in rl I avoid persistent beggars while I give to those hiding shyly.
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"I don't accept unsolicited friend invites. If you invite me, make sure I know why."
I've put this on my profile and it's never failed to keep out those who can't read (including but not limited to bots). Nobody has yet dared to post "I'd like to beg for a game" as a comment and I don't expect it to happen any time soon.
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This dude sounds entitled, though I wouldn't go to the extreme of "people suck" because of one dude.
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I think my general reaction these days is just "Eh, what a weirdo" and I just have a dumb story to tell to people. Dude's a silly goose, don't let him get you down :)
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What I have to wonder though is: isn't the point of a scam to get something from it?
And since they seem to be repeat offenders... is there really anyone and I mean anyone that would work on?
Oh sure, stranger off the internet, here's your gift. ???
I imagine none of these 1,500 games were gained that way...
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I checked him now deeper and contacted the one or other that i know.
One of my female steam friends have him on her friendlist and after i warned her, she wrote me that he begged her too but she don't found it so bad and him a bit funny so she let him on her friendlist. He come from time to time along and cry that he don't have money. It's a basic psych. method that people offer than help... (with a higher success rate as to question direct for XYZ).
It's a polish guy that gets from multiple persons of his steam friendlist the newest games, so yes, he found a few "very generous" or "dumb ones" that pay for his games.
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I mean... people buying gifts to their "friends", sure. We're on a website where a lot of people buy gifts for random strangers.
But soliciting "friends" who never heard of you and then asking them to buy stuff for you first thing...? I should check if he's a relative of mine XD
I guess it doesn't work so much for him anymore or he wouldn't look for new "friends".
Anyway, he's obviously one of the special people and that doesn't speak for the rest of us. Hopefully.
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I guess it doesn't work so much for him anymore or he wouldn't look for new "friends".
I guess that he is only a greedy "§$"$§ that don't can get enough.
Obvious are all the new games that he show in his profile not enough for him or he would not search for more people that pay for his wishes.
From my point of view are people like him bottom of the barrel people, not from interest from which country they are.
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For similar reasons I have added the text that to my profile that they should let me know the reason for the invite on my profile page, otherwise I will just ignore it.
No problem ever since, hiding my page for non friends helps also I guess.
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Every time I get a random friend request its someone asking to join SGPillars...is just posting in the topic so I can see their stats really that hard? -_-
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This is nothing.
I knew a guy who was at the absolute bottom of society. Homeless bum and alcoholic.
On some rare occasions when he was sober he was strolling along one of many small roads nearby and asking random women to have sex with him. Not aggressive or anything, just politely asking and walking away when refused.
He got yelled at couple of times, got pepper sprayed couple of times and mostly he was ignored.. But one out of ten women would actually go to nearby bushes with him xD
Man was a legend xD
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Seems like an appropriate title: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343340/HORROR_TALES_The_Beggar/
The game looks interesting. Unreal 5 really makes things pop.
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would be a great if there would be a title like this for let's say 1€, it would be hillarous joke to gift it then, oh times with bad rats...
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Got a couple of these, but meh, just have fun with them and that's it. A bit of an overreaction IMO. It's like getting all worked up over scams and phishing emails you receive.
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I've had the opposite experience. I insisted almost daily to my gf to stop gifting me games and gift cards. Did she hear me? No, it only made her keep doing it with a more evil smile. So I stopped caring.
(I didn't even want to get into Steam, it was all her fault.)
But yes I've also had people asking me for whatever. Gift cards, cards/items to sell, games, anything. When I played LOTRO, there were always people in Bree asking for 1 gold to passerbys, and when you said no or ignored them, they went like "hey you're level 100, you must have thousands and you can't give me one?" <- This points that the person knew how the game worked and wasn't a newbie. But if they weren't newbies, why they would want 1 gold? It was so ludicrous...
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I really don't understand people nowadays.
Just got invitation out of the blue from someone I don't know. 1,5k games, 400 friends - propably not a scam I think.
And got begged about free game?! My brain melted. I knot there were dozens of people trying to take inventory you're not using etc. but just to buy a game to a person I never talked nor have anything in common because he asked for it?!
I'd be ashamed asf to ask like this.
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