The key that I bought wasn't marked as region restricted so I can't be sure that we won't have the same problem if I buy another one. Keys from official stores are more likely to work, but I can't afford those prices.
SG support doesn't allow reroll requests in case of region issues so our options are to delete this GA or for you to mark it as Not Received. Let me know what you prefer.
Thank you very much for Eternal Threads! I had it in my wishlist for quite a while :) And I really wish to mark your giveaway as received since you did your best but I think if I do so, not having the game (Tinykin) in my library would cause some issues with SG.
Upon your preference, I will mark it as "not received" then, if I somehow obtain the game in the future and I still have the option to change it back to "received" I will do it. And thanks again for your contribution in this train, I haven't joined in this time as a contributor but still had lots of fun with keeping track of it and picking the games I would like to have in my library :)
not having the game (Tinykin) in my library would cause some issues with SG.
Haha yeah! Definitely don't mark it as received if you don't own the game or you'll have problems!
I'm okay with the "not received" feedback. It was bound to happen sooner or later and doesn't bother me. If I ever come across a good deal for Tinykin and I think it'll activate in Turkey, I'll send it to you and you can switch your feedback to received. I believe that can be done through a support ticket at any point.
It's always a pleasure contributing to this train, despite the occasional hassles :P
I would be happy to change my feedback to received if you manage to find a good deal for a key in the future and share with me. I will also change it if I manage to get it some other way. I might even buy it myself when there is a good Steam deal (just wishlisted it), didn't know about the game before your giveaway and it looks like it is right up my alley, I love the Psychonauts vibes from it :)
I can't even give not received feedback for now btw, the site asks me to wait for a week before doing it. So it will stay in limbo for now and I'll mark it when that period ends.
Hey man. The jig is up. I know that you activated Tinykin on one of your other accounts.
I contacted the key shop in order to get a replacement key. They asked me to obtain the activation date and time from Steam support.
Steam support confirms that the key was activated on Sep 28 10:40 PST, 3 minutes before you told me that you couldn't activate it in Turkey. It's obvious that you have another European Steam account. You even have a Dutch flag on your Steam profile.
You lied to me the entire time and I was even nice and gullible enough to send you another game as a consolation.
This is the worst experience I've had in my two years on SG. It makes me want to quit SG or at least stop making public giveaways.
Hi. Sorry to hear this and mostly it is my fault I think but you don't know the entire story. I asked a friend of mine to check the availability of the key and I thought he had the means to check it somewhere, but apparently he tried directly on steam and activated it. I will still mark it as received if/when I manage to obtain the game for myself, but again sorry that it happened this way.
All you had to do was tell me that the key is region locked and hand it back to me. I don't know why any additional "checking" was necessarily by either you or your friend. No amount of checking would've allowed you to activate the key on your account.
I'm not sure what your friend told you exactly, but you could've at least informed me that you shared the key with him. I hope you can understand why I'm being suspicious.
Anyway, what's done is done. I'm planning to ask SG support to mark the giveaway as received after one week because it's irrelevant if it was you or your friend who activated the game; the key that I sent was valid but was activated on a different account.
I wasn't aware that he activated it, but yes I shouldn't have checked with anyone else, I was just curious about the restrictions and if there could have been a way for me to activate it. Sorry again for the inconvenience, do as what you think is right.
Sad to see your case and that you acted very friendly with gifting him a other wishlist game on top to the won game and got this reward for it :o(
or at least stop making public giveaways.
Such similar experiences were for me the reason why i do nowadays nearly only GAs in my group and haven't done since 2 years cakeday threads.
If someone would do in my group something shady he would be escorted to the door.
I miss the times when i made public GAs without to know how many winners cheat/exploit/abuse in some way.
It's disconcerting. The public part of SG is such a train wreck with the amount of bs that every time I post a public ga, I'm unsure whether I should. So many things should be automated and lifting the burden of the few mods actually willing to help (and not just collecting badges). SG is a joke.
Oh no! I'm so sorry for this experience that you had to get rid of it by yourself. People really don't have any kind of consideration and respect.
I thought SG was a safe place, no duplicate accounts. I'm shocked too (less than you, obviously).
You have my support, PoeticKatana. Remember, it's not your fault that you are so kind and gullible, these are common things for those who have created many GAs for the community. The point is that he should understand it (a lil bit) as well!
Edit: Sorry, I wanted to see what kind of experience you got. If you want that this remains a private thing then I give you my sincerest apologies!
Che poi è palese che la storia è completamente inventata. Ogni volta si tirano in ballo sempre gli amici...ma al di là di questo il discorso è forzatissimo. Se c'è una cosa che mi fa infuriare è la mancanza di rispetto e forse tu puoi capirmi.
Indovina un po' in che lista l'ho aggiunto? Edit: non è la lista della spesa xD
I thought SG was a safe place, no duplicate accounts.
I am not sure if you made a joke or not.
If not, you should have the, sad, info that the majority of the active users on sg cheat/exploit/abuse in some way.
And multiaccounters aren't a rare thing here too :o(
Yes I agree and unfortunately it is like you said but, somehow, my mind pretends that things are different. I actually wanted to edit my comment because it doesn't make any sense, in this case.
However, I know you have spent much of your time "exposing" the crime and the criminal with it by contacting the support team but, apparently, nothing can be dome. At least until a solution is found (maybe at a software level it's possible? I'd have to think about it)
That is the important core part. The owner don't care, so nothing will change.
That is the reason why i stopped, nearly 1 year ago, to hunt the cheaters. It waste only important lifetime that nobody gets back.
I just read everything... I'm so sorry for your experience, Katana. Many of us appreciate everything you do here, I hope this doesn't make your day bitter. Wish you all the best!
Really amazing section, double thumbs up!
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Thanks for all the giveaways PK!
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TRAIN IS MOVING
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Tracks linked :P
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made my day
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Very cool train ride, thank you!
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oh heck, another one for the wishlist. 😭😂
(thank you! I'm a nerd for pikmin hehehe)
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Thank you for the giveaway, but I couldn't activate it (Turkey) :(
https://imgur.com/iKmugNn
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That's unfortunate :(
The key that I bought wasn't marked as region restricted so I can't be sure that we won't have the same problem if I buy another one. Keys from official stores are more likely to work, but I can't afford those prices.
SG support doesn't allow reroll requests in case of region issues so our options are to delete this GA or for you to mark it as Not Received. Let me know what you prefer.
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I understand, shame that they didn't state regional restrictions but not much you can do.
Both deletion or not received are fine by me, I guess deleting it would be your choice so we can do that.
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I actually prefer to leave it as "not received" to preserve the continuity of the train and keep a historical record for the future.
PS: I replaced the key with that of another game from your wishlist. It's not much, but at least you won't come out empty handed.
Sorry again. I really appreciate you handling the situation positively.
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Thank you very much for Eternal Threads! I had it in my wishlist for quite a while :) And I really wish to mark your giveaway as received since you did your best but I think if I do so, not having the game (Tinykin) in my library would cause some issues with SG.
Upon your preference, I will mark it as "not received" then, if I somehow obtain the game in the future and I still have the option to change it back to "received" I will do it. And thanks again for your contribution in this train, I haven't joined in this time as a contributor but still had lots of fun with keeping track of it and picking the games I would like to have in my library :)
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Haha yeah! Definitely don't mark it as received if you don't own the game or you'll have problems!
I'm okay with the "not received" feedback. It was bound to happen sooner or later and doesn't bother me. If I ever come across a good deal for Tinykin and I think it'll activate in Turkey, I'll send it to you and you can switch your feedback to received. I believe that can be done through a support ticket at any point.
It's always a pleasure contributing to this train, despite the occasional hassles :P
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I would be happy to change my feedback to received if you manage to find a good deal for a key in the future and share with me. I will also change it if I manage to get it some other way. I might even buy it myself when there is a good Steam deal (just wishlisted it), didn't know about the game before your giveaway and it looks like it is right up my alley, I love the Psychonauts vibes from it :)
I can't even give not received feedback for now btw, the site asks me to wait for a week before doing it. So it will stay in limbo for now and I'll mark it when that period ends.
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Hey man. The jig is up. I know that you activated Tinykin on one of your other accounts.
I contacted the key shop in order to get a replacement key. They asked me to obtain the activation date and time from Steam support.
Steam support confirms that the key was activated on Sep 28 10:40 PST, 3 minutes before you told me that you couldn't activate it in Turkey. It's obvious that you have another European Steam account. You even have a Dutch flag on your Steam profile.
You lied to me the entire time and I was even nice and gullible enough to send you another game as a consolation.
This is the worst experience I've had in my two years on SG. It makes me want to quit SG or at least stop making public giveaways.
Thanks buddy. Enjoy your ill-gotten prizes.
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Hi. Sorry to hear this and mostly it is my fault I think but you don't know the entire story. I asked a friend of mine to check the availability of the key and I thought he had the means to check it somewhere, but apparently he tried directly on steam and activated it. I will still mark it as received if/when I manage to obtain the game for myself, but again sorry that it happened this way.
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All you had to do was tell me that the key is region locked and hand it back to me. I don't know why any additional "checking" was necessarily by either you or your friend. No amount of checking would've allowed you to activate the key on your account.
I'm not sure what your friend told you exactly, but you could've at least informed me that you shared the key with him. I hope you can understand why I'm being suspicious.
Anyway, what's done is done. I'm planning to ask SG support to mark the giveaway as received after one week because it's irrelevant if it was you or your friend who activated the game; the key that I sent was valid but was activated on a different account.
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I wasn't aware that he activated it, but yes I shouldn't have checked with anyone else, I was just curious about the restrictions and if there could have been a way for me to activate it. Sorry again for the inconvenience, do as what you think is right.
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Katana is doing it, you HUGE SHAME. why you say you're sorry. you don give a fuck, since hours.
what terrible persons SG has to have.
say thanks to cg, always kiss cg in his face, each and every morning, YOU, SHAME.
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Sad to see your case and that you acted very friendly with gifting him a other wishlist game on top to the won game and got this reward for it :o(
Such similar experiences were for me the reason why i do nowadays nearly only GAs in my group and haven't done since 2 years cakeday threads.
If someone would do in my group something shady he would be escorted to the door.
I miss the times when i made public GAs without to know how many winners cheat/exploit/abuse in some way.
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It's disconcerting. The public part of SG is such a train wreck with the amount of bs that every time I post a public ga, I'm unsure whether I should. So many things should be automated and lifting the burden of the few mods actually willing to help (and not just collecting badges). SG is a joke.
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Sorry for butting in, could you tell me how did you get that info from Support? I kinda want to check out one of my keys as well
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I found the key's subID. According to SteamDB, it's buy restricted in Turkey https://steamdb.info/sub/759626/
Nothing I can do about that unfortunately.
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you have been blacklisted. perma-blacklisted. you will never ever leave it. never.
you're a s h a m e. internationally.
blocked all communications on Steam, with you and all your friends.
again, huge shame
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Oh no! I'm so sorry for this experience that you had to get rid of it by yourself. People really don't have any kind of consideration and respect.
I thought SG was a safe place, no duplicate accounts. I'm shocked too (less than you, obviously).
You have my support, PoeticKatana. Remember, it's not your fault that you are so kind and gullible, these are common things for those who have created many GAs for the community. The point is that he should understand it (a lil bit) as well!
Edit: Sorry, I wanted to see what kind of experience you got. If you want that this remains a private thing then I give you my sincerest apologies!
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cioè, stà storia...
con lui, poi, con Katana, capito??
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Che poi è palese che la storia è completamente inventata. Ogni volta si tirano in ballo sempre gli amici...ma al di là di questo il discorso è forzatissimo. Se c'è una cosa che mi fa infuriare è la mancanza di rispetto e
forsetu puoi capirmi.Indovina un po' in che lista l'ho aggiunto? Edit: non è la lista della spesa xD
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Ah scusa, ho appena letto i tuoi commenti. Quindi la pensiamo allo stesso modo xD
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I am not sure if you made a joke or not.
If not, you should have the, sad, info that the majority of the active users on sg cheat/exploit/abuse in some way.
And multiaccounters aren't a rare thing here too :o(
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Yes I agree and unfortunately it is like you said but, somehow, my mind pretends that things are different. I actually wanted to edit my comment because it doesn't make any sense, in this case.
However, I know you have spent much of your time "exposing" the crime and the criminal with it by contacting the support team but, apparently, nothing can be dome. At least until a solution is found (maybe at a software level it's possible? I'd have to think about it)
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That is the important core part.
The owner don't care, so nothing will change.
That is the reason why i stopped, nearly 1 year ago, to hunt the cheaters. It waste only important lifetime that nobody gets back.
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Yeah, I understand :(
Thanks for letting me know, Masafor. I will try to remember our little chitchat.
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I just read everything... I'm so sorry for your experience, Katana. Many of us appreciate everything you do here, I hope this doesn't make your day bitter. Wish you all the best!
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