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itspants1

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Sure...and that would be totally fine if the game of high stakes only affected you. That's my other issue with it. Congrats on winning a copy of a game you hate when someone else that entered the giveaway would've legitimately enjoyed it? I cleaned out my stockpile of humble keys, but I did it so that people could get a game they actually wanted to play. It's not something that upsets me enough that I'm going to contact a mod or complain about left and right. To me the thread is better when people give specific games to people that want to play those specific games.
I totally understand where you're coming from. I personally love the light heartedness of a mystery giveaway with it's added complexity to an already unlikely scenario. Life is like a box of chocolates etc. etc.
 

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Sorry everyone, I just wanted to participate in the giveaways but my face was tired.
 
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Starlatine

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Now this is just shameless lmao

It's not that hard to quote five people and have a quick conversation ya know
 
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Where's this clip from? I saw a let's play of this game on YouTube and it looks nothing like this clip
It's from a show about a bread

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Morrigan

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Don't do this. Why shit up the thread? Make meaningful conversation.
Now this is just shameless lmao

It's not that hard to quote five people and have a quick conversation ya know
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This is way too lazy.
People have done that since the beginning, because the "no lurkers" requirement doesn't make much sense for this thread (it's intended for community threads). Obviously doing that in specific community threads is bannable but not here.

Knock it off with the attacks and backseat moderation guys.
 

Starlatine

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People have done that since the beginning, because the "no lurkers" requirement doesn't make much sense for this thread (it's intended for community threads).

Knock it off with the attacks and backseat moderation guys.

What backseat moderation? I'm not reporting the guy or anything. Still not changing my mind that quoting people to talk about whatever is better than five straight POST# posts though but you mods worry about what is good for the thread or not, i'm here for the giveaways
 

ZeroCoin

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I totally understand where you're coming from. I personally love the light heartedness of a mystery giveaway with it's added complexity to an already unlikely scenario. Life is like a box of chocolates etc. etc.

It's all good. I think I've probably just seen too many of the Bad Rats mystery giveaways over the years to trust many of the 'totally not bad rats!' raffles.
 

Spyware

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Whenever I get another code to give away I'm gonna make it a mystery raffle just to annoy people. ;)
But I would give clues and also write the game name with the code so the winner knows before they activate it. Then they are free to do the same as I did if it was something they owned. Or just raffle it normally. Or whatevs!
 

Starlatine

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Whenever I get another code to give away I'm gonna make it a mystery raffle just to annoy people. ;)
But I would give clues and also write the game name with the code so the winner knows before they activate it. Then they are free to do the same as I did if it was something they owned. Or just raffle it normally. Or whatevs!

Do a mystery condition to enter raffle
Like "no members born in 1992 or with nicknames starting with R are eligible to enter"

I think I have the first one on GOG too.

Sometimes its called LBA, sometimes its called just "Relentless"
Its a fun game too, despite one tiny part that haunts my dreams to this day
 

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Dead Island Definitive Code is not redeemable in Germany. Sigh.
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Blade30

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I don't understand why the "No Lurker" restriction is even used in this thread, it really doesn't make any sense.
 

Putosaure

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Yeah I guess I'm out of the giveaways since no captcha can load for me since Google is blocked here. You have one less opponent people!
 

Spyware

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I'm just gonna quote this great post re: the lurker restriction
I personally actually think that this very thread became a community on its own by now. We have our regular users, our well-known gifters that hype their games with teasers, our gif makers always being so creative, and so many regulars just bantering together in the face of GiftBot giving us joy or disappointment.

I would have agreed, and actually have agreed to the "no lurker" option not making any sense for giveaways happening in this thread 3 weeks ago when this was just starting. But now, I would argue that we have a community in this very thread, and that people wanting to create giveaways to reward people who actively participate in this thread, by making it lively, generous, fun and wholesome, have a right to create giveaways with restrictions that would help that happen.

I said basically the same thing from the start and I stand by it. It's unfortunate that it creates spam but it has also created Final Fantasy top lists, memes and many other odd things.
 
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rochellepaws

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It's been happening since the very beginning...
People have been disguising it at least and engaging in fun discussion which is nice for the thread. Like those posts where people were ranking their favourite final fantasy games for example rather than "obligatory post #1".
I could see a giver wanting people to contribute something small to the thread before being allowed an entry but it serves no purpose if numbered spam posts are an accepted way to bypass.
 
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