Steamgifts Reviews 74

Pathetic site

Bot infested paradise and mods who are maintaining double standards, not taking action against spamming autojoiners, but suspending people who warn others about all the problems. They even have a whitelist for insults, where several insults go unpunished, never seen a site that got moderated that unprofessional, because insults will help any community, right?

Full of fake accounts and people who do giveaways on keys that "might not work"

Idea is great but it's completely ruined by some unfortunate things:

- It's a platform for all kinds of hate speech ranging from racial and ethnical to religious and sexual and the moderators do not interfere even when asked to do so. Apparently that kind of conflict keeps users online longer, in which case they see more ads.

- Giveaways are frequently entered (and won) by an insane amount of bots, so that actual players' change to get anything is nearing zero.

`All the giveaways on this website our 100% created by the community and the winners are selected at random. Over 99% of the tens of thousands of giveaways that are created each month are successfully received. If you want to maximize your chances of winning, I recommend joining giveaway groups in the Discussions > Group Recruitment section. I myself have given out more than 160 and have received 93. Also remember to hide all giveaways above your level in the giveaway settings so you don't spend hours trying to find giveaways for low level users. (You can level up by giving games away yourself)

Recently, people who abuse the 7-day waiting period have started to increase. You send an e-mail, you write a message on their Steam profile, but they do not respond. You report it to customer service, and they keep you waiting for a few days. Some of the people who win the game key don't even say thank you. They act like you have to give the game key. If a solution is not found, no one can give gifts, they can give them to people they have added to their white list, or they can give them to people with high levels.

They have a good Community, and they have many Giveaway that may have game that you want to buy

Been there for 9 years, won and gave tons of games. Community is largely very nice (few exceptions, but that is expected once you have more than 1 million users).

Cheers!

I love this website - there you share your leftover steam games with other gamers and win some big prizes sometimes! But scammers really hate the website - they are massively get banned on Steamgifts.com

There's nothing wrong with Steamgifts. Just because someone broke the rules and got banned doesn't mean that the site deserves a bad review, which seems to encompass at least some of the negative reviews here.

I joined SG two years ago and haven't gotten in trouble with the mods once. I tend to buy a lot of game bundles and might only want a couple, so I gift the others away in the hopes that they will go to someone that will play them. Sure, there are some collectors on there who never play their wins. But, you can join groups like Playing Appreciated where people actually play the games within a month of winning. The nice thing about it is that if you win a game, it absolutely MUST be added to your linked Steam account, or risk a ban. This is how they stop people from selling or trading the games given as gifts.

I've won a few nice games too, but have definitely given away more than I've won. It's not a trading site and not intended to be. It's purely for sending unwanted games to a good home. And sure, sometimes a nice person will buy a highly wished for game for a giveaway.

It is 100% safe to link your steam account. It only keeps track of your games on your public profile.

So now the kids who don't understand probability math are flagging actual legit reviews as harmful or illegal. Their only issue is that they didn't win enough which is quite clear for everyone to see. The site is meant for gifting games away, not everyone getting more games than they give which is simply impossible.

For the kids: if there are 10.000 entries per giveaway then you must enter 10.000 giveaways to win 1 game on average. If you entered 100 and won 0 that means absolutely nothing.

There are ~7 users that control almost everything. Most mods are pocketed by said plebian members. Mods erasing evidence, or closing off access to places I saw noted on some pages where a few of those 7 users were badmouthing and slandering other users in an old giveaway discussion, causing many higher level givers to abandon the site. I should have done the same. They were smarter than I was.

The long-winded display on the page(s), the pure hatred for others, the jealousy of this little group. They have removed the most useful contributors because when you give away a lot of games, martyrdom may be necessary option to take when you are targeted by enough insecure sociopaths with inferiority complexities galore.

If you were around several years ago you'd probably recognize me for shaking things up. I was giving out wishlisted non-bundled games more than most. I'd say each month I gave away more in games value than the entire steamgifts staff put together per 3 - 4 months. I maxed my sg level and kept on going within around a year or so.

IF you find a way to actually start building a solid WINNING strategy and raise your "games given" rep, you'll be more likely to get in groups. One of the only things worth mentioning from steamgifts aside from real users there. Stay hidden! The good diamonds in the rough are there. It is too hard to find people through discussion, and it may make your stomach churn if you try to read through that mire of muck!

Easier in the small bundle/non-bundle groups, if steamgifts still allows joining them. Better odds, but usually there are requirements to keep up with depending on the group, which can impact CV or odds. Or "you have to do x or y first ones".

I had a clean record until a mod challenged "bumping my own thread". I had to stop it and that was my warning. I asked, "Where does it state this in the rules? How long is reasonable?" Didn't give answers, bait attempt for suspension. Staff is mostly blinded by inflated ego & maturity issues - too afraid & weak to admit they don't know something, or that they were wrong when they're called on it. Kneejerk reactions are commonplace, and mod approved if you are "one of theirs", in the clique. They can/will call any random action SPAM. You'll end up banned if they don't want you around. Nothing to do with rules.

I was doing event for the winter steam sale, giving away top wishlisted games. I think people were upset at seeing my event knockitheirs down. A mod suspended me during my event, blocking me from the sale time. I had to literally & figuratively pay more for it as a result. The sale was over when suspension ended, The moderator even called me a jerk in the suspension. Bonus points! Insult to injury! They later apologized at least, so they knew it was wrong.

Mod closed a useful thread I had about lyme disease awareness & prevention. I have late-stage lyme, so it's something I'm familiar with & cared about maintaining. It could save lives. How does that equate to a mod? "Let's close this topic".

Most of the judge/jury/executioner stuff happens in those halls - only danger awaits those who dare venture in forums. You're asking for the boot when you attract too much attention.

You will be ridiculed, shocked that humans can think with such extremist viewpoints, and then you see the ugly truth. You may feel ashamed that mods allow such madness, but it's not their fault. They're inept volunteers. Just keep low expectations on help or fairness. If you are good at examining subtleties, you will also find most mods are emotionally weak and feed off of the id/lower carnal nature for self gratification. I tried to point out vulnerabilities with those "gr. Wanted them to "Play Nice", as trust pilot puts it.

Now on the plus side, it was good enough for me to give away some games. I gave a little over 4k. Everything else about it was fine early on. Just have to stay away from the public giveaways now (bots), find cool groups if they allow, and be as far away from forums as you can.

Find bundle groups instead, or maybe try steam's group buys so you can go in with others on bundles and such if you want lower cost games with 100% (or close to it at least) chance of reward and very little risk. Create your own giveaways maybe?

Trading is an alright idea, but risky until you can get a bit of +rep. A Steam-related idea is possibly starting an interesting curator off a steam group if you like writing. I have played hundreds of games through Steam's curator connect just by writing reviews. Devs/publishers & curator groups will notice if you are writing well. By developing a portfolio, it shows dedication.

There's free games & also giveaways subs on reddit for Steam games too.

BOTTOM LINE: Nobody cares. Could be good. Wasted opportunity and about 90% bad. Complete slag dung.

Take Dr. McCoy's advice: "He's dead, Jim.".

There are over millions of bots entering giveaways and winning games. It's better to trade games than give it to bots.

Taking away the fact that the public part of the website is infested with bots and autojoin script users (last time that once was caught he received a whooping 48h suspension), Steamgifts has been steadily becoming a pro-hatespeech haven - all with the omission (or even cooperation) of moderation.
On one day we had defamation of police
go/comment/JiEvvC0
discussion/9fnLs/amerikkka-she-lives-in-a-boot

From a user who was never even suspended for go/comment/bmoJnYx

or
go/comment/0hiWDBC

On the next day discrimination towards specific religious groups/sentiment: discussion/A2u4n/introducing-the-church-of-

All of that without pointing finges on the cases of previous antisemitism there, which led to the banning of the very jew individual who was victim of said antisemitic attacks.

So when the website's moderation acts, they do so to punish the ones that dare to speak against the cases of racists, antisemitism, police-hating and general crimes against religious beliefs.

SteamGifts is a website where you can enter Steam game giveaways. It's pretty fool proof. Follow the forum rules and enter giveaways for free, and you're good to go! I've won a number of pretty cool games on this site, and the user interphase is pretty easy to understand. Linking your Steam account poses no threat also! Only good things to say although I haven't used the forums a whole lots which is where a lot of people have complaints.

A decent site ruined by poor mods. I've been gifting and entering giveaways for a long time and followed all the rules but suddently find myself punished for someone sending me a bad key.
Seen lots of complaints about how the mods ban first, ask questions never, ignore tickets and apply no common sense. Absolutely shocking!

Don't listen to the bad reviews. I've used the site for years and it's great and fair. The rules are pretty strict so make sure you read the guidelines/FAQ. If you don't contribute much, don't expect to win much.

SG is a really bad site abusive admins, toxic community that is going to black list u for any small reasons or no reason at all scammers and, botters. so not contributing money to the site will net you about1 $1 game per month entering 1000's of giveaways everyday and wasting tons of time for a $1 game. To get the chance to win a game thats worth while u will need to spend $1000's contributing joining groups that will force u to spend alot more money every month and this is only for a chance at maybe a $10 game. Most of the games will go to Bots and ppl scamming cheating the system especially older members who have cheated the system years ago to have a high contributor lvl. The mods will ban people permenantly for any small reasons or no reason at all in the TOS they put they can ban u for any or no reason at all to avoid lawsuits.

Il get to the point this site does offer a 99 cent game a month if you enter raffles everyday spending hours of time to get the free 99 cent game. Most of the games are taken by mass botting that the site does not detect and does nothing about. this site offers trading full of scammers and low ballers never offering good trades, or scammers, impersonators. Most people who are defending this site is probably high contributors that either have a lot of money and paid to get good benefits or scammed the system in the past to get a high CV level. I would show some sources but I cant sense I cant use URL's here

As far as giving away free Steam games goes, this site mostly does its job with a few exceptions. Unfortunately, it's riddled by a community that is becoming increasingly toxic, and also a moderation team that rules with an iron fist, absolutely unwilling to listen to reason or admitting wrong, making it a toxic environment to spend your time in.