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Maharid

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Thanks! I got it now. There is only one problem remained. Now I don't have any information about my giveaways. They are not in history and not in created. I don't even know if my keys were won by somebody and activated...
It would be better to ban such as Hede on the platform. On Steamgifts we actually have a contributor value that can be reduced, why on IndieGala such a strange decision?
If it's not your decision and you are just in the middle of this process, can somebody share information from the other side please? Like who is reading this and makes these decisions..
To see your giveaways you have to go to your library: Login or register | Indiegala

Here in the upper part of the page you will se toese tabs: Bundles - Store - G. Giveaway - Showcase - Developer - Giveaways - Trades - Wallet & settings

Go in Giveaways, on the left side you will see all your option:

In progress entries: Giveaways you entered and and still ongoing.

In progress created: Giveaways you created and are still ongoing.

Completed to check: Givaways you entered and are finished, go there and click "Check All" on the top-right side of the panel to check if you won something, or click on a single entry.

Completed won: Giveaway you won, when you click on the single entry or on the "Check All" and win something the won giveaway will be found here, you can try the key and leave positive feedback if everything is ok and negative feedback if there is something wrong, like the key not working (it's always betterto contact the user first but know that after 96 hours from the drawing of the winner an autimatic positive feedback will be given, the time you check don't matter and if you pass the 96 hours you won't be able to leave a negative if the key won't work).

Completed created: Here you can check the giveaway you have created with the winner and the feedback.
You will NOT be able to view the key you inserted ever again, so you need to keep track of what you put in what to be sure.
NOTE: If no one get a ticket from your giveaway for any reason no winner will be picked and an entry on this page will NOT be created, if you don't have a backup of the informations you'll lose the key, i tested it time ago when there where only 2 users on level 10.

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IndiGala is really small and it have quite the problems, the system was made in a quite simple way, probably without thinking too much abbout the possibility of peoples taking advantage of it, in times a lot of things happened and some measure where added but it's not easy to fiddle with steam keys cuase there is no real way to say to the system that somethign is bad.

Look at GOG keys, now they can't be used anymore as the System accept only keys in Steam Format but people are till using them making them looking like Steam and adding the remaining letters to the giveaways description (leading to closed givaways that give no prize and no points, bans and so)
 
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[MZK]Lightning

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It would be better to ban such as Hede on the platform.
but make it fair. suggest to ig to make a blacklist game list to the system to block those games. just put the game to blacklist or like steamgift allow create giveaway but give 0 exp.
It is unfortunate that IG has not listened to its users and reduced the giveaway points awarded for such games from an obviously crooked Developer/Publisher, as well as reducing the giveaway exp of the several known games/DLCs people have started fake giveaways of to fraud their ways to the upper giveaway levels. (not to mention banning the fraudster accounts involved in this nonsense)
 
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[MZK]Lightning

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So, as I understand, this giveaway violates the rules?
By the strict letter of the rules, yes this is against the rules because the instructions state that a Steam key must be provided.

I don't report these though, because they're full games that have equivalent Steam offerings.

Planet Coaster is free. Don't join giveaways for it, just grab it here: Planet Coaster Free Game Plus
I'm trying to register for that site for this game, but their confirmation/verification emails are not reaching me.

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@penuzi-zubu (AKA "PurpleRobeWillies")

More Hede crap
 
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Maharid

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Planet Coaster is a paid game, now is free for that giveaway but the giveaways are ok, both to get it if you don't want to join a site or to have extra keys.

For the GOG keys the main problems is that those keys havea deadline, after some time they won't be reedemable anymore but users that will not know will still make giveaways that go beyond that date (and a lot of time the starting user don't add the expiration date to scam over the expiration date anyway).

And i have to add that in the last months i haveseen some Steam Giveaways with keys that expire so it becoming more and more a jungle even there, an example is "Tempest: Pirate Action RPG", there are some giveaways that complete after 6 March 24:00 UTC, and the keys will not be reedemable after that time, and you probably not even glance at that date cause you don't expect it to be here.
 

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Planet Coaster is a paid game, now is free for that giveaway but the giveaways are ok, both to get it if you don't want to join a site or to have extra keys.

For the GOG keys the main problems is that those keys havea deadline, after some time they won't be reedemable anymore but users that will not know will still make giveaways that go beyond that date (and a lot of time the starting user don't add the expiration date to scam over the expiration date anyway).

And i have to add that in the last months i haveseen some Steam Giveaways with keys that expire so it becoming more and more a jungle even there, an example is "Tempest: Pirate Action RPG", there are some giveaways that complete after 6 March 24:00 UTC, and the keys will not be reedemable after that time, and you probably not even glance at that date cause you don't expect it to be here.
With GOG, at least you can check whether the key is still valid, which game it is for, and until what date. With Steam, only after redeeming.
 

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@lior88lior (AKA Lior88)

More Hede crap
 
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