Update 2017-09-29 0608 AM

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ZIVso/autojoin-scripts

The truth: This effort to squash poor people is just another effort to kiss blubbery trader/whale ass. Everything about that place is bait to lure in mobs of poor so that rich players can fleece them in an orderly fashion like sheep being sheered in a factory farm. The rich get the good games right off the top. The rest are crumbs, and now they don’t even want plebs sweeping the crumbs into neat little piles for sifting out hair and rocks. They want them to tongue them directly off the floor and say thank you master between slurps.

Very few with an anti authority mindset are left on that site and very few of those will speak up. They rightly fear a ban for daring to oppose glorious leader(s).

Add this to the other openly classist greed delusion policies:

• No re-gifting to friends or family. (Proving compassion and generosity are literally unknown quantities in the mind of the ruling class here.)
• Discrimination against bundle games. (Proving it’s about money not quality, or even scarcity.)
• Blatant defense of botnets. (Which will NOT be affected by this for more than 30 days, rest assured, no doubt because kickbacks.)
• The whole rank and dollar value approach itself. (The only proof needed really.)
• And now drug war level pettiness attacking the most powerless and poor segment of the community. (Final straw.)

Why don’t they just demand proof of wealth as a condition of signing up and dole out rank accordingly? That’s what ends up happening anyway and we all know it. And clearly these suits and meatbots would cheer for it.

Speaking of cheering, I’m reminded of Solzhenitsyn and the never ending applause for Stalin. Five+ pages of ass kissing as of this update. The cringe is real.

Fact: Poor/sane players and non traders need scripts to EVER win a game they might actually play thanks to the classist ranking system. (Save fairy tales about the one poor rank 10 they heard of that one time like racists crowing about their one black “friend.” Even if occasionally true, it’s totally meaningless thanks to the survivorship bias.)

The only games poor players actually have a chance of winning by hand are asset flip trash, and they only ever enter those just for the cards, pure key hoarding, or the sheer desire to win something, anything, for once. As opposed to pampered rank tens that get their ass kissed for being rich and “generous” for what amounts to buying stock for greater capital gains.

It has always been deeply pathetic that the gaming community openly worships what amounts to a wise investment of gaming dollars as if it’s an act of charity. (Free to play models get the same treatment.)

Step 1. Buy publicity for something and rank by gifting something expensive and popular.
Step 2. Use the rank or the profits from the publicity you just bought to win/buy a copy of what you want.
Step 3. Get treated like Jesus as if steps 1 and 2 were about helping anyone other than yourself.

Not to mention the fact that they have zero problem with bot ACCOUNTS that will always be carefully managed by the human owner of the bot net to avoid any automated detection. I got robbed by one of them and watched support 100% protect them with ever more absurd demands for “proof.” (See below.)

All this new policy does is punish poverty. And that’s what all these pampered yuppie larvae and game key versions of slimy suit wearing wallstreet type A greed machine daytraders are really cheering for. They are the types that would set homeless people on fire for giggles.

But you know what? Good. I hope they drive off as many poor players as possible. Poor players only get fleeced there by the wealthy/technocrats anyway. Bleaching the dumpsters only reveals them for the psychopaths they are.

The only people with money there are the greedy elite (or wannabes of same.) The rest is just bait. All of this is culturally tolerated because of the attitude that games are a trivial luxury and that justice therefore has no place here because slaves don’t deserve to have fun. This kind of greed and grifting only exists as a consequence of intellectual property law anyway and worshiping publishers and profit over art. Let’s hope culture grows up one day and sheds this patent the vowels ideology like the bloated tick that it is.

I for one am not gonna manually click enter on 46,000 losing contests like some sort of CIA psychology experiment to see how many times I’ll shock my own testicles to gamble on evading starvation for the week. Why click a button thousands of times on the off chance of getting a 1$ game that I’ll actually play twice a year?

But good riddance to me right? The only poor they want on the site are the naive new ones with the occasional key to give away. My daring to scold greed and its servants has already earned me copious hate for calling out this scam of a site.

The very fact that I’m not clapping till I bleed at their every word is enough for them to want to see me subjected to the community equivalent (or worse) of being lined up and shot.

SG is owned by greedy traders fleecing the poorest of the poor and now cracking down on what amounts mp3 sharing like some sleazy RIAA lawyer suing grandmas and disabled war vets.

And now I’m gone because I’m honest. Obviously I could just stay, and stay silent, or fake cheer, and modify the script to mimic human behavior, but being that I am poor and have honor, clearly I have no place in that psychopathic sycophantic monied community.

Enjoy your continued grift. If they had brains more advanced than carp they’d be ashamed of themselves. But then if that were the case that place wouldn’t look or function anything like it does.

Update: 2017-04-01 1218 PM

I was kindly asked two questions on SG and my answers became substantive enough to warrant an update:

The questions:

q1: I noticed the bot in question ended up marking as “not received” the game, how come?
q2: Has your opinion changed since then? And if so what made it change?

a1: Possibly because of the massive delay between win and reception. The key might have been expired or something before I ever even got it. The nature of keys make them untestable because dev/publisher greed. Or it could be simple spite. Perhaps he sold or traded the key and then just marked it unreceived? Maybe it’s just scripted behavior. I honestly have no way of knowing.

a2. Not substantively as far as I can tell. What’s changed is what I expect and my level of participation. For example I find it deeply telling and ironic that account creation here is incredibly difficult for unmonied humans but cake for wealthy bots and traders. The hatred./discrimination of bundle games baked into site policy given what humble bundle is really tells you all you need to know. These people love themselves and “the market” and hate charity and all that it represents.

I participate here in my limited way as a service to myself and actual humans looking to upcycle or pay forward keys they know they’ll never use. If I could do that in bulk with my leftover keys I would as well. But not here. This place is a huge example of vendor lock in and several other atrocious consequences of intellectual property law being elevated to a Malthusian/libertarian fiscal religion.

I know the haters will parse that as self serving because when you’re a hammer brain all you can think is nails, but living across the street from a former recycling center I know for a fact that I consider it a favor when people enjoy taking things from me that I no longer want. I mentally thank them for it and such is what I hope is the case with the keys I win.

I only use SG as selfishly as I can which is what is required of me by the avatars of greed that designed, define, and run it. If they lack that compassion and desire to upcycle then I am simply being the greedy thing they demand everyone to be. Win/win. They get their precious points and I get a game. All hail the glorious “free” market! Praise contracts! Praise profit!

Put simply I only enter contests for games I’ll personally play and I otherwise pretend I’m a psychopath with no regard for my “loved” ones so the system they’ve invented will parse me as one of their own.

The whole reason I started hating this place in the first place is because it won’t let me win games for my gf or mom. I mean read the comments on this post. The greed-think is staggering.

My fam aren’t rich or tech savy enough to make their own accounts. The mental gymnastics people go through to somehow turn my desire to get games for my family into greed to justify their own greed are impressive in a terrifying cultish way.

So no, I guess my opinion hasn’t changed. And it can’t possibly unless SG policy changes. Thanks for asking 🙂

Update: My girlfriend can’t even create an account because she hasn’t spent 100$ on NON BUNBLED games.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/8cXZk/about-the-minimum-value-required-to-create-a-steam-gifts-account

Elitist pyramid scam confirmed, again.

Update: I got suspended for 10 days or something because I didn’t activate keys after I commented in a thread that this ban on regifting was selfish.

Update 2016-04-17 1023 PM: Errors below struck through. I was misinformed somehow about part of the bundle policy. Yay for accuracy improvements!

 

 

 

 

Steamgifts on it’s surface is an awesome concept and system. It seems like a great way to dispose of excess game keys while rewarding generous people or being generous yourself and getting a chance to win a few extra games you might actually play in the meantime. But if you read the fine print things get a lot more shady.

Firstly, the usual way that most people end up with spare keys to give away is by buying bundles for a specific game or two and having little interest in the others. Steamgifts on it’s surface looks like an excellent solution to that problem. Giveaway the games you don’t want, to rise in rank and eventually win the games you do want, but actually that won’t ever happen because they don’t actually reward you for bundle games.

I gave away like 7 games before I realized my rank wasn’t going to move. That’s completely exploitative. It should give you a click box warning when you choose a so called bundle game for your giveaway.

Further, you can’t use your winnings (if any) to improve that situation.

So I can only enter giveaways for games I want to play myself. Let this sink in… I am obligated to be completely selfish on a site predicated on altruism.

So the only people that reliably profit from steamgifts are hardcore trader types that get non bundle keys from other sources. Or people who ignore the rules.

And it gets even better.

There’s a botnet on steam gifts. A network of scripts that enters giveaways and claims gifts and does nothing else. No doubt to sell the valid keys they acquire in this way. And I strongly suspect that the moderators are given a cut of these sales.

I chanced upon one of these bots in my second ever giveaway. And look at how the moderators react.

 

And so my time on steamgifts as a place to recycle keys has ended. So disappointing.

Update: See comments below. I actually still use the page in the totally selfish way proscribed by the (apparently all important) rules.