Giveaways.su?

[Freeman1255]

Some third party sites I know are legit, such as humble bundle, indiegala etc... Giveaways.su is another place I've heard of, any pointers on whether or not its a legit site?

[Matt]

Does it sound legit to you?

[Freeman1255]

Originally posted by Matt:

Does it sound legit to you?

With this particular place I honestly don't know, one website I found that is legit is literally called free steam keys, and it basically alerts people when promotions go down, but that site has been mentioned on it

[Freeman1255]

Originally posted by Matt:

Does it sound legit to you?

That's why I'm asking people

[Brujeira]

Originally posted by Freeman1255:

Originally posted by Matt:

Does it sound legit to you?

That's why I'm asking people

Then you need to develop a better sense of cynicism. It’s not legit.

[Freeman1255]

Originally posted by Brujeira:

Originally posted by Freeman1255:

That's why I'm asking people

Then you need to develop a better sense of cynicism. It’s not legit.

Thats all you had to tell me that it wasn't legit, thank you

[Crazy Tiger]

Humble bundle and Indiegala are stores, you can't compare them to a giveaway site.

Doesn't sound legit, but I don't use such giveaway sites.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Use isthereanydeal as they compare prices for games you seek for all the 3rd party reseller stores that sells the games that are legitimate that deals with the devs, and publishers directly, such as humble bundle, greenmangaming, India gala, and many more.



Gray markets has nothing to do with Devs, or publishers as they buy the game keys from other people that bought it from the 3rd party reseller stores, and resell them.

[Freeman1255]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Use isthereanydeal as they compare prices for games you seek for all the 3rd party reseller stores that sells the games that are legitimate that deals with the devs, and publishers directly, such as humble bundle, greenmangaming, India gala, and many more.



Gray markets has nothing to do with Devs, or publishers as they buy the game keys from other people that bought it from the 3rd party reseller stores, and resell them.

That much I know, what I was not aware of was isthereanydeal, thank you for this information

[MalikQayum]

it is legit in the sense you get your steam key for doing the giveaway tasks, however they have been operating commercially so the steam group has been locked and the owner community banned from steam.

[HEX: Bleeding Heart]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Gray markets has nothing to do with Devs, or publishers as they buy the game keys from other people that bought it from the 3rd party reseller stores, and resell them.

I'm a developer that they contacted directly today asking if I would donate keys at a fraction of what they'd normally cost to their website in exchange for the publicity, so that may be true for some of the games, but not all of them.

And there are plenty of people here who have already confirmed it, but obviously if they're contacting developers directly for Steam keys, the keys themselves are legit. It does of course still seem extremely shady, so I don't know if I'll actually go through with it, especially if Malik is saying the group just got banned from Steam.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Seek+:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Gray markets has nothing to do with Devs, or publishers as they buy the game keys from other people that bought it from the 3rd party reseller stores, and resell them.

I'm a developer that they contacted directly today asking if I would donate keys at a fraction of what they'd normally cost to their website in exchange for the publicity, so that may be true for some of the games, but not all of them.

And there are plenty of people here who have already confirmed it, but obviously if they're contacting developers directly for Steam keys, the keys themselves are legit. It does of course still seem extremely shady, so I don't know if I'll actually go through with it, especially if Malik is saying the group just got banned from Steam.

The problem with gary markets is that sites such as G, or King, *can't say the name, as they're filter out for a reason* and such are just individual resellers like eBay, or Amazon market place, where the individual resells the keys, and using the said site to sell their key on as a middle man, gray markets such as those build a huge rep in the worse way thanks to certain kinds of people, that wanted to commit fruads, some are more than happy to use stolen credit cards, such as few people that buys keys from Devs such as yourself, resells it, then do a chargeback after a few months which then you're hit with chargeback fees which is not great. You can make the choice if you want to take action, or not, but you wouldn't know if the key been used by person you sold it to, or that the person you sold the key to, resold it to someone else, and there's no way of knowing at all either, unless that someone contacted you, and provided proof how he/she got the key from the person you sold to, to convince you really.

There are another kind of gray market, I wouldn't exactly call them gray, but they still fit in that area, these ones are much better than your individual resellers, as there's only one reseller, no one else, basically just a store, pretty much like CDkeys, or etc, which they buy keys from you, or buy the keys from other 3rd party reseller sites, then resell the keys themselves on their own site.

But yes there was a story where a publisher almost made a deal with G site which they quickly learn the truth what kind of business they run, and quickly opt out of even forming the deal with them, which was thanks to reddit community, and etc...

Now buying from gray market there's always the risk of possibly encountering an ***hole that wants to ruin things for others, there's loads of stories all over on this stuff when comes to those gray markets which are not hard to find. but you will encounter legit people that won't be an ***hole, but again the risk never goes away when buying from gray market, and you would't know until it hits you with key getting revoked, because Dev got rip off by the said ***hole.


Give away are easily done by number of ways, can ask Steam to provide free give away on the store itself for limited time, could try using existing popular sites that does give aways, and there's always setting up your own give aways, and posting about them on those give away hunt forums such as r/FreeGameFindings, https://steamcommunity.com/groups/GrabFreeGames , etc... I wouldn't suggest promoting on gray markets for give away, but it's up to you really what you want to do. I hope this helps with some information of understand, and I know I didn't go across everything, and deeper details, but this is the some of the surface of hings.


TL:DR, Gray market is not exactly trust worthy, as there's risks to take in with them. Which most cases 3rd party resellers just end up being the safer, and better route for Devs / Publishers for distributing their keys for sell, instead of setting up their own site, and store to sell the keys themselves.

[HEX: Bleeding Heart]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

TL:DR, Gray market is not exactly trust worthy, as there's risks to take in with them. Which most cases 3rd party resellers just end up being the safer, and better route for Devs / Publishers for distributing their keys for sell, instead of setting up their own site, and store to sell the keys themselves.

Yeah, that all sounds good to me. I'll ignore them and look into some that aren't so questionable. Thanks, I appreciate it!

[MalikQayum]

Originally posted by Seek+:

...It does of course still seem extremely shady, so I don't know if I'll actually go through with it, especially if Malik is saying the group just got banned from Steam.

Just look at the sheer amount of steam keys they have given away 4.5 million steam keys.. that is pretty insane, when this has been operating commercially.
(so one could naturally assume it has been a lucrative business for the site owner.)
so they definitely bought all their steam keys or had them given, they haven't acquired these keys "fraudulently" (well i can't say for sure but i am very convinced they haven't).

but the OP was really concerned about the legitimacy of the site, probably because he might afraid to use the extension they force upon their users.

but nobody has reported any attempt of hijack or malicious intent as far as i know from giveaway su.

[immortal886360]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Humble bundle and Indiegala are stores, you can't compare them to a giveaway site.

Doesn't sound legit, but I don't use such giveaway sites.

You need to install a sketchy chrome extension to use it.Seems fishy