Dammit, Valve.... (Regarding the free gifts)

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#1 tjoeb123
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I guess not releasing sales numbers isn't enough for you, eh? I finally get 7 coal, and since I only have about a 20m-1 chance of winning the big giveaway, I decided to craft my coal into a free game. And what do I get? A game of YOUR choosing, not mine. DoD:S. Now, I haven't played the game yet, so I'm sure it's good. But seriously, Valve? I would've much preferred MW3 or LA Noire or something like that if I had the choice. Anyone else have the same problem as me?
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#2 Evz0rz
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I'm sure we'd all prefer to have a nice expensive game, but that's just not how it works. Be lucky you got a full game. I crafted my 7 coal into a 50% off coupon for dino d day :cry:

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#3 Croag821
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Poor you...you got a good free game. Guess what I got when I crafted my 14 coal into 2 gifts? TWO F&*#ING COUPONS! Just be happy man.
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#4 GummiRaccoon
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How do I got coal?

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#5 Just-Breathe
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Be happy you got something at all. I don't think you deserve that free game.
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#6 krazyorange
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So let me get this straight: you're complaining about the quality of your free things? I crafted 14 coal into not one, but TWO -33% Valve. I would rejoice at a free game.
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#7 wis3boi
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Be happy you got something at all. I don't think you deserve that free game.Just-Breathe
This. I crafted my coal into....wait for it....a 50% off coupon for Vice City. Woo hoo......I already got The Witcher from doing an achievement, but really now.....you got DoD:S which is a badass shooter I still play to this day
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#8 flipin_jackass
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A game of your choice like MW3 for the 7 coals? No... it's unreasonable to expect this from them. I imagine people will buy a few cheap games and do some of the Steam achievements to get the 7 coals to get a $60 dollar game.
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#9 MonsieurX
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It's free,why do you complain?
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#10 kris9031998
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**** you. I did 23 objectives, still no game at all.
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#11 ForsakenWicked
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It's free,why do you complain?MonsieurX
I agree. In case you don't want the game, you can try to trade it with someone.
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#12 agpickle
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DoDs is a great game so stfu. I crafted 7 and got a 50% coupon for a game I already own.

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#13 murekkep
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People get things like -%50 Dino D-Day coupon for crafting. Actually you should feel lucky.
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#14 Bikouchu35
Member since 2009 • 8344 Posts

DoD > DoDs :P yeah it does sucks to be you. Is the community even alive? Im guessing so since is a valve game but probably filled with uber vets only.

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#15 deactivated-59f03d6ce656b
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Oh no not a free game. I crafted 14 coal into a 10% off valve coupon and 50% lightfish coupon.
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#16 krazyorange
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**** you. I did 23 objectives, still no game at all.kris9031998
Trade them to people. I got King's Bounty Platinum, Monday Night Combat, and STALKER: CoP just by trading my coal/crappy coupons along with some TF2 swag.
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#17 kris9031998
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[QUOTE="kris9031998"]**** you. I did 23 objectives, still no game at all.krazyorange
Trade them to people. I got King's Bounty Platinum, Monday Night Combat, and STALKER: CoP just by trading my coal/crappy coupons along with some TF2 swag.

Crafted all my coal to get crappy coupons. Trading the coupons i got thus far is pretty much impossible.
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#18 edinsftw
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DoDs is a great game. I always liked it a whole lot more than CS.

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#19 Arach666
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You had better luck than me,only games I got were Frozen Synapse(wich I already had) and Braid.

Be glad that you got something,it´s free after all.

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#20 Masenkoe
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Complaining about getting a good craft OP? For shame...

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#21 deactivated-64b76bd048860
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Be happy you got a game, I got a coupon :P.
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#22 deactivated-57e5de5e137a4
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Yea, I wish I was able to craft a million dollars cash too.
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#23 metroidfood
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Poor you, all you got was a good free game. The rest of us will just sit over here smugly with our 25% off Valve coupons.

Seriously, if they let people choose a guaranteed free game they'd lose truckloads of money. It's random so they can control what gets given away.

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#24 xRolandox
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I crafted mine into another 50% off Valve coupon.... >_>

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#25 Ocid1
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Lol be glad you got a game. You got it for free.

I crafted 14 coal and got a -10% THQ and -25% TellTale coupon.

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#26 slabber44
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Sorry, but I can't understand why anyone can complain about getting free stuff for doing nothing more than playing a game. I got 5 free games during this sale, but have given all my coal away to friends because I got to many games already. Seem to get games for buying games during the sale. I also have like 5 coupons I don't want and would be glad to give them away. I only kept 1 game and traded 1 for another. The others I gave to friends.
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#27 Brendissimo35
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So far I've picked up

2x -25% valve

2x -33% valve

-50% GTA SA

-50% Oblivion GOTY

Sega Virtua Fighter

Amnesia!

and 9 coal.

I consider myself lucky to have gotten a good game that I didn't have yet. You should do the same. Yes, the coupons are completely worthless, but valve is still givng away a fair amount of stuff virtually for free, and DoDs is a really good game.

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#28 Chiddaling
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You got a free game. You know what I got from crafting 7 Coal? 50% Off BRAID COUPON. FREAKING BRAID.
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#29 tjoeb123
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Good god.......I didn't know Valve would give coupons too for coal.... It's just that they clearly said you can craft 7 coal into a gift (which I assumed was a free game) from the Great Gift Pile (which I assumed was from any of the games featured as Daily Deals), not coupons. I still have my 33% Valve (which includes the Complete Pack) and 50% Fallout: New Vegas (probably without DLCs) coupons, but obviously I can't use them...yet. (Even though Fallout's price with the coupon wouldn't change from what it is now.)
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#30 tjoeb123
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[QUOTE="Chiddaling"]You got a free game. You know what I got from crafting 7 Coal? 50% Off BRAID COUPON. FREAKING BRAID.

Are you kidding? I already played Braid on my 'box back when it first came out. And it was awesome.
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#31 metroidfood
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Good god.......I didn't know Valve would give coupons too for coal.... It's just that they clearly said you can craft 7 coal into a gift (which I assumed was a free game) from the Great Gift Pile (which I assumed was from any of the games featured as Daily Deals), not coupons. I still have my 33% Valve (which includes the Complete Pack) and 50% Fallout: New Vegas (probably without DLCs) coupons, but obviously I can't use them...yet. (Even though Fallout's price with the coupon wouldn't change from what it is now.)tjoeb123

Gifts = a coupon or a free game. Usually coupons.

If you got a free game, you're in the lucky minority. The fact that you got a good game makes you even luckier.

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#32 KHAndAnime
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Am I the only one who hasn't partaken in the Holiday Gift thing?
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#33 kris9031998
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I didnt get any games. But instead i got smart. I bought 2 coal with my coupons. Bought a copy of bioshock 2 and sold it for 25 coal. used 7 coal and idiotically crafted 7 of the 27 i had, got a bad coupon. But its okay, i got a free coal from a random person. Sold 14 coal for a $20 worth tf2 hat (BMOC) and the last 7 for 2.33 refined. Pretty good.
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#34 edinsftw
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Am I the only one who hasn't partaken in the Holiday Gift thing?KHAndAnime

no im right there with yah, every game i wanted i already bought this year, so there was really no point in doing it.

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#35 metroidfood
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I didnt get any games. But instead i got smart. I bought 2 coal with my coupons. Bought a copy of bioshock 2 and sold it for 25 coal. used 7 coal and idiotically crafted 7 of the 27 i had, got a bad coupon. But its okay, i got a free coal from a random person. Sold 14 coal for a $20 worth tf2 hat (BMOC) and the last 7 for 2.33 refined. Pretty good. kris9031998

Ugh, I should have just traded my coal. Wish I could have gotten some of those new TF2 hats.

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#36 Agent_Kaliaver
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One the best things I've gotten was a 10% off CityInteractive. 10% off terrible games, woot!
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#37 ChubbyGuy40
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Crafted 21 coal and got 2 santa hats for TF2, which I don't play, and the last one I got was nothing. Nothing at all for TF2, Spiral Knights, or Steam/Steam coupons.

Still, I'm probably the most lucky person here when it came to the Steam Gift Pile.

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#38 metroidfood
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Crafted 21 coal and got 2 santa hats for TF2, which I don't play, and the last one I got was nothing. Nothing at all for TF2, Spiral Knights, or Steam/Steam coupons.

Still, I'm probably the most lucky person here when it came to the Steam Gift Pile.

ChubbyGuy40

Any chance you'd trade those hats?

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#39 agpickle
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[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

Crafted 21 coal and got 2 santa hats for TF2, which I don't play, and the last one I got was nothing. Nothing at all for TF2, Spiral Knights, or Steam/Steam coupons.

Still, I'm probably the most lucky person here when it came to the Steam Gift Pile.

metroidfood

Any chance you'd trade those hats?

I'll give you a few coal for one.

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#41 kris9031998
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[QUOTE="metroidfood"]

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

Crafted 21 coal and got 2 santa hats for TF2, which I don't play, and the last one I got was nothing. Nothing at all for TF2, Spiral Knights, or Steam/Steam coupons.

Still, I'm probably the most lucky person here when it came to the Steam Gift Pile.

agpickle

Any chance you'd trade those hats?

I'll give you a few coal for one.

Its worth quite a bit, just so you know. (6 keys)
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#42 agpickle
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[QUOTE="agpickle"]

I'll give you a few coal for one.

kris9031998

Its worth quite a bit, just so you know. (6 keys)

Shhhh, don't tell him that.

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#43 ChubbyGuy40
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[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

Crafted 21 coal and got 2 santa hats for TF2, which I don't play, and the last one I got was nothing. Nothing at all for TF2, Spiral Knights, or Steam/Steam coupons.

Still, I'm probably the most lucky person here when it came to the Steam Gift Pile.

metroidfood

Any chance you'd trade those hats?

I would give the santa hats away but both of them say they aren't tradable.

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#44 metroidfood
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[QUOTE="metroidfood"]

Any chance you'd trade those hats?

ChubbyGuy40

I would give the santa hats away but both of them say they aren't tradable.

Arrrrgh, seriously Valve? Man, I'll never get to gib people while wearing a jolly Santa hat.

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#45 Tykain
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I got Portal 2 from crafting 7 coal. Great considering i got it for free, but not really interested in the game so guess i'll trade it or give it to a friend.
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#46 CommanderShiro
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Be happy you even got a game. The majority of people are stuck with coupons from their crafting or achievements. I'm been fortunate enough to win two games from doing achievements. And instead of taking the risk of crafting my coal into a useless coupon, I traded it for a game I wanted.

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#47 ChubbyGuy40
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I got Portal 2 from crafting 7 coal. Great considering i got it for free, but not really interested in the game so guess i'll trade it or give it to a friend.Tykain

What are you interested in? Might have something to trade for it.

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#48 biggest_loser
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lol is this bloke serious?
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#49 Tykain
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[QUOTE="Tykain"]I got Portal 2 from crafting 7 coal. Great considering i got it for free, but not really interested in the game so guess i'll trade it or give it to a friend.ChubbyGuy40

What are you interested in? Might have something to trade for it.

Not sure tbh, i'm mostly into strategy games and rpg but would be hard finding something i don't already have. Probably some older games that i missed, i'll have to check.
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#50 Goyoshi12
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Be happy you were able to CRAFT a free gift. I've got three coaland 13 hours to get four more coal and get something out of it. I doubt I'll get anything but it's a better chance at free games than Valve's giveaway. :(

Oh, also, it's a free game and you complain? Sorry, don't mean to be mean but dude...that's pathetic.