Summer Giveaway because why not - Steam Codes! - Giveaway Ends Aug 16
Hey PC Master Race community! And hi anyone else that stumbles upon this post and is not a member of the PCMR community!
Summer is almost over, and it has been an interesting year for sure. I previously did a giveaway for last Winter Holiday 2023, and decided I should do another giveaway! Basically because we here in Lemmy are still alive and kicking, and I want to do something nice for a few lucky gamers.
While there are only eight games listed, I have a total of 12 games to give away!
How to Enter:
Comment on this post with the one game you are interested in.
Optional: Post or create a meme that made you laugh and is Safe For Work. NSFW stuff will be deleted.
Optional: Share something interesting, fun, and/or cool that happened to you this year. Or share a hobby you picked up, a show you recently watched, the latest game that blew you away, whatever! Just share something fun to read rather than the usual: "Entering for X game, thanks."
Restrictions
You can only enter once, and pick only one game.
Your Lemmy account must be at least 30 days old and have participated recently in Lemmy/Fediverse.
If your account appears to be a bot, troll, spam account, or just a creepy/gross/hateful person, you will not be selected.
Moderators of the !PCMasterRace@lemmy.world community are not eligible.
Winner Selection:
I will randomly select eligibile winners in this original post.
You will be notified via two ways: I will @ mention you and reply on your comment to this post. I will also send you a Private Message on Lemmy.
If you are selected, you will have 48 hours to respond to me to claim your eligibility.
For transparency, please also reply to my public-facing comment so that others know you received and claimed the game successfully.
If I do not get a response from you after 48 hours, you are forfeited and a new winner will be redrawn the next day until all game codes are exhausted.
Deadlines:
You must enter by end of day Saturday, August 17, 2024 , local time.
I will make a new post and start drawing winners the following week.
Disclaimers:
This is not a sponsored post of any kind. I purchased these keys myself, with my hard-earned money, exclusively for the sole purpose of this giveaway.
The keys activate only on Steam as Retail OEM keys.
The keys come only from Green Man Gaming, a legitimate key resller. They do not come from sketchy places like G2A (NEVER, ever do business with companies like G2A or Kinguin).
I dont need these games. Just curious as to why you are doing this. The giveaways which happened last year was to drive up engagement on lemmy but I don't think that is an issue now. If this is just philanthropy, I think it is very kind of you.
So it's several reasons really. I'll provide only one reason, as the others I don't think I'm ready to share publically.
Right now I'm fortunate to be able to do something like this, and it's entirely philanthropic.
The longer answer:
I just think there is so much anger in the world right now, and perhaps it's because we're all always online. Social Media has caused a lot of problems, and it's very easy for propoganda, mass manipulation, and social engineering to be conducted on grand scales through social media and the predatory algorithms. Thanks to certain people that have used these platforms to amplify their voices and reach, division and normally taboo topics have become more tolerated and accepted. With all that crap going on, and some personal things with relationships I have with some people in my life, I'm just disappointed that the world is so much angrier now. I did some soul-searching and learned to accept what I can control, and do what I could for the people close to me in my life and in my somewhat near community. So for one of my favorite hobbies, gaming, it just made sense to do things like this and offer a giveaway on occasion. It's just a little nice gesture for others so that they can get the opportunity to play some games. I also won several keys in giveaways in Reddit and figure we could do something cool like that here.
Well I hope the crap going on passes and the personal things work out favourably. Just remember that there more sane reasonable people out there than the ones sowing division and hatred. Hell the fact that lemmy is thriving with thousands of servers points to the unity that people can achieve. Cheers