{"id":127,"date":"2014-04-11T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythicbattles-scenarios.com\/wormwood\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/giving-away-random-game-keys\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:26:44","slug":"giving-away-random-game-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/giving-away-random-game-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Away Random Game Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\nOver the past few years, I&#8217;ve assembled a modest number of Steam,  GOG, and Desura keys that I&#8217;m never going to use.&nbsp; Basically, when games go  on sale, if they&#8217;re games that I really liked, or are simply super  cheap, I&#8217;ll pick up copies, and then give them away to friends or,  occasionally, to unsatisfied purchasers of Primordia.&nbsp; Also, I&#8217;ve backed  a number of Kickstarter projects that have by now come to fruition, but  which I&#8217;ll never have time to play.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\nAnyway, I wanted to find a way to give copies out in a  fair way to people who played Primordia or otherwise have supported  Wormwood Studios.&nbsp; But after much agonizing and deliberation, I couldn&#8217;t  find an easy way to do it: running even a basic giveaway would take  time I don&#8217;t have, and my various means of trying to screen out  bots\/duplicates seemed like a pain to everyone involved.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>\nSo, alas, what I&#8217;m going to do is just post the keys at  irregular intervals on our Twitter feed @WWSGames.&nbsp; This is perhaps the  most inequitable way to distribute something, since one compulsive fast  typist may get them all, but it&#8217;s the easiest way to do this, and at  least I&#8217;ll be releasing the games &#8220;to the wild&#8221; rather than keeping them  penned up in a text file.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, I&#8217;ve assembled a modest number of Steam, GOG, and Desura keys that I&#8217;m never going to use.&nbsp; Basically, when games go on sale, if they&#8217;re games that I really liked, or are simply super cheap, I&#8217;ll pick up copies, and then give them away to friends or, occasionally, to unsatisfied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}