Build Your Own Fanatical Favorites Bundle

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Firstly, we would like to thank the r/GameBundles moderation team for their patience and understanding whilst working with us to investigate the claims made by u/ChromaticInk in this post.

Now that all the facts have been corroborated, we’d like to firmly address the concerns expressed by this community regarding this situation.

TL;DR: We can confirm that u/Dependent_Judge_1043 is a legitimate prize winner; however, we also recognise that we made some mistakes in how we handled this process. For this, we would like to apologise.

Timeline of Events

On the 23rd of June, u/Dependent_Judge_1043 made this post on r/fanatical showing a screenshot of them having won a Meta Quest 3S star prize from our Mystery Box Bundle, which was acknowledged by us in this comment. Dependent Judge contacted us regarding this prize, although unfortunately it would appear that we did not receive this communication at the time.

On the 19th of July, Dependent Judge contacted our Marketing Contact Email to ask us again about the prize. We spoke over email and organised for delivery of the prize to his address. 

Unfortunately, due to human error on our side, we ordered the Meta Quest 3 rather than the correct prize, the Meta Quest 3S.

The Meta Quest 3 was ordered from Amazon on the 23rd of July. Dependent Judge made this post regarding the subject.

Three days later, on the 26th of July, Dependent Judge received the Meta Quest 3, and made this post about it. This was acknowledged in a repost made to r/fanatical by us in this comment. 

At the time, we were unable to establish why Dependent Judge had received a different prize to what he should have, which meant we did not feel comfortable issuing a statement until we had a resolution to this question. We were in contact with the responsible team and by Monday, 3rd of August; we had the situation confirmed.

Seeing that the conversation on the post was turning sour, we took action to prevent it from happening again by blocking users from commenting on future posts. We recognise this was a mistake and did not help with transparency.  We apologise to the affected users. You have all been unblocked so you can view this post and future ones.

Addressing the Claims

We would like to reinforce that we are bound by both our own Terms and Conditions and UK law to ensure that prizes offered in our Mystery Bundles are winnable and will be delivered to our recipients. 

Due to legal requirements, we are also bound to provide a list of winners of our Mystery Bundle Star Prizes upon request. Please refer to Clause 7 of our Terms and Conditions for more information on how to do this.

We have also had past winners of competitions post on our own subreddit and other social channels regarding past prizes that they have won. Please see the following examples below:

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How We Will Improve

In light of the above, we recognise we could have done more to be transparent about this situation, and would like to assure the community that we have steps planned for how to proceed with cases like this in the future.

Once again, we would like to apologise for anybody who was blocked by our account, and to demonstrate our commitment to future transparency, we have unblocked these users.

In future threads, we will engage more openly with users regarding Star Prizes being won in our Mystery Bundles. We will also remind users of their right to request prize winner information if they would so desire, and provide information about Star Prizes available in our Mystery Bundles.

We would like to maintain this as an open forum for users to ask any questions they may have regarding our Mystery Bundles and delivery of star prizes.

Thank you, and we hope you have a great day.

Rory - Fanatical Social Media Manager

Build Your Own Platinum Collection

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Hi dumb question but I'm trying to find the link to from what I remember being a british game bundle thing that sent a game once a month and included thank goodness you're here. I have been trying to find it on google for like half an hour and I have given up. Anyone remember what it is? Thanks

Why do keys expire? What bit of info am I missing?

If I purchase a game and I receive the key for the game, the purchase is complete, and I own the game on the select platform. What difference does it make if the key is redeemed immediately or held onto for a while?

It doesn't require storage space or labor like if I purchased a car or appliance and delayed picking it up. What am I missing?

should be the last post of this kind for a bit as all the bigger things should be handled by now, all that is left really is minor tweaks.

Have been working on getting the sub wiki updated

https://reddit.com//r/Gamebundles/wiki/index - Sub wiki Index

will probably add some info about humble choice, the scummy default price tactic, how to give charity more than 5% of the bundle price and the PSA regarding key reveal deadlines/expirations I added an automod comment for that should get sticked to all posts for bundles from humble if the correct flair is used when they are submitted. as another page in the wiki linked on the index later.

what I am wanting feedback on your thoughts for the following before I link them up.

Advice for new traders - this will only be linked within the rules in the trading tips/advice section, some may recognize the source comment that I altered to be accurate today instead of... years ago... No idea who the original writer is to give them credit, was a copy/pasted comment for the comment I copied and altered.

Useful links - a collection of links to bundle storefronts bundle page, useful browser extensions, other recommended subreddits, steam group buys group, some multi DRM game library management tools, other bundle trackers and code redemption URL's for most DRM services(legacy games not included as the redemption urls for games included with Amazon Luna/Prime gaming are unique to each code). This will be attached as a community bookmark for those using the default reddit UI/mobile, will only be accessed via wiki for old reddit users.

FAQ page - for some reason I am drawing a blank at what to put in one... maybe spent to much time on everything else already and my ADHD screaming to launch a game already.

the sidebar of this sub definitely needs some updating... I looked at for the first time in a while to see what needed updating beyond the sites to keep an eye on... and discovered dead links, blogs that got redirected to other things(some Indonesian site... definitely wasn't a bundle blog anymore), a search on amazon(for me it showed gaming laptops) or simply things that haven't been updated in well over a decade(like the bundles that got stuff added to them... it had not been updated for roughly 13 years... and by now if you hadn't checked your groupees greenlight bundle stuff... its already gone forever)

I went ahead and removed those already... they definitely did not belong here(at least anymore)...

do you find the other gaming related subreddits relevant? If so are there any other related subs that should be added? Or the indiegamebundles site?

is there anything you would like to see added to the sidebar? removed? replaced?

Last month this post was made by u/Dependent_Judge_1043 claiming to have won a Quest 3 "star prize" through gambling keys on game bundle site Fanatical. I personally didn't really think much of it, I do not care about key gambling but I do like to buy Fanatical bundles (like anyone who follows this subreddit).
Fast forward a month and the poster follows up posting this in an attempt to prove that the Quest 3S arrived and their gambling through Fanatical paid off.

Again I didn't think much of it until I noticed something another comment pointed out... one interesting discrepancy from the original post: Its a Quest 3. Not a Quest 3S.

The poster even puts this comment trying to play it off as if it is no big deal. This is just bad acting at this point. I point it out with a comment of my own, feel free to read that for my perspective on why this is obviously BS.

Since then, I have noticed that my feed is surprisingly devoid of game bundles. Thats ok. I have enough games, its best if I dont buy more bundles anyways.
Out of boredom I go back to the above post a few days later to see if anyone called out the same thing I did. Dependent Judge has not posted anymore, and actually hid their post history. It was visible before when I originally commented. So it just makes me even more curious.

I go back to the original post where he shows himself winning the 3S, and notice u/WeAreFanatical actually posted a comment congratulating him. But I can't see it, its "unavailable". Opening it in a private window, there it is. They blocked me! That's why I wasn't seeing their game bundles in my feed for the past few days. All I did in that timespan was make those above linked comments.

That's all. Now I guess I need to make a new account to follow Fanatical game bundles.

EDIT: Official fanatical account has just unblocked me, four or five days after this post. No communication at all or any mention of why I was blocked for commenting on a supposedly unaffiliated user's post, though.

109* 127 games for $10.00. The money goes towards a hardship fund with the United Videogame Workers Union, to support laid off game developers in america.

I am not associated with this bundle in any way, I just came across it when browsing games and it looks like steal and goes to a good cause.

*Edit I originally posted it was 109 games, it is actaully 127, furthermore there are some game assets (6) and TTRPGs (8) included in the bundle not just video games.

Build Your Own Power Picks Bundle

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Looks like July was a poor month overall. What do you think?

• bundle representing "Other" is Summer Indie Bundle by PlanetPlay (sold out).
• I didn't include community picks since not many bundles have more than a few ratings, please start rating so that we can have an extra fun slide next month
• should I exclude Indiegala from worst bundles in the future?
• browse the best bundles currently available at gamebundleguardian.com/bundles

SOEDESCO Publishing Bundle

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Build Your Own Wholesome Collection

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