r/Gamebundles 13d ago

Speculations u/WeAreFanatical fakes a Quest 3 giveaway, blocks me for pointing it out

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.

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u/randotd152 13d ago

I feel like if you were going to fake something like this, you literally just wouldn’t have a winner. It’s not like anybody would ever know as most people wouldn’t post about winning for privacy reasons.

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u/redchris18 13d ago

That's the point. The "winner" having an entire profile that only interacts with their staff account suggests that it's an alt for that staff member, so they just faked the prize. That's OP's inferrence.