Valve: devs should stop gifting game keys to win Steam Greenlight votes

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Valve has called upon developers to stop the growing practice of giving away free Steam Greenlight game keys in order to encourage votes.
The tactic has become common enough that Valve has now spoken out about the issue, which it claims is confusing its process for picking the most popular Greenlight titles.
"When you give away copies of your game in exchange for votes, you put us in a really uncomfortable position," Valve's Alden Kroll explained in a statement to developers.
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