It's also coming on the release of SGv2 as well, I think. But meanwhile, installing the addon is no big deal, really.
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Basically, it's a big update to Steamgifts. SGv2 is currently being hosted on a different domain and is in closed beta, but when it's ready, it'll be moved to Steamgifts. The exact date of the update release is currently unknown.
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As jbondguy007 already stated, try installing Steamgifts Plus. As for the games you already own being hidden, there's nothing sad about it since you're not allowed to enter for games you already have anyway.
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Thanks for the link! I kept forgetting to get this; really cleaned up my view of available giveaways.
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Unfortunately it's not working on Opera 15+ (Chromium).
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Thanks for posting this link, I already had greasemonkey installed for another site. However, I'm having issues with getting it to show me games when I filter it to wishlist specific. It says it's loading but then only shows:
Page 2 of 18
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There's one that appears, a GA for my wishlisted game Age of Empires II HD. Any idea what's going on?
Cheers.
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What I hate is when you own a game and every single bit of it's DLC but you'll still see the base game and it's DLC as something you can enter.
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That's probably acceptable if you own the GOTY-Version or something similar because these are distinct entries even withing Steam...
What's more annoying for me is that you still see giveaways for DLCs of games you don't own - at the moment you click on it you see the message that you can't enter the giveaway because you lack the base game - why show it in the first place if that information is so easily accessible?
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or just show the % or number of successfully received giveaways right on the giveaways page so that someone doesn't have to go to their page to see if it's probably fake...
(although there might be people giving away 50€-games as their first giveaway the chance is high to get scammed...)
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I agree, steamgifts plus isn't the answer, I kinda refuse to install an addon/extension for just one site, especially when switching alot between operating systems and/or using several virtual machines would require me to install that extension to every browser I use steamgifts with. It should be a basic function of the website itself, that you can simply hide all those games that you're not interested in, either by selecting them out of a list or by offering a button on each giveaway that allows me to hide this and any other giveaways for that that paticular game. I really like the idea behind steamgifts and I think it would benfit everyone, if there was an easy way to reduce the sheer amount of giveaways that you're simply not interested in. It's overdue.
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The likely reason is due to it being more database intensive, although as there are group giveaways and giveaways are already marked as being entered - a fair few queries are going to be performed per page loaded anyway (either separate or through the wonderful magic of SQL joins). Being selective you are with what data is presented to the client (giveaways entered, games owned, group giveaways etc..) also makes it much much harder to cache results.
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It cannot be much more database intensive than what we already have: removing those games a person owns from the list of giveaways I mean. Basically all they'd need to implement is a way to add more games to that list (whether you own them or simply don't want them makes no big diffrence to the database), the database function that deceides which giveaways are displayed could be very much the same. I daresay, the overall load on the site and it's database might even be reduced, because less giveaways shown for everyone also means less queries to show details on a giveaway and so forth.
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It all depends on the table structure really, we're just trying to make educated guesses :D. I'd assume it'd just be one more table - the one containing the useful profile info plundered via the steamapi - involved for games that are already owned (and at the same time DLC could be excluded for games that are not yet owned). I don't think they'd be a load reduction however - if the aim is to display 40 items per page, then you'd be fetching details for 40 giveaways regardless of how many have been excluded.
It could simply be that the usefulness of excluding owned games from the main listings was overlooked when the bulk of it was coded and cq (I assume?) opted to include in with SteamGifts v2, which sounds like it may be a rewrite.
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each time even one person less is tempted to look at the details of a giveaway for a game they may have deceided previously that they don't want it anyway, there should be a tiny load reduction, aye? It's been happening to me a lot ... I look at a giveaway, I check out the steam store page for the game and I realize, "oh yeah it's that thing. No, not interested". Oh and just to be clear, I'm still grateful for the giveaway, I just think everyone wins if everyone only rolls for stuff they really want.
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Ahh right, you mean if we're able to blacklist certain titles? Yea that could be useful, I catch myself doing it with one or two titles that have an interesting artwork or interesting name but are completely and utterly not my type of game ;)
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Yeah exactly, blacklist by either providing a red button "don't show this again" right next to the green one "enter giveaway", or provide a list like the one where you create a giveaway, so people can select all those title s they have zero interest in. It's like one extra page in the account menue and maybe one more value in the database that currently stores the information whether you own a game or not. I daresay, it would help to reduce the time for finding those giveaways people really want to roll for and thus reduce the load on the site as whole (at least a tiny little bit).
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I was wondering, why in steamgifts we can't hide unnecessary giveaways, besides those games which you already have in your account(which are automatically been hidden, sadly).
p.s. I'm sorry for my bad english.
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