No, you did the right thing by signaling yourself to the second guy. You're fine.
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It would be great, but this would also means GAs with less than 10 entrants would not be counted (if it was some kind of contest, for example).
I usually go in the entered GA list every time I win a game and remove all the entries to that game.
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There are a couple of issues with automating this.
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So on free weekends, you get kicked from GA's because Steam reports that everyone owns the game.
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You can, if you haven't synced your account during the weekend. Or you could have joined before the weekend, then you sync and BOOM, you're out.
A lot of things could be automated if only the Steam API was more reliable. :P
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SG automatically removes you from GA's? This is news to me....
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The only time it would be failsafe to remove entries is when game shows up on steam account. Any other time it might lead to frustration because the other giveaway didn't give game for whatever other reason.
But you are right. It might be simple to check if winner have won game on his list.
On other hand it might triple amount of work server have to do. Instead of "choose winner" you get "choose winner"->"find game in list"->"reroll yes/no". It might seem not much, but it would have to be done for every giveaway and server has hard time as it is sometimes. Or at least had in old SGv1
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I also sync often. As soon as I win a game, activate it, and mark as received, I do the following:
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No, you won't get a suspension. You did exactly what you are supposed to do. I would wait to receive the game before removing yourself from all the other GA's, however. What if the creator doesn't deliver the game?
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hi, just faced the following situation: some time ago i have entered giveaways (with several weeks duration) for the same game title. then in a few days period i have won both, but for sure i didn't know that i need to leave the giveaways that i have entered before.
i synchronize with Steam account quite frequently, so couldn't see the titles for the games that i own. is it possible to force users to leave giveaways with existing games automatically? or there are any cons against?
so at the moment i'm not marking the GA as received and also wrote to the GA-starter to request a new winner. but i could still get a suspension?
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