Please forgive me if this should be obvious, but I'm new so I want to ask this.
There is sgtools and there you see "Not won the same game multiple times" ✔
what exactly does this mean?

Am I allowed to enter more Giveaways for the same game to higher my chances to win any of these?
Tthe possibility to win in more then one is pretty low, but if it happens, can't the giver just reroll?
Thanks for your help

7 years ago

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you're allowed to enter any giveaway you want, essentially you cannot win the same game multiple times can be broken down to this:
when you win a giveaway the win is not absolutely yours, if you tell the creator you won it at another giveaway he will reroll and you will maintain 1 win for that game.
you can also remove all entries for the game that you've been trying to win, in the search function you can type dark souls 3, and enter 20 different giveaways, assuming you won one of them, you can remove your entry from the others and get your points back.
i advice reading this aswell https://www.steamgifts.com/about/faq

7 years ago
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If you win a game you already own (due to two giveaways for the same game that ended at the same time, or due to you forgetting you had an entry still up for a game you won earlier on), just leave a comment in the giveaway in question saying that you would like the creator to reroll. So long as you've made that comment, staff will permit the creator to reroll, and you won't get into any trouble.

Since you're required to activate all wins onto your own account, if you win multiple copies of the same game, clearly that presents an issue, as you can't possibly activate the same game multiple times. As such, you get a multi-win violation on SG at that point [which is simply a subset of non-activation as far as SG rules are concerned, and is suspension-meriting as a violation of that rule].

As far as simply entering for the same game (that you don't yet own) goes, that's not only permissible, it's expected.

7 years ago
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thanks a lot for the explanation

7 years ago
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Also, if the giveaway creator doesn't reroll in a reasonable length of time (as happened to me once, despite repeated attempts to contact them by various channels), you should probably ultimately just mark the redundant game as not received. It's a shame to have to do so, but it'll keep your record clean.

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you should probably ultimately just mark the redundant game as not received

Better leave a reply in the giveaway in question too, explaining the situation to the giveaway creator so that in case they "Request Received Feedback" to support you will have a solid reason for not providing the received feedback.

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I did say "also". I was piggybacking on the previous comments. You're quite right.

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you can keep your record clean by leaving neutral feedback.

7 years ago
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I see "Received" and I see "Not Received". Is there a third option I'm missing here? Does refusing to mark either not count as a non-activated win? "Not Received" is what I was previously unanimously advised to select when this happened to me.
Edit: Aha, found the thread where it came up for me before. The situation was not EXACTLY the same since it was a mass giveaway. I'm not sure if that's a relevant difference or not. https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/TjbpY/double-win-no-response-from-second-giver See the comments from Support, and another user quoting similar info. Oh, hey, I see you were in that thread too! That's a funny coincidence.

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