This. But please wait 7 days before you CAN complain... but I don't see why you'd want to, I mean, unless they mark the gift as not received it automatically sets it to received unless I am mistaken, then you can regift them as it's the winners loss for not checking :p
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The previous I waited 7 days, added him on Steam, said he won and claimed the gift... See the other giveaway, my first one and tell me WHY.
And yeah I don't like people with 1 entry to win.
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Why does it bother you so much?
The people who win don't know you and don't -need- to add you to say thanks. It's a nice thing to do, but many people say thanks in the comments anyway, so it isn't that bothering. Oh, by the way, the first person who won did thank you and seemed happy to have won and you knew it.
So what's your problem? I don't see how being a newcomer (which he wasn't when he won that giveaway) means anything neither.
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So let me get this straight. You're asking the mods to control other humans' behavior? Along with this, I see absolutely no reason why you would be complaining about your first giveaway like this. They clearly wanted the game and they thanked you when they won. They weren't even really a newcomer when they won (over a month old at the time of winning).
I'm not even going to bother with your second giveaway since it's been so soon since it ended.
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Because winner chosen at random. And there is Internet.
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The gifter is giving opportunity to all those who enter to get free shit.
If you think it's too much leaving a comment saying "Thanks" just for that, then I'm sorry for your greedy self.
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Throwing hissy fits over hundreds of people not kissing your ass when only one (or at most a few, depending on the number of copies you submit) actually gets something is silly. Also telling is that it's usually only prima donnas like the thread starter here who make a fuss about it, and luckily most people, including at least some staff members, don't give a damn about this petty nonsense.
Now when whoever actually gets something doesn't thank you, that's a different story.
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Thanking someone for a giveaway is just courtesy. Even if you don't win, you are participating in a giveaway that costs the creator money. A "thank you" is a nice way to show you are grateful, and I'm sure most giveawayers would rather see a hundred comments like this than no comments at all.
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Even though I consider it spammy and unnecessary, I don't disagree with you about the courtesy of such a gesture (I mean, I think I'd be embarrassed by being thanked in advance by people most of whom will end up with nothing, but I can't blame them for wanting to be nice). But there's a huge difference between appreciating a "thank you" and breaking people's balls when they don't flatter you enough, like the original poster is doing here, and others like him have done in the past.
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True, the OP does seem a bit too worked up about this.
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Honestly, stuff like this is why I think we should get fewer points. I pretty much enter every giveaway that I would even consider playing, and I'm still gaining more points than I know what to do with. If everyone didn't have so many points, then we'd actually have to save up to enter the giveaways we want most.
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I have sort of become one of those people. I had to travel for work, and my return home keeps getting delayed. I can't play games on my laptop, so I have barely gotten a chance to play Portal 2 that I won weeks ago. When I won it, I didn't have a chance to accept the gift until the next day. Once I can go home and get back to my desktop, I'll be playing Portal 2, as well as my other games. Even then though, it will probably only be a few hours a week. That doesn't mean someone doesn't want a game. In fact, people who don't have a lot of time to play probably value the time the do get even more.
All I'm trying to say is that there are legitimate reasons for everything you mentioned other than not thanking you. If you are only talking about not thanking you before they won, then that really isn't a huge deal.
You would probably be happier making private/group giveaways with fewer people. I often see people thanking for giveaways they aren't even entering when it is a game they enjoy.
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I do think points should be lowered, but please don't stalk and judge winners to make sure they're playing the game.
You don't know their lives, their schedules. You don't know if they intend to get to it or not. Maybe they got bombarded with work, or something else came up, and they just plain forgot. Maybe they're like me and they have a huge backlog of games to play. Maybe their freakin' grandma just died and they've been too depressed or busy to play games. Maybe they're in college, like I am (thus leading to the backlog I mentioned) and they can't find the time? Maybe they're specifically NOT playing it to save it for a time when they can give it full attention - for example, I preordered Battlefield 3, but I won't actually play it until the first week of December, because Origin won't download on campus (Steam will, thankfully) so I couldn't play the demo, it ships on the last few days of October, and I'm doing NaNoWriMo so I won't be able to give the game the attention it deserves until December.
You are essentially fabricating a tale about this person and then projecting it on them. It's not fair to them and not likely to be correct.
Edit: Plus, your game is Magicka. When I first bought it, I didn't play it for a while because I had to pester some of my friends into buying it too.
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Something is pretty wrong and I don't like that new commers and people who don't give a sh.. about winning win the game.
You should make it wathing their profile and if they play games, how much enries they have and so on to be fair for everybody. I personally disliked that my 2 giveaways go to newcomers who even don't want to win... They even... don't check their emails to see that they've won and redeem their gifts... not me to have adding them and say, hey dumbfu.. you've won a gift, here it is... but wait I have to wait them to add me, it's like so depressing.
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