Make group recruitment topic ... or just make Public / Invite only giveaways with links to your group :)
Best way is to make a topic explaining what your group is about , and with a link to your group here in SG so ppl can see what is given away there ... pretty sure it will drive new members in ;P
And no , there isnt . Group only giveaways are viewable ONLY by group members .
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Make sure there is some kind of tie-in to SG in your post. (Whether it's a giveaway you've included in the post, or the fact that your group uses SG to give games away, or something else.) That will make it relevant to SteamGifts instead of just being a random advertisement for a non-SG site.
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Links to SG giveaways are considered relevant to SteamGifts, yes.
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Just make public giveaways, and put the links to group-only giveaway, as well as a link to your group in the description of the public ones.
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Don't underestimate the click-bait of a giveaway. Public giveaways will give you exposure to whatever you put in the description of the giveaway, including information about your Steam group.
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You do both; your group giveaway as usual, and a public (cheaper?) giveaway pointing to the group-only one.
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The other issue is that you can't link the giveaway on facebook and just say "click here to enter". You have to say "join my steam group here, then join steamgifts here, then join the giveaway.
It would be far simpler / better if anyone could see the giveaway, then when they clicked to join it prompted them to login with steam/create a steam gifts account and then join the steam group if they weren't members. Of course not everyone would want this so they need to make it optional.
Similarly, users could select to filter out giveaways from groups to which they don't belong, if they like.
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Sounds like gleam might be what you need then, just be careful of where you advertise it - it's forbidden to post gleam links here (at least directly), and Valve doesn't seem to like them too much either.
But on the bright side, that would allow more people to enter, as to register on Steam Gifts you need to own $100 worth of unbundled games, while gleam doesn't have such strict limits.
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Keep in mind that the purpose of SteamGifts is not to act as a billboard for the advertising of other sites. There are other websites that fulfill that function.
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The Group Recruitment node is for those Steam groups which use SteamGifts to give away games. . By contrast, you will not find my gaming clan advertising there as they have no connection with SteamGifts.
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There are thousands of group giveaways going on at any point in time, and most of those groups are invite-only, I suspect. The number of unavailable giveaways one would have to sift through would make it highly undesirable to view giveaways from groups to which they don't belong. I suppose there's no downside to having the feature, though, provided the default is not to see these giveaways.
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I might have misunderstood your initial intention. But Steamgifts makes no distinction between group giveaways for groups that anybody can freely join, versus groups that require an invite. I do seem to recall that SteamCompanion (RIP) used to do that. So for Steamgifts, if group giveaways were visible (as I believe you were suggesting), then users would see tons of giveaways that are completely inaccessible.
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I never said "let's not implement that feature," did I? I only said that, as it stands, if all group giveaways were visible, then that would be a lot of inaccessible giveaways to sort through...which is undesirable.
The alternative, of course, is to do it like Steam Companion-- have two types of group giveaways, "public" and "invite-only". I suspect this is a non-trivial enhancement, but it's not a bad one. If they ever went that route, I very much hope they'd make it so users can toggle off both types of group giveaways. I don't want to have to sift through a bunch of group giveaways, even if membership for those groups is open.
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Steamgifts would need to have a definitive way of knowing whether a group is invite-only. Maybe this is available via the Steam API, I don't know.
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Are you saying that it would be impossible to allow users to filter out giveaways for groups to which they don't belong?
No. I never said anything about it being possible or not.
But most groups and their givs are private, so it wouldn't make sense to make them publicly visible.
The point is that there is already a mechanism for group recruitment and having that also done via advertising publicly-viewable but group-restricted giveaways is not good.
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That wasn't the case on steamcompanion. I did say the option to keep giveaways private should also be in there. No one is talking about forcing anyone to do anything.
The majority of group giveaways on steamgifts are private. Well ... yes. I wonder if there's a contributing factor here.
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On top of that, making GAs for public groups visible to everybody will only lead to people joining these steam groups to participate in giveaways (and taking in account average user, it means to leech).
It is exactly what you want - to promote your groups or channels or whatever, but it will harm everybody else, for instance: public steam groups created by some particular interest, theme etc, probably not even having anything to do with SG and GAs generally. They don't need dead weight of leechers surprisingly incoming because of someone else occasionally creating gift giveaways for them.
So taking in account that this is not a promotional site, we don't need this feature.
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I used to use giveaways to drive traffic towards my steam group but it seems people who aren't in my steam group can't even see the giveaways, so it's not working :/. TBH this may have been previously available on the belated steam companion, rather than here.
Is there any way to make group giveaways publicly view-able? Or are they already viewable but somehow I'm doing it wrong.
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