ANTI-SUGGESTION for SteamGifts

Gotta agree with that.

nonos the nini
you are a clever no

It sucks. To be honest.

Cause exploiters, regifters, alts and others can easily grab your games? ^^

I think it would ruin totally the spirit of giving away games. Honestly i would quit SG if something like this would happen.

In apart of the good friends i've met, well sometimes.. some of them are rude and some of them are nice.

It would be faster... but on the other hand, as you said, imnpresonal, you can't really thank them, also GW creator can't enforce his rules (even for public GWs, like how much of the collection can you own) and he can't ask for a reroll since the site already gave the game... and possibly even more complications, it's good as-is.

• Yeah I really agree too, there's just the extra feeling of giving and receiving a game, even via email it'll be at least "Grats on winning, here's your key! Enjoy!" or something, and like "Thanks random stranger, wish you luck on your other giveaways!" not to mention when you add them on chat...

honestly when gifting game keys i just email them instead of adding them and talking to them a lot, i usually say thanks when i receive a key this way; but ultimately its good for the other people that you have a choice to talk to them personally instead of auto delivery like on gameminer

Just because you got lucky with the people you met (cough cough, me?) doesn't mean everyone is going to be so fortunatenos :/
Although I still enjoy random convos with the winners, good or bad :p

You got me interested, and that means long posts.
I am against the idea because of several flaws in this. The first being extra resources used, the second being people being a bitch, the third being more work for support, the fourth being no more customisation of how a key can be gifted and the fifth being an automatic system.
The first flaw explained is that you will need more bandwidth, server CPU and RAM and Disk Space(not that important here) to host the system. That would be a problem.
The second flaw explained is that people will still try some way to exploit the new system, which would not go noticed until the winner complains that it is not the right key.
The third is the number of complains will in turn make support flooded with more support requests, which would probably overtax the already understaffed team.
The fourth is I personally, along a bunch of us, love to hand the keys directly to the winner and maybe even surprise them. With this implemented, we don't have that choice anymore.
The fifth is as what cg expressed, cg does not want a bot system like PB, not even remotely similar.

While a key system is a good idea, those flaws make it really bad.

Anyways. Another downside of having the key thing is that if the site was hacked a lot of keys would be stolen.

I do not disagree with this anti-suggestion. It is not nonsense. The non-drawbacks do not fail to be outweighed by the disadvantages.

I agree! Devs who give away 25,000 should have to hand deliver each and every key!

"I have met many people by gifting my games via the chat, and a few of them are now good friends, and some even more... :p"

HEHEHEHEHEHE :P

Why not adding this feature but making it optional, so it please everyone?

So alien, you want to get closer to people...i know where this goes...

for giveaways with many copies thats handy, otherwise no.

Let it be optional only when somebody is giving away more than 100 copies or some other random number.

I think the ideal situation is where there are some giveaways that use a bot, and some done via the already-in-place methods. It would be A: Up to the gifter, B: Usable only for gifts in the inventory and C: Limited to whatever the max inventory space is on however many bots can be created to do this.

The advantages of such a system would be many:

• Giveaway transactions could be completed without further action from the giveaway creator (honestly, if someone's giving away a free game, why not make it as easy for them as possible?)
• Giveaway transactions could be completed as soon as the winner appears online.
• Giveaways using the bot could be marked as "Verified" or some similar word to denote that the gift does for 100% certain exist in a usable form.
• The bot could pass along a message from the giveaway creator, then add a "Please add this game to your library immediately."
• The bot could automatically mark the gift as received when the winner receives it.
• The bot could keep track of whether or not a winner activates their gift.
• If you win a gift, and it is removed from your library (which only happens, to my knowledge, if it was purchased fraudulently), you would then be able to report that. Since the bot knows you had the game, it could then punish the giveaway creator as necessary. Granted, I have never heard of this scenario happening on this site but it is a possibility.

also if for groups if a leacher wins you wont be able to re-roll

Nonos. You are one of my favorite people of the internet. <3

the system is good as is now (antisuggestion accepted:)

I'm with nonos ^^ havent got any problem with this current so far, so I dont think It needs to be changed

I totally agree ;)

I agree that automation simply isnt needed, and would only detract from the community spirit.

Same. Don't fix what's not broken.