A suggestion for the "new Giveaway" page, is to add support for appID searches along with the game title searches. There are some cases where you have to browse through 10+ pages of results to find the game title you want to give away.

You can test it by starting a new giveaway using "Project RPG" as a game title, it brings up 81 pages of unsorted and irrelevant results, using the very common project and RPG words. I suppose project rpg is not available for giveaways but still you have to browse through all pages to find it out. Also an appID search would minimize server requests in such cases.

Possible ways to implement it:

  1. Check title field for numeric values and trigger appId search if only value is numeric and length >=4 digits.
  2. or, Add a second box right to the existing one, to search with appID.
  3. or my personal favorite, Add a toggle/link next to Title header like:

    "Title (or search with appID)"

    to toggle gametitle<--->appID searches in the same box.

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Would you need/use that?

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+1 to use that

not necessarily a need, but it would make life easier. ^^

edit: same for hidden filter list searching

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Game doesn't appear as the first result when you write its full name = You can't create a giveaway for it.
And for me, it is easier to find a game for its name than for its appid (despite the same game can have several appids depending on the country)

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(sorry for double posting)
Maybe another solution... Would you prefer that removed games could appear in the search box but a red square appears informing you that the game was removed from the list because it was massively given for free? (and of course disabling the rest of elements until you select another game to giveaway).

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That's an awesome suggestion, perhaps you would like to create a new thread with that?
I'd be glad to close this and link to yours. ;-)

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No, I wouldn't. I don't usually read suggestion threads but surely someone suggested something similar on the past

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Since you asked me to elaborate I just never had any problem finding the title I want to create a giveaway for. What perrolijo is suggesting/hinting would be awesome though :)

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Indeed, perrolijo's suggestion is great,
it covers mine and enhances the existing functionality. ;)

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Even better would be being able to actually create giveaways for those games with disabled CV :)

Edit: As I understand this has been suggested and rejected before though

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Cg said they'd consider it a while ago.

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That would be awesome

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