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Ardency

Stupid question, but I hope you can help me.
If I enter a giveaway for a game which hasn't finished yet, and in the meantime I decide to buy the game, would I still be taking part of the giveaway even though I got the game now?

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Tsukichild

You would need to manually take yourself out.

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Ardency

Well this very inconvenient, especially because I plan to buy a lot of games now during the summer sale and I would have to go through everyone of them individually, but thank you for your answer.

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enjobg

Buy them as gifts and wait for the giveaways to end, if you win you have a spare gift copy, if not you still have the game.

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Ardency

This would be an alternative solution, the only bad part is I would have to wait many hours or even days to finally know if I can redeem the game or not.

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LittleBibo1

That's a shitty move. If the creator checks and see's you've got it in your inventory a blacklist will definitely happen.

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Zareh

Go to https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/entered and type in the title of game & remove. It's a lot faster.

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Ardency

Thank you, this makes things definitely faster. Though it would be a nice feature for SteamGifts to automatically remove your entry from games you owned after buying/synchronizing.

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TempeteJoachim
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If there's a free weekend for a game, you'd be removed from every giveaway for that game and be unable to enter them again

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Wolfedood

Maybe you know, maybe you don't but ima mention it anyway :P
On the home page at the left side there's an option to show you your "entered" giveaways. It's handy for cases like these.

Edit: I got ninja'd as usually. Damn, people are fast!

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NvyX14

yeah you can win that game but if that happens you can ask for a rerroll

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arfeu

Go to "GA entered" and with ctrl+F you search the title you bought, then exit all of them. It's not superfast but it shouldn't take more than a minute per title.

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dingbat

the list of GA entered is only 2-4 pages. If there are multiple game to be removed, it'd probably be faster to scan through them

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arfeu

sure. My GAentered is normally like 0.75 to 1.5 pages, but I still do it that method just to be sure, of course it's more time consuming, but I don't care losing those seconds.

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