Auto Send Keys to Winners

I'm sorry to hear this, I wouldn't have an issue if this was a feature.

Same happened to me I got an email today about giveaways ended a week ago. Normally you get notified immediately after the giveaway has ended. I'd be fine with this feature although I don't believe it will be implemented as there are much more pressing issues which aren't taken care of for years.

21:01 (1 hour ago)

to h.barkas

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I likewise just got an email today for last week's giveaways. I had already given keys and all winners had marked the games as received. Clearly it was a bigger SG burp than I had thought.

I think there was some glitch delaying notifications. I just now got a notification of a giveaway that ended six days ago (fortunately I'd noticed and sent the giveaway at the time, but it would have been easy to miss.)

Either way an auto-send-key option would be useful. As I recall the manual confirmation dates back to when it was easier to win a giveaway for a game you'd just won elsewhere, so gifters often wanted to check that the recipient didn't already have the game; now that's not as necessary, since Steamgifts will remove you from giveaways from previously-won games automatically.

If you make a giveaway with 50 or more keys it will give them automatically. But for normal giveaways we're encouraged to check the winner for rules violations first before sending.

That's why we're given 7 days. SG sends you an email as well as notifications, but at the end of the day it's up to the user to do the final legwork/button-press.

I would never want the automatic sending of keys personally - I like to check the winner first. But if this is an option you can turn on rather than opt-out of then, sure, why not.