If you create a giveaway for 50 keys or greater, the "Send Key" checkbox for each winner will be automatically selected. This means the keys will be instantly available to your winners the moment your giveaway ends. This is done to make the experience more convenient when managing giveaways with a higher number of keys.

from FAQ, Gift and Key Options

i always thought that is nice touch sending the key as soon as the GA ends. and, as soon as possible, i manually send the key to the winner.

obviously, option won't be ON by default, as, you often need to do some checks before sending the key. but would be useful, say, for a whitelist only GA. or to go out for a walk with no need to send out the keys of my GAs ending in a hour...

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do you need an Auto Send Key option?

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don't care and/or missing mandatory GA

push these buttons for a chance to have me manually sending you a key:

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Usually, there is a perception that this is a measure to avoid sending prizes to violators by sending the winners by SGTools after confirming that they have "violated the rules".

However, if you are willing to suffer the heartbreak of finding out afterwards that the winner is a violator, you may add the Auto option.
(I fear, however, that it may increase the number of cheaters.)πŸ”₯πŸ€’πŸ¦ πŸ€’πŸŒ‘πŸ”₯

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I personally like to review each giveaway before sending a key. Does the winner already own the game - not often but it does happen. In my case with most giveaways restricted to users with a minimum Level 4, out of 560 giveaways, perhaps 5 or 6 have already owned the game. I also like to check for winners with unactivated keys or duplicate wins of keys. Again rare, but in total, I have asked for a reroll perhaps 10 times. Yes, I have put in a lot of effort for those few rerolls, but I truly hate people trying to take advantage of another person's generosity.

But to address you specific request, the browser extension ESGST has this capability. I used it once on a larger train (50+ cars) and it immediately began sending keys. I believe I was able to stop it before it send all keys (fuzzy memory), but it will surely work for you - a one-click "Send key" button.

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Pretty sure browser extensions don't work if the PC is turned off tho, which is likely to be the case if the user isn't around to deliver the key manually.

1 year ago
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Ah.... in my quick pre-coffee reading this morning, I missed that little detail!

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I don't make enough GAs (boo!) to need that but I can see how it would make sense for the more generous gifters like you, Icaio.
Also people who make occasional GAs but don't necessarily come every day and need to remember they had something running.
As long as it's an option and not mandatory, it definitely would help.

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While for most giveaways I probably wouldn't use this, sometimes I definitely wish this was a thing. Specially when I accidentally set the ending time for when I'll most likely be sleeping, would be nice to just tick a box and let the system take care of it on its own.

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...and let the system take care of it on its own

<3

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i always thought that is nice touch sending the key as soon as the GA ends

True. But what about checking your winner for breaking the rules (especially not activated games).

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ok, but this would be an option when you can't/won't/don't know how/don't care about checking the winner

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It would be nice as an opt-in option.

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Agreed! Good for whitelist and maybe group of people you trust.

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It would def be a good addition, especially for trusted groups

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naah, it would send a placeholder if it would send automatically

Edit: yeah as an opt in feature it would be nice

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Closed 1 year ago by icaio.