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No.

As it is the number of shorter duration giveaways are likely to drop down organically due to the changes. That is bad enough. We do not need further changes that make for even worse odds.

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Also, changing the minimum giveaway duration would not significantly change user behavior. Why?

Let's say I would really like to win The Shrouded Isle (which I would, it has been on my wishlist for awhile now). Minimum giveaway duration is now 24 hours. I log in and see 100 giveaways made for it with end times ranging from say 18 to 36 hours. I can't enter them all, even if I put all of my points towards those giveaways (and there are probably at least a few other games I'd like to win as much), which is fine. So, what do I do?

Like most people I enter the giveaways with the lowest odds. But, I'm going to have to remember to come back before the giveaways end. Why? Since points are so low now, and giveaway duration so high, I need to make sure the odds have not significantly changed since the time I entered (which they will). So, I come back and see that the odds are shifted, so I move my points to some different giveaways of the same game. Some others do likewise. The process continues.

We are still going to be logging in frequently to micromanage entries like that, since its more important than ever to make the best use of limited points. Long duration giveaways just make that even more complicated since the long duration gives lots of time for odds to shift back and forth.

And, as I noted originally, it means no more low duration flash giveaways with better odds.

So no, do not want this change.

I'm ok with whatever, but voted for 24.

It's fine, let's keep it at 1h so the role of auto-joiners is even more important than previously :3.

Or let's change it to 15 minutes so I'll move my lazy ass and write one myself :3.

Voted 24h, but that will barely change anything.

24 hours would be great, but I'd be totally fine with 12 hours as a compromise.

Flash Giveaway are intended to be exactly that FLASH. But 1 hour now is a bit problematic i believe, hmm... i'll go with 2hs so it will still be some sort of FLASH without making it a regular giveaway full of entries loosing the point of creating them in the first place.

The points system has been changed to not need to come to SG several times a day ... but what makes us come several times a day is not the points, but the fast GA.

(I don't care about "losing" points, I worry about not entering the GA for the games I want because I don't have time to see them)

Hmm, sorry, can't say I support changing the minimum giveaway time.
How long a giveaway lasts should be up to the person providing the game being given away, not the people who want to enter it.

no, 1 hour minimum is perfect.

if people want to farm cv, let them pick 4 weeks. if others want to do flash giveaways, they are free to keep doing them.

even 30 or 10 minutes would be fine for me xD

To me 1 hour seems reasonable enough, even if I only made a GA that short 2 or 3 times I think the creator should be able to pick whatever duration he/she wants.
Now if I truly had the power to chose any given time as a minimum I would say 3 hours is the sweet spot for shortest length.

I don't make flash giveaways\one hour giveaways myself because I like that people can enter my giveaways not restricted by different time zones and real life but one of the most important things making SG giveaways is: my giveaways my rules, your giveaways your rules. Giveaway rules are set by the giveaway creators and not by those who enter the giveaways, so people who would like to make 1 hour giveaways should continue to be able to do so.

Gawd no. There's already enough people that whine if you haven't sent the key after an hour, imagine the flood of tears if GAs were 24h and you weren't around the next day or two to confirm the giveaway.

Flash giveaways can be started, finished and confirmed in one session of sitting on your arse infront of the PC. It's quick, easy and minimises the chance of someone annoying you. Please don't take that away.

1 hour is just fine :) some of us like to drop flash giveaways from time to time and that would eliminate possibility. Less posibilities - worse.

I would say no to the change in previous SG system. Now i dont like new system and new system dont feet 1h GA. Thats is why i opt for 12h one...

Still would prefer to return to previous system with points between previous one and new one...

Having 1-hour GAs is fine when people don't complain that they don't have enough time to refill their points when new bundle is out. Otherwise it's contradiction, they want to both be able to enter in every GA they think is nice and keep 1-hour limit (which means they will miss tons of GAs due to 20p/h limit) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm fine with the current limit, but If I had to choose I would go for 8h as it fits he recommended sleep time/working hours and logging in 3 times a day is not that much. At the same time the giveaways could still be considered flash based on the mentioned criteria(even some shops make flash sales 8h if they make business worldwide).
On the other hand I noticed that even now the 1h limit is not a true limit. If you open the create GA page and select end time within one hour but than wait before confirming the settings you're still able to create a shorter GA. In that case simply changing the limit without reworking the validation would simply end up with a creation of some sort of a script to create such flash GAs.

Edit: Ps. Quite often people make 1h GAs just to offer higher chances of winning to other users. So to also account for GA creators' needs it would be nice to simply have GAs with limited number of entries. to compensate for the change in timespan. Then probably both sides would be satisfied

The entire idea of capping points is that less people will join each giveaway, thus giving better odds. If you change the minimum time so that more giveaways are active at the same time you ruin that, since people won't have to "pick and choose".

So no, increasing the giveaway time runs entirely contrary to why the new point system was put in place.

All you would have to do to circumvent this is to create a 1-day giveaway and not post the link on the forum until one hour remains, so you may as well just leave the current limit.

Don't know if I have ever created a flash GA, because I like all users interested in to have a chance (level aside), but I appreciate flash GAs and I think that the GA creator should be able to decide upon duration. So: no change!

would be much better to give more points, more similiar to previous.

I rarely have created flash GAs; some are for a day and most of my GAs are for a couple of days. I do this so people can enter regardless of being in my timezone or working shifts or such. Therefore I won't change anything now just because of a change in point allocation.
Short version: I'm equally fine with keeping it as it is or a change to a longer minimum.

Normally I only use 24h/48h timers, but I feed trash for the bots with the 1h timer. So I really don't care how short the timers are, if people want to make giveaways for bots let them.

I voted for 12H.
It makes no sense to make the point change to "lower the amount of time people need to spend here" when the majority of that time here is to make sure you don't miss a 1H flash of your WL game.

Which with the new point system might take 2.5 hours of points worth so unless you got them in stock, it's shuffling time, making you spend even more time.

Meanwhile auto-joiners are the laughing third, being harmed not at all, and having increased odds to boot. And able to join all these 1H giveaways without even logging in at all.

I think 1 week is reasonable. As some people have busy life and can only be around during week ends...

2 weeks would be somewhat excessive...

Just joking, even 1 hour is quite long...