Suggestion: Remove people automaticly from giveaways when they win or buy the game

I'm not sure if the current code infrastructure could support such a feature, but I'll support it under the assumption that it does.

The main problem is that newer users will often mark a giveaway as received before they actually get the game, with the thought that they get the game by clicking it.

Removing people from giveaways for games they have won before the user has checked the game as recieved is not a good idea.

Why is so much people here concerned with every possible way to increase their chances to win something? Can't you just enjoy the community, puzzles, groups, and then, if you win something, great, if not... well, you had fun either way.

Bought yes, won no.

That's a great idea! Once in the past I have entered two giveaways for the same game that ended close to each other but I knew I wasn't going to be up to see if I won the first one so I could delete my entry for the second. It hasn't happened to me yet, but now I refrain from doing that because I don't want to cause problems for people.

If you're worried that people will hit the received button because they don't understand the rules, then that is their problem. Maybe have the FAQ more prominent or have a ? button next to the received checkmark box thingy that leads to the FAQ.

Or else have the sync done automatically more often.

WIth this number or of users and GAs... No... This means that the site will work several times slower, becouse of constan sync-ing acc-s and cross checking. Not a good idea.

not necessary.

the chance of winning a game twice is very low, similar for buying a game.

number of rerolls for these issues should be quite small.

as for buying: if you know you have entries in givaways but want to buy the game while on discount, just buy as a gift and if you win ga for that game, make giveaway of the copy you bought (make sure to have screenshot of buying process ready to prove its not regifting)

Very good idea. I like this 100%. Or at least show a warning of some sort when the account syncs that you have duplicate games and you can go back and manually remove your entry into the giveaway.

Well, to know if user has bought we need an extra sync... So it need some extra resources.
But, remove user from the giveaways of same game if he marked this game as received - would be nice.

I agree, probably the site will have to synch your account more often.

I received a ban when won two copies Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Scottish Paint Jobs Pack at one day

but..for this we have to force sync profile ....no?

I'd say if you happen to sync, and you have games in your library that you're also entered in a giveaway for, you could be automatically removed from those giveaways. It's a smaller change, but I think anything beyond that is too far.

Having this as an optional feature for both sync and when you win a giveaway would be nice, not so sure about it being marked as received. This is what I posted in another thread before I realized it was already requested:

If I win a giveaway, it would be great to have myself automatically removed from other giveaways that I entered of the same game, that way if I win in the middle of the night, I can get the points I've spent and use them on other giveaways. Granted, there's always the possibility that the code or URL you're given will be invalid. Personally, that's a risk I'm willing to take if it means saving points I would use elsewhere. Not everyone would want this, so make it a setting with it defaulted to being off.

I'd say remove when you sync and see the game. The main reason for this isn't for winning multiple copies (which I think is pretty rare) but this situation:

"Oh, a giveaway for a game I want! I'll enter it. And another, and another, and another... wait a minute. " (goes and sees it's on sale insanely cheap, buys it.)

This happens to me all the time. At that point I have to go back and manually leave all the giveaways for that game, and occasionally I've missed one; it'd be much nicer if it removed you automatically after you synced.

A couple of people here thought this idea was meant to get more chance on winning... seriously is there someone that cheap to use a really strange case to get a tiny little better odds on winning?

At first I thought you could do this but on sync but what about free weekends?

Very good idea, but actually putting it into practice is not going to be easy.

Here's a suggestion that could make this work:

1. When someone marks as received, sync account with steam. -> users just need to make sure game is activated properly before marking as received, which you'll want to do anyway nowadays with extra region locks etc. being possible issues.

2. When accouint is synced, check if there's any entries for newly found games in open GA's, and remove those. -> ideally, users would manually sync after adding games on steam. (I think this already happens btw)

Not going to be full-proof, but should cover most cases.

Also, a possible part 3:

3. In case multiple GAs for the same game are won, automatically re-roll the other ones when the first is marked as received.
   -> Again: users just need to make sure game is activated properly before marking as received, which you'll want to do anyway nowadays with extra region locks etc. being possible issues.

in my opinion it would be more useful to just add option
where the 'winner' decide to 'give-up' his win and the SG does auto-draw of new winner
remember there is 1 week timeout before you can confirm the receive of win
and quite often the 'keys' aren't valid etc. thus removing someone auto from draw because he won nothing is fail ...

can SG make "forced" every min or every hour to sync with their steam account ?
So... If they already have the games, they will auto remove from GA entry what they already have it

Well, I just curious about new create GA concept (cd key, not gift type)...
What if someone already have the game what they entered and got cd-key of it because they didn't re-sync with their steam account then redeem on their second account & mark as received ?

that would be bad... i have won some things that the gifter doesn´t send.... and now?
also you get banned if you don´t activate a gift or if you win something twice. no Need for a Change here....