You might want to move this to the "Bugs / Suggestions" category
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But you need to make giveaways to even send them so you can't be that uncomfortable ;)
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"Send to bot" not the same to "send to human".
Bot always have one email, worked email. And he doesn't reject your friendship request.
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I like to check the winner first. If someone breaks the rules you can then ask for a reroll. I
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I would rather see a mandatory automatic gift-accept bot for keys
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Yeah how can you miss something you don't even use, i mean if you did a 1000 game giveaway, then we're talking.
Or we get it wrong and you are tired of waiting when you win something and want your game right away?
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Why do you need this if you don't make any giveaways
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+9
let's make it to the very last possible number!!!
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Actually, if you follow to the GA, he includes a screenshot of his inventory where it shows the item has been sent to an email address that appears to match the winners Steam name.
(Although he is Russian apparently by the Cyrillic, so region locking may have come into play, who knows. Point is, he tried I guess.)
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This might be true. He might have sent a region locked game to the german steam user who could not have activated it :[
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you pretty much already can if you add the giveaway as a key rather than a gift. once it's won the site will give you the option to check the winner before confirming and then the site sends out the key
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You haven't delivered a giveaway. Ever.
So what you mean to say is "hurry up and give me my games faster", right?
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Nice to draw attention to yourself. You didn't even deliver the key to the 1 GA you made.
Edit: Correction, you did try to deliver, who knows what went wrong. Still got a strike on your profile though.
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/gv47Y49
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Could it be that he tried to send a CIS game to a German guy?
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That could have been the reason, but I don't understand what's written there. He could have asked support to delete the GA or buy a different copy of it. But I guess we'll never know.
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Well I do understand Russian, the gift is CIS only. The weird part is that Steam allows a CIS gift to be sent to someone in Germany.
Now I'm trying to figure out my OWN very question. I knew it was CIS gift, so why did I ask it? I think the thing I had in mind is: He did send the gift, but did the German guy got it? It seems like Steam allowed him to, so maybe the German guy got it, couldn't activate, so he decided to mark as not received.
Language barrier as it finest...
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Well, I suspect there's a technical difference between sending someone a gift (which they could store in their inventory) and actually activating it.
Anyway, he could have asked support or the forums for help or what to do next. A solution would have been found if he wanted to.
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Everybody can send, and everybody can receive region locked gifts, regardless of in which country or region he is in.
However, ACTIVATING that gift is totally different thing and that is either:
a) Half possible, when you can activate, but can't play unless you're in proper region
b) Not possible, even activation requires being in proper region (usually playing is not restricted afterwards)
In any of those cases, a guy from Germany couldn't activate the CIS gift without breaking Steam ToS, so the only thing he could do is sending gift back to the creator (what he should do, I don't know if he did, he could also refuse to receive it, which would do the same), then depending on his mood and the fact if he's salty or not - clearly state that he's allowing giveaway to be deleted, this way support can then accept creator request without any penalties or +1 not received on the profile. If however creator did not ask for giveaway deletion, or guy didn't allow to delete, marking giveaway as not received after 7 days is totally right thing, as he didn't receive the game that was being given away regardless of the issue - creator said he'll give ROW copy of game X, while he gave away CIS copy of game X. This is not any different than giving other game, or no game at all. In some rare case it wouldn't be a problem (e.g. if winner was from CIS), but still it's wrong. If the guy marked the game as received, but not activate it (e.g. because he couldn't), he'll have problems instead, so if there is anybody wrong here it's giveaway creator not marking giveaway appropriately as region locked.
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If someone win your giveaway, u must send his prize manually. It's uncomfortable.
Takes only one click.
Blacklisting, on the other hand, takes two...
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Oh god, please no. This isn't GameMiner. Besides, what's wrong with a little human interaction?
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Oh my god I literally spent 20 seconds to send someone a gift, such a waste of time THIS SITE IS SCAM.
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Having a bot do it for you is dangerous. What happens if the bot get banned? If my memory serves, that has happened to trade bots in the past, and Steam might not be able to tell an SG-bot and a trade bot apart.
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No.
The whole point of this site is the fact that SG is only a third-party, "man in the middle" between giveaway creator and the winner. Thanks to that SG has no responsibility to control the process, it's not liable for creator not delivering the gift or being e.g. down and making it impossible to proceed with the giveaway.
This is not GameMiner, people here are actually verifying their winners e.g. for rule-breaking, and are asking for rerolls if needed. Sending a key is not a hassle for giveaway creator, because it's just one click (which was created not because somebody wanted to annoy massive amount of people, but EXACTLY because of a need to verify the winner), and if you try to bring steam gifts argument, then sorry but sending a gift to the bot is not any different than sending a gift to the user.
And I'm stating all of the above while being a huge fan of automation, a guy who spent hundreds of hours on creating fully automated steamgifts giveaway group, somebody who should be the first one stating that the more automation the better. You're simply being selfish and want to get your won gifts as fast as you can, instead of making it easier for giveaway creators. The only thing you'll be getting with this thread is increased number of blacklists - nobody alright with his mind would waste his time on making things worse.
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I see at other giveaway site such thing like "automatical prize-send bot".
Did you see the time when that automatic bot got banned from Steam and lost all the gifts people sent to it?
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Well… nope. That kind of automation carries enough risks already. I don't like the 168-hour period given for the creators, I'd prefer 72 max, but the send process is pretty fast as it is (even though I'd still like to be able to add IndieGala gift links to the key list).
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If someone win your giveaway, u must send his prize manually. It's uncomfortable.
I see at other giveaway site such thing like "automatical prize-send bot". So, when you create giveaway, u send your gift to special email. And it's over.
After that you can forget about giveaway - bot send prize to winner itself.
It's very useful thing. So i would like to see such bot at steamgifts.com
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