[VOTING ENDED] Are you against insta-winning(Entries <= Copies) on your giveaways?

Voted :D. I would just let the guy get it since he was the only one that was able to get there and fit requirements.

Unless you're giving away a shitload of games, like with the developer giveaways, I think it kind of beats the point. For example if you make a giveaway and only let one person enter, you might as well just give them the game. No need to make a giveaway for it.

Though if it was something like a puzzle giveaway and only one person solves it, I think they deserve to win the prize.

I would stare at that 0 and when it suddenly turned into another number, exclaim "Somebody loves me!"

Might as well run a poll asking if you are a lying asshole.

Would give the game, don't want deleted giveaways in my history.

all the leechers voted

Here's a better question. What if there's only 1 entry and you ask for a reroll(and for a reason)?

Look at my list, I have a few single entries. DLC ones are the only ones I would delete, because it is hard to check ownership of a lot of them with group checkers. They just don't register properly.

I do put that fact into the description before hand though.

This doesn't make much sense......at all.

Delete the giveaway. Otherwise we'll have people gifting to just 1 friend for CV. Nothing wrong with giving a game to a single friend, but shouldn't get full CV for doing so.

I've only had a couple of those in my giveaways. Don't really see why'd I'd be against them though. A giveaway is a giveaway. It'd be pretty shitty to rob someone of a win just because they were lucky enough to be the only entrant.

I've had it happen once, doing a bundle game in a group. I didn't care much, since I was already at the bundle limit. I'd be a little more annoyed if the game had some value.

what? attention whore so much

I only give away bundle junk so it doesn't matter what I think... :)

Hmm, if I were to give away something good and only 1 person managed to enter I might feel differently, don't know. Good luck! :)

You can ask the person to leave and create 2x private giveaways with 2 entries each (1 of them is the "lonely one entrant")

I Have done both.
My opinion on it depends on both the game and the situation.

My general rule on it .. If I wanted to do a giveaway for just one person, Id gift them the game then, saving myself time and effort.

THe spirit of the site is to give gifts, but its also a lottery. So If Im gonna buy a game for another random person .. its gonna be random.

EDIT: I should say more clear. Ive deleted a giveaway BEFORE it ended, with advance notice to the person that would be winning.

What does that even mean?!

I don't make giveaways, sorry. But i voted for the first option.

Thanks to all that replied, decided to just leave it as it is since apparently (didn't noticed it) I did won an insta-win game too. So maybe it's a good way to giveaway back.

PS. 2 ppl has been added in the red tag, tnx to those 2 ppl who shared their wonderful opinions

I say if that happens I would always give them the game, they won it fair and square. It's not their fault nobody else entered so I don't see why they should be penalized for it and have their win/game taken away.

AFAIK, it's not a matter of entries <= copies, but whether the total number of entrants is more than 1. I could be wrong about this, though. The staff should know more about this kind of stuff :x

if its a puzzle or such and only one was able to solve they deserve the advantage for being the only few persistent/smart enough to solve your crazy puzzle :), defeats the purpose if it creeps up on the end with only a few entries and it gets deleted or dropped in chat to pump up the numbers for the sake of having more numbers

I guess groups could be different depending on the criteria for the group and its size, but puzzles only a few entries I'd personally be happy somebody solved, and also that i made one hard enough to get that entry count(of course I'm too slothy to do a puzzle like that but if i had by accident I'd be proud lol)

besides if there isn't a valid reason to delete it seems silly/petty/unfair to do it just because I didn't want that guy to win (and a bit more if worried about having a 1 entry on my record especially since it'd show a deleted or failed to send anyway)

but thats just me personally. it'd depend on the gifter I guess.

also +1 what joeybenz said.

Even though I'm late. One entrant ftw!