why?

Because the gift it is not sent directly through SteamGifts,you need to send it through Steam.

because nobody trusts anybody.

Well, it would be a hassle to say, set up a bunch of bots to handle it or whatever other method they decided to use. Also, there is sometimes the need to reroll a giveaway, which could be much more problematic, depending on how the system was implemented. Additionally, this would require some creative implementation to handle keys as well, or else disallow making giveaways with keys at all. Honestly, I don't think the odd fake giveaway or the generally slight delay between winning and receiving the gift is enough reason to warrant it.

and it would make the site more prone to hacking attempts

It works pretty well right now - why change it? (I got my copy of FlatOut promptly after winning it and sent off HL2EP2 in the same way when it was won...)

its not the same, throwing your game in some gift-eating-soul-not-having machine that will than forward that gift to whatever steam user random number generator picks, or sending your gift personally to the person that happens to be luckiest, and wins it..

1) You can have the gift now, or buy it AFTER the giveaway ends. You also can't have a CD key in your inventory or any other way to prove you have it.

2)No.

what is game

I think it's against's steam's policy to own more than one account and to have one act as a bot, but let's say this is a account being driven by a person. This person needs to have a (huge) list of winners and the list of giveaways, not only that he needs to be on the account 24/7. :|

I have a hard time reading anything after "Created by MCVAGINA."

Regardless of how you do it no one would trust it who is Giving Away games. If someone who is getting free games for nothing doesn't trust a giveaway maker, no loss, but if the giveaway makers don't trust a system that could Easily be used by Steamgifts to steal hundreds of games at any given time... No giveaways will be made.

The last time a bot controlled something, Wall-E almost died and lost his memory and the chubsters almost never made it back to Earth.

Do you want something like that to happen on Steam gifts? I didn't think so.

Worst trolling attempt

lawl the tribe against me for saying it would be cool if there was a more safe way to do all this

thx god this is a charity website where everyone is nice, looks like u are a sect of scientology and i just blasphemed against ur leader

TOPIC ITS DONE

Do you know how many admins are here? 1
Do you know how many mods are here? Do you know what they do? they mod the forums.

What you're asking is for someone to be 24/7 available for someone to send a gift, and if there is only ONE single problem, it all relies on the mod or admin who took the gift, in the end briging more problems than solutions.

This usually works when we're talking about a trade of keys, you use a middleman, someone both can trust, but on this case, its too complex.

Maybe we shouldn't complain about a system that give you free things? If someone makes a fake giveaway, sure it may be annoying but it's not as if you actually lost anything.

You go ahead and reverse engineer the Steam client, code up a custom client that automatically accepts trades for incoming items, activates a custom script that verifies the winner from the site and then automatically trades the item to the winner.
We'll wait.

lawl

Translation of OP:

OP is asking why sg isn't used as a middleman that holds the gift till a winner is chosen.

Solution: None, here's why. SG has no connection to Steam other than sign in and thus would have no way of getting the games. Also they would have to validate the gifts, bundles or illusive keys... Now lets look at how many games are given away.

TL;DR because

Hey i know you. Weren't you the guy who won my World Basketball Manager giveaway and then tried to put it in your inventory "to gift it to your brother" instead of activating it on your account. I knew i know you from somewhere