Hey guys,

I just thought about a new function for steamgifts.
This function will be the auto join function.

When you want to join a giveaway that will take (for example) 5 hours, and you only need 2 points left, but you need to get some sleep. So when it is sleeping time and you really would like to win that game, you can press the auto join button.
This auto join button will let you enter the giveaway when you have enough points automaticly. So you don't have to wait before you have enough points to enter. So then you will get your very well needed rest and at the same time you can win a game :).

update:
There could be an hour limit like 5 hours / more / less.
There could be a point limit like 3 / more/ less.

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and it should make coffee as well!

1 decade ago
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What if I want tea? DID YOU THINK OF THAT?

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coffee ftw

1 decade ago
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FACT: 83.2% of people prefer whine

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Actually, I'm pretty sure 83.2% of the gamers prefer whining as well :P

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i also have this suggestion: how about not being lazy

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^

1 decade ago
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Yeah wake up in 3 am and enter the giveaway because you are not lazy...You are right vegetable you are right...(you need to stop eating more vet.)

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This is a good and a bad addition. Bad because then people can make a billion alternate accounts and have their bots just constantly auto join contests. Good because people need sleep.

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how about a 5 hour limit orso?

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Then what about if you want to enter multiple giveaways before sleep?

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For them to make the multiple accounts they would have to have multiple steam accounts with equal to or more then $50 worht of games so if they want to pay an extra $50 for a chance at winning one game so be it

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Uhhhhh, more like 2$ worth of bundles. :P

1 decade ago
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When detected on your account during the registration process, Bundle games are all lumped together in a cheap "value" when attempting to register.

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"We require all registered users to have at least $50.00 worth of games associated with their Steam account. This is to prevent users from creating multiple Steam accounts for use on this site, which might result in cheating. This value is automatically generated when you register, using the game list from your Steam profile."

it is $50

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When you buy a bundle (like the humble bundle or Indiegala), you can pay 1$ only. However all the games you receive have a separate value of 10-20$ each, and so buying two bundles at the price of 2$ in total will get you to the 50$ requirement. That's what Monukai was referring to. The admins have corrected that to some level anyway.

I agree with the idea in any case, that way everyone is on the same level; I'm sure one or two users have tried using bots and macros to join a giveaway. Plus it's really infuriating when I'm missing the game I've been waiting for just because I need some sleep D: (add to that that I've already waived one hour of sleep just to see if I got my points).

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Dont sleep, its ok.

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I disagree with this

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  • Shit loads of points
  • auto join every giveaways, even the ones that you don't really want

no.

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What? How is that any different than:
-Shit loads of points
-join every giveaways, even the ones that you don't really want

???.

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the point is that the former requires no waiting at all to enter giveaways thus requiring little to no effort compared to the latter where at a certain point you will have to stop.

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I don't like it - if you really want that game do the work, forget sleep, gamer-up and make it happen

or just remove an entry for something that still has a day or so to get your points then re-enter it later I guess

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or just remove an entry for something that still has a day or so to get your points then re-enter it later I guess

This is why an auto-join is pointless except in two cases:

  • We are talking about someone new to Steam Gifts.
  • We are talking about a short giveaway that starts and ends while you sleep. But increasing the minimum giveaway length to 12, maybe 24, hours would also fix this.
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Meh.

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Nope.

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I'm ok with this.

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Are you aware that this involves bots?

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We already have this feature. You just have to upgrade your account to steamgifts pro to use it.

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You're hilarious.

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We've been over this before. We will not implement any sort of system that will allow a first come, first serve environment. Everyone will have an equal chance at entering what they want, without the ability to automate the process.

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Loko FTW :D

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:D

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Be there or be square! :-D

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yea i agree, i think the point of this site is to be active on it not click autojoin button once and come on on occasion.

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Bad idea.
If you don't have enough points... So... Try next time. It's not the last day on the Earth.

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I have a suggestion: Don't even think about it.

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I think this is the best.

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Well the who,e point of the site is to be entering for games that you really want. Just because you have a chance of winning something doesn't mean you should. Give it to someone who will acutally play and enjoy the game.

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I think the title is misleading. Made me think about being able to enter all giveaways of a certain game automatically. Which is something I'd appreciate, but I imagine won't happen. As for idea itself, I think that allowing to enter one giveaway and going to negative points, and then only participating in it when the points are >= 0 would work, but it's probably not something worth implementing.

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So let's think this over shall we mate? IF there would be something like this, everyone would use it and entries in giveaways would be bigger. Even if you could enter one giveaway you'd want a billion of other people would too.
Chances of wining anything are already too small....thank god this never will be made :D

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im always keep my points above 200, since i can enter on every interresting giveaway without the risk of dont have enough points for another good title

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I'll sell you an auto join bot.

Please have $500 in unmarked bills in the tree by the bridge by 5pm.

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DRUGS USER

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Closed 1 decade ago by Xzite.