What title says. I'd like to check the date a certain person added a certain game in their Steam library but have no idea if it's even possible let alone how if it is.
It's a bit of a weird situation. I have in my inventory a game that was used for a giveaway here like a year ago. It was sent out to the winner's email, the winner has marked it as received but he still hasn't redeemed it(gift is still pending). The game however exists in their library and I don't remember if I had checked before sending it then or not. So I don't know what to do now. If he had it already when he won then I need to ask for a reroll(yay for 1 year old rerolls!) but if he didn't and bought it at a later day I should give him a nudge and remind him to redeem it, right?

No gib here, there is one running atm but you'll have to go to my other thread for it :P

Edit: ticket sent to support to delete. Thank you all for your responses

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Only the account owner can check that here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/ , others can't.

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Ah, that's a shame. Guess i'll just give him a nudge then and hope it was an honest win. Thank you for the reply.

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If the game already exists in their library then just re-roll. There's nothing to investigate because you have to activate all games and you're not supposed to enter giveaways for games you already own. He can't activate a game he already owns, so if he won your giveaway, then bought the same game later, he failed to activate your game, so re-roll. If he already owned the game then he shouldn't have entered the giveaway in the first place, so re-roll. In either case, the answer is re-roll. And you should immediately cancel the pending gift on Steam if it hasn't been redeemed.

In fact, the easier answer, now that I think about it, is to just cancel the pending gift and move on. You got the cv, he has the game in his inventory, so just take back your gift and it will have been him doing you a favor.

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There's one more factor though, forgot to mention it above. Its a game that has gone on multiple Free weekends. If it was added in one of those does it stay in your library until you manually remove it or it disappears?

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Free Weekend = Temporary for that Weekend Only

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Games from free weekends disappear from your library after the weekend is over.

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I have to say, I agree with what you say here.

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What you say makes me say that I have to agree. Enough said :)

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Surely it's in the SG database somewhere. If he's a user, he has to sync, and if SG keeps this data, maybe support can help you with that.

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That would be a nice solution but I highly doubt SG keeps multiple sync data for everyone. That is A LOT of data and would put a significant strain on the system. It probably just overwrites every time you sync.

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I don't know SG's database schema, but if there's, say, a GamesOwned table, tracking when they were added would be as simple as adding a single DateAdded column. However, the date would coincide with the sync and not necessarily with the actual date he got it on Steam.

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even easier. add a line of sync date and what was added after that...

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this is a tough one, if he owns the game and failed to redeem your copy and hasn't responded to any attempts to contact him I'd assume he doesn't want your copy and it is your copy again to do with as you will.

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I haven't tried to contact him yet, wanted to see if I could be a successful Sherlock first :P

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First thing, cancel the gift, since he can still take the game for his inventory, even if he now owns the game... Then make a reroll request - you can take a screenshot of your gift history, showing when you sent the gift. And you can show you still have the gift in your inventory.

Good luck! :)

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Just ask to reroll (or better, delete it and recreate a new one since many entries might have the game or no longer be active by now), doesn't matter when he activated the copy in his library

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I'll probably do this then. Went around checking a few random entries from that giveaway and mostly everyone of them has it already, thanks

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if it was free, you can't re make a GA for it

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Free Weekend, not free game. You know "play this free for a limited time" kind of thing, not the kind where you keep the game

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I thought past 'free' games would disappear from your games library list to be seen for the public but then again they are only visibly removed (for yourselves) when you actually press the uninstall option.

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i agree with z0rg. i think that kind of free shouldn't stay in your library.
but one can never be sure with steam

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Closed 7 years ago by Wolfedood.