Give it some time dude... If you don't receive it in 24h contact the one who created the giveaway, if you can't reach him or you don't receive the game in a week then check the not received box, other than that nothing else you can do.
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Haha :) What, did you expect the person to anxiously wait in front of their computer screen for the giveaway to end so that they could send you the gift the second the giveaway was over? Come on m8, people have lives and other things to do. If you read the FAQ stickied on the forums, you will see that there is a time period of one week after the giveaway is over for the giver to give his gift. After that time, you should contact a mod or leave a message at inbox@steamgifts.com and inform them of the situation.
Take it easy and take care :)
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This.
Although, would it be that bad of an feature that the creator of the giveaway could add the possible code when creating the giveaway, and after the draw the system would automatically dispatch the code to the winner? I mean, just as an option, as it won't be possible in all the cases anyway.
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If it was a code maybe, but most of the games on the site are in gift form and have to be given using the steam interface for email/steam gift through the interface.
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I completely forgot about that, change my above to "hell no , never give the site any potential incentive to get hacked, no emails no codes, just the good old fashioned way."
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true... no need to make the site more "attractive" to shady individuals than it already is...
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There are two schools of thinking here.
First school believes that everyone is nice, friendly, patient and trusting enough to wait a week to receive the gift without any doubt or worries, and that they should be grateful that they are deemed worthy. This school believes that most of the members are living lives that randomly change every minute so the gifters can't plan a single moment ahead.
Second school believes that since you can select precise moment that your gift ends, you should at least bother to pick a time that you would be around your computer for a minute it takes to send the gift. Guess I don't need to say which one I support.
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true... normally I would agree with school of thought 2, but I quickly realized that although you can plan most things in your life, random things do occur and according to Murphy's Law, things go wrong often at the worst possible moment... I designed my giveaway so that it ended 2 hours after I would get back from work, but something popped up at the last moment and I had to stay in and finish the job at work (over-time upon request by my boss) and ended up getting home the next day...
So yes, usually 2 would be true but there are quite a few instances where 2 is not true. I guess it is in the community to decide for themselves how they would think, but as a general rule, we should always treat others as we would like to be treated. :)
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I agree that hosting codes is not a good idea. However, I like Hikikomori's automated email idea. Just a simple "Congrats, You won! Please be patient to receive your gift. The gifter has up to a week to send you your gift." from Steamgifts@noreply.com. I like that generic confirmation stuff. I have no idea how hard that would be to setup though.
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My only fear is that we will begin to get posts like "I received an email congratulating me for the win but there was no gift code or gift link attached! I tried to reply to the message, but mailer daemon kept returning the message saying that the message could not be delivered. Please help me get my gift...." etc etc. Might as well leave it as it is; this way we can at least argue that there are two schools of thought and the person asking for his gift as soon as giveaway is over belongs to the one that expects people to make appointments and keep them (i.e. we can rationalize to an extent what is going on). XD the other one is just going to be like facepalm
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Maybe I should create a giveaway and when the the winner is announced I send an email saying that you need to enter you steam username and password ;)
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I won a give away and my e mail imbox is empty?
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