stacking same giveaways

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I wanted to suggest stacking giveaways with the same game into one giveaway.
so the gifter chooses the time, when his gift is given away, and the winner for his exact gift is chosen at that time but the whole giweaway will last, untill there is at least one piece of that game left on the site.

I'm just feeling sorry for all those people, who missed Dirt3 because of those hoarders, who give it away now. it's really hard to enter those 50 points giveaways. While everyone else has tons of point because of that. Dirt3 Should be an easy win at this times, but it is not actually.

What I suggest is, people enter into Dirt3 giveaway only once, and they have a chance for every Dirt3 Gift, untill there is no more such gifts avaliable on the site. Once, the giveaway of all Dirt3 is finished, the giveaway closes and you need to enter it once more, if it appears again on the site. Ofcourse, points are generated only for the first game in the stack. If there is already a giveaway with the same game, the giveaway is automatically extended (if needed) and no points are generated for this new gift.

That will solve a problem with any such flood breaking the point system (I was lucky to get dirt at time, so i currently have enough points to enter EVERY game i don't have in my account. And i find that an issue.)

This kind of mechanism could also guaranty, there is no single winner for two same games, so there would be less reroll requests.

I'm an IT specialist and i understand, it is too much to code and it is impossible to implement it right now, before all the Dirt3 giveaways end, but i'm sure, that is not a last such flood, so it would be a good idea to implement such a thing for future.

And a little bonus:
Ofcourse private giveaways should not count into that stacked thing, but if i know of some private giveaway, i would be glad to be able to double the chances by adding one more private gift (i've actually done that before for a private VTMB giveaway, but the entrants should have spent separate points for both chances.

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metalmanijak

I think it would just confuse the people. And I really dont see where the problem is. I never saw a giveaway comment that says: "I dont have enough points"!

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mawile

no, it won't confuse people, once it doesn't confuse admins and is actually implemented.
getting one of those tons of Dirt3 gifts should not cost your all your points squared, but it actually costs. Dirt3 was given away for free and should be an easy win for those who missed it. and if someone badly wants dirt3, he has to tel bye-bye to every other giveaway.
But having a Dirt3 gives you a great priveledge, because you have tons of points and can enter almost everything avaliable at once.

the point of the point system (sorry for double point) is to make you able to enter ~10% of giveaways, so you had to choose hard instead of entering every game. and that helps to gift games to people, who are interested in that, not just random people, who won by accident and is not actually going to use it.
thats a good point, but it stops working, once one sngle game/pack floods the entire system.

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mawile

oh, and if you miss "i don't have enough points" comments, go read this thread

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metalmanijak

This is just my opinion!

1 decade ago

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