To prevent user entering GAs with same game they just received. I think its better to auto-sync account every time user mark as received a gift. That will also help to detect if user didn't active the game when they won.

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or automatically add the game/dlc to the winner's database list because in most dlc's the sync cant' fix it

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This will be a problem if the GA creator request for a re-roll. Support had to remove the game from their account when reroll accepted

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that would not count has a win so it should not be added

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Much better idea than the auto sync due to the combination of what you said about DLCs and free weekends. When I win a DLC I hunt for an open one so I can click the hide button on them.

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For the purpose, it should be sync both at the time they won and recevied.

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Nope, winning != receiving.

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Well, I can still entry a giveaway for the same game in 7 days.
Most GA ended in 7 days.
If only sync while click received.

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Yes, you can and if you win and someone notices, you will be banned.

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Well, you realize that this voting is no meaning :P

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I didn't quite grasp what you were trying to say, sorry.

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Sorry for my poor English.
I means that such suggestion by the title is exactly the same as current state.
It will be banned anyway..

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Not really, e.g. you win a GA but the creator tells you that he won't give you the game. According to your suggestion, you have to wait 7 days, till you can enter the giveaway of that game, because you can't "mark as not received" before a week passes.

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oh, I got it
You misunderstanding my purpose of first suggest (It's my bad).
I mean a auto-sync while who won a GA, to detect if the winner already owned the game of the GA.
If who entry a GA that he/her already own, system can auto banned him/her.
No auto check of received nor not received.
If you don't get the game, nothing different with current state.

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What if the GA creator created fake giveaway?

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No influence.
It only make sure the winner didn't own that game he just won.

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Sometimes, people mark it as received before they activate it. Maybe auto-sync it after a day? Just in case.

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Well the winner should mark it as received when they received the game anyway. It doesn't matter if the winner active it first or mark it first as long as he activate it.

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Yes, i know, but if it automatically syncs when you mark it, and let's just say that someone accidentally marked it as received before making sure it works, if it automatically syncs, then the win wouldn't show up. Then a few minutes later, they would actually activate it. If the auto-sync detected something and let's say it contacted support about it, and support went to their profile and seen it was there, it would just be wasting the support's time. That's why I say wait a day, or maybe just an hour after marking it to sync it. :p Accidents do happen. Sometimes people get excited when they see they won a game, copy the key & then mark it as received out of excitement. It's happened :p

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Well 1 day sounds great. It will be great if the winner could uncheck the received when they accidentally click it.

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Well, I can see why we're not able to uncheck it. (Some people could abuse that. ALTHOUGH, if they do mark it first, then go to activate it, and it doesn't work, I THINK you can mark it as not received once the week has come up. Of course, if that happened then you should contact the giveaway creator first. But still, I think the auto-sync could be quite useful. Not everybody syncs their account after a win.

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Me too :P

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I would like an auto-win-all button.
So I can win all the games, all at once.
That is what I want. Make it happen!

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Bribe the god of RNG :p

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Syncing is easily doable though.
For the latter, I don't know how that happens unless someone notices it.

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Well you sync the account 1 day after the winner marked it as received. If the game was not in their library, it will shown to support and they will take action against it.

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It's a good idea! because even if I'm writing under my giveaways pls only enter if you not owning the game, a lot of people entering( and they own the game). and I don't know why are they so greedy!

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Some people just entering any giveaway they seen as long as they have the points. They didn't even notice what game they just entered

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f*cking ninjas!

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Life will less interesting without them :p

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lol

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there is some kind of bug: i have game, sync few times, and its still able to join geviaway

last game i win - already had

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Yea for example the gifts that you have in your inventory are not counted as sync (as i Know)
I think you must have it in your Biblioteca)``library´´

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Biblioteca ? where u get this word ? its russian word with english trasncription

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library equals to biblioteca in spanish (also the place where you go to study or taking books)7
PD: Im spanish :C

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thx, now i know little more

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Library=Biblioteca in romanian also, in the most latin countries I think...

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What about syncing during free weekends? It would be a big problem.

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Well,mods could make some tricks for take that games out of sync during free days or something like that

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i agree with you man :)

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Right now if you sync your account after winning, the GAs you've entered of the same game will still have your entry, so you have to manually remove them. Just FYI

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There's no need for an auto-sync.

Winning a giveaway begins a chain of events, none of which occur at a specific time :

  • The winner must be contacted by the creator and given the game.
  • The winner must redeem the game.
  • The winner is supposed pull out of similar giveaways.

The sync function is both simple and easy, and the user has flexibility as to when it is done so that he or she can choose the best time to use it. An auto-sync function like the one suggested would both complicate things and lead to problems.

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