If you check the sync page, and force an update, you'll notice all your Steam groups will now appear. We'll soon have an option to limit giveaways by group. This feature will only be available to private giveaways, and it'll allow groups to freely share their links without having to worry about outside members joining.

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Yeah they did. It will be very helpful.

The public giveaways are out of the sight because everyone can join?

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Sounds good, but I'm a bit worried that it will split the community into smaller groups and the public giveaway will be the looser.

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I don't think so. Public giveaways are for new people... It's certain that we divide by groups even from school but I don't think it's a problem... Still we have lots of people who like other people and the other people like those people... So basically it will be a private giveaway frenzy to death.

PS: Even without this more and more people are making private giveaways if you haven't noticed.

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it wont.

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I believe points aren't generated by Private giveaways (unless I'm mistaken), so yeah, fairly sure the Public giveaways will continue to flow in.

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Its already become like this because public giveaways have less then 0.1% (~1000 entries) chance of win.

In a private giveaway, its usually 2.5% (40 entries).

I believe the reason for this feature is to make people unable to leak giveaways.

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Oh a quick question. Could you make so that the official group are not shown?

I think they are not needed.

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CG is winning.

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Great idea.

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That's a great idea. Wow you act fast, I just mentioned this yesterday :)

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I love you CG, I fucking love you!

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Yay, my idea got implemented!

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Grazie. Signore CG.

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Nice!

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Thanks for this feature. :)

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Greatest idea. :)

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Excellent! Does that mean that we will be able to see private giveaways on home page if we are members of that group, or will we still require to have the link to it?

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It appears that it'll be a private giveaway, but only people in those groups will be able to enter them.

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I am yet to see such a giveaway myself but from what I understand it that you still need the link it's only that you won't be able to enter the giveaway unless you are a member of the correct group, in the same way you can't enter giveaways for games you already have.

This means Private Giveaways for groups can be made and posted on their groups without worry of hackers brute forcing the url because then they still wouldn't know which group to join unless they scoured all groups of Steam looking for Private Giveaways.

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Would be cool if those private giveaways were visible to your home screen if you are a member of that group and not have to find the link somewhere. :)

13 years ago
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Great new add, really good!

13 years ago
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Wow! That's great! Thanks for working on this site and doing so much for us all!

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I approve

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Woah, really nice job cg!

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kool dude!

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Completely awesome addition! Thanks cg!

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Great stuff. Thanks, cg!

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Closed 13 years ago by cg.