Site feature requests

PMing through this site is kinda a lot of overhead with little to no benefit. Steam's already there.

• Highlight new comments & messages on-site and in this forum, i.e. messages that have been submitted after the last time you loaded the page.
• Be notified of new replies to your comments in the forums - like how you're notified if you have games to gift out.
• Terms and conditions, and a set of tips on how to conduct yourself on the site.
• • Similarly, warnings on pages saying Cult and my things in this thread: http://www.steamgifts.com/forum/62371/a-note-to-giftersgiftees
• Be able to "refuse" games, if you've won a giveaway.
• Be able to re-host giveaways, if somebody wins and refuses the prize; or calculate a new winner.
• If giving away multiple copies of the same game, have an option to list them separately, or as one large giveaway - as well as be able to pick different release times, if one large giveaway.

That's a few off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll think up more later.

• The ability to see if people have replied to a post on the forum. i.e. like reddit and other forum type stuff.

• Search by Mac, PC, and (Special) Either Only supports vista and 7, XP only, or search by Dx9, Dx10, Dx11

• Search by DRM(loosely using the term) (GFWL, and Uplay/ubisoft) also a search parameter for games using Steamworks or games that have Steam achievements. I'm an achievement whore.

• I like the above ideas for the ability to refuse giveaways if you entered 5 portal giveaways and somehow got 2, or if the site checked past wins to see if you've already won the game and rerandomed for you.

• I read this from d3sdichad0 in another thread. The ability to flag games you already own so it either won't let you sign up for giveaways that you already own and/or hide giveaway games you already own. Could be useful when the day comes that there's 100 pages of giveaways going on.

• The ability for the site to read your wishlist on steam and tell you if anything on your wishlist is currently open or soon to be open for giveaway.

• Along with stats for profiles showing how many giveaways they've done maybe also have a "thanks stat" so when people have giveaways if people like the game or want to thank them even if they own the game already. They can "thank" them and that's a form of extra rep. They get to know that people are thanking them.

• • With that you can also have forum/site profile icons or achievements for people with over 100 giveaways or 50dollars in giveaways. 100+ thanks etc. Make site achievements. They get a bright red sports car!(icon... on their site profile page).

especially with the points system id like to at least see the option to remove entries automatically if i win another copy of the game. it would be annoying if i won something while i was away but still lost the points from other drawings because i couldnt get back to the computer fast enough to remove the other entries for different copies of the game

how could you not the the suggestions thread? was it REALLY that neccessary to make a new thread about it?

Being able to see what givaways your in at the current time. i know theres lots of tf2's and hl's and i cant remember which one i entered

This site needs a system to determine and show games (ranking) that are popular entries within the community (entry numbers vs price [over time (on a chart)], or something. [Cheap games might screw up how popular it is as the points system will limit entries on more expensive games]). Trending? A Stock market like view into the gifts on this site?
I don't mean this should be a system to force you should gift a game that has a high demand. Maybe just have it as resource for people who want to gift something that'll attract a lot of entries and people who just love statistics. Maybe have something to predict the community interest in new upcoming games, trending futures?

Maybe also show another line on the chart (or as a number if there is no chart) of people who have a game on their wishlist (if you add that feature [wishlist]). [Some people enter into entries for games not on their wishlist and some people miss or cannot enter but it's on there wishlist].

A 'most wanted game' feature. For example portal 2 had 800+ entries. I feel like more people would buy games to give away if they knew what the community wanted.

i would also like the points values available on the manage your giveaways tab

List what country the game was purchased in (possibly automatically base this off the account doing the gifting) Some games have gimped versions for Germany and Australia, so it would be a decent indicator of which version of the game you are getting.