this.

now close the thread.

I think more though.

Actually not, and a forum search only shows a few over the last 10 months (rare for a forum this size). And every time it has been suggested, the answers are either "No" with no justification, or a well written reason why it is an okay idea.

Not that our voices matter much, but among those willing to provide a coherent justification for their position, there is an overwhelming support in favor of the idea.

^zugestimmt

I forgot to mention it in the post but I did look it up and read the comments but couldn't find any reasons why it wouldn't be good to do it. Also, the discussions I could find were about 10 month old, and I think things have changed a bit since then.

+1 on The No and ^^

Only properly written answers I saw seemed to support the idea.

They do.

Do explain how this makes the chances unequal? Both can make multiple entries. And if someone blows all his points on one game, he can't participate in an other (or others) for some time, raising your chances. The overall net effect is 0.
What matters is altering your chances to win one particular giveaway.

RL lotteries allow multiple tickets, no reason for it not be the same here.

I haven't dropped below 200 points ever since I started actively participating (like ~2 months I guess. Disregard the 9 months account age. I had forgotten about this place).

It's a waste to not enter random giveaways, because I'm actively losing points.
From my experience, the games I 'want' never show up in large enough amounts for your point to be valid (the cheaper ones I would buy myself anyway, and you don't see 100x, say, Skyrim, popping up).

Actually its less of a waste, Atleast you get a game lol

Usually I only enter Half Life giveaways, But I always have >230 points so I decided to broaden a lil bit. Now I also enter Dota 2 & Dungeon Defenders. With the occasional "This looks interesting" game.

I wouldent do it normally but since I have the points & The game seems kinda fun, Might aswell give it a try :P

you don't have to enter random giveaways (in fact, please don't, because i might want one of those!)

Well that's the problem, since people see the points just sitting there and figure they might as well enter for a game that doesn't look too bad, even though they might never play it and therefore decrease the chances of people that actually want the game and would enjoy winning and playing it.

Well not if we have a limit of multiple entries like 3 or 5 or 10 =)

So true.

Made my day xD

Or here!?

that's only when you enter twice. if you only have enough points to enter once, then your chances are worse because somebody out there is going to enter twice.

Varying preferences doesn't put people at a disadvantage by itself. People merely choose what they want to enter, and they have their entry in it. Once that happens, they are on equal footing for the game with everybody else.

I'm generally able to enter every giveaway for a game I want and rarely dip below 100 points, except maybe on a slow day. I'm able to go for everything I want. Such a system would suddenly hurt my chances of winning certain games because there's a demand for them. I fall into this middle ground that surely makes up a decent portion of the community; we have a lot of games that usually come up here, particularly the really expensive ones, but still lack certain games that come up frequently. I'm not the type to enter into a throwaway giveaway; anything I enter, I intend to play. Suddenly, that measure to prevent something I'm not gunning for lowers my chances.

There are a lot of ways to look at it, and the math for it, like I said, becomes a minefield of variables. The rationale for keeping it at one entry each is sound and seems the most fair to me.