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bippity123

Hi, couldn't find an exact answer to this question I have...
Do I need to manually send out the gifts after the giveaway ends, or will the gift/key be sent automatically after a while?
I'm wondering what would happen if I forget to revisit the site to send the gift.

2 years ago

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PossiblePsycho

Yep, you have a week to send a game, then you get "not received" and lose a giveaway slot.

2 years ago
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Sooth

and lose a giveaway slot.

Since "lose" could be a bit misleading, just a bit of reclarification for the OP:
The giveaway slot is "filled" once you create a giveaway, and remains locked up until a "Received" is marked by the winner, or until no valid winner can be assigned. The only way to permanently lose a slot would be for the giveaway to be deleted.

Since you can still potentially get the game to the winner in the future, and have them change their feedback to Received at that point, the giveaway slot shouldn't necessarily be considered lost, unless the giveaway creator has given up on ever getting the game to the winner.

2 years ago
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PossiblePsycho

Thank you, I should have written in more detail, of course.

2 years ago
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chairmankao

Gift, entirely manual. Key, manual triggering of an automatic action. In the case of the key, you'll see next to the giveaway (if your created giveaways list) an option to click to send the key that you've already input when creating the giveaway.

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icaio

SG sends automatically keys when giveaway has 50+ copies. otherwise, yes, you need to manually send out the gifts after the giveaway ends.

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Masafor

CAN send automatical. It give users that not use this option and check then all winners.
The chance to find this way users with infractions is very high because they think they will get the keys without a check.
The last tests that i seen were always 20-30% -and a reroll marathon for the mods.

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Masafor

A small addition:

You can check accounts/your winners with:
http://www.sgtools.info/activation
http://www.sgtools.info/multiple-wins

If someone have red marks there request a reroll and put the link(s) into the support ticket.

Infos and tests, made from a other user:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2RCI0/werewolf-the-apocalypse-heart-of-the-forest
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Q0WKE/farnham-fables (The interesting stats)

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