I find this a gross invasion of my privacy. How dare you store all of our information. I will not stand for this. I am a batman of privacy and to be burden by pressing a few buttons is absurd! To make my profile public for a few seconds could be detrimental to my health. You will not get away with this you fiend. You will see. You want war good sir. I will show you war. Tomorrow at midnight you will see.
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How dare I reveal myself to the public and in return get the chance to win free games given by kind donaters! An outrage!
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When you show your faces I will beat you like red-headed stepchildren and then use your newly pilfered accounts to engage in multiple-entry odds-monkeying!
It will be GLORIOUS!
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This feature is great and all but I realized it has one big drawback: I cannot enter for a giveaway that upgrades my TF2 from the free2play to the premium account. There is a TF2 giveaway intended for both players that do not have the f2p version as well as those that do which gives you the premium account features of TF2. However, people with the f2p version cannot enter this giveaway now due to this new feature. Could the feature be tweaked to exclude TF2 premium account giveaways?
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Theres no way to see if someone has a tf2 premium account outside of tf2 itself afaik. So no. Only thing they could do is exclude tf2 from the script.
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as far as i can tell, the sync page only shows TF2 when you bought it. the same with global agenda, which turned free long after its steam release, similar to TF2. both those games show up on my sync list because i bought them before, but other free games like AVA and spiral knights don't show up.
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that's what I mean: can we exclude tf2 checks from the script because if someone is posting a tf2 giveaway it can be used by people who already have tf2 f2p on their accounts as well as those who do not. Of course some people with bad intent may exist and still enter the giveaway even if they already have a premium account out of spite, greed or whatever but why should regular and honest entrants or prospective entrants (with f2p accounts) be punished because of these people?
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As BlueLegion said, F2P games do not show up on your synch page. So you do not get prevented from entering giveaways related to them. Are you talking only hypothetically or did you check and confirmed that you are currently being blocked from entering TF2 related giveaways?
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yeah, I did. I got TF2 after it became f2p and do not have a premium account. Yet on the giveaway for TF2 on this site, I cannot enter- it says I already have the game. So yes, I checked and I am currently being blocked from entering TF2 related giveaways.
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Weird, other F2P games that I have on my Steam Library doesn't show up on the synch page.
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Same here, I installed tf2 f2p played for awhile, then uninstalled it. The game still shows on my community page games list (as do all f2p games you have installed and played), but not at all on my steam app all games list. When I try to enter the giveaway it says that I already own the game, but I don't.
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nice feature. Also option to hide games we have; yes. Auto hide games we have; no. I want to be able to announce a friend that he can enter for a game he doesn't have but I do.
And if you can make it work with packs would be great. For example I can enter the Frozenbyte collection even if I have all 3 games.
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Awww yeeee. Nice work CG, hopefully this will simplify the process and make things better for anyone running giveaways.
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I see the edit that we can no longer enter for games we own. That's great!
Is it possible to not see those giveaways at all at the list? It's easy to miss a giveaway in a flood of "games I own" giveaways...
edit: just noticed that this is not applicable for humble bundles, I guess we can't exclude them but that's not that bad... Maybe if someone won a giveaway of a bundle, that bundle was added to the sync page and so he couldn't enter for it again.
edit2: Would be nice addition to do the following: If someone won a game on a giveaway but he has also entered other future giveaways of the same game, then he should be removed from those giveaways and refunded the points :)
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Thanks for this update, it was really needed.
Trying to cover all bundles may be a long process to implement, but for starters maybe the most common bundles that appear on the site may be added. Like the three Humble Bundles and the Frozenbyte Complete Collection. Aside from blocking users that have %100 of the games on those, maybe it is a good idea to block the ones that have %66 of them. Considering that most of the time you can't give away the other games on a bundle that you already have, it is not fair to others to hog a whole bundle just for a single game that you don't own.
Auto cancelling of the duplicate giveaways in the event of winning one of them is a good idea, I think it got already suggested multiple times before too.
I have a final request to add, when you first register with Steamgifts you see the total cost of all the games you have, if you had bought them all at full price. That is a fun number to see. Can you please add that stat to the synch page? So we can look at it from time to time and have some laughs. (I know that there is a site that does calculate that, but it doesn't work most of the time, so...)
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Love it, good job CG! As a small note, I own Breath of Death 7 and Cthulu Saves the World (bought the pack) but it looks like I can still enter for those giveaways. I'm not sure if it being a bundle is the reason, but just something to chew on.
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Very nice, though I have noticed that the system doesn't seem to fully work for DLCs (I have all the DLC for Mafia 2, but none of them show up on my sync list and I'm still apparently eligible to enter). That seems like more of a problem with Steam, though.
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Nice idea :D ! Good job ! Btw let's say someone win a game that entered, like 2 people offer the same game, the guy win the first to come, will it's still be queued for that game for the other giveaways too or get removed automatically ?
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You may or may not have noticed the update. If you had a public profile, it happened in the background, or if you had a private or friends only profile, you were redirected to sync your account before continuing to the site.
Here's the new sync page, where you can view all the games stored from your Steam account. Public profiles will automatically stay updated. If your Steam profile is private or friends only, and your account a week or more outdated, you'll be required to resync by simply switching to a public profile and opening a page on SteamGifts. After that, you can return to a private profile and you're fine for another week.
At the moment this achieves nothing, however, it paves the way for additional features. Soon, we'll be limiting giveaways so you can only enter those you don't own. As well, future plans include an option to limit DLC to only those owning the base game, and the ability to filter out games you already have in your account.
Edit: You can no longer enter for games in your account.
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