Feature request/idea: Key giveaways having option for creator to enter key and winner sees it

will not happen.

this has been suggested many times before and always declined.

cg mentioned in the past that he does not want game gifts or game keys stored on the server (the big dev giveaways being an exception).

And don't you like the social interaction, when adding someone on steam and handing over the key personally?
Or that warm tingly feeling when you send your key via mail and the winner actually takes the time to respond to you?

Well it sort of already happens for those big developer giveaways, with the several thousand entry ones, so it's at least "technically" possible, just not for John Q Public :D

It's only a feature for some developer giveaways.

Wouldn't like to see this, as every now a reroll is required and in that case, the winner should not be able to see the key immediately.

Nopidy-Nope.

How about a steamgifts.com limited e-mail account system. Been thinking about how I would verify I had sent a key to someone if they refused to acknowledge it. Having an e-mail account the admins could check is the only way I could really think of since steam could probaly send gift e-mails to it as well?

It's unsafe to store those keys in the server anyway...
Yes you can encrypt them, but I guess cg wouldn't take the risk.

I think it's every giver's responsibility to check on the legitimacy of their winners. Make sure all their wins are activated on their account, otherwise they're just winning games to trade/sell/re-gift. Also want to make sure they don't already own the game and haven't re-synced, or that they have the base game for a DLC.

If they got the key automatically, there couldn't be a re-roll. I've done 4 re-rolls on keys... 3 because the winners had violated the rules and hadn't been caught, and one because they had already won the game and forgot to remove entry/re-sync. I wouldn't have been able to do the re-rolls if they got the key automatically.