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This

Thanks for your reply.

dis

Thank you! I wasn't complaining either. I thought that the last sentence of my post made it clear as to what I was asking. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one curious about this.

same here. i find it annoying to put any giveaway longer than a week or maybe 2 for the triple A titles.

It doesn't really bug me. I was just asking why. Thanks for your input.

If you are referring to me, I don't see where I made any complaint.

I see a Contributor giveaway as a reward for prior gifting and fully understand the reason behind it. They are usually for less common games. Since a game like Magicka is more common and seems to have several new giveaways created for it daily, I don't see the logic in creating a month long Public giveaway and then have to remember to check back in a month to gift it to the winner.

oh he gets that and i quote "I can understand Contributor giveaways being long as it gives more people who contribute a chance to win something"
for some odd reason he doesn't think this applies to public giveaways

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Thanks for an honest reply.

Thank you for your honest reply.

I hope that you remember to come back in 4 weeks and honor that giveaway. I would hate to see someone get their account suspended because they were being an ass in a forum and forgot to honor their giveaway that they made to try to make some kind of point that only they understand.

It's because of people like you that I made that "epeen" comment. I hope that yours is inflated to your liking now.

Feel free to contribute something constructive to the conversation next time. This was an honest question (not a complaint) and I'm not the only person who had this question as indicated by some of the replies I have already received to the original post.

Sorry for the negativity towards you Damien1P. I've had a bad day dealing with arseholes in hospital administration and just overreacted. I was putting you in the arsehole group and you didn't deserve it.

I think I have a crush on you

lolol

I have only been here for a week but plan on giving a game away soon. I was just trying to understand the logic in making a long Public giveaway for a game that everyone else either already has or dozens of other people are already trying to give away with much shorter times.

Thank you for your response. Your "real life" comment makes a lot of sense. I don't have problems with them either. I just was trying to figure out why it was done with games that are already common daily giveaways and doing so publicly.

I think it would be cool if you could limit the entries in a Public giveaway to 100 (or any other number that you want) so that everyone has a 1% chance to win but I guess that Contributor and Private giveaways are the way to give people better chances to win.

Yeah, it's getting pretty silly with all the epeen flying around.

epeen

Thank you.

Well, if anything I inspired more giveaways.

That makes a lot of sense. I didn't even think about people who buy the games just to gift them later. I for some reason expected that most games that people give away here are just their extra copies that they are willing to share because they already had the game and received another copy in a bundle or something. Thank you for enlightening me. One of the best answers yet IMO. Appreciate your contributions too.

Pfft. Mine was first. Just cause your's has 15 copies means nothing!

I wasn't aware that free weekends screwed with people but since Steam is famous for getting things only halfway right this doesn't come as a shock to me. Makes a lot of sense to in regards to giveaway time lengths.

Thanks for your reply.

Explain?

That doesn't work if it's your own giveaway.