Site Suggestion : Hours Played Giveaway Requirement

NO

people can just leave the game open on the background, maybe achievements is better

Because its easy to fake, you can just leave it open in the background. Also: Some people have to play offline.

You can always make a forum topic and send the link to the private giveaway only to people who meet the requirements :)

Nty

the idea itself is good but with all the cheating...its just pointless

You can create a private giveaway and set an achievement rule or gametime rule yourself. That way you can do your fun giveaway without forcing the workload to implement for the whole site.

It soulds like a fun idea, but as said before, it's easy to fake and not really a needed function.

It's too easy to buff your time. I know some people who use SAM to do it, with SAM you can 'run' multiple Steam games without actually running the .exe and Steam will still register time spent, so the net effect is you can run hundreds of games if you were so inclined at the same time on a completely shitty machine. I mean it's a cool idea for private/group giveaways where you trust everyone to be honest about it, but if that's the case why not just make a rule for it? :P

This is really subjective. Mabye you want first bioshock, then what you have to play? More rellevant would be: For Bioshock Infinite you gotta have ofer 500h total play time, or something like this.

I don't like this because not every game I own is a steam game. Some of my older games are retail(bioshock being one of them) and I don't feel like that is a terribly fair way to decide who is allowed to enter. And as many have said before it can faked too easily.

Please don't, there are people who don't have massive amounts of time and don't play hours and hours of games. If you really want to do that, you can already do that with private giveaways, but I still think it's unfair. Also, people could have played bioshock 1 on their PS3 or 360 for hours on end, but don't own it on steam, which locks them out of it. To me, this just sounds like a stupid idea which locks out people for unfair reasons. Some people don't have time to play a game for 2 hours a day, and you can also cheat the system by just letting the game run in the background. I remember seeing someone with 630 hours played in the last 2 weeks, yet there are only 336 hours in 2 weeks. It is open for a lot of cheating and I think it will help cheaters more than honest contributors.

Easy to abuse. If you own the game, just start it up, have it in windowed mode and click off it and do something else and it still counts that as playtime.

no

Fair enough, it was an interesting enough idea to share it. As i've said before some of the best ideas come from the worst - it would be easier to manipulate game time over CV but there are loop holes in everything if your that kind of person to exploit it.

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