What do you check when someone wins your giveaway?

• a. I just do this
• b. I rarely give collections so the winner should not have the game
• c. If user complies with A I just hope he/she will continue to do so
• d. No, if he/she just wants to idle it for cards or collect it it's his/her decision, I just hope to make him/her happy
• e. Nope! Live and let live

1a. Do you check if the winner activated all his/her wins (so also giveaways from other creators)

Yes

1b. Do you check if the winner already has the game he/she won from you?

I check for multiple wins but not if they have the game already. Only for DLCs.

1c. Do you check if the winner activated your giveaway game on steam?

No

1d. Do you check if the winner plays the game he/she won from you?

Have only checked that for one game I gave away but I told myself I will check in like a year or so for titles I paid fullprice because I loved & wanted to share them.

1e. Do you check if you got blacklisted by the winner?

No

In addition, I wait a couple of days after the winner marked as received, if they didn't thank me anywhere they will most likely be blacklisted and I make a note of it (using tags).

1a. Do you check if the winner activated all his/her wins (so also giveaways from other creators)

Yes

1b. Do you check if the winner already has the game he/she won from you?

Only for DLC, but I do check for multiple wins.

1c. Do you check if the winner activated your giveaway game on steam?

Sometimes.

1d. Do you check if the winner plays the game he/she won from you?

No.

1e. Do you check if you got blacklisted bij the winner?

No

1a. Yes, with SGTools
1b. Only for unbundled games
1c. No
1d. No
1e. No

1a. Yes, but last month only.
1b. Yes.

No to the rest.

1a. Yes, thanks to SilentGuy's SgTolls add-on for the profile.

1b. Always. Just in case the person got the game in the meantime and forgot to leave my giveaway.

1c. Sometimes, but most of the time I forget to check back on them.

1d. No. I do hope the game gets played at some point in time but I won't stalk the winner for that. (Except once, where I made it a "rule" to only join if they wanted to play it right away.

1e. No, never.

bump thx

One of the reasons why we have so many problems with multiple wins and regifting is because people who make giveaways have become lazy and have allowed it to propagate even more by not checking their winners. We even have a tool now that checks them so I don't see why it's not used more. What I do find frustrating is that I am not allowed to ask for a reroll if a winner has broken the rule multiple times in the past. I don't care if they have already been suspended for it. If they've done it more than once already why should it be my giveaway that gives them yet another chance to do it again? There should be an option for the giveaway creator to not allow proven past violators.

I don't care what they do with a game that they won from me as long as they marked it received. It's up to the next person that they win from to verify that no rules weren't broken - just as I did with their prior wins before giving them the game they won from me.

Bump.. thanks for the giveaways

and my answer is 1D. That's my only concern. o/

I try to check 1a for the last two months and 1b.
Checked also 1c on some but had no problems.
Problem with not activated gifts is you don't know if they already got suspended for a month or not. Should be marked somewhere.

What I already checked were mass joins on multiple giveaways with always the same comment. Especially with links. One got blacklisted this way smile
Therefore I prefer no thank you message on join (other messages are welcome ;).
But a thanks on win I like to have :)

Nothing really, just drop the code in and move on with my day, if someone says thank you after or something, that's nice, but it's not really a concern to me.

i only check for unactivated wins, not interested in the rest.
not here to play sg police.

I check for unactived and multiple wins using SGTools, then check if they have the game and that is it. If they have issues and they are within the last few months I will report them to support but beyond that I usually let it go as I hope they have already been reported, though who knows besides support and I don't wish to bother them too much. I suppose I could check to see if I am blacklisted but I haven't bothered thus far.

1a. No, too much work, I'm lazy.
1b. Yes, always. I also check if he/she has already won that game/DLC(specially DLCs because they are a bit hard to check for on steam profiles).
1c. I try to do this, but many times forget to actually do so.
1d. No, I don't really care. Is their game now so they can play it whenever they feel like doing it.
1e. No, I've never thought of that before.
1f. ...?

only a and b, which I guess it's pretty standard

I check if the winner already won this game and if he already has it on his Steam account.

I never check any on those. If they re-gift it then it is on them. Karma or the universe has a way of balancing things out.

No.
Yes.
No.
No.
No.
.........No?

Thanks yoshi, have a bump!

I do use SGTools to check the winner before sending the gift. I also check that the winner activates the gift which is quite easy as Steam automatically adds them to my friend list upon activation. I have checked, out of curiosity, have some people played the games they won from me but only rarely. Also make a mental note if the winner will thank me at some point during the process or not. I do not use blacklists but it will affect how I will target my giveaways in the future.

I hate SGTools because like 3 years ago I accidentally won some 0.10$ bundle game twice in a row and since that time I'm automatically denied every single giveaway there. /rant

I check if the winner won more than 7 giveaways, in which case they should be removed from Unlucky7.

I only check if they marked it, a thank you is enough for me to be honest. Idc if it sits in their game library, will be played eventually out of curiosity.

1a. No
1b. No
1c. No
1d.No
1e. No

I'm so lazy

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