So yeah almost everyone who entered 1 of my gas either already own the game or won it here already ( 1 guy 6 times ....)
I'm rerolling for like 4th time but chances are it will just land on someone who own it .

Question is WTF should I do ? Just reroll till someone who don't own it gets it ?
Chances are by the time I get to him he may win it from someone else himself ....

Then what do I do if all my entries have already won the game somewhere else?

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Keep trying. The same happened to me once and I got somebody who didn't have the game on my 4th reroll

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It would help if you told us what the game was.

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Pretty sure it doesn't matter

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it does. techincally ppl shouldn't be able to enter owned games. unless you're giving away one of the bugged titles that allow entries regardless...

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by owning it's meant they already bought/won it elsewhere after the GA ended and/or while the GA creator was waiting for the reroll.

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ahh, OK

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That, or it's one of the game collections/packs, or a DLC. You can pretty much always enter those.

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Are you even getting rerolls? I've been waiting on one for over a week, I assumed everyone from support was taking a break for the holidays.

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Yeah as I said I got 3 in the last hour w8ing on 4th

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I suddendly feel like I'm really unlucky.

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i'm waiting for a reroll almost a week myself.

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I'm waiting on one myself. Like you, I assumed support was just enjoying some time off.

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Man,you are lucky

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I'm having that same problem for over a month now. 10 entries and only 1 hasn't won it since. I can't get support to re-roll fast enough to get to that one.

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I'm wondering if it possible to give support the list of valid entries and have them re-roll until it lands on one of them? it seems unnecessarily inefficient to have to re-roll an average of 19 times as per the odds. Of course that only works if it's practical to get said list in the first place.

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I think you should keep trying. Eventually you'll get someone. May I ask what game it is? I'm curious since it sounds like its pretty common among rulebreakers lol

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The dlc that need few h ago

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Yeah that makes sense. Its crazy how people will just enter anything they see.

Good luck I hope everything works out

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I also have been quite annoyed on GAs in the past, especially with DLCs which aren't detected correctly. But it happens, you will just have to put up with it and wait for re-rolls.

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I have totally same situation:D today I've had my 7th reroll in a row for this dlc, one more and it beats the record xd
but yeah, you have no choice but to keep rerolling and hoping that someone won't have it
and if everyone has it, you will have to make ticket for deleting GA for cg and that will take god knows how much time to be resolved

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do what i do, warn people that if they will get rerolled you will blacklist them, assuming its a DLC.
that way you blacklist everyone that does it, atleast that person won't do it again to you.

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I'm waiting on a reroll right now. The person involved was extremely apologetic and nice about it. They just happened to win the same item twice. At least in this case, blacklisting is a bit severe.

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i'm not talking about winning the same item twice at the same day, i'm talking about people owning the product ahead of time and entering via bullshit bots.

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I dont really see a need to blacklist the people ... its a swarm of GAs for the game ... normal to enter for multiple ones .

Its just kinda ridiculous that almost everyone already got it tho >.<

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i'm not talking about winning the same item twice at the same day, i'm talking about people owning the product ahead of time and entering via bullshit bots.

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I dont think anyone entered via bullshit bot here tbh .

But yeah i agree with u

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Can't you just list the people who don't have it and ask them to reroll till they get a name from that list?
not sure if it works that way...

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I think it just rerolls from all entries ... duno if they can keep reroling untill it gets to one of the ppl who dont own it ...

Gotta pray rerols keep coming and i hit a lucky 1 i guess D:

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I had a few instances like yours happen and noticed it usually occurred with lower level requirement GAs.
It's little nuisance but keep up, once there is a winner who appreciates the win, I feel it was worth it.

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That DLC? One would think that higher levels would be smarter, but, no! They HAVE to blindly enter anything, possibly by using autojoin scripts.
I'd suggest a deletion, but since it's a multi-copy giveaway, and you've alredy got a legit winner, the only possible solution is waiting until you get another.

But since there're the holidays... who know how long you'll have to wait?
I personally have a pending re-roll request since 10 days ago, not mine, but for a group giveaway where I was the 5th entry to help with (unbundled) CV.
And I've seen one (in the same group), which was finally re-rolled after two weeks, and since half of the entries had won the game in the meanwhile, I guess it was lucky. At least regarding the re-roll... the RNG could've chosen a better winner.

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Check to see if the rest of the people own it already, if they do then let the support staff know and have them delete it.

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Few ppl dont ... but by the time i reroll to one of them they all may own it .

Also its Multi copy GA with a legit winner , and it kinda sux to delete it :)

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I entered your gas and it almost killed me hyuk hyuk :D

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its because everybody has the humble bundle game dev pack now and is winning the same thing multiple times lol. Spriter Game Effects DLC haha

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I mean there is a guy who won it 6 times in the span of 24 hours and marked all 6 as received >.>

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If only SG would implement an auto reroll system that immediately checks the winner right when they win and if they have the game on their steam account, it rerolls. It would also reroll if the winner has won the same game in the past and marked it as received, even if not on their steam account (and then they get auto suspended for not activating a win that is marked as received. They should not be suspended just for a multiple win though because that is an easy mistake to make when there are a lot of giveaways for the same game and you forget to remove your entries after winning or win the same game in quick succession while you are not here).

I don't know how much demand this would put on the server, but it seems like a pretty simple thing to implement. Until then, just put in as many reroll requests as it takes :)

Edit: When I said they should not be suspended for a duplicate win, I was only referring to if SG implemented automatic reroll and suspensions. If anyone marks more than one copy of the same game as received, they should definitely be suspended, I just don't think the site should automatically suspend right when they win a duplicate game because that can happen to anyone if they forget to remove their previous entries after winning. They site should just automatically reroll in that case.

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They should not be suspended just for a multiple win though

They have to physically mark two or more wins of the same game as "Received" to be suspended for multiple wins. It's easy enough to mark one and leave the other for the creator to re-roll.

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I agree, I just meant if they implement automatic suspensions, it should not suspend automatically right when they win a game they have won before because it can happen to anyone if they forget to remove their previous entries after winning a game. It should just auto reroll if they have marked the previous win as received.

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I mean cool you won a game twice. .. it happens .

I won a game few days ago 10 minutes after i bough it ...
It KINDA sux cause i literally logged on SG to remove my entries for the game and i saw i won it >.>

I just asked for a re-roll and thats it . Thats on me :)

However when i see someone who won the game 7 times in the span of 4 hours and marked all 7 as received ( aka took the keys and did god fucking knows what with them ) ... thats when i have issue and suspends must be issued .

Winning a game twice is a common thing , especially when a new bundle gets released .
However its even easier to ask the GA creator for a Re-roll and forget about one of the wins .
If you ask for a Re-roll its up to the GA creator to deal with that , not you .

IF you mark 2 times the same game as received , thats on you ... and the 3 day ( i think ) suspend is justified :)

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I agree and I think anyone that marks 2 copies of the same game as received should be suspended. I was just talking about if SG implemented automatic suspensions. The site should automatically reroll the second win if you marked another win for the same game as received already, but I don't think it should automatically suspend in that case because people forget to remove their previous entries sometimes when they win.

It has happened to me as well with one of my first wins. I entered for a game before I saw the bundle, then bought the bundle and forgot to remove my entries. I won the game a few hours later.

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Yeah like ... shit happens ... sometimes twice a day .

Suspending everyone for every little mistake is a Nazi regime and no one wants that ...
Epsecially with multiple wins , everyone makes mistake there ... but if you won a game you Own/Won already you can just ask the GA creator to Re-roll and thats it ... your job is done .

But in the same time being over tolerant to people and letting them do w/e the fuck they want is not the course we should pick either i think

Cause if you broke the rules 20 times over the course of a year ...and all you got was 3 day suspensions .... thats not a system that works either :|

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SG keeps track of multiple infractions and will permanently suspend after so many. I have seen it a few times on users I had to request rerolls for.

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autojoiner's life is hard on sg, please understand them!

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I should have tough about their struggle into putting literally 0 effort to join giveaways b4 i made that topic :|
Im a horrible person :c

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remember to thank the winner for giving you cv!

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I mostly only do lvl 5 giveaways because I am lvl 5 myself and now how easy it was to become lvl 4.

I only had to do a reroll once because the user won same game twice.

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This is no guarantee, especially with packs and DLC. I had a level 7 dlc giveaway a while back after re-rolling half the entries I manually checked the other half and every single entrant already owned it so I just requested it be deleted.

One of my current giveaways ive been re-rolling for a month now and is likely going to end the same way.

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Don't forget to report the multiwins!

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Fun thing actually ... since i quote on quote WORK for 12-16hours almost every night i got far to much free time .

I went on a hunt for the multi winners ...

Lets say if you dont get a word from support from a month , i may have taken a part in that D:

I just need to go trough all the bookmarks i made and make actual tickets .

There is a guy who have won the same DLC 7 times and counting ... and he marked EVERY single one of them as received >.>

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I saw that guy. That's why I don't like doing public giveaways and why SGTools is a blessing. :D
His ratio seems alright, so it's kinda weird he now decided to break the rules.

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Yeah like i tough making a level 5+ Giveaway will filter out most of the bots and stuff and leave mostly human beings ... never was i so wrong >.<

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Oh, believe me... levels don't mean a thing! Even up to level 10 you'll find people that try to play the system.

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i had winner with 9 multi-wins and 3 not activated Gifts
So i made support ticket for reroll and..
Denied ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The suspension was already served.

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Yeah that part is kinda questionable ...

thats what 12 hits ?

I agree that perma banning people after 1-2-3-4-5-6 ... may be a bit to soon ... but 12 hits , if not perma ban should atleast grant the GA creators the right to Re-roll that guy if they decide to ...

Thats not a member who is contributing to the community at all .

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I know that feel. I've been scolded once why I'd even bother reporting somone with multiwins older than a month and waste valuable time, but beyond that, even with multiwins older than a year, I always reported "first-timers" and got my rerolls.
I used to be active on that end because the rules are really unbalanced and imho rulebreakers are always favored and giveaway creators have to bite the bullet, but knowing it will never change I gave up.

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I assume you made the mistake of trying to give away a DLC then? Or one of the recent HB developer stuff within a week after its release, where the accounts haven't synced yet with the site, so autojoin scripts enter them even if the users own it.

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Yeah had few $ leftover after spending fortune on frozen themed nonsense for my nieces so after seeing a million and 7 gas for that stuff tough id hop on the train aswell ...

mightve been a bad idea :)

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i think it would be very helpfull if SG would make something that let you leave the giveaways you won but entered several times automaticly.
thats why i had to reroll 2 wins last week, because i forgot to leave the giveaways i entered twice. but since i sync after every win so that i dont see the games anymore in the list, that would have been enough if you would leave them automaticly

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Been suggested many times i think . And it would be nice future ... just i duno how hard is it to implement .

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