Length of giveaways

totally agree :) like this won't be frustration in entering giveaway with over 2.000 ppl

They want to give more people a chance to enter, or perhaps they plan to go on holiday during the giveaway. Not everyone wants a short giveaway where only a few can enter.

They earn that the most people interested in the game can enter so it's fairer for everyone. You would like them to last a few seconds if possible? So that only you could enter?

It's their choice , they're giving you free game. If you don't like it don't enter that giveaways...

More chances for people to see it mainly. And the sometimes applicable: they don't understand the site anyway and they're trying to game the system with a fake giveaway. Not often, but sometimes.

some people won't be able to generate enough points to enter the giveaway or they won't be there for it if they are busy during the day of the giveaway

Shorter giveaways are obviously more preferable for the people that actually join them, since they would be randomly selected from fewer people and thus increasing their chances to win, but I don't think that should be a concern of the giveaway holder

I sleep for 12 hours during holidays. If there are 3 giveaways that are created every hour that I want to join, that means I will miss around 36 nice giveaways.

You just want a better chance of winning giveaways don'tcha?

Funny enough if this ever did happen(it won't) It'd worsen your chances of winning.

I prefer to play games rather than check here all the time to see whats up for less than an hour. Also sleep and work, unfortunatley, take up some of my time as well. While a few short give aways are good, I would be missing nearly everything if there was a 1-2hr time limit. Especially when u look what times the majority of start. For me the most seem to start before 6am.
That being said, I think over a week is pretty extreme, but then I look here at least once a day.

Hey guys, how about we make all giveaways at least 24 hours? It just seems fair! Right?

lol. lol. lol. What do people earn for deleting 2 giveaways for the same game in a row? I think they shouldn't be allowed to do that. What do you think?

People giving away games for free and you complain about length? Go buy games and you can get them for less than 1 hour.

yes hello gifter, thanks for the chance at winning something for free.
Could i just trouble you to ask if you can make the giveaway shorter so i'll have more chance?
You see, other people do stuff during the day and i stay here all day and it wouldn't be fair if they just popped in to win the giveaways i enter because it's open for weeks. It's not fair that chances will be equal because then people who are busy during the day will be able to enter all these giveaways too.
thanks
-someone who wants to win more

Honestly I think the giveaways should be as long as the gifter wants to make them. If they want it to be a week so be it, and if they want it to be 1-2 hours then that is great. What I fail to see is why do people keep complaining about giveaway length or contributor value when they(most of the time) have invested so little into the site. Maybe I am missing something, but I thought beggars(people getting something for nothing) shouldn't be choosers.

Do you know what I think is the worst part of SteamGifts ?

Loading up SteamGifts and seeing a giveaway that has only seconds remaining. Which usually means I can't enter the giveaway because the giveaway page won't load in time.

I'd like to see a 12 hour minimum length on giveaways, so that I have the chance to enter them all.

Best length is 24 hours , I for example dont have time to be in Steamgifts all the time ><

And why people create giveaways that start in a few hours or in a week? I don't like that.

Need 1 min giveaways ;3

No, length is fine :3

Why do people need to be constrained and need to force their constraints on others as well, I'll never know. Steamgifts allows you to choose the giveaway duration freely, within reason. That sounds good to me.