Long giveaway vs. short. Which do you prefer??

Ninja giveaways (the ones that lasts for an hour) are the best IMO .

I like shorter giveaways, any longer than a day is just a waste of everyone's time.

Short, for obvious reasons. I won a Left 4 dead bundle with other 3 entries on a 2 minute giveaway lols :D I actually entered in the very last 20 seconds. Shit was tight!

yeh i prefer short giveaways, like that the people who do see it get a much higher chance of winning it, and those who dont see it dont know, so no loss ;)

Less than a day in a normal game. 1-2 hour rush giveaways are fun too and you'll have better chances.
In superhyped AAA games I admit 4-5 days.
But those 4 weeks giveaways are simply boring. And those Dota2 or The Ship or any oversatured games giveaway with 2 weeks are simply retarded.

I make them mostly a week, so people have time do join them and I know that I am avvailable the day the giveaway ends (also I mostly give groupgiveaways, so that would make a diffrence)

Short ones.

I typically don't make my giveaways longer than 1-3 days, but for my Pick a Game I normally make them 4 days to a week long so everyone has plenty of time to enter, then I have my Public Fortix giveaways that end after each paycheck so they run for two weeks each.

I prefer short ones. I don't like giveaways that are open for more than a day >.<

If it were up to me I'd make all giveaways at least 24hours. It just seems to be the fairest approach. It would be a shame to miss out on something because you are in another timezone and have to sleep.

Short!

I love to do fast giveaways for good contributors and i also love the enter those, just because of the odds. + main reason i do them, is to be sure i'm online to give them the gift right after the giveaway ends.

Agreed it aint fair to the others that are in another timezone/not online but there are times when i'm offline and they are online and i miss out on things. It all even outs ;p

2 - 5 days, so that everyone interested will be able to see it and enter. Short giveaways are boring.

I prefer entering short ones but I always make mine last something around 24 hours. I don't know why. Just seems fair.

Prefer short giveaways like 1-2 days max long.

I like the ninja ones for 20 points or less but for the 30+ I like a day or two

A few hours possibly

I've never made a giveaway that was longer than an hour. :)

1 hour

It mostly depends on the game. There is no point to put game from dev steam giveaway (Starvoid,Ship,Nuclear Dawn) for longer than few hours, day top. On the other hand i'm getting little pissed when somebody put top-tier game for that period of time because if it is a public giveaway, contributor should give everyone interested enough time to find that game and join giveaway ( but still no longer than a week).

I love those 2 week long giveaway

/sarcasm

I prefer making longer ones (up to a week). I don't want to disqualify people based on when they sleep or how often they refresh SG.

The same way I like my men

long and throbbing

Well long givaways promotes the gifter profile, some use them to promote websites or youtube channels or even their prestige just xD
short giveaways are made for the ones that has many games to giveaway to increase the contribution, since steamgifts doesnt allow giveaway many games at sametime....
Well but there are always exceptions so there is many gifter that choose the end date without thinking much about it