Welcome to TouhouAuction!

The craziest SteamGifts event that we've organized so far!


The rules

For the next few days we'll organize giveaway auctions. Giveaway auctions will be hosted as SteamGifts threads for all of you to participate in. In each auction thread, a randomized amount of details about the auctioned game will be revealed. Then the initial bid is announced, which is always equal to the SG points required to join the auctioned giveaway (so you can use it as an extra hint).

Afterwards the game starts. You place your bid by replying directly in the thread with your bid amount in the form of whole numbers, for example "100". Every bid has to be greater than the last one, and can't be bigger than a triple of the current one. If nobody places a new valid bid for 2 complete rounds (going twice, and gone), the highest bidder wins access to the giveaway! Such finished auction is then closed as SG thread and we move on to the next one. We might reuse old auction threads for new auctions, see why in FAQ below.

If you happened to win our auction, first and foremost, congratulations! You can claim your prize in the form of a giveaway link on our event website where you'll sign in through Steam to confirm your identity, and access all of your winnings afterwards.

You're free to share all giveaway links that you've obtained from our auctions, be it with your friends, in your groups, or even here in the thread. I'm stating it clearly because it's core part of our game, do whatever you wish with them. We recommend doing it in separate thread so it's on top.

This thread is going to remain open for the entire duration of the event. You're more than welcome to share your opinion and giveaways (if you want to), suggest possible ideas and discuss all other aspects of our little game. Personally I like this idea so much that we might decide to make it a recurring event if everybody has as much fun as we had making it happen. Now fly! To the auctions!


FAQ

How do I join the game?

Simply find the auction that you're interested in and place a valid bid. If you win the auction, the giveaway link is yours! You start with 2500 credits and you may use them to bid any auctions of your choice. Auctions will start in one hour since posting of this thread.

We've also coded a basic overview on our website with real-time updates in case you'd be interested in it.

I posted a bid but nothing happened!

Chill, ArchiBoT checks discussions every 30 seconds to put some rest on SG server. You'll get your response soon! If by any chance the time has passed and you can see other messages being parsed and yours didn't, then very likely you didn't put it as a direct reply to the thread. There is a possibility of small delay if we find some game-breaking bug and need to hotfix ASAP, but we hope this won't be needed!

OK, I posted a valid bid, but bot didn't hear me?

Bot won't hear you if you get outbidded in the meantime by somebody before you in the same "window" (of 30 seconds). You have to be the first one to bid after previous bid gets accepted.

Can I change my mind? Back out?

Editing/deleting comments is valid until we leave you a notice of registering it (you can't back out afterwards). Replies to existing comments are ignored, we honor only direct comments in the thread. If you'd like to discuss some event aspects, please do that in this thread, leave auction threads for a(u)ction!

How do I earn more credits?

You might be shocked, but the only way to earn more credits is to share the giveaways! Wait what? Yes, every winner of the auction collects 5 points from every entry in his/her giveaways. The more entries, the more credits you will have for future auctions!

Wait, so where is the catch? Can I just decide to not share anything and claim all giveaways for myself?

Yes, the giveaway is yours, you can join it and nobody is going to take it from you. But no, if the giveaway gets less than 5 entries then it is a candidate to be re-auctioned in the next batch, effectively making somebody else win the giveaway link in addition to you. This will repeat until the giveaway gets the desired 5 entries or gets auctioned at least 3 times (and therefore won by 3 different people). If by any chance, despite of that the giveaway will still not get 5 entries by the end, we reserve the right to share it publicly with everyone to satisfy this demand.

Now, whether you decide to let just 4 of your friends join the giveaway or allow it to get re-auctioned is entirely your choice. Remember that every single one of those people might freely share the giveaway link further, since giveaway creator (with us as organizers) clearly stated that this is allowed. This is why it might be a good idea to refrain from posting the giveaway link further if you want to claim it for yourself rather than get more credits from it. I mean, it's not like somebody would say no to that sweet MONSTER HUNTER or NieR, right?

When are auctions going to be posted?

Our beloved ArchiBoT will stay on duty day and night for as long as needed to ensure that there are up to 4 ongoing auction threads active at any single point in time, until we run out of all of them that is. Therefore, the answer is, all the time!

How many auctions there will be? When the event will end?

Officially the giveaways are set to end on 11/11/2018, also the 100th anniversary of Poland independence day. We're likely to run out of giveaways to auction before then, so the sooner you join the fun, the more giveaways you can win!

But I need to sleep!

Me too! Well, ArchiBoT won't be able to progress with the auction if nobody places a bid, so if you somehow convince all of SG to wait for you, then it's fine! Otherwise... sleep lightly, you can never know when NieR pops up! :3

Don't you think this is going to be a bit... spammy?

A bit, for sure, but I don't really consider this event to be any bigger pressure neither on SG server, nor on SG community itself. Regardless, I'm not a mod, so I've reached the SG staff through a support ticket asking for feedback. Out of 6 staff members that stated their opinion, nobody raised any concern over technical aspect of our organization, so I believe it's going to be fine. Of course, we'll be monitoring the situation for the entire event duration and take notes, if SG suddenly blows up, I'll know who is responsible for it... :3

OK, but can't you just open new thread for each auction? Those old reused threads look ugly.

I know, this is how it worked before we stumbled upon this issue. If cg responds to my support ticket in due time, we'll continue with new threads, otherwise we need to reuse existing ones. Sorry, SG rules are above me, I hope it's not too much of inconvenience for you ;_;7

Despite of that, everything seems to work correctly, so I suggest to stick with the thread title and the OP for details, you can bid afterwards without even checking where the "end" of the thread is.


Huge thanks to the people that made it happen:

Feel free to discuss all other matters, we'll be happy to answer all your questions, concerns and other event-related messages!


Extra giveaways provided by the community (and exposed auction giveaways) are included in this thread.

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Psst. the webiste lets you track active giveaways in real time, also works as the archive!

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cool :)

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wau, nice :)

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:3

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2hu evento. Why do I get the feeling there won't be any 2hu gib in this evento?
Ah right, it's because we are 2hu giveaways a group where the main rules are:

  • There are no giveaways in 2hu giveaways
  • There is no 2hu in 2hu giveaways
  • All events are scam.
  • It's a trap. Archi loves trap
  • ASF is a virus dedicated to take the control of the world.
  • the guy with the baka fairy as avatar as been replaced by archibot long time ago
6 years ago
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You forgot rule #7, you don't talk about touhou giveaways.

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nep nep ;3<

6 years ago
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Classic Cirno math.

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We obviously need to rename to Nep Giveaways now.

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Interesting! So, I have a couple of questions about it:

1) Where I'm allowed to share the giveaway link if I win the auction?

2) Am I allowed to post the link, and then remove it after it reaches a certain amount of entries?

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1) Where I'm allowed to share the giveaway link if I win the auction?

Wherever you want to, with whoever you want to, including in this thread.

2) Am I allowed to post the link, and then remove it after it reaches a certain amount of entries?

Yes.

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Well, that was fast! Oh, and one more thing: How are we going to be able to track how many credits we have?

6 years ago
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Just log into the event website

6 years ago
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Oh right, the website! XD

Thanks for the answer! :)

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Sweet as a kawaii grill

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You made me hungry :cry:7

SKATRZOO COME BACK :cry:7

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EDIT: This gib is waiting for your entry!

Wow, this looks fun!

  1. All the giveaways end on 11/11, so these entries-based profits are calculated not when the GA ends but in real-time with some frequency, right?

  2. Do you lose credits if someone enters a giveaway, waits until you get credits and then withdraws from it?

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All the giveaways end on 11/11, so these entries-based profits are calculated not when the GA ends but in real-time with some frequency, right?

Correct, they're refreshed approx each 5 minutes.

Do you lose credits if someone enters a giveaway, waits until you get credits and then withdraws from it?

No, once recorded that is.

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That sounds really cool. XD Looking forward to it!

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wait... where did i get 2500 credits from? :think:

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Nice event

6 years ago
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Oh by the way, it looks like for some reason I can't log in to the website... :(

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We're investigating

6 years ago
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same for me

6 years ago
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Are you using FF by any chance? We're trying to identify the issue, for time being try accessing the page with Chrome or other browser.

6 years ago
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I'm using Chrome on my phone, and I can't access it...

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Thanks, that's valuable input. We're trying to solve it right now.

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Ok, now I can enter. Thank you! :)

6 years ago
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It's fixed. Update your browser too! :)

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But if I don't know which each game is, then I may already have it or I may not be interested in it. :/

6 years ago
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This is why you can share it and get credits back!

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Hmmm, true that, true that. ;P

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So, how can I make a giveaway?

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You can't as of now, only we provide them.

But of course you can make one regardless if you wanted to add some non-auction giveaway on the top.

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So with 2500 on 3 games now, nobody of us can beat more untill one game get at least one entry right?

So we now have to wait 30 min?

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Yeah but unless they get tons of entries, they will never pass that 2500 mark.

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Honestly, I didn't thought that many people were going to use all of their points at once... XD

I was just carefully looking what to enter and then BOOM! Someone bids 2500 credits on a giveaway! :P

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same, but it makes sense for the big games. As it is easier to get entries for these and the initial bid is higher.

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I planned my bids so I could get the 2500 one. Now I simply need to get at least 84 entries for it to go over 2500 to win one of the next (expensive) ones, and keep doing that until I reach a million credits.

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Yeah, i figured that out too late

6 years ago
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You'll have to wait until the auction ends (15 minutes going once, and another 15 minutes going twice) after which it will be closed and another auction will be hosted in a new thread.

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Technical difficulties, please stand-by :3

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ArchiBot R.I.P BibleThump

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BACK IN ACTION!

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I'm concerned about bid manipulation. Because the bot doesn't tally instantly it's possible someone bids and then delete their comment to invalidate further bids. They can also undelete bids in the 5 minute period, which I saw happening and made me lose the auction.

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This has no effect on anything. If bot registers 2500 bid and you delete your reply, it's already too late to backout (as stated in the FAQ). And bot always states last bid in the thread title, you can look at it.

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If someone bids 850 and then you bid 2500, if the 850 deletes before the bot registers it'll invalidate your bet. I find this unfair.

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IMHO it adds even more fun, you can always post 10 comments if you want to :3.

(Yes, it is unfair and we'll probably think about it in the future, but right now it's too late to make logic changes, I can barely hotfix bugs)

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Well I need a minimum of 625 entries, what is the best way to gain entries?

6 years ago
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Spam it absolutely everywhere?

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Might be a bit annoying, but might have to resort to that

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RIP

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How do you figure this?
The way of getting bidding points is not entirely clear to me.

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Yes, every winner of the auction collects "profits" from his/her giveaways by getting credits amount equal to initial bid of the auction multiplied by number of entries in the giveaway. The more entries, the more credits you will have for future auctions!

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Thanks. I read it and did not understand it.
Its all good now :)

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I won the giveaway link for 2500 credits. For every entry I get on that giveaway, I get 4 credits as that was the initial bid. So in order to win back my 2500 credits, I need at least 625 entries.

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Thanks, got it now!

6 years ago
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I only see "You have 2500 credits remaining"

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cool ^^

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Might want to check on M9lK.

appears like an alternate account or something like that to me

Made 3 years ago , 5 comments (all bids) and only entered 47 GAs

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Report directly to SG if you have your concerns, they can check it better and we make no assumptions about alternative accounts (they're forbidden by SG).

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lol

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No calling out in the forums, you know that. You should delete the comment before you get suspended for it.

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I'm not blinking! The bot told me so!

EDIT: YAY!
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/S10PB/
Enter everyone!
NICE GIB

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Good! Now claim your prize! :3

6 years ago
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Awesome! Now about those profits...

EVERYONE WELCOME!

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sad i already own the game :D

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Closed 6 years ago by JustArchi.