Suggestion: Detract points when the giveway is over, not when you join it.

In b4 post about 9000 entries to a giveaway.

I think the problem here is that if anyone can enter without having the necessary points, people will spam every giveaway with entries. Then we'll have over 9000 users complaining that they didn't receive the game cause they didn't have enough points. In a sense, it makes things more complicated for new users.

What if members enter every giveaway in this way? Will we be fucked that there's shit loads of entries?

If I don't have the points for a game I really want to win, I remove some from games I don't like as much. You don't have to enter everything, just the ones you really want.

worst rubbish ever

How would it decide a priority though?

What if you join multiple giveaways when not having enough points? How does SG determine which to spend the points on?

I cannot wrap my head around this. Why do it and how does it even make sense?

This idea was not thought out very hard

If you're underwater till the end of the week you have other problems.
Really shouldn't have accepted that credit from that fat, italian, suit wearing dude.

that would mean that you could enter ALL THE THINGS

It would be like handing out infinite points because you could enter everything on 300 points... then when some giveaways start to close you would get negative points.

This is why the economy is fucked. Not because of the bankers and the politicians but because of people using their credit cards the same way as you describe. INFINITE MONEY until you get to a point so low there is no way of repaying it back.

So no

This will not work.

No, not a good idea :D

Rationing your points is all part of the "game". Giving people the equivalent of an "IOU" option just doesn't seem sporting.

I know what your thinking, its a pain when you dont have enough points but there is this really cool game you want and in a few hours before the giveaway is over you would have the points. It would solve that problem, however, it would confuse every noobie on the planet. It would work against you as much as it hurts you too, becuase what if you ended up not having enough points by the time that giveaway was up. then you didn't get in on the raffle you wanted more. America has a debt problem of spending money they don't have. Lets not give them a credit towards points.

Also there is already a solution to this. click manage > entries> remove entry. you can get plenty of points that way :)