Yes but giving away the won game is against the site rules...

"Don't trade, sell, resubmit, or give away games you win.
Winnings must be redeemed on the winning account."

"Can I win a game for someone else I know?
Members may only enter for their own account for games they do not already own."

^this

I agree with you Scorcher

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Think about it this way: the rules are there to make it fair for everyone - we all have one "ticket" each. If someone wants a game and they ask all their friends who don't want the game to enter for them and then give them the game, they will have more than one ticket and therefore a greater chance to win. Of course, not all situations are like this, but there is no way to know. The simple solution is to just get the friend to enter instead.

Nope, not true. People can add the game to their inventory atm within the 7 days period.

Multiple people adding giveaway wins to their inventory. Read the damn topic.

Meh.... its not my intent to call people out, but without a point, its hard to make a suggestion.

Before a game goes into my library, shouldn't it go through a mandatory purgatory period where it will meditate on the sins it commited before entering my account? Only after such cleansing shall it be deemed acceptable for it to enter the holy library where I will make it the immense honor of playing it. (The pretty picture seemed like a good argument too.)

Selfquote:

"add the Game to his library immediatly, once he accepts it"

uh so the gifter is going to be banned as well? why is that? because they didnt report the person? they probably weren't even aware of that rule. -_-

Came here to post this xD

Also the link to the specific post is not working for me for some reason, hmm.

Yup, that will help.

We need a cg tracker though :D. lols

That is a pretty good idea. After syncing, the user gets a message "You have gifts marked as received that do not exist in your account. You cannot enter giveaways until this is resolved. If you think this is a mistake or there are special circumstances, contact support."

Private Profiles should be handled the same way. Set your profile to public or get off the site. Period.

That could be set with the new script cg is up to. They have to set their profile to public every time they sync, once a week, so it can be checked then automatically (whenever it gets added).

The new system will flag both private and public profiles. As Hollow quoted cg, even if someone with a private profiles doesn't activate a gift, we'll know, as you cannot continue using our site without switching to a public profile to sync 7 days after your last sync.

I shall write it in german the next time. Then it will be free from such tiny mistakes :).

when i win a game from you, I am going to trade it. I am going to pm you, and ask you what you can offer for the game i just won from you.

No its not. You can do that automatically by checking the users games via the xml interface from steam.

I´m sure you´ve got the time to add it to you library if you have the time to mark it as received...

there´s also no excuse to NOT add the game to your library immediately other than you want to trade it.

This could pretty much be abused to be able to trade them after all.

Why would you keep it in your inventory if it's supposed to go into your library eventually anyways?
Only reason I'd do it with games I buy, for example, is if good trade opportunities came by regarding a game I'm holding in my inv for the time being.

I love you too

Will you stop spamming this around?

Yes. If you don't want to play it, don't enter.

Will the DLC change anything to the base game?

Oh yeah...I was thinking of buying it that way for myself, until I want to install it.

I wonder if there are any other DLCs that make the game a lot different.

There could be exclusion in the database for those cases. Altough a lot of DLC actually appears on the list. At least it would bring down the number of people winning game for the purpose of trading them away.

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You might, who knows. You're only allowed to enter for yourself, everyone gets their own SG account like everyone gets their own Steam account.

You'll probs get a temp ban for admitting, though the admins might have the feeling they need to crack down on each case and go full byebye on you.

i have had 300 points for many days and i don't feel the desire to enter lots of giveaways for the simple fact that i'm not a greedy inconsiderate person. I assume that the people entering the giveaways WANT TO PLAY THE GAME, so i don't enter for a game i don't want to play. I have a bf who i could trade gifts to if i won, but i do not nor would i. He enters for himself and i enter for myself. Angers me to see people win games and then not play them just because they felt the need to bid on everything like an OCD steam game hoarder.

Don't think Valve has Steamgifts in mind when it decided that...lol.

Does Valve even sponsor or host this site? O_o'', if not then it makes sense for Valve to do something like that.

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...you aren't allowed to give away the games you win here.

Well noone prevents our friends from entering the giveaways. They just need a Steam account with a couple of games in.

What? Are you suggesting Western Democracy will collapse because a privately-owned-and-run website has rules governing its use? Or are you suggesting that steamgifts is, or ever has been, a democracy? Either way you're 100% wrong.

Also, well done on picking up some Magicka DLC for 33c so you can enter contributor giveaways and managing somehow to have an entry:comment ratio of over 7:1.