I made a script that can calculate the odds of winning and enters to giveaway only based on criteria (entries, remaining time, game points and available points).
He did not make flood or consume the bandwidth of SG server because he executes a request every 30 min and enters to giveaways only if myPoints >= gamePoints and gamePoints >= x points (this statement helps to avoid the cheap games).

Is it legal to use this type of script ?

P.S
I did not say that I've used or I will use this script. Just wondering if it is legal as long as it behaves exactly as a user.

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I like how you never played a single game you have won..

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wrong, he played guns of icarus

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can't hold that against someone or alot of people are guilty ;) I've won some games to wich i will play AFTER i get trough my backlog from all the games i bought :)

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I find that the point of quick, short giveaways are to reward those who are here and paying attention. I'd be pretty irked if I made a flash giveaway and a bot won it. Defeats the purpose, I'd say. I'm sure I could write out a laundry list of why I find this wrong though I suppose the point is moot unless staff kicks you about for it. If nothing else, I'm finally making use of the tagging system, so that's neat I guess.

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The thing is, this is simply a community of generous people sharing their love of games with each other.

It's not some corporation trying to drum up business through advertising or something.

You're taking advantage of the goodness of people by essentially attempting to farm gifts off of them. And that kind of makes you an asshole.

Not to mention that a script like you described isn't even distinguishing between games you want and games you'll never play. So you'd win games you'd never play, stripping someone of the game who actually wanted it.

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Your post pretty much sums up the community's view on this. Thanks a lot!

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Closed 11 years ago by mk5.