That would help, especially if you entered multiple giveaways for one game you just bought/received 5 minutes ago. Saves us the work of going through and finding all of the giveaways, and less chance of a reroll.

Yet another good idea ... but probably easier said than done.

good idea, suggested multiple times already

I am guessing much easier said then done

I support this idea.

+1

Well, yeah, I f*cking hate that. Entered several "Spec Ops: The Line" until I saw it's on sale and bought it myself :/

And that shouldn't be so difficult. Just connect it with the sync button. If you sync your account, just compare the open entries with the games in the users account and warn him if there's a match and give him the chance to remove all entries with one click. That's not thaaat difficult :P

That would add a lot more queries to the database when it syncs an account. That may not be too bad when you have one user but with a site with a quarter million members that would hammer the database server pretty hard. Even if its technically possible from a programming perspective, it may not be possible without much more expensive servers.

It's a great idea, but... what if you win a game, but the creator never gives you the game?
Suddenly, you've been removed from all the giveaways for the game, and all your points refunded possibly forcing you over the 300pt limit and losing a bunch of points.

While we're on the subject on making things a bit more tolerable, there should be some sort of feature where you can search for giveaways by title, giveaway creator, and/or point value.

I like to micromanage.

:-P

Nah but its been suggested, one of the better ideas.

The only issue I see with this is the free weekends like we have now. If someone entered a Ravaged giveaway, then his account got synced, he'd be kicked out of the giveaway because Steam reports that he has the game. It's bad enough already that someone can't join giveaways when their account sync during the weekend, we don't want them kicked out of the ones they managed to enter before. (Altough a nice reminger on the front page with a link to this page could help a lot. I've been known to forget about some entries myself after buying a game and since I filter out the games I have I won't see them anymore on the front page.

If someone has checked the giveaway received button however, they should definitely be kicked out and not allowed to enter anymore no matter if they have the game on their account or not.

I often do trading for friends and have games I would like in my inventory but are not mine to activate. Would be frustrating if I couldn't enter giveaways for these games because I was withdrawn from all of them.

I only see winning a game here causing all other entries of the same game removed plausible.
Purchasing a game on Steam and then automatically removing all entries of the game on here seems impossible with the current sync system.

I prefer doing it manually because I can spend my 300p entering other giveaways and then remove my entries from the game I just bought or whatever so I end up with more points.
But that only helps when I'm a the 300p cap.

Already been suggested several times... As you can guess from the fact that it has been suggested & not implemented, it is either not possible with the way the site is coded or it's not with doing.

Then there is the argument saying that you shouldn't be a lazy arse and should just un-enter / ask for a giveaway to be re-rolled if you happen to buy it then win it before you can remove yourself from giveaways.

TL;DR good suggestion but I doubt it'll get implemented nor is it truly necessary.

I just went though this yesterday. I won Indie Game The Movie and afterwards had to go though my entries list to remove it from all the other giveaways...
It would be reaaaaally helpful if it was automatic!

I approve, by dumb luck I won two Magicka: Vietnam giveaways at the same time. When I marked one as received, it'd be handy if the system automatically rerolled the other one. It was actually rerolled before and it came up with me :/

I won Cogs once, after I purchased it myself. Had to be rerolled aswell. Get a solution for that, SG Team :)