Feature Requests

[cillosis]

Please comment below with any feature requests or ideas you may have to help improve the KG platform.

[Flipsi]

Own giveaway system would be nice, credit system and trade bot for cards :D

[cillosis]

@Spooky - Can you elaborate on those feature ideas? I'm not sure what you mean by credit system or trade bots for cards?

[Flipsi]

Credit system to join premiun giveaways (Not key drops) and a bot to trade cards with 1:1 same set and 2:1 different sets

[King Dudda]

Hmm trading cards for entrees in a premium giveaway sounds kinda interesting. The market value is each card is worth the same amount entrees in a giveaway. Now this sounds a like different kind of giveaway system it were to work.

[~Zero]

Feature request: Have an option to disable the mystery question.

Some of the questions I find it too difficult.

For example:
? = Third letter in the periodic element with the symbol "Na"
? = NATO refers to this letter as November
? = The power a number is raised to when it is squared

I would like to drop keys that have JUST the noise.

Nice site BTW, very helpful.
I was gonna make a site that does exactly this to combat BOTS but with another approach, but you beats me to it! :D

[ChildishGiant]

I think the solution to that isn't to disable the "mystery question" but to remove some of these harder ones.

[cillosis]

Personally, I didn't think those ones were too hard. Maybe we should start a thread for Clue Suggestions?

[cillosis]

Ok, I've made a thread for suggesting clues: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/keygiveawaycom/discussions/0/353915309341886515/

[~Zero]

Originally posted by cillosis:

Personally, I didn't think those ones were too hard. Maybe we should start a thread for Clue Suggestions?

Probably an overkill, but maybe can be considered. How about using Google's ReCaptcha?
You need an extra click to reveal the key. This was my initial idea when I was building my key drop site like KG.

Problem is then China visitors won't be able to grab any key.

[cillosis]

Yeah ReCaptcha is the more "bot proof" way to go. I just wanted to put a little layer on top of people blindly putting keys out and making it too easy for bots to grab them. I will think about it though if I get people complaining that bots are taking them (haven't heard that so far)

[King Dudda]

Will we ever get raffles?

[IceDaddyKiller]

everything is fine, and our companies are like

[God, owner of the Universe]

The game's icon on the key riddle page should link to the Steam store page. Maybe the same for the frontpage list game icon.

[King Dudda]

Originally posted by God, owner of the Universe:

The game's icon on the key riddle page should link to the Steam store page. Maybe the same for the frontpage list game icon.

I agree with this idea, but maybe I'm wrong but Steam is the only platform this could be done with right now I believe. All other platforms may not have an open API like Steam.

Also keep in mind that could be done for other platforms like UPlay and Origins, but the *key dropper would need to provide the store page for this to even work in the future.

[God, owner of the Universe]

Originally posted by Dudda:

All other platforms may not have an open API like Steam.

Also keep in mind that could be done for other platforms like UPlay and Origins, but the *key dropper would need to provide the store page for this to even work in the future.

Hm. Well, at first, it could be a feature only working for stores like Steam. Since you already use the API to get the game names when a key post is made, you could just record the appID and create the URL: http://!!store.steampowered.com/app/[APPID]/ Very straightforward for Steam. I don't know how the other stores work (uPlay etc.), I never buy there.

Btw., I have another suggestion: Different colors on the riddle page. Currently, it's like this:
"I TOOK IT, THANKS!" green
"SOMEBODY ALREADY TOOK IT..." blue
"KEY IS INVALID!" orange
"JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKS!" red

But on the homepage, where current giveaways are listed, different colors are used.
"Thanks", "Marked Claimed", "Marked Used" are all green. That's fine. But "Marked Invalid" is red, which is also fine, but on the riddle page, that option is orange. Red is more fitting. The "thanks" button could be yellow, which is a color for something "fresh" or "sour" (That pleasant fruit taste.), so it wouldn't be unfitting. Then you'd have red free for the "KEY IS INVALID!" button.