Can't create giveaway

[ShenWolf]

I can't create a giveaway of "Fiends of Imprisonment", which tells me to "try again in a few days" but I've already been trying for days. I checked to see if there were plenty of it and found only 1 giveaway; https://www.indiegala.com/giveaways/detail/57822

It has 25 days, does this mean I (and possibly others) have to wait till this single giveaway ends to be able to create new giveaways of this game?

 

[PurplePreyThrilling]

This will happen with a number of games that indiegala moderators have locked manually because they feel there are too many giveaways of those games, but to me it looks random because some of those games are hardly seen in the giveaways section and games like The deer are like a plage.

Some other games that are in that situation.

Why so evil
Why so evil 2
Melissa K. and the Heart of Gold Collector's Edition
Space Hack

It's suposed to reset in some days but I've seen those games locked for more than a week.

More info here: https://www.indiegala.com/forums/topics/680

 

[ShenWolf]

Yeah, I know that thread and was going to ask there but it's locked. This game is one of those over a week situations, perhaps there's something moderators should look into.

 

[PurplePreyThrilling]

Will Indiegala make all those games givable again someday? some are blocked for more than 2 weeks now and doesn't look like it's going to change.

 

[ShenWolf]

Tried "Fiends of Imprisonment" again, still not givable :-/

 

[PurplePreyThrilling]

WTF, The list of locked games keep growing but games like "The Deer", "Heaven Island Life" and games like these that are given by hundreds are still givables. :-/

At least limit the number of those, so people can go through the giveaway list faster.

 

[raecer]

There is a way around the restriction that has to do with manual editing of the source code which indiegala doesn't block for some reason. This is also why you're seeing alot of the games that are supposed to be restricted on the giveaway page.

I think if indiegala wants to go with the restrictions, they should do a check on their server before posting it. At this moment it's merely checked locally.

I'm torn between wanting to be able to post everything on one hand and having to visually wade through useless stuff on on the other hand. At this point though, i guess we're having the worst of two worlds since regular users can't post giveaways and restricted games still showing up.

 

[Irenie]

I have a similar problem, not sure if it's the same. First time it happened to me the day before yesterday when I tried to do a GA for Sword of Asumi (guaranteed). But it didn't tell me to wait a few days, it just says "Retry". Only retrying doesn't help ...
The day before yesterday it was just that game, but today I seem to be getting those "Retry" buttons on everything, at least it seems ... gave up after a couple of those, it's just not worth my time.
I do give away bundle stuff (from here and other pages), but the games I've been trying are none of those mentioned above and none that have been given away for free (as far as I know). So I'm not sure if this is supposed to be happening (then there should be a more speaking error message than "retry" - telling the reason why it's impossible to post that GA at the moment) or if it's a glitch.

 

[PurplePreyThrilling]

I think IG staf should remove the locked status of all the games, and put a limitation in the number ot times a key can be gived away, lets say 2, 3 times? They can do this easily on server side and can help to reduce the number of invalid keys arround, although I thinks there aren not many.
This random game lock is nonsense seeing that there are a lot of not locked games that are being gived away constantly.