Posted April 18, 2019
Enebias: Hm... why don't we change the rules to solve troubles, so that everyone might agree?
Something like this:
-all games are updated at the beginning of each month, those requested are given away solely at the end;
-you can request up to three games per month, but you can win only one;
-if more than a person asks the same game in the same order of preference, the winner is randomly chosen;
-if someone breaks the rules, they are banned for the month.
Except those rules wouldn't solve troubles, but create more. Not only random choosing will be additional work, but also it would be harder to make a choice, knowing that the game you requested can be taken away by someone else due to "dice roll". Something like this:
-all games are updated at the beginning of each month, those requested are given away solely at the end;
-you can request up to three games per month, but you can win only one;
-if more than a person asks the same game in the same order of preference, the winner is randomly chosen;
-if someone breaks the rules, they are banned for the month.
As someone who also live in inconvenient time zone, I've also missed quite a few games because of the update timing. But I've come to think of it as acceptable downside for being able to request a game and know that I'll get it if no one else asked for it earlier.