So I checked if people played the games I gave away...

Honestly, you should give games out on this site not expecting people to play (unless you have such a requirement in a private group). Most people tend to add games to their backlog (as do I many times), and play the smaller/bundle games inbetween AAA/RPGs that take up the major chunk of our time.

I don't have anything against people not playing my giveaways at all.

Thats a wall of text .

Basically, it's all about the gifting part imo. Even if points were reduced to like 50 per day, there would still be people who just log in every day and dump their points in a game they don't want (but it's freeeeeeeee!!!!!). The introduction of capitalism made humans even worse hoarders, everything that has "value" has to be gained.
sorry for bad london.

The only time I care about games I give are ones I am passionate about myself. Those all go to my whitelist and occasionally select groups. The people in those groups know me and I usually write my relationship with the game in the description so they dont see it as just another free game.Besides those, once the game is given it isn't mine any more so I don't care what they do with it. Yes I would like for someone to enjoy it but as long as they follow the rules and activate it on their own account, I have no real complaints

Wow. And I don't even bother to check whether someone as much as owns the title I'm giving away.

Pretty detailed - what i'm getting is that bundle games are the root cause.:

• too many games + very cheap
• their not bundle games, but sold @ bundle prices
• never enough time and attention available ...

I don't think the problem is winning too much, I think the problem is bundle games. Personally, when I started on SG, I didn't really know about bundles. I'd buy a few cheap games here and there and play the crap out of them, and anything I won on here was treated the same. Now that we are inundated in bundles, many of them with quality games in them, my backlog is massive. My time to play games has also become more limited in the past year, so I concentrate mainly on games I can play coop with friends. However, I still only enter giveaways for games I am truly interested in, so now one of five things happens when I win a giveaway:

1. It's a single-player game, I have time to play it, it's something that interests me right now, and I play the crap out of it. Banished, Sentinel 4, Dawn of War 2, and Galaxy on Fire 2 are good examples of games I've won in this category.
2. It's a single-player game, but I don't have time to commit to it right now, or I'm currently playing something else. In this case it goes into my backlog, to be played when I feel like playing that type of game and have sufficient time. Deadly Premonition is a good example of this -- I'm interested in the game, but want to give it the time it deserves.
3. It's a coop game, and my coop buddies have it. It gets played sooner rather than later. AoE 2 fits into this category.
4. It's a coop game, but my coop buddies don't have it yet. I'll hold onto it until they do, then play it. Fight the Dragon, Blades of Time, and Dead Island fit this category. I want to play all three of them badly, but I want to play both in coop with my buddies.
5. It's a single player game that I don't end up liking, or a coop game that either I or my coop buddies don't end up liking. Alien Breed, Voxilized, and Thomas Was Alone (I know, everyone but me liked it) fit into this category.

The moral of the story is that it's too simple to just judge someone who won your giveaway by whether or not they have played your game. Sometimes they just languish on the backlog until some certain conditions are met, then they finally get the playing they deserve.

On the other hand, some people have more fun treating Steam like Pokemon. There have been many debates in the past over whether not not this is a sufficient motivation to enter GAs on SG, and I still haven't made up my mind on that. Personally, I'd prefer people play the games I giveaway, especially the good ones, but everyone find enjoyment differently, and who am I to tell people how to find enjoyment in life.

Wow, I didn't expect the numbers to be that low. Maybe because I'm assuming people play their wins at a similar rate as I do. With my wins, I'm roughly at 25% finished and 50% played (played including finished). I intend to play through all of my wins (looking forward to playing every single win, I don't enter giveaways for games I wouldn't play), and very few of my wins will be non-finished a year after winning them.

I wouldn't mind a lower point regeneration rate encouraging us only to enter giveaways for games we really want. One idea would be to treat the points the same way as CV. All 20P bundled games become 3P games. You need 3P to enter, gain 3 CV when giving one away (much easier to understand bundle vs non bundle that way), and the point regeneration rate (which is 3% of the point value for all the giveaways created) is lowered, since you get 3% of 3P instead of 20P each time a currently 20P bundle game giveaway is created.

We would still be able to enter the exact same amount of giveaways (3% of the bundled ones, 3% of the non bundle ones), but non bundle games would be much more expensive in comparison. Maybe that would make people think more about which giveaways to enter. A 60P non bundle game that they wouldn't play? Might be a good idea to save those points for 20 entries in 3P bundle game giveaways instead.

I just want to state that I do actually try to play all the games in my library, but I only finish games with an actual story behind it, then use SAM to get all the achievements. So to some people, it looks like I just farmed for cards and hacked achievements but I did indeed play them all.

o m g! Someone has too much time at their disposal... :P

I have games i bought months ago and never touched ( ex.Dying Light ) Too many games, not enough time.

You on the other hand have too much time so you have no excuse not to play the games you own. Go play games!!

I have many offline hours which can't be noticed =d

9% played them to completion… that's almost thrice as much as mine. You are still better off at least, and I think better than the average around here.

I have won 13 games, and since I joined I've change quite a bit in how selective I am at entering GAs. At this point I enter those I want and I know that I'll definitely play quite a bit (even if not for a while, but eventualy).

3 - Farmed for Cards (3 bundled, 2 from mass GAs)
2 - Tried but don't intend to play (Early Access and/or unfinished development as of now)
2 - Have not tried and don't know if I'll play.
1 - DLC for a game with 100+ hours
1 - Have tried and intend to play.
4 - Have not tried but intend to play. (1 from mass GA)

Bundled: 12, Unbundled: 1 (but given away over 10k copies)

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I've given away 23 bundled games, of which I only care about maybe 3.
1 is in progress, 1 wasn't touched, and... oh wow, the other wasn't activated at all, lol, time to send a ticket

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I believe there may be a solution for this issue, but I don't have the time right now to put it into practice yet. Not perfect, but the best I could think of so far.

Also, I'd like to join the Wasteland 2 giveaway, but I can't because all giveaways I've made were public :s

I am not good enough to 100% games, But I have played all games I have won till the point where I am either done with the main part or the games get too hard for me and I giveup (currently playing the last won game.. along with few other games).
I don't enter giveaways till I am done with the game :3
I don't really bother about what people did with the games they won from me.

I recently won Total War Attila; I know I'm often guilty of not playing my wins, but I made an effort to install and play it promptly (within two weeks) and enjoyed it quite a bit as a more refined Rome 2 (if a bit overpriced, considering it's basically just an add on campaign with one new feature), and then the DLC went on sale just now. :3

I don't think the 100% completion statistic is viable; I haven't even checked achievements for any of the games I've played, bought, or won in the last six or seven months at least. That doesn't mean I don't play or fully enjoy the game, but merely that I don't slave after (often very obnoxious or time consuming) achievements.

"Also, should I request a reroll for games I won't play?"

Why do you enter for a game you know you wont play?

I'm not a part in your stats, but guilty as charged. I intend to play almost all the games I've won eventually (except for those early wins when I entered everything I could), but I haven't got the time to do so. Which is why I've stopped entering giveaways altogether since about a month ago, at least until I've cleared a significant amount of my backlog.

I did some checking a while ago (not nearly as detailed as yours) and found that about 60% or so of my gifts had been played (read: has playtime, includes card farming). I know what you mean when you are bothered by winners not playing the "bigger" games they've won. It does kinda suck when I gave away a game on my wishlist / spent good money buying it, only to find that people didn't touch it at all. But once I give that game away I have no control over it, so I don't dwell too much on it. Then again, a good number of unbundled "nice" giveaways I make are for my whitelist or groups I like, so all these don't matter that much anyway.

I don't think reducing points would work though. So maybe this guy A doesn't enter your giveaway because he doesn't have enough points, and maybe your giveaway gets less entries, in the end this guy B who won it might still not play it anyway. At the end of the day, you're still getting winners who don't play your games.

I read some of the your thread, as it is very detailed, but overall I agree. It is something that people don't realize or just don't speak about. It's one of those topics that causes controversy. Leechers, regifters et cetera. I have the same mindset on my giveaways, some of them are just giveaway fodder. Cheap bundles, cheaper games, stuff I wouldn't even play myself, so I don't check the winner's profile every hour, because... Even when I tell myself that I'd like to see someone enjoy it, I can't expect that to happen when I wouldn't enjoy it myself. Spending full price on non-bundled games and high tier bundles is a different thing tho.
After I've overcome the first phase on Steamgifts where I just wanted to win for the sake of winning I got very picky about the giveaways I enter. They are games I am highly interested in or wanted to play for a long time and even tho I actually wanna play them I sometimes don't. It's not that I don't care for them, but that I just don't play as much anymore as when I was a teen. I am on Steam for a year now and I already got over 200 games. Not just my wins, but a lot of games I've been gifted outside of Steamgifts and of course games I have purchased myself.
I felt guilty for not playing those games someone generously purchased for me, so I even made a list of my wins and made a tight schedule on what I should play next. I got very unhappy with that method tho. I didn't play what I wanted to play at the moment, but just sorted my playlist by won and gifted games. I knew exactly what I had to play next after I finished the current game and the next and so on.
After a while it felt like a chore and I couldn't enjoy the games as much as I wanted to, because I told myself to only play one game at a time until it's finished. Otherwise I wouldn't allow myself to play anything else except for multiplayer games.

So I simply stopped doing that.

Still half of my wins are untouched and even more of the games I've been gifted. I know that I will play them, I know that I wanted them in the first place and I know that I appreciate the giveaway or gift, but noone can tell just looking at my recently played games. So people just have to assume or, in case they're reading this, believe me when I say so.

Enough about me tho. To approach the main problem there are just too many variables.
Yes, some poeple just win 'cause they're greedy. Yes, some people win, because they collect video games on Steam for their e-peen. Yes, some people only want the cards.
On the other hand some people actually care for the games, want to play them, are interested and have the time and drive to pick them up.
And my personal experience ranges from absolute shit to overwhelmingly positive. One winner won two games from me simultaneously and 3 copies each as a gift in his inventory, because he did check his list with thousands of Steam keys, but forgot his inventory. Told me he's a trader and collector... But I also saw people that started playing the same day they won and finished it shortly after.
For a group I checked members' behaviour from time to time and even saw one guy that didn't play a single game he won, only idled for cards and spent his time with Adventure Capitalist and free-to-play Clicker games.

That's why I stopped giving games away, after a while the good feeling of giving faded and it turned into frustration and stress. I would spend a lot of my money, that I don't have much of, and people don't give a shit about it. Don't comment, don't thank you and don't even play the games.
But that's just my pessimistic view on things. I said that I consider every won game and gift valueable and will play it, but noone could tell just by my profile. So I am sure that I think wrong about many people myself that might have the same attitude as me.

So... Steamgifts is full of shit, that's for sure, but take the video game culture as a whole. I remember a time where I saved my money for weeks or months so I could buy a game and then I would play it over and over again. I remember when I wanted to get Dead Space and had a post-it on my door saying "DON'T SPEND MONEY!" so I would save more money for the game. I had to import games to get them uncut or just to get them at all, since they wouldn't be sold here. Nowadays you get these huge sales, where games cost almost nothing compared to the full price. Video games are so popular that you get bombarded with new titles every week. Steam makes them so easy to get, that you sometimes don't even think about the fact that you might not even be able to play them time-wise. Just think about the aspect that they're not physical copies. In 6 years or so that I had my xbox 360 I collected little over 30 games. In SIX YEARS. In ONE YEAR on Steam I got over 200!

Aaaaand I ended up with a wall of text, I don't even know how to end this. I could talk about this for countless hours. So don't consider this a final word or anything, because I know that the game collectors will bash me for saying all of this. :P
But there you go, a quick rambling about that.

Here ya go.

20 Won
06 Played
02 Finished
05 Finished 100% (Leona might not count since it doesn't have cheevos, but I think I did everything in it)
07 Unplayed

One of the games I won turned out to be a game I thought was another and I really do not want to play it, though. Mistakes and the obligatory win and redeem.

In almost every reply and our OP you mention the worth of money of your giveaways.
What I'm trying to say is why even bother giving away anything if you "whine" about the "lost / spent" money afterwards?
I don't get it.

I just want to say this: if people play in offline mode the play time counter doesn't add. I with my terrible internet have atleast 100 hours in MoW:AS which I won here, but on my profile it only lists about 8 hours I think. Also some of the games I won (doesn't have to be won here, could also be on other sites) I haven't touched because I am still downloading them (Payday 2 has been downloading for over a month now, 4 out of 12 GB completed :I).

EDIT: I will most likely never play 6 out of my 9 wins on this website, I admit to just having entered them because the chance to win was high (And I'm sorry for that :( ).

I would love, love to play pc video games more often.
If I was feeling better or was well enough, I sure as hell would play more often.
One hour a day for pc is about all I can do. (not including my console gaming/handheld gaming)
And rpgs, taking 100 hours = 3 months of playing for me :/

I have been trying to get in more coop, but a lot of people just find other games to play, and abandon me, not a good feeling, but I understand that persons life/viewpoints may get in the way of completing just one damn play through.
I tried a dozen times to play Borderlands 2 from start to finish on just the first play through. 2 of the people I played with ended up moving, and just not coming back to the game. Others schedule conficted with mine (which is a tiny lie, as I'm ready to play any time I'm awake or not super busy).

Coop games started and abandoned:
Terraria
Borderlands 1, 2 , pre-sequel
Diablo 2
Risk of Rain
Resident Evil 5
Torchlight 2
... can't recall, but several more

I recently installed these games to try coop:
Torchlight 2 (re-installed, got another buddy to play with)
Victor Vran
Grim Dawn
Divinit Original Sin Enhanced Edition
Hammerwatch
Rampage Knights (all ready did a little coop, pretty fun, but the game has too few content to keep us interested in for long)
Table Top Simulator (yea, I can easy find coop people, I just havent got around to learning the game and getting the mods/whatever they are)

I say the number one reason people don't play games, is they own to many.
And in truth, is is a problem, people buying more then they truely need/want.
It has become more of a mental health issue really, the 'bundle/high discount, got to buy it' or the 'collecotr/ocd', or other such thing.
I 100% blame publishers and steam. Publishers breaking their games into pieces before release... dlc/microtransactions, and steams ZERO quality control.