I'm just wondering really. I haven't won a single game here and I usually enter with low hopes of winning.

I mean, the DOOM one I'm in with over 14,000+ in there. Yeah, HAHA! No way I'm winning that one but I guess I enter these things to be a good sport.

I've lost over 94 entries. Yay 0-94!

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there's people with over 30k entries, 100- is nothing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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How do you see those stats? Or is it an addon?

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Aha, see I went trawling through the stats pages but noooo. :D

Comments: 5,405
Entries: 2,518
Wins: 69 (oooh errrr)

About a 3% win rate and almost all of those are group or puzzle giveaways. :D

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https://www.steamgifts.com/users type the name of a user and you see. It's located at very bottom of the page as "Users"

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14,751 entries and I won only 46 gifts. So, yeah, don't be that hasty. 94 entries are nothing. :P

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Relatable

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And I'm supposed to be lucky. :B

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You are! It's in your name!

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Of course. I'm actually a leprechaun! :P

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same here

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This site is a scam and it doesn't allow us to win. :B :P

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I guess I've lost 2672 giveaways :P

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12.329 grasshopper ;)

Edit: Somebody pointed out that we lost all Stats when the servers crashed last year which I completly forgot so add 10k to that.

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Did you know that the average number of entries for a public giveaway is 627?

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how did you get that figure?

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That's a secret!

Actually, it's from the stats-page

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Lost 11268 giveaways. Most of my wins have been from groups/whitelists.

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30 out of 9k

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11 wins out of 944 entries (and it's only that high because I'm in a good group). Enter more :)

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Well I won one of your GAs, that's the kind of statistics that really matter (for me). :)

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Never lose the Hope

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lol, you should get that as a tattoo.

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1 out of probably around 30k now. no clue how to check anymore :(

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Here ;)
You're a little bit off :D

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thats definately wrong. i had just over 20k after they did the site update which for a very short while used to say the numbers right by the entered word on left but doesnt anymore.. i finally won my 1st 1 in the last month or so. been entering for like 3 years now.

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Yea right. We lost all stats when the servers crashed last year. I forgot about that.

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won 22 out of 7,604 entries. So....yeah.

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16,410 entered and won 48 of them .

Pretty good i guess .

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You don't lose, you just don't win.

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...Which means you lost.

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Nah, cos you're not actually investing anything (well, just a wee bit of time)

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Please note this post isn't meant to criticize, but to clarify differences in interpretation.
Not winning is not the same as losing.
Rather, if that were the case- imagine a raffle with three grand prizes, all different.
If the interpretation of (not winning = losing) were true, all three grand prize winners would be losers, since there was a prize they entered for, but did not win.

Logic aside, your usage doesn't even meet the definition of Lose:

Lose, definition: to be deprived of [something possessed] or cease to have or retain [something possessed].

There are several similar secondary definitions of the same nature, but they all break down to one core concept: You can only 'Lose' something you had to begin with.

Of course, you're using the alternative definition of lose, which means 'to suffer defeat or destruction'.

That obviously doesn't apply here either, since you weren't in an actual competition, and thus couldn't be defeated (defeat requiring the existence of competition or conflict to be such, and competition requiring qualitative elements, which aren't present in a blind lottery).

And unless you had a breakdown over not winning, you didn't suffer destruction, either [and even then, that'd be a loose interpretation, if only since it's not a direct result of the "loss"].

tl;dr version: You're using "lose" incorrectly. :/

In any case, you could argue that strict definition doesn't follow applied usage, or that the word is the best one to express the sentiment you wanted to convey, and that your intent was readily understandable.
That's all valid- unfortunately, at that point, it becomes a question of "is your usage a proper one", and many'd feel the usage lacks respectability [ie, coming across as whining about not winning (since you're referring to it as losing, rather than not winning), or even just as being overly fixated on things you don't have (ie, a feeling of being deprived)- or at worst, even suggesting the expression of a feeling of entitlement (since lose is associated with things possessed or earned, you're conveying that common impression of the word in its usage, implying that you feel you ought to have won.)]

The structure of language conveys many nuances..
The less questionable form would have been along the lines of "How many giveaways have you entered, where you didn't win?"

In any case, since your intent is pretty clear, you're fine to retain your current usage ( if you don't mind how it comes across rather negative in implications ) but many of us just can't answer your prompt, since we most certainly don't feel we've ever lost on SG.

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Sieg Speil!

Sieg Gram!

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Mine: 5,189 entries and 14 wins. That's a win/loss ratio of 0.27%.

At my win/loss ratio you only have 25.38% chance you have won anything. So only 300 more to go? :P

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I've entered 9,156 won 39, though I've won an oddly high number of games this last month, most of the time my ratio was much lower.

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Coming up to 600 entries and no wins...

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I don't count NOT winning a giveaway as a loss

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That's the right attitude. I don't expect to win any giveaway, so when I actually do win it's an extra happy moment. When I don't win, it's what I expected so I'm not disappointed. :)

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As openhanded as users of the site are, I suppose it'd be easy to start expecting wins- you're certainly rather likely to get plenty of them, if you just stick around a bit.

I suppose it's a difference of following the statistics and desiring the wins themselves, versus being grateful for what comes your way by luck and the generosity of others.

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+1

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Had about 11k entries so far.

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68 out of 25,823 over 3 1/2 years. Developer and Puzzle giveaways tend to give better odds. Good luck!

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I have lost 2,486 giveaways... Lowest entries were 2 and I lost... So.. Yeah XD

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63 out of 5068 entries. 47 of those came from groups so only 16 "wild wins".

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Won 71 out of the 30,051 I entered

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Entered 11,449. Won 38.

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