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

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First and foremost: I am aware this topic might be very sensitive for some people. My intention is to speak in general and I will not pick out individuals in my topic. The point is to get, if you want, a comparison to my numbers, as well as to get some people to think about winning and giving in general. I will, although, be comparing to myself, for statistical purposes and I am going to be discussing and criticizing my own behavior. I'd be glad if you let me hear your thoughts on this, or provide your own statistics.
Please note: This is - and cannot be - in any way representative. However, I feel that I am a kind of "across-the-board" giver, with a diversity of all kinds of giveaways and a certain amount of gifts and time passed. My observations are heavily influenced by subjectiveness, although the statistics I provide have been collected in the most objective way possible.

Before we start: I've been here for 2 years and seven months. I've sent 251 giveaways and won 69 in the same time. I registered here with the intention of giving games away because I got tired of always reaching out to people and raffling keys on forums. One forum actually had me suspended for a week after I raffled a steam-key for Far Cry: Blood Dragon. But as much as I like to give, I want the person who gets the gift from me to play and enjoy the game. I understand that this cannot happen everytime, as "thing get in the way" or opinions change - I myself haven't played all my wins and don't plan to play some games anymore, but I'll get deeper into that later.

The breakdown is this though: The more I spend on a game, the more I think the game should be played and appreciated by the winner. In the meantime, I had several giveaways i spent double-digit-amounts (currency: euro, just in case you misunderstand) and that haven't played or even thanked me for the gift. There was a thread just a few months ago, where people were posting how many of their wins they've played etc. The general majority was so devastatingly low I couldn't believe my eyes. Simultaneously, some people with 40something wins and less than 4 hours of playtime across all the won games, mostly farmed for cards only, were even stating that "they've played all of them"..and so on. Needless to say, I was bothered by that, but I couldn't - by rules and human decency - point their, sorry for putting it that way - hypocrisy out to them. So I just let is slide for the time being.
Anyway, as I never even once in my 251 giveaways I've even gotten feedback from the winner. Of course there was the "thanks", but never the "Hey, I've just completed this game I won from you and I wanted to thank you again because it was awesome" or anything. The latter, I've done myself a few times, but I stopped when people actually gave me a negative response to me telling them I'd just finished their game...

Alright, let's break the numbers down now:

Ended 2 years ago:

ended more than 1 year ago

Synopsis:
Of all the total of my giveaways that have ended more than 1 year ago, only 3 games were played more than 30 hours, less than 10 were played for more than 10 hours. Around 20 of those titles really left me scratching my head why the winner bothered to enter and didn't play them yet. The approximate amount of money spent on these games for giveaway purposes only was: 170€, counting only receipts for non-bundle games.

Ended less than 1 year ago

Ended less than 6 months ago

Synopsis:
Due to the shorter amount of time passed, even less people have touched the games. The sad thing is that some giveaways I explicitly asked people to join if they were going to play soon-ish, which was ignored til date. I also did more expensive giveaways, spending an approximate amount of 260€ during that time, again counting only games I've solely purchased for giveaway-puropses, meaning I don't count bundled I kept 1-2 games from and gave the rest away.

Grand total

Methodology - explanation:
Finished 100%: Self-explanatory: 100% of the achievements without hacking and the necessary playtime (cross-referenced). Note that there were some games that were really easy and fast to complete to 100%, so it doesn't necessarily mean the playtime was very high.
Finished game: Has unlocked the indicating achievements and has the necessary playtime
Played - didn't finish: Winner has played the game, but has not completed the story - achievements again as an indicator. In every case this was less than five hours, in almost all cases of those it was mostly less than 2 hours before the game was "abandoned"
farmed for cards: When the winner has zero achievements, game has cards and winner has according playtime to have farmed the cards. You usually unlock 1 or more achievements in less than an hour on most games, so this is a fairly accurate indicator. For games that had cards and no achievements to indicate, I put them into the played - didn't finish category when there was this kind of uncertainty - which likely results in the stats provided being more positive than they actually are.
didn't touch: means 0 minutes of playtime
didn't activate: Self-explanatory
private profile: Self-explanatory

To be noted here is that I didn't provide the statistics for bundled/unbundled games seperately. Unfortunately, most unbundled games were left unplayed, contrary to my expectation that people rather play unbundled games than bundled games. In grand total, about only 25 of the games with any indication of that the winner has played them were non-bundled, the rest were bundled at the time of giving them away. The maximum playtime observed by a winner was 40 hours. Less than 20 winners played the game for more than 10 hours.
DLCs were treated as normal games/wins and were categorized accordingly to their basegame being played or not.

The comparison to myself:
I usually only enter giveaways I am convinced I want to play. Lately, I haven't been entering a lot of giveaways due to the fact that there aren't so many games out there that genuinely interest me. For example, over the course of the last 7 days, I entered 41 giveaways.
I, to date, have won 69 games, with the majority over the course of the last 12 months. In similar fashion to above, I will provide the numbers, although I won't make a difference between farmed for cards and didn't touch, as I've always farmed the games for cards if there were some. Since I've only won three giveaways that ended over 2 years ago, so I'll start with the "over 1 year ago category"

Ended over 1 year ago

Ended less than a year ago

Ended less than 6 months ago

Synopsis:
So, all in all, I, unfortunately, am not much "better" at playing my wins than the people who've won some games from me. And to be honest, of the 46 games I didn't play yet, I easily actually won't play 30. Counting, I plan on playing 12. That is not to say that other's would've played it. I am seriously contemplating requesting re-rolls and providing the keys for those wins I don't want myself, but this means unnecessary work for staff and the giveaway creators. I will continue playing the games I've won (like my most recent wins, I plan on starting Hitman today or tomorrow, the flame in the flood simultaneously to it, waiting for my best friend to play Killinf Floor and Victor Vran with me... and so on). I also am waiting for certrain DLC to either be purchased by me or to release (just cause 3 for instance) so I can complete the game to 100%. All in all, I don't think I'll ever actually play more than half of my wins to date. This has led me to actually feel bad about myself and bad for the giveaway creators, although I have played the majority of then-unbundled games. On the other hand, I'm not certain if a different winner would've actually played the game in the mean-time.
On the other hand, I'm not bothered by the majority of bundled games won by people not being played. Especially if they're of the "cheap" sort (meaning non-BTA, non-AAA and so on), which makes up most of my bundled wins. The amount of games I actually feel bad about not having played yet shrinks to around 10.
Regarding playtime, I've spent a lot of time on some titles, surpassing the 40-hour-mark on 5 games, with a good dozen of other titles getting my attention for more than 10 hours. Just for comparison, I've given away plenty titles that easily can be played for that long.

Conclusion
What bothers me the most is that some of the most expensive titles, as well as titles of great quality (big-point-titles, if you will) remain unplayed after a long amount of time. The general observations I've made checking all winners was this:

• the higher the amount of games owned, the less likely the winners were to play the game
• the higher the amount of wins, the less likely were winners to play the game
• observing just my winners, it didn't matter if a game was bundled or non-bundled to be played or not
• the prospect of winning a "great" title (i.e.: AAA, bundled-AAA, highly-positively-rated title) is more important than playing it. In fact, higher-budget titles were those that were left unplayed more often than any other category of titles.
• I didn't notice any real gap between group giveaways and public giveaway being played or not played.
• There is, from a giveaway-type-restriction point of view, currently no type of GA that really ensured winners playing it, leave alone requests in the giveaway-description.

What I'm getting at:..
is the fact that most of us win just too much. Some people have always tried to restrict that, but failed. I personally feel the most effective way would be to limit the amount of maximum points per day drastically, as well as the amount of point-regeneration. Just for measures, from what I could observe, around 50 points are regenerated per hour. If done right, you can easily have 500 or more points to spend a day. The current system also allows us to "store" our points in big-point giveaway, so the excess amount of points we have at one point can actually be banked for the future, in theory leaving us able to amass thousands of points on some days. I know this was requested once (less points) and was met by most users feeling points shouldn't be restricted. I've also seen higher-level users request more points for themselves - leave alone the fact that as a high-level user (say 7 and up) you usually have access to so many groups and giveaways, that you literally can drown yourself in wins. I know, some people give a lot, too. But, in my honest opinion, steamgifts shouldn't be the place where you give a game away to win a game. It should be the place where people should be given the chance to win games they really want to play - this includes people that may currently not have the bucks for an AAA-title, don't want to buy a bundle for just one game, and so on. Instead - and this is again just an observation made by myself and the portion of users I've checked in the past - most of the wins are amassed by a small fraction of users.

In the end though, probably nothing will be changed and we all will keep entering and winning games which we oftentimes won't play. I'm no exception to that, as I've proven. It led me to include the poll.

Before i forget: Here's giveaways from the current HB monthly you all likely won't play:

http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/85dac762-e77e-11e5-8ad2-04019cc0dc01
http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/9648371a-e77e-11e5-8ad2-04019cc0dc01
http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/db8491d7-e77e-11e5-8ad2-04019cc0dc01
http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/eb3391be-e77e-11e5-8ad2-04019cc0dc01
http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/f8981c6d-e77e-11e5-8ad2-04019cc0dc01
Edit: sorry I had to remove the Wasteland 2 giveaway...

PLEASE don't leave any uneccesary comments. I want to keep track of the discussion if it emerges and I know you wanna say thanks - keep it to yourself for the time being, but you are welcome to thank me if you should win.

TL;DR:
We all win too much, I fell we should have less points given to us. Also, should I request a reroll for games I won't play?

I'd be happy if we could discuss this as civilized, friendly and neutral as possible. Thank you, have a nice weekend.