I've entered nearly 500 but still haven't won anything. :/ I know there's supposed to be equal opportunity for everyone to win, but it seems like the lower level you are the less likely you are to win.

What's your Entered/Won ratio?

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Entered: 5,712
Won: 107
Created: 67

But the entered stats are not accurate since it has got half reset some weeks ago before SGv2.
I should have 9000+ entered. I think i was about 85 entries/win. So you ask for stuff that is false and means nothing.

And as KonOkami said if you are higher level you can join ga's with limited entries so you win more often. And usually people with high are part of private ga's groups ( for example i'm lvl 5 and 90% of my wins are from groups and puzzles)
I assume that the ga's you entered have thousand of entries, you entered 500 so you would be lucky if you had a win...

Last thing that should be your "leitmotif": "give more, win more!!"
Good luck ;)

Edit: I won another game 1 hour ago but i was the only one for this giveaway (group again)

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I think the entries got fixed. I dropped down to ~400 entries during the database corruption, but it's now back up to 9877

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hummm i'm 99,9% sure mine are not fixed because i have 9061 comments and I comment on every ga's I enter to thank the givers. (and i started doing this after about 3 months here so I had already few hundred entries, about 500 iirc).
I thought it was something like 70% of the datas got back up but i can't remember where i saw this.

Anyway the ratio OP asking for does not really matter, everyone has the same chance to win a game.
The only thing i can advise is to read this: http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/b9vbr/a-guide-to-winning-on-steamgifts-for-new-users
Thanks Delta for this guide =)

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Entered Won Actually Won Gifted
2892 12 10 27
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Entered 1,203
Won 3

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The number of giveaways you have entered is of far, far less significance than the number of competing entries in the giveaways that you enter.

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Entered 9,996
Won 248

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entered 886 won 1 that i never got :)

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Won: 25
Created: 11

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Entered: 954
Won: 0
Created: 11

I only enter for games I really want, not just anything. Even if it's a private GA. Otherwise I'd have at least 10 times the entries and probably won some, too.

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Entries 4099
Won 149

I don't feel my level (or CV when it was CV) has helped me win that much extra in terms of public giveaways, but then I did stop looking at public giveaways for the most part when I got into groups.

What the the CV/Levels did was help me get into the groups in the first place, and that's where I've won the vast majority of my games. Of course though, to stay in the groups you've gotta put back in too, so you win more but you give away more too. The great thing about groups, in my opinion, is the community aspect of them. I could've just not given away the games I did and bought the ones I won instead, but this is more fun.

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I totally agree! I think it's about karma too, do good things and good things happen to you. (well it's not true for me irl at the moment as some people know here and it's getting even worse lately)

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Groups suck.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

I'm out, have fun drinking and giving shit away. :)

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Entered: 12718
Won: 355
Created: 1034

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Entered: 804
Won: 3
I think I won my 3rd around Entry 500. It all depends on how many people have also entered the giveaways you enter. If you entered 500 giveaways with 500 other people you only have a 63.25% chance of winning once. Even if you entered 500 giveaways with 250 people each you only have a 86.52% chance of winning once, or ~1/8 chance of not winning at all. If you went after the more popular giveaways with 1000 people your chances since down to 39.36%, or even 22.12% if there are 2000 people in the giveaways. Good luck to you and all those who have yet to win anything.

Edit: Being a higher level will let you access giveaways that are exclusive to a small amount of people, which increases your chances of success, nothing more (unless they do stuff on the back end without telling us). Another method to increase your chances would be to join groups that hold giveaways to members only, which also restrict the number of entries.

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1448 (this includes a reset, so the real number is somewhere close to 3000.
Won 1 (this one had a 57% orso win chance though, was one of those mass giveaways)
Created 2

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Entered 98
Won 0

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Entered: 510
Won: 37
Gifted: Thousands?

:D

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Entered: 12,180
Won: 34 (mostly group ones)

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entered 235
won 1
i didn't receive the game... thanks, 'piterog'

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Created 5 (2 awaiting feedback)
Entered 1,229
Won 6 (1 not receive)

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Entered 7338
Won 9.5 (1 dlc)
Created 22

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Entered: 5,136
Sent: 203
Won: 30

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My Giveaways
Created: 10
Entered: 1,511
Won: 2

Just take into account how many entries a giveaway has.
I usually leave a GA if the number of entries is over 1k and I don't really want the game so much/ have entered other GAs for it

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My Giveaways

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Entered
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Won
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entered 872
won 4
created 4 [1 inexplicably marked as not sent after the winner re-gifted it]

2 of them were group giveaways with about 4 entrants
2 of them were giveaways with like 20,000 copies

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Won:2

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Entered: 14,282
Won: 17
Win %: 0.12

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