Can we stop this please?

Can we stop with the "Can we stop ____" bitching over stupid stuff?

Because people like to hold on to the delusion that what they give actually have meaningful value so they expect others to feel the same way and PLAY THE GAME RIGHT NAO!

+1 gym, and yes, you have excellent points there.

This shouldn't even need to be mentioned. Different people have different amounts of time, and winning isn't for most an everyday event. So games that are won here actually are put on hold at very least until the person is done with his current game, in most cases. And that can take a while.

You cant blame a giver for wanting the receiver to actually like the game

STOP!!!!!

hammertime

The only game I've won on this site won't run on my computer.

I have little time to spend on gaming myself, and even when I do, I have such a massive backlog that there is a high chance I will never get to finish everything before I die. Currently have over 450 games just waiting to be played over several systems. So far the only Steam game I've beaten is Portal. Still have 77 others left to beat there. Won't stop me from wanting more, just makes me wish I had more time to play them.

This is stupid. Not everyone plans on playing the games they win. My first giveaway, the winner gave it away on SG. My second giveaway, the winner played it an hour (in six months). The rest of my giveaways, I'm not going to look, because it only leads to disappointment. Most people give away games on SG so the winners will enjoy those games, and be grateful they won against the slim chances, but from what I've seen, not many people care enough to do that.

I am one of those who enters giveaways for games that I don't plan on playing for a long while. You are 100% right, some of us don't have the time to play right away or our systems might not be completely finished to enjoy the game fully. Those people who make those 'smarmy' comments never really consider this. If you really want someone to play the game right away, add more copies to it.

I won OMD2 yesterday and the giveaway-er got mad that I didn't play it a lot. I got mad after seeing that, considering it came out YESTERDAY.

I agree with you in some level. I feel that people should be expected to play the games they win but at least not within the first two weeks if they're clearly focusing on something else, another game or real life business.

Personally, I enter giveaways that I know that I'll play, I do some research or try out a demo before I actually decide I want it since I don't have the funds to obtain 200+ games like most people (I only bought like 9 games during my first Summer Sale). This way, I know what to use my points on and give others a chance to get what they want without me having a rare chance to win it and screw them over for a game I'm not interested in.

I don't see the point in getting something free just because it's free. If you have no use for it, then you might as well let other people have it. That's why, I feel that people should run on the assumption that the game will be played in due time if the winner of said giveaway doesn't play the game right away.

It's sad because there are actually people who really wish to have this game. They would play it a lot. But because of someone like this winner they can't play the game and the game is nearly wasted.

Agree.

Reposting what I said in the last thread on this subject:

I do not understand why gifters play gratuity police and stalk their winners to see if their games are played. There are many different reasons why people might not play a game soon after winning it.

Some people have school or work, and are saving it for a long weekend or a vacation or summer or Christmas or some other time.

Other people have bandwidth limitations and can't download their whole Steam library.

Or people like me have a collosal backlog and do honestly intend to get around to it eventually - but it's hard to prioritize one game over many others.

Or some people (also like me) are particularly hung up on one game at the moment - remember that playing video games is meant to have fun with those games, not to get through a backlog as efficiently as possible. It's not about advancing through the multiplayer ranking system for some of us, it's about having fun. I have 200 hours in Europa Universalis 3 - I could have cleared a huge part of my backlist in that much time. But do I regret it? No, because I've had fun with EU3. This is also why I keep coming back to Wargame: EE lately even though I have 50 hours into it and a ton of games I've never played before.

Or some of us (again, like me) are just plain picky and can only play a game when they're in the right mood for it. I've spent $60 on new games that sell for $10 on sale now, without having ever played it yet, because the right mood hasn't taken me. Ill-spent money? Yes. But do I intend to play that game sometime? Still yes.

The tl;dr version is simple: You're not the generosity police. You don't know the context, so don't judge. Maybe some people enter giveaways for games they don't really intend to play, and that's obviously a bad thing, but some of us do honestly intend to play every game they own. Eventually.

If you are not planning to play the game cause your are too busy, don't enter.
There are plenty of kids who don't have anything else to do then play games, let them win.

Tell me when I'll win, and I'll make sure I'm ready with a free schedule to play that game long enough. The thing is, this site is all about randomness, so the more you participate the more likely you are to win. But you still can't predict when, even if like many here, you select carefully which games you enter for.

I won Magicka around the time I joined the site, which was around four months ago. I didn't play it until a few weeks ago, because I've been busy on top of having a backlog. But I really wanted to play it, and was looking forward to it. Does that make me a bad person? I hope not.

Okay now bonus story, once I did actually start it up it turned out it doesn't run properly on my system (which is rather deceiving, as it looked like there shouldn't have been any problem), so now I actually can't play it until I finally upgrade, which will hopefully be within the next year. So I underestimated the game, too. I usually don't enter for games I want if they won't run on my current computer (I usually skip over Just Cause 2 even though I really want it, for instance). But so now it's going to be several months to a year before I can play the game I won because I didn't think it wouldn't work. Does that make me a bad person? I still hope not.

Up until a couple months ago I had a terrible internet with a horridly low download limit. If I had won any game that was larger than a Gig or so, I probably wouldn't have downloaded it for quite some time. I'm sure I wasn't the only person in that kind of situation.

I understand having a backlog and being busy but when I see a person who won from me play DOTA 2 or TF2 (or some other game without an ending) for over 800 (yes, eight hundred) hours while the game I gave has 0 hours part of me feels like my gift was wasted. But I'm never going to harass them or say anything or worry about it too much.

I agree its up to the winner to do with the game what they please. Gifters are able to make special rules to limit the kind of person who enters their giveaways.
I imagine it can be frustrating to lose out on a game you really want to someone who has played 2% of their 298 games and has less than an hour played of any game in the past 2 weeks (true story).
I figure if you're going to be upset about who wins the giveaway you should try to appeal to people who really want the game... make them work for it (like the quizzes (though the ones I try I can never friggin' answer!))

We just give out games and share happiness with the one won the game. That's enough.

Even entering giveaway is some kind of game.

no sorry

The main point of this site is simply for others to giveaway games, and for others to enter giveaways for a chance to win. Community and moral standards are built on these basic intentions and nothing more. Anyone who creates a giveaway then complains about it not being played is an idiot for sure, if you really want only people who have the incentive to actually play, sure, rally those people yourself, and make a private giveaway.