Metro 2033 + BF:BC2=40$

I thought that if i send some gifts, I can win the gift more easily in the past. Maybe I was wrong. And, some one do not send anyone gift, but he won several giveaways. Why? Random?
It's chance.

Also "I thought that if i send some gifts, I can win the gift more easily in the past." It's actually true.
Give gifts and get a better chance of winning.
Private groups.

Edit: And you are in one lol. The same one as me.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

So what's the deal with airline food?

The site is pretty much Christmas year round. It's nice. I don't have the opportunity to gift to the site, so I try to stay active and involved with the community in any way I can in turn. Not that I wouldn't if I could gift, but hey, all the better, right?

The point is, in reply to OP,

-Gifting does not literally increase your chances, but you can believe in things like karma.
-The point of the site isn't to maximize your game intake, so don't think of it like that. The shell of it is a gambling table, the root is the kindness and warmth of gifting. :)

Gifting is optional. You don't need to gift to win things. If you feel you would rather spend your money buying your own games nobody has any issue with that- your money. But if you like supporting the site's gifting community by all means gift away. I agree with Stalyn saying the site is like Christmas, when you give someone a Christmas present you usually don't do it on the hope that you're investing to get a bigger gift.

Because it is fun.

Also, you meet with lots of people and make new friendships. Good opportunity to find like-minded individuals to play games with.

Everyone that enters a giveaway has an equal chance of winning there is no favouritism nor extra chances for gifting.
If you joined the site expecting that you were guaranteed to win then you joined under false premises.

If you find this to be unfair, then I honestly don't know what you were expecting. What could possibly be more fair then giving everyone an equal chance of winning?

There are no obligations to gift, everyone does it for their own reason. I do so because I think this is a tremendous site and I wanted to give back to the community. I'm not under any illusion that what I win has to match what I give. I can see just by looking at the number of people that enter the giveaways that it's virtually guaranteed that I will not.

If you find it to be a waste of your time, and you don't like the site then you're perfectly free to leave. Frankly, I find it extremely difficult to understand how this site has been unfair to you however.
It's giving you a chance to win games for free, and asking nothing at all of you. If that's too demanding, and you expect a guarantee of getting games for free and the mere chance isn't sufficient I think you'll find this site and the real world operates very differently then you believe.

This site is for anyone who wants a chance to win a free game, or just wants to make people happy and give away some games.
There are some tremendously generous people here spending their money to give games to people for no other reason then they want to be nice.

You're not often going to find that anywhere on any other site.

The only thing that pisses me off is when you give someone the thing they won and they don't say thanks or anything afterwards.

I am a member of this croatian gaming forum for a few years now and just recently i joined their steam group (recently as in last year). Then i joined SG and started to win a lot. So people are started to spy on my and to join every group on steam that im a member. I occasionaly do a giveaways for this croatian forum dudes but recently the group has been invaded with bunch of Russians and beggars who dont even know whats the purpose of the group theyre in, theyre just there to leech for free games. Few days ago i did a NightSky giveaway and the guy who won was some random intruder Farguz, who started apologising to me on chat for "his silly and unfair tactic" but he still accepted the game.

I dont know where im actually going with this, i just wanted to vent out a little. You know, i really wanted for this game to go to someone who i know but people are such selfish pricks sometimes

EDIT
Also, i always think its a common courtesy go make a giveaway/gift something back whenever you win something. It's just the polite thing to do. I've seen one member of SG who's won like 17 games here, has 185 on his steam acc (obviously he buys them frequently) and he still hasn't give anything back to the community. That is just pathetic

You know what's fun? When people don't play the games you've given away.

I'm surprised this website even exists. Human nature and hard earned money question the idea of gifting and yet you find several people willing to give away games for nothing. Inspires me to gift something in the near future.

if you want to win you need create giveaway? if this is yes that i never open steamgifts.com

Well, that's your fault for giving away a game. No one asked you to do it.

Is this a cleverly disguised whining thread?

limited time?
If you don't have time you will not sit at home and play video games unless you have 80 years than your time is limited

The point was that it wasn't "pay to win" like every free MMO there is. And also, if you're "complaining" that you haven't won anything even though you gifted, well then, why don't you just buy stuff for yourself? You perfectly said so yourself. Why not follow it?

This site is not a trading site. You do not buy a $20 game to get a $20 game. This site is for those who truly can't afford the games (or those who don't want to spend money on them) to win them. If you have the money and you would rather buy the game yourself then do it.

The gifters give games away because they want to, not because they are being rewarded for it.

As for the people entering the giveaways: It's like Vegas but you don't actually have to pay anything to play. When gambling, your odds of winning go up as you play more times (never truly 100% chance though). Your odds do not go up if you bet more money at a time (most of the time at least). The same can be applied here. The more you enter, the more likely you are to win. Gifting here doesn't increase those odds at all.

If you do feel the need to give a game away when you win (I personally feel that way), you don't need to give something of the same value. If you win a $60 game and you can afford to give a $60 game away right then, well then you should have just bought it for yourself and given everyone else a better chance at winning it. If you win a $60 game and can only afford to give away a $10 game, that's fine. From your perspective, you've just paid $10 for a $60 game. From the community's perspective, you just increased the number of giveaways available at the time.

Finally, if you feel that this site is a waste of time then leave. It is the simplest solution that everyone overlooks. Nobody is forcing you to be here, and so you can just leave at any time you want to.

Clearly you don't understand the word 'giveaway'

Limited time? I just use 15 minutes of my ''limited time'' joining the green giveaways and looking at the forums.

I have given away $872.59 worth of games and have won $85.95 worth of games. Luckily I didn't go into this expecting a profit, or it would indeed all have been a huge waste of time and money.

Sure, I could have saved myself a lot of money, but if you're looking for an equal exchange this is the wrong site. It's SteamGifts, not SteamTrades after all. :P