Just curious.
I'm not sure , it only about how I want.
Including how much I want to play, or how long will play.
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I actually go through my entries and if I see some with more then 500 I cancel and use the points somewhere else
With Esgst this is really easy and you can color code the chances to see the ones worth really easy
I make some exceptions for wö games, but only to some degree
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considering points are free and if I really needed to I could back out of a giveaway and get the points back before it ends, I enter all giveaways for my wishlist games only. When there's mass giveaways by the publisher/developer I usually don't worry so much since so many keys are being given away.
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If the game is on my wishlist or if it looks like a game that I would enjoy, I'm entering. A slim chance is still a chance. I do have priorities though, so if I had to choose between 2 giveaways because I wouldn't have enough points to enter them both, I'd obviously enter the one with the best chance, but that almost never happens - I often have 400P sitting there and there are rarely more than 1 page of wishlist giveaways for me.
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... People actually care about that? O_o
Considering that I'm still constantly at maximum points since I barely enter stuff, points are free and I may as well have the same (slim) chance in winning a 10 entry giveaway as I do a 1000 entry one with my track record... No, I really don't care about how many entries there are- If it's a game I wanna play a lot, I'll go for it. Heck, I'm more likely to not enter if there are only a handful of entries and they all express a higher desire to play the game than me. :P
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I enter all of the giveaways that I care about no matter the number of entries. At first I did not like the changes to the point system but I got used to it soon. I do have a lot of games hidden so that helps my point bank a lot. So far I have not run out of points yet.
Edit: Recently I won a GA with 1804 entries. Would be shame if I hadnt join it or left it because it was more than 1000 :)
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Ever since the point changes, I have my filter set to Chance 0.5 - 100%. That weeds out a lot of GAs with a low chance of winning. I have every unwanted game filtered out, so my front page only shows a few dozen titles. Although I sometimes get curious and take a peek at all of them if I have enough points. If I need some points, I'll look through my entries and cancel ones with thousands of entries.
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Considering the odds I've beaten in the past (PS Vita from Taco Bell, in Second Chance drawing, with only one entry, so probably multi-millions to a small handful against), the real answer, to me, is it really doesn't matter how bad the odds are.
Though I do admit most of my big wins had some pretty good odds (Surface RT 8:1 at MS Store South Coast Plaza, Big Jambox 6:1 MS Store South Coast Plaza, Xbox One 500GB 4:1 MS Store Shops at Mission Viejo).
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I try for around 20, but mostly enter around under 100. 200 is around the maximum I'll typically go, although I do sometimes exceed that limit when there's a game I really want.
And you've probably guessed it - I enter whitelist/group giveaways only. I don't like entering thousands of giveaways with the slim chance of winning one, and prefer entering the very occasional giveaway with a decent chance to win. Feels more like a real raffle/contest of some sort than "farming" giveaways. :P
I do have giveaways with ~500 entries in my history though, mostly because I joined at around the 200 mark.
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For you personally,what amount of entries makes you skip the giveaway because it's 'too many' and you view it as waste of points/virtually unwinnable ?
I tend to not enter anything with more than 1000 because well let's be real ,chances of winning that is pretty pretty slim. Especially with the new point system i often even skip most of my wishlist giveaways due to huge number of entries.
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