Why people do not playing won games. (Poll)

This is a nice thread c:

I didn't win any games for about three months, then won three in the past two weeks, when I'm already in the middle of playing other games. I usually pick the games I win next by random number generator, so I'll play those games when RNGesus says so!

Unless it's something special like a Playing Appreciated giveaway, they get played fast.

Edit:
Re: Your English -
It's just fine! The biggest difference between your English and native English is your unusual sentence construction, with some grammar errors. If you really want to improve, other than by practicing writing in the forums, I'd suggest reading as much as you can so you can pick up the flow of how sentences are put together.

I like reading non-standard English writing, though. It's nice and different.

Paradox— if you pick the answer “I will refrain from answering”... didn’t you just answer?

For me, personally, I play my Steam games in the order I buy or receive them. In other words, the reason I haven't played the games I won a couple months ago is because I'm still working on the games I bought a year or two ago (once I'm done with them, you bet I'm gonna play my won games). I'm guessing this would fall under the "still too far in turn" option, right?

Everyone has an excuse for it that makes them happy, most of them are just bs.
I have also a bad track record with them (no excuse). I'm just playing a game I won about 3 years ago (R.U.S.E) and I'm loving it.

I try to play my wins relatively quickly, right now I'm a bit behind schedule (my latest two wins remain unplayed), mostly because of work. Since they seem to be short I'll probably be back at all-wins-played status by the end of the year, unless I somehow win 40 more games by then.

Because most of the time people enter giveaways even for games that they are not interested in first place, so that is really imho the biggest reason.

Greed and idling cards? It's really sad to see great games with 0h played.

I PLAY EVERY GAME I WIN

it's not against sg rules

yea, that one too

Time is the issue, of course.
Granted, for the bigger/better games, I still attempt it for at least a few hours, but I honestly don't have the time to play all the games I win fully.
Some would say that I shouldn't enter the giveaways in that case, but ultimately, I plan to play every single one of the games I won, sooner or later.

One of the reasons I'm not part of playing appreciated, though I like the concept, sticking to a specific timeframe is difficult for me.

Played almost 90% of my wins and beat 70% of them... eventually I'll beat them all, apart from the couple that are broken/unbeatable.

There are other people here that also try their best to play their wins but they are a minority.

because their library is already full and almost all games are unplayed?

i won tales of zestiria a while ago and i don't want to even try to install it, my popato would probably explode. i collect games to play them after i get a decent pc. :c

I try to get around to every game I own, not just the ones I win. It's a disease really... I keep it going by using strange justifications in the back of my mind. Like maybe one day I'll break both of my legs and be unable to work for months and can only play video games. I am prepared for when that happens.

Then some jackass game usually sucks me in and screws with my backlog progress. Like hey, I know you were working on singleplayer games but all your friends are playing PUBG. Why not sink a few dozen more hours into R6? I think Terraria deserves another 100 hours of my life.

Honestly, just enjoy playing your games. Don't make it like work, games are for fun. If you're enjoying spending all your time collecting feathers in Assassin's Creed while the thousands of other games in your library gather digital dust, who cares? They're not going anywhere.
Did you just win a game and feel guilty about not playing it right away (or ever)? Don't, the giver likely doesn't care, the real reward for them is the giving. That little spark you get when you win something for nothing other than a stranger's generosity. /ramble

As someone who used to no play the huge majority of games won here, I can affirm that there are 2 main reasons: Card money, to buy other stuff and having a +1 in your account, even if you know that you already have lots of unplayed games. Both of them boil down to greed. I won some 500 games just trying to get some cents, telling myself I'd play them someday™. But that's just a lie we tell ourselves.

Since we can't change the past, I've decided to change my attitude and created a self-imposed rule that I can only enter GAs if I beat more games than the amount I've won during the month. My backlog have been in steady decline ever since. I highly recommend this this system, if anyone is serious about dealing with their backlogs.
Blaeo also helps a lot!

Ps: Your english is fine. Don't listen to anyone saying otherwise. The fact that you speak 2 languages is already awesome! ;)

I only enter giveaways for games I want to play, and I do play them. So far I've finished over 100 of my won games, I've had lots of fun, thanks to generous people here :)

For quite some time, I assumed everyone here would be like me, wanting to play everything they won, and thinking like that made it fun doing giveaways that I imagined went to loving homes... then I discovered the sad reality. Quite often games end up never being played... or at least not being played in 2-3 years, by someone who has won 4-500 games in those 2-3 years and maybe played a handful of them (in other words, at the rate they play their won games, there's no chance they will have time to play even what they won in such short time, and they still feel the need to keep on winning).

It's also interesting to see that it's way more common that someone who wins maybe 5-50 games per year play the games they win, than someone who wins 100+ games per year. Often, someone with 30-40 wins have played more games than the people who have won 500+. The people with 500+ wins seem to be very likely to not be interested in playing games. It's quite interesting to check with this script. This is not always the case, some people have lots of wins but have also played lots of their won games.

As many already have said. Some people probably just like to win, to get the +1 and some card money. For me, who don't have a lot of money left after the bills are paid, it's quite sad if I spent 80% of what I have left one month on a game that could be 50+ hours of fun for someone, and it instead just turns into a meaningless number, and almost no money in cards.

I love it when giveaway winners end up playing and enjoy the games I do giveaways for. It feels a lot more fun spending money on someone who gets anywhere between 5-500 hours of entertainment out of the maybe €2-30 I spend, instead of someone just increasing the number 5246 into 5247, and getting €0.20 worth of cards out of it. Then I would rather have given them the card money directly and sent the game to someone who wanted to play it...

One last thing. Many who don't play their won games will probably blame lack of time. It would be interesting to check their entry/comment stats here on SG. Imagine the average giveaway takes 5 seconds to enter, and the average comment takes 20 seconds to write. Someone with 500 won games, 40000 entries and 15000 comments have probably spent at least 140 hours on Steamgifts (which is around the same time a full time employee spends at work one month). Why not spend half as much time on SG and use that to play some won games? ;)

I mean at this point I've played or started to play all my wins but one I won a few weeks ago (which I'll get around to but I played a bunch of similar games in a row so I'm taking a break)
that being said I still need to go back and finish/100% complete a bunch of them.

nice poll :3

because we already have way too many game

I've won all 10 games in the past 3 weeks. I'll get around to all of them eventually, even the two pinned giveaway wins that I joined on a whim. I'm currently in the middle of playing 10 games for my stream and for my own personal gaming time, so time is a bit of an issue. I have started one of my wins and am enjoying it even if the game confuses me a bit. =P

I'm playing but not all at once. Give me more time! seems overly optimistic to me. With so many wins, when does one expect to have that much time to play them? I expected more honesty and I just like to win. to be higher

For the wins I haven't played they are either broken, it require me to invest in some upgrades to my budget build. I've become more picky recently and won't enter for games I can't run yet.

Wait, what? You can actually PLAY the games you win here? Wow! :V

"I'm just waiting for the upgrade of my computer to play games at the maximum settings." - thats was main reason for a lot of games
but for now i just need more time for all of them :c
with SG and my own purchases i have counted there is about 400 titles i should try at least ...
GOD OF TIME GIMME YOUR POWER

Actually I am playing them but in a random order. I dont make a difference between won games and bundle games though it takes some time.
I have even a little project in progress with me playing games Playing a game and giving a game
And I finished some of my winnings (28 Waves Later, Barclay: The Marrowdale Murder, The Youthdrainers, etc)