I recently won Fortix and have actually played 87 minutes - not saying I immediately played every one of the 10 games I've won, but I'll get around to it - think I've played all but one or two...

I try to invest at least several hours into every game I win. Giving Fortix is fun for everyone though ;)

Well there are people on this site that average more than a win a day. Personally I don't mind for older, on-sale games too much but I do mind moreso for new releases. Also, I understand people have backlogs as do I so it's normal for most of my winners to not play the game soon.

my internet download so poor,if i win a game,have to wait on my game download waiting list but sadly after i download that game my friend invite me to play Dota 2 or Left4Dead 2 :(

Sometimes, we can't play the games because maybe we already have a bunch on backlog? I haven't played my won NecrovisioN because I don't think my computer can handle it (I'll probably try it later, I just forget a lot, and my BL GOTY is installing).

Dont really care what the winner will do with the gift. Since the moment they won, it's theirs to do with it as they please.

Honestly, I would try to play the games I won but they are nothing like I thought they would be. I enter a lot of giveaways because the game sounds or looks interesting. I won Galactic Arms Race, which is pretty fun but boring alone after awhile. Multiwinia, which has controls I do not care for and it is kinda generic in gameplay for the strategy genre (that is just my opinion). Fortix, well... I played it for a short bit but it kinda got old quick for me. As for Geneforge, I given it a chance and got lost in the first two games right away not knowing what to do. At this point I decided to just not give the genre a chance ever again (I never played this type of genre before and I was curious). Finally, the game I won recently, Aquaria, is actually pretty good. I have no excuse for that one, I should actually try harder to make time for it.

Something to remember is, a lot of us enter giveaways for games we are interested in enough to accept them for free, but not enough to spend money on them.

most people just want free stuff and don't actually ever intend on playing.. for me a lot of games don't showed up as played because i mod them and have to load them outside of steam.. such as fallout 3/new vegas etc.

I am definitely guilty. I've been on Steam AND here for 6 months now and already have more than 250 games. I'm adding games faster than I play them. backlog imminent. I will definitely play my wins, but finishing them may be a different story.

sometimes they just never cared about the game and you cheered their day just by giving them a gift

hasn't it happened to you that you get a gift on your birthday and you really never use it but when you look at it you feel happy someone gave it to you?

even if they never play the game, it's still valuable to them so don't worry =D

I currently have 52 games in my backlog for Steam. I really really want to play a lot of these games I won but just don't get around to them always. I do admit, I accepted Civilization III knowing there was a good chance I'd never play it, but the guilt got me to buy another copy and give it away.

I'm a bit guilty of this, myself. Although, my main reason for not playing a game that I've won is that I simply can't play it on my current machine. I try, but my hardware just isn't good enough.

So join a private group or stop making giveaways?

they won the giveaway so it's there choice wat they do with their price.

Personally don't really care. As for myself the games weren't as interesting as I anticipated.

There are games i bought but i can't play for different reasons... it's the same with some games i won.

I'd say it's because users might want to play the game that they payed for over the game that they clicked a green button for.

Sorry, I'm trying my best. ;_;
Playing alphabetically, still A.

Communist!

Winners can play their games whenever they want. There are literally a thousand reasons why they haven't started playing them yet. Being OCD about checking every winner is quite sad.

I finished fortix:)

Personally I only enter for games I actually think I want to play. It means I'm usually sitting at over 250 points, often even over 275. But I don't always enjoy the games that I think I would. That includes games I purchase too.

I won 4 games here, and bought 100 games on steam, and I haven't even played half of those games.
All I can say to you is: You are a sad person for checking everyone you gifted something. IT'S A GIFT.

I play my games at own pace thank you for the concern