Winners Not Playing Games Won

I've spent over 100$ in games I didn't play (SC2 with the addon where over 50 and I barely played 2 missions).
Winning one will be no different. Having it available for whenever I feel like I wanna play is a whole other deal. While it's cool to give away, checking people's personal business is not IMO.

One game at a time, and play it in order. If I am already in the middle of Dark Souls, I won't drop it. And I know that next will be GTA4 full package, that I bought recently. I won't just throw everything and run to 2 days of continuous play of fortix, just to please some guy on steamgifts :/
Yes - I will play them eventually - that's for sure. I don't enter giveaways I don't like. But it's no ones businesses when it will happen, or if it will happen at all.
BTW - what you're doing goes up to stalking :P

It's hard to play games you've won over games you paid for.

I haven't given much, but I can tell that there are a lot of people who just enter giveaways for the sake of winning games. I myself like to collect games so I get that kind of mindset.

Of course, it does annoy me if someone doesn't appreciate the fact that you've given them the game.

it's the winners choice what he wants to do with the game.

90% of the users on Steam have 90% of their games either not played at all or played for just a few minutes (which is pretty much the same thing). We buy/win much more then we can use. If we didn't, the games would be much more expensive. This is how the system works. Welcome to the consumer society!

I won some games, and I only didn't play 2 of them, because I couldn't run them properly: they are too laggy even with the lowest options, and so. Long story in short: they have too high PC requirements. Now, I learned from my mistake (yes, it was my mistake to not try their demo at least), and I only enter those giveaways, I've tried out and worked fine in their demo version.

That why i say you only enter GA you want to play, or already complete

yes its a good idea but if you could only enter 1 GA at a time why not just enter the GA that about to finish and when that ends enter the next GA about to finish . unless you have 5 max entries at a time and after each GA end you cant enter until X minutes has passes . X being the same number as how much it cost to enter. so you enter a 30 point GA you cant enter another GA for 30 min? thoughts?

To be honest I don't really care So long as it gets activated it's fine. People have their reasons for not playing a game and that's fine by me.

Depends, If I win a game which my pesky laptop cannot play I will simply not play it... until I get a new PC.

I'm a working guy, and I cannot play any games I like right on time, so I get them on my queue. E.g: It's been ~a year since Batman Arkham City came out and I just started to play.

i give a lot more games away that i would win so whats the problem with that that i win 1 game and play that later when im are old and have time :)

not this again...it has never even occurred to me to go and stalk my winners

"Gift" is something I love to do. I don't expect "anything" in return. The winner is "gifted", and to feel that they owe me anything would feel like a loan, or borrowed items etc....this is not the case with this site. Silly way to think of gifting. Kinda like gifting a physical item, and expecting something in return for it other than a simple "thank you". The winner of any gift can do whatever it is they please with their gift with the exception of rules like activation etc. To gift is defined as to give something without the hopes of getting anything in returning. ^_^ Have a nice day !

Ha, I'm still battling my PS2 and NDS backlogs.

I've only won one game, and I have to admit that I bumped it up my to-play list purely because my winning the game prevented someone else from winning the game, so I wanted to make damn sure I appreciated it. So now I've logged about 15 hours on that game, finished it 5 times and gotten all the achievements. Chances are I'll never play it again, but I really appreciated having the chance to play it.

I certainly don't think it's unfair to hope that your gift goes to someone that's going to play it and enjoy it, but I wouldn't worry too much about it.. Like a lot of people have said, there are many reasons as to why someone might not play a game. I would be a little disappointed if I happened to come across the profile of someone who won a GA I made a year or more ago and they had still not played the game at all.. But I also don't think people should feel pressured to play a game they win as soon as they can. It's a game, it's entertainment. You can't force someone to try and entertain themselves.. and even if you did, that'd kinda defeat the purpose of being entertained.

When I do a GA I only send the game and nothing else. Sometimes the person who wins the game didn't expect what he/she won to be bad or something. I always try to play every game I won.

Most of the bundled games - which are also the majority of those given away - are.. uhm... really crappy. Some of them are pure trash like "Insecticide" or "Zombie shooter", some are just weird like "Darwinia" or boring ("A virus named TOM") and there are very little people who would actually enjoy playing them in my opinion.

imho the winner should at least install and try the game. if you enter a game then you want to try it out, not just having it in your library. it's just rude if you do not even install the game...

For someone it's difficult to play all the games he has. Personally i haven't played all the game I won but I also haven't played most of the game I bought, mostly because the lack of time.
However i agree with the restriction in number of giveaway one can enter, I'd lower the giveaway points.

No distinction is made between the games i have won and the games i have bought for myself, although i give slight advantage to the games i have won (wow that's a lot of "i have" in one sentence).
If you try to force upon yourself anything in life just because you are expected to, other that doing it for your sake and enjoying it, then it usually turns out be shit and especially underwhelming. Just one example: i recently started playing Skyrim which i won last year, i'm enjoying so far but i'm not sure i would have the same level of interest if i started playing it immediately after i won it just to make other person happy rather than myself.
Also there is this thing called social life which kinda gets in the way for some people (not me though, but i heard some scary stories about that syndrome) so you should probably add that to the equation

Hmm. I don't even play the games I bought with my own money; wouldn't be fair of me to expect people to play all the ones that drop on their heads via a random stranger.

Although, to see someone's not tried Dark Souls yet, perhaps that would make me a bit sad... Sniff...

If I've spent money on a game, I'd hope that the winner will play it some day, even if it's currently at the bottom of a very long backlog. That said, it really is up to them, and I don't go stalking my winners' profiles for hours played, or send them dead rodents in the mail if they take too long installing the games they won. Well, not since that nasty situation a few months ago where the police got involved...

I have several games I've won which I haven't played yet, but there isn't a single one of them I don't intend to play at some point.

I'm quite guilty of this myself. of the 10 games I won, I only played 4/5 and finished 2.