Winners Not Playing Games Won

I know a guy who won a BBQ Grill and never used it for a couple years. Do you think anyone cared? Stop stalking people.

Hey. Some people have a lot on their plate, and have more important things to do than play the games they've won immediately and for hours on end.

Regarding the 830 people entering Fortix giveaways you mentioned:

Fortix is sort of a special case, I think. It's not like the people who give it away in large numbers are generally doing it because they think it's an amazing game and want everyone to play it, either; it just became a tradition at some point to give away Fortix, sort of like it's the Steamgifts Mascot. I already own Fortix 2, but I still want to win the original Fortix, simply because it's like a Steamgifts rite of passage. You see plenty of people on SG giving away another copy of Fortix (which they bought) after winning it, say, and I've even seen a few giveaways for it saying "I hope I win a copy of this myself soon!" or the like.

(And come on, if anyone really really really wants to play Fortix, they can just buy it! If you can afford a computer and an internet connection, I think you can afford the 99 cents for Fortix. Heck, you don't even need to pay real money for it -- you can make that much just selling cards or whatever on Steam.)

prolly he/she is jut too busy reaching diamond on League of legends, for exampole i ve got like 100 steam games, and I've just played like 20, I want and i WILL play all the games, but whenever i finish one i'll move onto another, another thing is that i played darksiders for like more than a year, and haven't finished, because of league, really.

yeah mostly we want to play the games we dont owe rather than the ones we do its habit i guess.

It's never occurred to me to check, but no, seeing that wouldn't stress me.

Lots of people who win games have so many games on the go that they don't get a chance to get to that game right away. Honestly you shouldn't even be worrying about it. If you're here to create a giveaway, the only thing you should worry about is whether or not they've traded it (if it's a gift).

The lotteries don't care if the winners never spend the money, or spend it on hookers or drugs.

There's a lot of people that would LOVE to play all the games they have... I definitely would, IF i had infinite free time.

I don't, so i can't. I barely have 1-2 hours a day (and that's still way more than most people have). Thus, games end up on backlog, waiting for my retirement (it'll take some 37 years from now).

I begin to get annoyed, but then I remember that I've won 19 games and only finished one of them and gave up on another.

why dose he even care?

I swear, every raffle I join it's for games I am interested in and would at least try them out. Got a big backlog myself but I think it shows respect to play the games you win.

What you could do is make a group with just one rule and a quite simple one: Once won something you have to play it in a certain time frame. Keep it to just that rule and you still have a 'public group'.

Or once given something away, you don't look back :)

Sometimes I enter ones that cost little points, but I play on playing every game that I win.

I am very regretful about winning most of my wins because I don't like or can't play most of them.

Honestly, I consider myself very unlucky with my wins.

I tend to game a lot on my work holidays... but while I work, I game little. Right now I am trying to get through Last Of Us. Wonderful game, but I play maybe an hour an evening. That's not a lot.

As for steam gaming, I game offline, a lot. If I am online, I will start chatting rather than playing. Offline play time doesn't show up. I have games I've played that show 0 hours.

OP - come back when you've invested at least 5 hours into each game you own.

I hear shy 'Not gonna happen'. Anything else?

This is a matter of time, I play for examples only 1-2 games until they are to the end, then comes the next.
If I win a game, I do not play it immediately, may be I i play it short, to test it. But it will just take
a while until it comes to the series.

It's a curse dude, don't tell me :(

Don't blame them, considering working, eating, and sleeping

Theres not enough hours in a lifetime to finish my backlog.

well, the winner of the giveaway won the game, so the game is his now, he can do whatever he wants with it, i personally enter for the games I want to play, when I win the game I check it out on youtube, it it's good I play it, if it's not good, I gift it to my brothers' steam accounts. Usually I get good games :)

should be more limits. for example 1 entrie per day.
this incrase chances to win game you rly want.

Well, from those games I won I only finished Portal 2 and still playing King's Bounty The Legend.
I'll most likely play Twin Sector and Dear Esther but not now.
However, you should consider the fact that maybe some of the members here have already played the cracked game and now they want it genuine.
Besides, you should consider people have other things to do usually, like work/school, sleep, eat etc.

We call it backlogs..

Nope, I don't care if they play it tomorrow or 10 years from now. It doesn't bother me, it's called a backlog, we all have one. Not everyone has the time to devote x amount of hours into gaming.

People have lives, and I'm pretty sure playing a game you won from a giveaway isn't at the top of anyone's priority list.

I'll tell you my story, I think it's interesting example how complicated that matter can be.

I've got Europa Universalis Chronicles for free from GameFly some time ago. Didn't find time to play it. Then I've won Victoria II here. I played it for exactly 68 minutes, really liked it, but I learned that final saves from one Paradox game could be converted to another. So I got myself Crusader Kings and I'm looking for good deal on Hearts of Iron III and I want to play them as one huge playtrough. But this is quite a challenge and I probably won't get back to Victoria for some time. So I end up with only 68 minutes played in game I won for the time being, but can you honestly say I didn't enjoy and appreciated that game?

Exams are over bejach, and I got 180 games, from around 20 bundles and I only won one steam gift that is nice but I will play it after I finish playing every co-op game and singleplayer games I own that I want to enjoy, but there are some games I will never play, like gum boy adventures, it will take time.