Do i have the worst winners or are they all that bad?

Don't call out users here! Even if some winners are a**holes.

Thats a darn shame, everyone that has won my giveaways have left me little thank you notes, and I do the same to my own wins.

Sorry to hear youve been having a rough time with your rolls. :/

Some may have too much backlog like me.

Public giveaways tend to end up like that, specially when the games you giveaway are (not meant to offend you or anything) relatively bad. Not everyone is like that, though. We have a crapton of members but some just enter every giveaway they can; not even knowing what game they're entering for.

Hah, oh well. I often give my senders like paragraphs and paragraphs of thank yous and they don't respond to me like I'm annoying so.

I try to be as grateful as possible to the creator of the giveaway. But if they just use email, it's kinda hard. But my giveaway for The Void ended a month ago, the guy has the game but hasn't touched it since he won it.

My last few winners didn't thank me, but some of my other winners have been good people.

Two winners of my giveaways never had the games in their inventory. They probably traded the games or gave them away... At least they both said thank you though I guess.

i have similar cases. 2 of 7 either regifted or forgot the game at all. made a support ticket but after 2 weeks of no response i gave up

Both my winners activated their games and were pretty congenial about it in chat when I gave them the key/gift. I did not keep track on them on whether they played the game or not, though. Not really much of a stalker... :P

4 giveaways - 4 thank you's. Don't know if they played or not. Don't care.

Again, a lot of people enter giveaways even though they don't really want the game

Some people are jerks. Get used to it. They'll always go for games they never play because they just want the game for their collection.

Do you give away games just for the gratitude? Seems a kinda silly thing to do. Are you just looking for recognition, appreciation, or what?

I put stuff on here that I don't want (or can't use, e.g. extra copies), can't give to my friends, has little "sale" value, and that others might benefit from. I don't expect gratitude because, to me, it's all just junk that I've been giving away. I have no use for it, so someone else might as well have it. Who cares if they say thanks or not?

And what they do with it after? That's up to them. What they enter? That's up to them. I wouldn't bother to "track" things that much, because I'm just giving away my unwanted things. If you're giving away thousands of pounds - well, that's your problem, not the winners. You chose to give them away and you can't go imposing conditions or demanding recognition. What are you after? "Buying off" people who say how cool you are for frittering your money away? Seems kinda narcissistic to me.

The stuff I've won? It's something I won. I say thanks if I see the guy in question online but often when trading a lot, things just appear or pop up and often I'm not even in front of the computer at the time (even if it's logged into Steam). By the time you go to reply, they're offline or just not on your friends list any more. The stuff I won - yes, I enter it for me - but who cares what you actually do with it. If you're that bothered you shouldn't have given it away. You have GIVEN IT AWAY, including any say in what happens to it.

I don't really see the fuss. I also never pre-emptively say Thanks. I could be there for years saying thanks to the 2000 giveaways I entered, and I've won precisely 2 things (the others were no-shows!). Really, the gratitude you see is proportional to the effort and perceived value of what you gave away. When 99% of people are just clearing out their inventories, getting rid of competition wins they don't want, handing out their extraneous copies, putting up stuff they acquired as extras from trades, or just mistakes of things that didn't want or were given by friends, then really this website's just a bargain bin.

If you're after recognition, spending your money to give away games is a shallow way to get it.

This made me look at the guy I gave away my CS: GO Beta, turns out he gave it to a friend after he won it. Thanks for reminding me.
I reported him now.

First site giveaway I did, the winner traded the game away.
Before that I just dropped keys in chat and in the forums.

I only didn't get thank yous on two of my games. Right now I am still waiting on a reroll because one of my giveaways won a week ago and said he contacted support for a reroll because he won the game an hour before. I also sent in a reroll request but its been 9 days and still under support so I am marked as one not received so now I have a nice 86% received by users until that gets fixed.
What actually annoyed me was one guy who wouldn't mark the giveaway as received when I know he received it because he was playing it later that day. After day two I sent him a message on steam asking him to mark it as received please if he was able to get it. Then after another time I seen him online I left a comment on his profile to mark it as received then I just gave up. On day 6 he at least finally marked it. The main reason I wanted him to do it soon was because there was a private group giveaway I wanted to be in with a contributor value on it that if he marked it as complete it would have put me over the amount but I missed out of entering it it by 2 days. It was a Saints Row 3 franchise pack with around 60 entries before it closed. Oh well.

I've only created one giveaway so far, but I guess I am lucky I had a nice winner.

At first he was confused -- but he simply forgot and (I guess) never realized he would actually win anything. He was very appreciative and thanked me and everything else. This thread inspired me to look at how much he played the game (Binding of Isaac) he's played it for 0.8 hours. I guess that's good enough for me. As long as he tried it. :)

I have a very bad winner !

I have send the gift several weeks ago and my contribution was accepted. But about one month later the status has changed in "Gift not received" and I have loose my contribution and my gift !

I've done a lot of giveaways on other forums, and to people On my friends list, and I rarely do it now, because I have spent my money giving people things that sometimes I don't even get a simple "thank you" for. I've done it here and the winner hasn't even played the game, and it puts me off doing it at all. Tons of people are like that, and it's a real shame.

I recently got a game here and unfortunately it won't work on this computer. I'm buying a new one in december. So, am I a bad winner?

i make sure that when i win a gift, i will thank the winner personally by adding them to steam and talk with them, they went out of their way to make a giveaway, so i will go out of my way to make sure i thank them properly, i have yet to play some of the games i won, but i do have a list of games that i wanna go through, and the games i won is on that list

Once I sent the key to the winner, I didn't care what they did with it. They could use it themselves, give it to a friend or use it in a giveaway. The rules clearly state a different opinion than mine but it's up to winners to follow that rule, however.

I always deliver the games via Steamchat and Tradingsystem and everyone was really nice.

I dont care if they played the games. If they entered only for the collection - why not :)
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