Suggestion: Only give games to those who want games

Some people don't have the time to play those games but that doesn't mean that they don't want those games.

Some are busy with school, while some are busy with other things. My main problem is getting the chance to download games, because I'm stuck with a bandwidth cap.

People who have 100+ unplayed $30+ games (I've seen worse) should not be depriving those who actually want the respective game :/

Maybe some of the unplayed games are games previously played from a physical copy and just reacquired on steam, just to be part of the steam library. I got a few of those.

I have a lot of unplayed games but those are mostly $5 or less games I havn't gotten around to yet :P

The example account posted up there about "93 unplayed games" is a little quick to throw accusations about him quiting games or whatever. It looks like that specific person purchased one of those "full collection" sales during the Steam Winter Sale, more specifically it looks like he bought the ID Collection (Doom game etc).

Totally disagree.
As i told in another thread:
Almost whole my life i lived in small wild country, where is very difficult to buy legit copy of game (salary is low, difficult to have CC, Internet connection speed is also low). And i play a lot of illegal copies of games.

But now i'm able to buy it on steam (including old ones, which are not available in local stores). So, i don't want to play all these games again (for example - Bioshock, Borderlands, Overlord, Men of war, Painkiller, Tropico, Company of Heroes or Commandos series), but i bought it to reward developers and publishers.

But of course, i will newer enter to giveaway just to "have already played game in my library". I enter only games i never played before (or played demo) and want to play.

"people are winning games for the sole purpose of having them."

This is why we have the points system. I really doubt anyone "win[s] games for the sole purpose of having them" given the time it takes to wait for points to build up (among other reasons).

I have owned a lot of games - Steam and otherwise - that I haven't gotten around to playing for years.

I think you're looking into this way too much. Everyone has an equal chance of winning the game so I don't think it's anyone's business whether the game gets played or not. It's not your game anymore so you shouldn't check up on it. There are far too many reasons why someone wouldn't play/install a game so I'm drawing a line here.

that's why TGC group exists.

I don't fully understand how steam tracks hours played but I know for a fact that I have games in my account that have 0 hours and no achievements done when I have completed them. I don't particularly play in offline mode either so I don't know why there is no record of me ever playing anything from the HL series when its the reason I had a steam account in the first place.

But for others yea, maybe offline mode or the dl is too big to get it right away for where ever they live.

I play most of my games in offline mode so they don't show up with playtime, so you really can't tell for sure.

I think just having the game in your library, and not trading it is proof enough that these people actually want to play the games.

Those freakin Steam sales can really get you.I know I've bought a bunch of games just because they were being sold for a ridiculously cheap price, even if I don't have any hard drive space to install them.I will play them sooner or later.

Heh. I have a ton of unplayed games and I want to play them, I just don't have the time. With work and all it gets hard to get time for some vidya

well for me i tend to pay one game at a time until i finish it

Steam sales do get to you ( well me :3 ).
I have purchased more than a few because they were at low price (usually less than 2.5$ or so, and haven't played them since I regretted getting them in the first place and in the end wasn't interested).
So yes I'm ashamed but that means Steam's sales system works :P

Also, I have bought low price sale games which I've played and finished offline years before Steam (like elder scrolls 3+4, overlord),
since I like having them around and available in case I decide to pick them up and play again.

And, some bundled games do come with games I wasn't interested in (Example - X package which had all the X series, but I was only interested in X3).

So it all adds up to some unplayed games.

I do agree however, that people should only enter giveaways for games they are interested in playing (or atleast trying).

If only steam would allow gifting unplayed games, I'd have awhole lot more gifts :P

I'm not sure what seems to be the trend lately but what's up with the self entitlement?
No offense meant but like mentioned by others you don't know why they can't spend as much time on those games, for all you know they were gifted to them for christmas by friends and they're not their cup of tea.
It's a giveaway site where random people host giveaways for other random people, there is and should be no bias on who has more entitlement to winning a random giveaway.
That defeats both the purpose and is not in the spirit of Steamgifts.

However if this is your opinion Reelix I can't say anything that'll disprove that as it is subjective, however I would have a suggestion.
Try creating a group for your ideology?
That way you could very easily accomplish your goal without putting stress on the SG creators/mods nor would it impact the community.
Just a thought. :)

How do you solve that?

1. Install unplayed games

2. Run them for several minutes

3. ???

4. Profit!

Your arguement is invalid.

Um, umad?

I bought Humble Bundles, and the Indie Gala bundle. Each have around 5-6 games.
My point: I cant, fucking play every one of them. One, because I don't have time, and two, because some are so boring I'd rather suck dicks than play them.

After being referred to the FAQ, I now enter games I only intend to PLAY. So what if people are entering just to keep? Lets say there's a giveaway for Skyrim. There's a guy who's got nothing on his account except HiB and bundle games. He wants to enter, but cant cuz he is busy earning, or isn't interested in playing those games. Does this sound very fair?

maybe I should stop entering giveaways :(

i can see why would you have unplayed game i have 2 unpacked gifts and i will play them as soon as i finish games i currently play for example i now play Dead Island which is 100 h of game play if you want to do and explore everything but i can play only 10 hrs a week + i regulary play online games as TF2 KF and L4D2 so i cant be playing my new games all the time. I got portal from this site even though you can download portal from torrents real easy i have completed this game several times and i dont feel like playing it at this moment. i think this is kinda stupid little kids discussion, point of this site is to build awesome community not crybaby one, this is all about people who want to support they favorite games by buying extra copy for other people and for people who wants to give something to world. If you are so desperate about playing this game pirate it. i think its sick that you take time to make posts and research about people who play or dont play games they have won when in the same time you could have made enough money to buy the game

Im not a begger but i agree with alot of comments.
alot are winning games and just letting them lay around
its hard for me to get games also
cash.
work for cash yeah it isent summer so i cant work in super market yet
and school
im not wasting my time gaining 1000 hours on my games i want to complete everyone then gain more hours
and those who are winning games and not even playing them they are just lucky or steam gifts goes after first letter in username or something?