You can apparently win games if you watch The Game Awards on Steam

If you're watching The Game Awards tonight, you may want to watch on Steam, or at least have the stream open on Steam. If you do, you'll apparently have a chance to win a free copy of a nominated game—so, a bunch of the best games of the year, including Divinity: Original Sin 2, XCOM 2 plus the War of the Chosen DLC, and Prey. You can see the full list of prizes here
http://store.steampowered.com/prizes/view/2155400354637870753

According to the rules, viewers can participate in more than one drawing throughout the show, and Steam will auto-select a game you don't own as the prize if you win. It's not entirely clear from the wording on the main page whether you have to click anything during the show to enter or if it's automatic, but the official rules suggest the latter. Hilariously, and presumably for legal reasons, you can also enter by mailing a letter to Valve.
http://store.steampowered.com/prizes/rules/2155400354637870753


link to the show
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/thegameawards2017/

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Pretty cool thing to do. Also a nice selection of games. Way to go, Valve!

6 years ago
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I wonder how many 'prizes' are actually going to be given away, I'm kind of sceptical about the whole thing tbh, specially since there will be no way of validating if anyone got anything

6 years ago
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According to this, 150 every 15 minutes, yet there's a total of 1920 copies in total of various games to give away?

Edit: Seems they added another game to the prize pool (Pyre).

6 years ago*
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those are good numbers!

6 years ago
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~2.30 AM in Poland. So I guess I'll say 'no' to Valve this time.

6 years ago
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about 23h30, still late for me

6 years ago
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I am planning to just leave PC running ;p

6 years ago
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Not worthy. Electricity will cost you more than game IF you win ofc :)

6 years ago
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erm - idk where you live, but right here 2-3 hours of PC running in energy save mode and with Moniotor turned off surely costs much less than 60$ (heck, PC running 24/7 for whole month would still cost less than 60$) ;p Let's do a quick calculation - 1 KW/h right here costs more or less 12 cents, I have a 500W PSU but obviously it won't be working in full power, let's say consumption for just stream running in lowest resolution, system etc will consume grand total of 300W. 300W = 0.3KW, (0.3KW3hours0,12$ per KW/h)=10.8cents, 10.8 cents is 555,55 times less than a cost of brand new AAA game, so you may just consider it same as buying 0.1$ lotterry ticket with a chance to win 20-60$ ;p

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6 years ago
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this is exactly what I do every single night ;p I live next to a busy street, cars driving 24/7, I basically cannot go to sleep with all that noise, so every single night I turn on some TV show I already know or some music and I fall asleep listening to that ;p I simply don't use shortcut (because I use different timer based on what I am going to watch/listen to), so I input it into cmd ;p Just this time instead of leaving PC on for an hour I will leave it for three hours ;p

6 years ago
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cmd: shutdown -s -t 3600(or more) - f ? xD
Watching "Scrubs" over and over again. Even turning off the monitor since i already know what the scene looks like xD

6 years ago
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pretty much this ;p I am even ultra-lazy so I input it from my smartphone while lying in bed using Unified Remote app ;p When I go to bed but not to sleep I will watch something, when I decide it's time to sleep I go to cmd from smartphone and set up shutdown ;p Just not watching Scrubs - usually I put on random episodes list from SouhPark.cc (but same reasoning, after going to sleep like this for years I already know all the episodes back-to-back, don't even have to look at screen, can just listen to dialogue), eventually I put on some music or a podcast, monitor mode switched to no-blue-light and this is how I go to sleep ;p

6 years ago
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unified remote app *taking notes xD

6 years ago
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it's the best thing ever for lazy weekends of Netflix'n'chill (or anything'n'chill) with missus ;p You can operate basically your entire PC over WiFi without getting up to put on next episodes or changing what you are watching/listening to ;p Plus there is free version, and while it does not cover all the options (like separate remotes fopr all programs you may have) it's more than enough ;) I basically use only cursor control via touchscreen and keyboard emulation ;p

6 years ago
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definetly will give it a try :) Thanks for the great tip!

6 years ago
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Yup, was asleep when the whole awards happened. Not really an EU friendly giveaway...

6 years ago
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nice one. guess my pc will stay longer awake than i am tonight

6 years ago
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thats what i thought xD

6 years ago
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Wonder if they will consider your "type" of game and if it's on your wish/not interested list.

I mean I'd be pretty pissed to get a copy of NBA 2K18 for example. Plus it would be a complete waste, and shame for someone who may enjoy it, as I assure you, I'd never play it.

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6 years ago
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yeah, I really don't think so :/ Which is a shame, because there are interesting games, but most of them, I don't care about

6 years ago
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Since they have all that info, I don't see why not. Would be different if they had no idea what you played or were interested in, but they've already mined all that data.

6 years ago
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+1, but at least playable. I'd be even more pissed if I got Super Hot VR.

6 years ago
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Maybe if you win a VR game they'll toss in an Oculus :P

6 years ago
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Good, I hope they also throw in a surgery for my right eye, so I can play properly. :(

6 years ago
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I've only tried 1 VR game (this, on PS4 so no Oculus), but that shouldn't be a problem

6 years ago
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Really? Because people say it's quite like how 3D glasses work, and if I put on one of those red-blue glasses I only see the red part.

6 years ago
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I don't remember if I tried 3D glasses but I'm almost sure they wouldn't work for me, and I know for sure the 3D of the 3DS doesn't work for me.

Just remembered this article I read a while ago : https://kotaku.com/playing-occulus-rift-with-only-one-eye-1074765790
Also 2 reddit threads I found just now :

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My, that's reassuring. O:
I'm feeling it kinda beats the purpose of immersion, like not enjoying the 3DS's 3D which would be the main feature, but it's good to know it's at least playable. I would give a chance for VR anyway if I have the oportunity, but now I'm more inclined to try it out. Thanks for sharing. :D

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6 years ago
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Well, will definitely pull up a window at work.

6 years ago
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jajajaj well i join, are like 3.5k ppl... now are near 10k <.<

6 years ago
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and we still have 1.5 hours before it begins.

6 years ago
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That's pretty cool! Thanks for making this thread.

6 years ago
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I've just mailed them a postcard to enter a giveaway, hope it arrives before the summer sale!

6 years ago
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And of course my ISP goes down city-wide before the stream.. They've still got 1 hour to fix it but I doubt anyone's out there at 1am

Edit: also, from what I understand, entering by postcard gets you into a separated giveaway so that might actually be worth checking out

6 years ago
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Is it only for US citizens? I get redirected to the main Steam page when I try to click any of the links related to the giveaway...

EDIT: nope it's not but the links are different for me for some reason. Thanks for the heads up!

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Global but i confirm links no more available..
edit just updated them

6 years ago
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Cool. I'll watch in the steam client anyway. My browser is old and broken lol

6 years ago
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Thanks for the heads-up.

6 years ago
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So through the browser won't count?

6 years ago
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guess you have to be logged in

6 years ago
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I'm always logged in. OP says "you may want to watch on Steam", so what I got from that is that I need to watch it on the client, because where else can you watch it other than Steam?

6 years ago
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I think they meant Steam as the website, as opposed to watching it on Twitch or Mixer for example (Mixer's also running a similar giveaway but for xbox I think)

6 years ago
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Ah ok, got it.

6 years ago
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Watch it on browser or client. Just need your account must not be limited.

6 years ago
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Thanks, pretty sure my account is not limited.

6 years ago
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does having it on the steam browser while playing a game counts? xd

6 years ago
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Of course, because you are "watching it" while logged in

6 years ago
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Thanks for the info! :)

6 years ago
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thank you for the info:))

6 years ago
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gonna watch it with my 100 alts so i can idle some cards if i win. ^^

6 years ago
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Sounds like the perfect evening to install the Call of Duty I won here... that should keep my nets occupied till morning.

6 years ago
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Not loading, figures.

6 years ago
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Hasn't started yet? Just heard a voice though...

6 years ago
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In Firefox it just refused, it told me 0 viewers too, chrome seems to work.

And what if the site gets overloaded and crashes? We all know what happens when sales starts.

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Hey, it's Steam, they know how to handle peaks like their sales, right RIGHT?
(Well, I doubt it'll be as bad as the start of Holiday Sale)

EDIT: It also just started

6 years ago
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Meh, can't install Chrome Portable at work.

Edit: Finally works in Firefox, too.

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Who thought adding a chat on Steam was a good idea?

6 years ago
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On Internet*, I can never read anything in these chats because people can't stop spamming.

6 years ago
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They work on some sites.
Steam with ultra-toxic newsposts however? Not a chance.

6 years ago
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I've never seen it work in live streams, unless the amount of users watching is extremely low.

6 years ago
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Closed it after like 10 seconds, clearly not one intelligent statement will be made there.

6 years ago
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How long is the show total? Wanna know when i can go to bed.

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Judging by the prize pool, at least ~3 hours and half (possibly more if they have more prizes they didn't show).

6 years ago
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Thanks, yeah not gonna wait till 5:30-6:00.

6 years ago
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About 60k logged in it looks like.

6 years ago
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So a 3% chance to win... not bad for Steam standards.
(Not that anyone here will likely win anyway :/)

6 years ago
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what a fail

6 years ago
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live now

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Closed 6 years ago by M0J.