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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Witchfire looks awesome. Hope it's coming to PC (did they say the platforms it's coming to?).

6 years ago*
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I'd be down for a a new PAINKILLER (a real one).
And a shooter not coming to PC would be foolish (but who knows these days, eh?)

6 years ago
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I don't think they did but, assuming they're still independent, it should definitely come out on Steam. Maybe it'll be ported to PS4 like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was

6 years ago
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I like the idea of A Way Out. Looks interesting

6 years ago
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Agreed. We need more games that focus on co-op, "both on the couch, or online."

6 years ago
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Fairly sure it's been said before it's purely couch co-op.
Unless you talk in general and not specifically about this game.

6 years ago
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In the preview thing, they said that exact line.

6 years ago
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Up till now they've consistently been saying offline and online co-op both, so unless they specifically said otherwise in TGA, that should still stand. However, the game is split-screen regardless of if you're playing offline or online, which may be where the confusion comes in.

(Example article detailing online co-op.)

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Probably, heard it was only couch since getting both sides was absolutely vital.
Guess my sources where wrong. My bad.

6 years ago
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the guy who was talking about A Way Out was drunk asf, and he said it was jetlag xD

6 years ago*
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Lolllllllllll, the editing on that Andrew House video was total shit.

6 years ago
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Ooooo, he's retiring tho

6 years ago
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I'm starting to think that TGA means The Game Advertisement because I haven't seem an award yet, can't say the same about ads... (ಠ_ಠ)

6 years ago
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Hey, they have to keep the lights on somehow.

6 years ago
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This comment was presented by McDonalds. Use the code TGA to get $5 off your next Big Mac! xD

6 years ago
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Atleast it's not lootboxes ;)

(Well, the awards are, technically)

6 years ago
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If she's the heart of the story, let her fucking speak.

6 years ago
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Has anyone won anything?

6 years ago
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Cuphead got 2, Hellblade got 2.
EDIT: Oh, you mean games? <slaps self>

6 years ago
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I think he is talking about the giveaway

6 years ago
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Yeah, my bad... it came right after LastM's posts so I made the wrong connection.

6 years ago
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lucky
EDIT: nvm

6 years ago
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Yeah about the giveaway:)

6 years ago
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I blame LastM cough cough ;)
There's been one report of a win last page.

6 years ago
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but did you check it on Ebay?
I'm innocent!

6 years ago
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Sadly, no :(
Someone in the thread did though

6 years ago
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These translators are the best, I love them.

6 years ago
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omggg she's a video editor, I'm in luvvvvvvvv

6 years ago
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

6 years ago
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Ditto. Haha.

6 years ago
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Monitor deal isn't bad at all https://www.ebay.com/itm/311913595343

Remember, you can price match on newegg or elsewhere

6 years ago
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240$? Good price.

6 years ago
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Yeah, looks like it's been this low before though, including Black Friday. I think it's still a good deal at that price, but it sort of seems like one of those items with an artificially inflated price just to put it on deep sale.

6 years ago
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Likelihood of winning anything?; Mehh
Still going to try?; Hell yeahh

6 years ago
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Yeah, I don't care how small my chance is, I'll stay on until all games are gone

6 years ago
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ended

6 years ago
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The !giveaway trolls are great

6 years ago
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I'm typically not a fan or proponent of awards shows in general. This was my first time watching (or hearing of,) "The Game Awards," and I can definitively say that my stance on awards shows hasn't budged at all. That was a waste of viewer time and production dollars. Live and learn.

6 years ago
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Yep. Every award show is just industries masturbating all over each other.

6 years ago
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But you got 5 dollars off your next McDonald's Uber Eats purchase! That, by itself, makes it worth it all.

6 years ago
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Ends in like 5 mins I think...

Plus it's McDonalds >.<

6 years ago
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Sarcasm, my friend

6 years ago
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LoL when I saw your username I laughed

6 years ago
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but uber is not a illegal service? they are promoting piracy?

6 years ago
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It is the oscars of gaming industry

6 years ago
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But, but... #FuckTheOscars ?

6 years ago
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lol that part was so funny

6 years ago
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So. Has someone from Steamgift won anything? Or this is not real?

6 years ago
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Holy sh!t my sister won Cuphead!! Early Xmas!

6 years ago
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O wow congrats to her

6 years ago
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Guess I'm gonna be a frequent guest til the Xmas sale. At least it was a co-op game right? So I guess it was real.

6 years ago
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So the stream ended, but the prizes page still shows "33/100 Available Prizes" on most of the games. Is that just me, or are they still doling out prizes?

6 years ago
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Says 96/97/47 given here.
I assume the remaining ones are for that mailing thing?

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6 years ago
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No claiming needed apparently. Prizes just appear in your library. My sis didn't even get an email or notification of any kind. If she didn't have her library organized, she would probably have missed it

6 years ago
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Mine shows 26 remaining on most

6 years ago
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It's a web server cache issue I think. Keep refreshing and it bounces around a bit, occassionally changing to prizes awarded.

6 years ago
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What is Kojima smoking, for the love of god

6 years ago
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Holy shit, thank you for pointing this out. I actually won Divinity: Original Sin 2, one of the only 2 titles I wanted and I only had 3. Oddly enough there was no notification what-so-ever, pure chance that I even noticed.

Celebatory Train/Pile basic sgtools 2+

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you dind't get a notification in your activity like "Deadone now owns Divinity 2"?

6 years ago
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I stay signed out of friends and http://steamcommunity.com/id/dead0ne/myactivity isn't showing anything, not even the other games I activated today.

6 years ago
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Nope. It just shows up in your library.

6 years ago
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it looks like I won Nidhogg II. Just open this page, and it said Nidhogg II is already on my library. No notification, nothing

Lucky me :D

ps: but it's not on my wishlist tho :p

6 years ago
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Wow, congrats!

6 years ago
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There were like 140k people watching, but I'm still somehow mad I didn't win.

6 years ago
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chances better thasn on any public SG GA ;p there were like 14XX games to win, so with top of 140k viewers you had 1% chance to win something - it's like entering 100 Entries GA ;p Keeping in mind that especially at the start there were much fewer viewers than these 140k (when I checked right after preshow there were 60k) it was even higher chance ;p

6 years ago
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That's not how it works. If the games are being drawn one by one (which I suppose they are), you still have roughly 1/140k chances. Dividing the amount of gifts given by the total amount of entrants and attributing a certain amount of entrants to each gift, is wrong.

Let's say we have 100 people and 5 gifts, by your logic, that's 20 people per gift. However, every single one of those 20 people (except for the winner of each gift) can win any of the 5 gifts making the chances [1/(100-4)] x 100%=1.042 (with 4 being the winners of the other gifts who can't win). The difference is that you have 5 times that chance to win. That's if a person can only win once.
In the case of this giveaway, the chances would go like that. X the amount of gifts per game, and 140k viewers, that's [1/140000-X)] x 100%.

You can't add your chances for each gift to a total amount. Having 5 times 1% chance to win something, is not the same with having a single 5% chance to win something. I'm not good in Maths, so in case I'm wrong please correct me.

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You are right, idk what I was thinking, thou not entirely right, cause it was not 1 gift at the time, but according to Valve it was 150 per draw. So chances to win varied from 0.25% (150/60000) to . 0.1% (and you had this time 9-10 times if you watched whole show). So still chances better than winning any Public GA for any of these games on SG (these GAs get few thousand entries, chances here were comparable to GA with 250-1000 entries), but ofc actually way lower than what I initially stated.

6 years ago
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Checked Recent Games...nope...nuttin!

6 years ago
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Why couldn't they make that earlier, whole Europe was sleeping while they were doing this stream :/

6 years ago
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thanks valve admin for hellblade ^^

6 years ago
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waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

6 years ago
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Wow, really?
congratulations :)

6 years ago
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Congrats Mully!

6 years ago
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I won Night in the Woods.

6 years ago
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Awesome, congrats!

6 years ago
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Thanks. They are releasing big update next week, so I'll wait. Heard good things about this game.

6 years ago
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Yeah, I heard great things about the game too. Didn't hear about the update, though. Do you know what they're updating?

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6 years ago
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So we do have winners on SG! Congrats to everyone. And thanks for the thread

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Closed 6 years ago by M0J.