New to SteamGifts - a couple of questions

Yes, yes, and depends. Random is random. I think it was a few months until I won my first one.

Welcome!

Yes, yes, and I've won about seven games in my five months using the site. It took me about... two months before I won my first game? And then I had a pretty good streak for that month where I won like five giveaways. I've got all the luck.

They never made the FAQ more visible past a sticky, but here it is since you missed it.

FAQ & Rules

It should answer all of your questions.

First: yes.
Second: yes.
Third: statistics.

One of my friends won a gift the first time he ever entered. Some have won less frequently. I've won three gifts in about 2700 entries I believe. It depends on what you're entering. Your odds will increased in group giveaways and contributor giveaways and dev giveaways.

Hi DojoDog74, thanks for joining. Yep, those contributor giveaways work exactly as you mentioned. If a user gifts a $10.00 game, and it's marked received by the winner, they can join contributor giveaways up to $10.00. The only exception are games that were available in indie bundles, and their prices are calculated a little differently (read more).

If you're only entering giveaways with 500 entries, you'd expect to win roughly 1 out of 500. However, we run a lot of private giveaways in our group chat and on the forum through puzzles. Also, a number of communities and users run giveaways for Steam groups. Private and group giveaways typically have 30x less entries, so they allow for better odds of winning.

Yeah Contributor giveaways (the one with the green little number) require you to have given away a certain amount of games that totaled to the amount it says. You don't need to only give away Steam Codes, there's also Gifts btw :P

A few things:

If you don't win anything in 1 week - 4 months don't complain on the forums.

Yes and yes. I won Guns of Icarus day 1.

There's a nice statistic page where you can see cool stuff

As your questions have already been answered I'd say that I've received 10 games so far, mostly from group or private giveaways. You will start to "statistically" win when you reach the average number of entries on giveaways in your giveaway count.

Welcome! And if you have any other doubts I'd suggest you read the FAQ or use the forums to solve it (Don't forget about the search function :-P )

Yeah, what other people said and be nice and participate in the forum, don't complain about the contributor value, don't complain about not winning and use the search function before create threads.

I wish you good luck here and hope you win (and give ;)) a game soon!

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I'm here to have fun, so you won't see any complaints by me here on the forums.

Won during my second month here, I suggest browsing the forum for private giveaways.

At the time of this post,208,774 gifts received.About wins...join groups and browse the forums for giveaways,or just have pure luck.