I have entered 128 giveaways now and haven't won 1 yet...
Is the winning chance really that hard?

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Some people haven't won yet,and they have over a thousand entries. It's harder than that.

11 years ago
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it's easy to win quite often if you play smart

11 years ago
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I'm one of them. (I'm actually aiming for 4000 entries before my first win.)

Watch your estimated wins on your profile. When your estimated wins are equal to the number of actual wins +5, then you know you're unfortunate. Even with a 50/50 chance of winning, there is no guarantee that you will win. The only way to be 100% sure you will get a game is to: a) buy the game for yourself with your own money; or b) be the only entrant in the giveaway.

11 years ago
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I'm at 2015 entries so far. It's slow going, but if my horrible luck holds, I'll manage to continue my 0% win rate indefinitely.

11 years ago
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Check your profile: Estimated wins = 0.24.

Did you skip classes at kindergarten?

11 years ago
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Pre-school.

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11 years ago
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Sure he did. Pre-pre-calculus and Trigonometry for Toddlers.

11 years ago
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What's that kindergarden??
EDIT: apparently it's spelled -kindergarten- so yeah.....

11 years ago
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Kindergarten, not kindergarden. It's not a place where you farm little children, you pedo. :P

11 years ago
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Yep, me pedo.

11 years ago
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Senseless because garden is the same word as garten...

11 years ago
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Niceryard?

11 years ago
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He is plain retarded.

11 years ago
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Cool story bro...

11 years ago
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128 and you're crying already?

You're gonna have a baaaaad time.

11 years ago
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Hey I gots you an idea give back to the ME GUSTA. I LOAF YOU.

11 years ago
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yes it is, your estimated wins haven't even reached one yet or close so don't expect one soon.

11 years ago
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i won 2 games in the last 2 days :3

11 years ago
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Enter more giveaways!

11 years ago
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Just wait.

It will be amazing, your first time that is...

11 years ago
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no ....it don't ... my first win is Galactic Arm Race, and i not say i like it very much

11 years ago
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I got it elsewhere(they gave away another 1,000 keys not long after that giveaway) .. its ok for the first 30 minutes.. then it got far to repetitive, I changed my greenlight vote to no thanks

11 years ago
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@honglong17 I hate people like you. You should be grateful that you even won a giveaway or there's even a giveaway that has 25,000 copies

11 years ago
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Why hate him? He won, tried it, disliked it.

He could have bought it, tried it, disliked it.

Its not like you are going to know 100 percent you like a game until you try it....

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He couldn't have bought it...

11 years ago
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Yeah he could, considering it's being sold on Desura and was (possibly still is) including Steam keys in the purchase.

11 years ago
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No i dont' like it very much, but i still vote for their game in green light as a thank

11 years ago
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At least it wasn't Bad Rats....

11 years ago
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Oh look it's this thread again

11 years ago
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I like these threads, they help me sleep knowing my estimate win is four and I've win 6!

11 years ago
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every now and then some one like you comes along and thinks you'll get a free game every 100 entries...patience young one

11 years ago
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look at me! ive eneterd 3,291 giveaways and won 12 and ididnt even recieve scared gold! You dont see me complainin! infact im happy with what ive got!

11 years ago
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128, and you already crying. It took me over 2500 to get first win.

11 years ago
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thats nothing. besides your estimated wins are .2 so odds say you shouldn't have by now anyway(it'd take on average about 5 times this if your odds remain consistent(of course odds aren't cumulative so you could win the next thing you enter, you may not win until 2k more entries)).

(I've entered >1k without winning and feel pretty normal doing it.(my estimated wins are about 1.5 so a bit less lucky than average, but close enough))

11 years ago
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you dont win because you enter those public giveaways with 5000 entries... you'll never win at that rate

11 years ago
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This.

I stopped with all the big giveaways even if i really like the game. Everything what goes over 700-800 entries i leave, and it works! Won 2 great giveaways yesterday.

11 years ago
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it's better to give than to receive... ;)

11 years ago
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I love these daily "I can't win" threads :D

the hate , drama and humor after the OP is pure gold <3

11 years ago
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Seeing stupidity makes one lose faith in humanity.

11 years ago
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I lost my faith in humanity a long time ago, think it's around the time I got an internet connection.

11 years ago
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oH ,... it sad..

11 years ago
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You gave away garrys Mod + CS S

thanks for that, but see? 2723 ppl entered. That means that each of them had a 0.04 % chance to win. This means (math ppl, pls don't hate me, i know that the following is not quite right):They need to enter 2500 of these giveaways.

So better enter forum giveaways, hidden giveaways, private giveaways, developer giveaways, group giveaways, contributer giveaways or anything but no public giveaways

PS: watch my wins...1 public, 2 group in which anyone had to contribute, 2 contrib, 3 hidden (private), 1 forum contrib, 2 devs.

just 1 out of 11 is a public win...

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QQ some more

11 years ago
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Just leave if you're going to give up then. Less whiners for us.

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Yep, type "Thanks" until your fingers bleed, like a true champion.

11 years ago
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Yes, my blacklist needs more idiots blindly typing "thanks" without reading giveaway's description.

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Thanks.

11 years ago
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Keep entering and there is a low chance you might win, It's random.

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I'd rather not win than be in the situation I'm in right now. Won something I really, really wanted, to have it be a 'fake' giveaway and not recieve it.

11 years ago
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130 entries in giveaways with average 520 entries, meaning a chance to win 1/520 for each giveaway. How is this possible to not win? Something must be broken or dis site is scam.

11 years ago
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This site isn't a scam here, I won Half-Life 2.

11 years ago
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/hands out sarcasm detector

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Closed 11 years ago by WereVolf5.