;D hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmw

EDIT: Seeing as I have incited an Army, I'll Be plenty patient! haha

EDIT: TO ALL NEW MEMBERS, THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO GAIN NOTORIETY, I DO NOT RECOMMEND COMPLAINING.
XD

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Theres nothing you can do but enter more stuff.

72 entries is practically nothing, some people have well over 1500 with no wins.

11 years ago
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ya ya, i knowz

11 years ago
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I seriously doubt you have entered giveaways with ~50 entries or your estimated wins would be much higher than 0.07 :p

Anyways as said above the only thing you can do is keep getting into more giveaway and eventually you will win something, at least you are not the kind of "this site is a scam, i haven't won anything QQ" guy, just keep trying :D

11 years ago
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Bitches gonna bitch.

11 years ago
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Did you look at my entry win ratio before posting that? I'm not bitching, merely stating that OP has hardly entered anything and that complaining now is going to do nothing. I was using the fact that there people out there with more than 1500 entries and no wins to say that OP shouldn't loose heart with the site.

11 years ago
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I was referring to OP bro, not you.

11 years ago
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Ok fair enough.

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on

11 years ago
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I think Tommy Lee could hep you. I hear he's good at giving people hep.

11 years ago
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?

11 years ago
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I was simultaneously pointing out what I assume is a typographical error in your original post while making a joke about the fact that notorious rocker Tommy Lee gave Pamela Anderson hepatitis - which is often abbreviated to hep.

Anyway, keep entering those giveaways and eventually (in a veeeeeeeeeeery long time) something will come your way.

11 years ago
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ohhh! thaks man! :D

11 years ago
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LOL

11 years ago
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I believe the correct time period would be classified as "real soon, now."

11 years ago
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Good things come to those who wait.

11 years ago
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truth

11 years ago
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Not necessarily. There's no rule that says good things must come. You could wait your entire life and encounter nothing but bad. Life is not fair, nor is it in any way obligated to be.

11 years ago
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You are NOT allowed to bitch until you have at least 500 entries. You can only fully bitch when you have at least 1k worth of entries without a win.

11 years ago
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I'm here to fully bitch.

11 years ago
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Go join the cherry poppers. Do it!

11 years ago
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I joined a month or so ago. One of these days!

11 years ago
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Hope you win something from there.

11 years ago
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Gewd lucks :D

11 years ago
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Since you know all the bitching rules, I have over 1k entries and 1 win. But that win was the Galactic Arms Race dev giveaway where it was actually more statistically unlikely to lose...Can I still bitch, or does that win (despite its odds) forfeit my right to bitching?

11 years ago
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I think you can. You should also join the cherry poppers. I heard they are still on the lookout for virgin winners.

11 years ago
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rants I never win anything Q.Q why don't people just give me all the games!!!!!ONEONE!11!!ONE! It's so frustrating and I either understand the statistics but got so hopeful about winning a new game I irrationally forgot the chances were slim, or I just have no concept of statistics... end rant

...That does nothing! These threads are stupid.

Anyway, thanks for the advice. I may join the group. Depends on how much I want to feel like luck hates me.

11 years ago
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EXACTLY! lol just kidding!

11 years ago
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and what are the cherry poppers?

11 years ago
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They're a Steam Group for people who have been a member for a month, and gone 500 entries with 0 wins.

11 years ago
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...And then there's the "At the End of the Rainbow" club, for people who are even more unlucky than that....

11 years ago
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Detnom has explained what they are.

11 years ago
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GAR counts as win because probability of winning was not 100%.

11 years ago
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GAR is a dev giveaway. If I remember correctly, those don't count.

11 years ago
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Changed at some point. Being developer giveaway does not matter.

11 years ago
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I'm at 613 and zero. I couldn't even win the Galactic Arms Race dev giveaway.

11 years ago
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Oh god. Your comment ratio!

11 years ago
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Am I supposed to be talking more? A comments section filled with mindless "Thanks" hardly seems sincere.

11 years ago
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At least be posting in the forums.

11 years ago
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Is that so? Then the time for me to bitch like a little bitch has come. Brace yourselves!

11 years ago
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My body is ready.

11 years ago
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Believe me. Your body is not ready at all. My bitching will be so intense it'll make the milky way spin around me.

11 years ago
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Can i bitch just a little bit?

11 years ago
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Let's see... NO!

11 years ago
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If you keep making such great giveaways, I'll allow you to bitch a little bit. :P

11 years ago
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186 entered 2 won

11 years ago
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are you joining a lot of giveaways with low amounts of people? Since you have 1.45 estimated wins with only 186 entries.

11 years ago
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I only won giveaways with like 100 copys of the game LOL

11 years ago
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If you stop entering giveaways, everyone else has a better chance of winning! :D

11 years ago
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hmmmm i see what you did there!

11 years ago
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Check your profile. Estimated wins = 0.06.

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Until this reaches 2, you can't have any complaints whatsoever and even then, you should keep it down to a dull roar, as there will still be hundreds of users far worse off than you. :)

My advice is don't expect to win anything, and only enter games you actually want, not the ones you're more likely to win. That way any wins you get are games you will really enjoy, and you won't be taking a game you're not really interested in from someone who wants it. With this mindset, when you win, it's not only a nice surprise, but it's actually a game you wanted, and will enjoy playing!

Give a bit, and you'd be surprised how much of a difference it makes to how you feel about the site. It's also a good way of banking karma!

Be lucky, be grateful and thankful for the opportunity to win games at all, and post more (but for the love of Gaben, not more moany threads, please) :P

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thanks man. I'll try my best. :D

11 years ago
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Good luck :)

Keep an eye on that "estimated" stat though. At the moment, with the giveaways you've entered, you still have less than a one-in-fourteen chance of having won anything at this stage. If you keep entering the same sort of giveaways, you will probably have to enter thirteen times the number you've already joined to reach a position where, statistically, you might reasonably expect to have actually won something.

As others have said, just enter for the games you want, then forget about it. The green bar comes to those who wait...

11 years ago
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will do!

11 years ago
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^THIS!

My story is kinda like that :D. Got my first win at 1200 something. Thing is, entering GA has gotten into my routine so much that I forgot why I'm on the site in the first place. Something like when you open up a browser and you instinctively click on facebook.

And so it was one day.. I clicked instinctively on SG and a nice surprise awaited me. :D It truly is the work of karma. It is only when you forget the desire to win, you win. ^-^

11 years ago
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I love moaning threads. It gives me something to point and laugh at. )

11 years ago
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Well, coming here and complaining sure does tend to lower one's chances a lot. That secret luck stat doesn't like it when people feel entitled and complain. Now you must sacrifice a copy of Fortix to the Steamgifts altar in hopes of gaining forgiveness!

11 years ago
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? I feel confused

11 years ago
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I am mostly kidding, but the main gist was meant that if you give stuff away it seems to help your luck a bit (that and gains access to contributor giveaways), just some crazy weird thing. And people here love Fortix (it's a forum in joke, you can't buy Fortix except to give it away, must win your own copy).

11 years ago
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interesting. Good to know!

11 years ago
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you will never win, leave sg and let more chances to us :D

11 years ago
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wait, didn't i just comment on this???

11 years ago
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rack up your estimated wins first by only entering 5-10p giveaways (those giveaways have less entries) once you have at least 1.00 start entering bigger giveaways but still continue entering 5-10p giveaways.

11 years ago
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Stats don't work like that.

11 years ago
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Indeed they don't. Somebody clearly skipped an entire term of elementary probability classes.

11 years ago
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it seems to work like that on non-contributors...maybe someone eventually skipped elementary and have gone to high school probability classes...or perhaps he's a child star that's why he skipped elementary probability classes or whatever you wish. ;D

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Haha. No - these are independent events, so the odds of winning a 1,000 entry giveaway will always be 1 in 1,000, regardless of the entrants' track record.

Just because you've tossed a coin six times in a row, and it's come up "heads" every time doesn't make the chances of tossing "heads" the next time anything other than 50/50 (provided the coin isn't rigged)

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Exactly. "Estimated wins" doesnt mean "Future wins". It just comapres you to other SG users (I believe) and tells you how many the average people with your entries have won.

For exmaple, My estimated wins are 4.03 & I happen to have won 4 giveaways, I could have won 0 or maybe 300. Its still the same chance as always, The "Estimated wins" just compared your luck to others.

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Actually, it just add the odds of winning for each giveaway you entered. If a giveaway has 1000 entrants, you have 1:1000 chances to win, so 0.001. Enter 100 of those giveaways and your estimated win will climb up to 0.1.

11 years ago
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What if I toss my cookies three times in a row? What are my chances of clearing everyone else out of the giveaway until it's cleaned up?

11 years ago
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9/10 got dumber after reading this

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I'll do you one better! prepare for an ocean!

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11 years ago
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if u think its hard to win buy the games ur self..

11 years ago
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or maybe I'll send opium in gaseous form into the atmosphere! xD

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It's not "hard", just improbable. Forget strategies: enter everything you are really interested in and go on with your life. The win will occur eventually. :)

11 years ago
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+∞

11 years ago
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I second that..

11 years ago
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gawd whenever i see a topic like this one I want to punch the op through my screen :/

11 years ago
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I'm Sorry you feel that way.

11 years ago
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well its good to see that people on here are dedicated! I'm not necessarily complaining, just venting. I didn't think I'd have to defend myself on the forum! xD

11 years ago
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It's just a matter of looking at it from everyone else's perspective. A post exactly like this comes up at least once a day. Eventually just became one of those hot-button issues. You'll notice as you become more involved in the forum. :-)
Welcome to SteamGifts, may your stay be a bit more pleasant than this thread has been, haha.

11 years ago
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Lol thanks! nice to see someone kind! xD

11 years ago
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You read my mind--I just made a post regarding a solution: Everyone check this out and comment on it.

It's a lot of words. Sorry.

11 years ago
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thank you kind sir. :D

11 years ago
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Enter moreeee!

11 years ago
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check profile

no private giveaway found

sad face

11 years ago
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Keep at it... You will win something, eventually. For awhile, the only thing I ever won was that giveaway with 1500 copies... xD

11 years ago
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you will never win, leave sg and let more chances to us :D

11 years ago
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I would, but then i'd need to feel kindly toward you first!

11 years ago
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you have a long way mate, my 1st win was when I hit 1k entries and today was my second.

11 years ago
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well congrats on your second!

11 years ago
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Oh, and giving away games increasing the odds by giving you the option to enter contributor giveaways which tend to have less entries - thus, increasing odds. my wins was contib giveaways only.

11 years ago
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I like potatoes

11 years ago
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good to know!

11 years ago
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i like you too :)

11 years ago
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LOL

11 years ago
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<3

11 years ago
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1,953 entered / 3 wons

11 years ago
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eesch! hard stuff!

11 years ago
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Giveaways Entered 6,295
Gifts Won 9

Hell yeah :D

11 years ago
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Estimated Wins 1.75

you are actually lucky.

11 years ago
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372 Entries, 2 wins! Lucky me!

11 years ago
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Pfff, I only got my first win at 1800

11 years ago
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Kill yourself please.

11 years ago
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Well, at least you demanded nicely.

11 years ago
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I would, but how would that make me win more?

11 years ago
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Your fortunes will be reversed in the afterlife according to most major world religions.

11 years ago
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I'm agnostic -_-

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Closed 11 years ago by kyle77745.