New member here, i want to know what you people think.

Well you are assuming just because people have high game count, they are wealthy and don't need free games but you have to consider somethings. Situations can change, someone might have had a steady job and he used to buy a lot of games but now what if he doesn't? Also with the new addition of bundles, it's not all that difficult to rack up game count. As for not playing, they might not have the time to play every game they own. Your situation is subjective, since you are the one giving the games away, it depends on what you feel but I feel it's unfair if someone wins a giveaway and don't get the game.

As others have suggested, you can create private groups with restrictions, such as how many games they can own, how much % they must play etc. There are groups like this (for example a group for the unlucky only takes people who never won, and kick the member after their first win etc).

Ultimately, since you are the one giving away the games, you can decide what type of people you want to win your game. But I don't think you can put that type of restriction on public giveaways (you need the support's permission for that). But you can make a group for it and/or make private giveaway and re roll if the winner doesn't meet the requirements.

Lots of people have already responded with lots of good information. I'll just try to summarize it in brief.

1) Private and group giveaways allow you to restrict entry in any manner you wish, subject to mod approval.
2) Public giveaways are open to everyone, even the guy who doesn't want the game but enters anyway.
3) In the end, it's all random. Just be glad you could bring some joy into others' lives, even if they didn't win.

Some of the restrictions put on private and/or group giveaways include:

• Membership in a particular group or groups.
• CV amount (either above or below a set limit).
• Number of wins (above or below a set limit).
• Time spent on SteamGifts (usually by # of months).
• Entry by special invite only.

An example of the last type was the "Not Your Giveaway" giveaway, where the only people who could enter were those who were nominated by others. (You couldn't enter yourself.) I hope all of the suggestions you're getting help you find the manner in which you wish to give.

I always worry that people are going to think that when I win a giveaway from them. I have over 400 games on Steam, and have only played about 10 of them. That looks terrible. I actually don't have much extra money for games though, and have probably spent an average of about $0.30 per game in my library. The reason I've played so few of my games is because Steam stopped working on my computer so I couldn't play any of them until I got a new computer a few days ago, but also because I got a lot of them with Steam Family Sharing in mind.

I can't guarantee that the person who won the game from you is grateful, but I hope he/she is. I understand your concern, but don't assume that just because someone hasn't gotten to playing a lot of their games yet doesn't mean that they don't appreciate your gift.

Also, thank you for your generosity!

I think it would be nice if Steam Gifts allowed limiting giveaways by number of wins or date of last win. Support does accept suggestions, so going that way is a good idea, even though it guarantees nothing.

As for thanks, I don't think you should expect a lot of detailed posts. The chance of winning is very low, and I wouldn't expect anyone to make thousands of posts of why they'd like to win a game.

As has already been said, what you want can be done, but it requires more work and effort.

• If you set up a group you need to go through everybody who wants in to check if they qualify, and you will have a lot of unqualified applicants.

• If you want to make private giveaways with special rules, you will need to have those rules approved by the mods (they will approve most rules if they're not too weird or crazy) - and you will still have a lot of idiots who don't qualify enter your giveaways anyways so you need to request re-rolls.

Good luck on your quest to find worthy receivers of your generosity :)

This is a bundles age. I have a lot of games that I never have played and will play just because there were a part of a bundle. My limit is two interesting games in bundlo. If the bundle consists of 7 games then I have 5 never been played games.

Keep in mind that you usually do not enter GAs of games you don't wanna play. Why would you do that? And the fact you do not play the game immidiately doesn't mean you are not gonna ever play it. There are some games (like GTA 4) that I am almost afraid of start playing because I know I will love it and spend much time with it... and that's what I cannot afford.

The person who won my giveaway activated the games but didn't play them yet. They haven't played a game at all since October... I'm pretty sure you have to give it to them anyway unless it was a private giveaway with rules. It's kind of sad, I only gave away too small, cheap games but I hoped the person who won would actually play them and enjoy them. Ah well.

I like how you think Op, because the same just happened to me. If you happen to make a group, feel free to invite me as I enjoy playing as much as I enjoy gifting.

Make a group that only people with few games can enter and make giveaways only to that group.

Well, like people have said, giving away in private groups tends to earn you gratitude much more reliably.

That being said. And I am speaking from experience here. By far the best and most earnest kind of gratitude comes from public giveaways.

Public giveaways will, most of the time, get you winners that don't really care too much that they win, they won't say thanks in the giveaway, they won't say thanks when they win and more often than not they won't even play the game. There is that 1 in 20 though where you manage to get a winner that really wanted THAT game and will be extremely grateful practically playing the game before you send it. In my humble opinion getting that one winner can make up for a lot asshole winners.

EDIT: And despite what people seem to think, high CV, even 5000, doesn't guarantee any sort of gratitude. Anything 2000 or below is about the same as 0 in terms of people saying thanks/playing the game as far as my experience goes.

No offence to either the OP or anyone here who agreed with him but you can't expect people to have played all the games they bought or even all the games they win here. Most steam users who are not in school/highschool have huge backlogs because they simply don't have the time to play everything they own. You can't expect people to skip out on all the other stuff they have to do just to play the game they've just won from you and that does not mean they are any less thankful for it. C'mon there's even support groups around for helping people deal with this kind of thing. I'm sure everyone will get around at some point to playing everything in their library.

Sure, there are also some collectors who just want to have as many games as possible, the person you're talking about sounds like one, but i'm guessing even they are thankful in their own way for your contribution to their collection :)

I was glad when I saw that the person who won my first giveaway got their first win there too. I knew I probably made them happy.
But judging people by games in their inventory seems a bit unjust. I, for example, have Bastion and Superbrothers on my Steam, both with 0 hours played. But I beat Bastion on my brother's account long before Steam Family Sharing, and played Superbrothers on his iPad. I have some games from bundles too, they're waiting for their time but don't interest me right now, when I don't want to distract myself with too many new things. But when I see a big game giveaway, for something that I've really wanted for some time but had no money, I enter, because, well, I know I'll not be able to buy it soon. I think many people could be in similar situation - they have some games, the small games they could afford, but without the funds for, I don't know, Skyrim or Tomb Raider.

A little example. You created 3 giveaways for games A, B, C.

User 1 really wants to win A, user 2 - B, user 3 - C. You probably know how this story ends: user 1 wins C, user 2 wins A, user 3 wins B.