Do you actually want to play the games you join the giveaways of?

Yes, usually I only enter giveaways for wishlisted games. I don't enter than many giveaways anyway :P

Ahhh I remember when I won To the Moon and played 5hours straight without pauses.

Yes. If I win them, that is ;)

Yes ! I only enter GA of games i want.

Yep, I only enter Wishlist items. I come on the site, click Wishlist filter, enter any there, and then leave pretty much.

And it is one of my pet peeves when people enter games to 'grow their collection' for games they are not interested in, lowering the chances of someone who actually wants the game.

But, what you gonna do.

I like how this is a thread that should actually have a poll. But doesn't. Lol. But regardless, I do almost always join games that I would actually play. Sometimes I mess up and think I know what the game is, and mess up. Like one of my recently won games is an RTS and it's not a RTS i'm interested in. So unfortunately it's probably going to go unplayed. But overall I hide the giveaways i'll never join or don't want to play if I won it. So pretty much everything I join I will play at some point should I win.

Yeah I've probably spent hours filtering games on steamgifts so I only enter those for games I'm interested in, I suppose that ironically means I've lost time I could have spent playing whoops... I haven't played every game that I've won but they're all games that I've prioritised and will play when I can!

Always, I don't join gibs for trash games :-)

Yes, but it wasn't always the case:-)

Yes, and I try to play them within a few weeks after I got them– faster, if they are short.

Mostly, although I will pick up bundle games I don't mean to or know that I probably won't play occasionally in 2hu ga's and some of Keo's 100 million ga's.

join only to play.

havent come around to all my wins yet but ive played more than half and finishing some to 100%. besides the games ive not played yet that i bought myself.

I will come around to it eventually.

depends mostly on my muse what type of game i want to play.

Last friday i had the whole evening to play. Was like since thursday friday evening playing shadow of mordor!

Friday evening: no muse to play games, gonna watch a movie -_-

i just realized out of the 500+ games i own i play only 5-10 ( bad internet connection been downloading witcher 3 for last 16 days) :(

Yes, I only enter GAs for game that I actually wanna play.
Some I would buy within few months anyway, some others I wouldn't buy, but still look interesting enough to be at least tried for free.
And while it might take me a while to play my wins, I do play them. :)
The last 2 months were crazy lucky for me, so it will take me a little more than usual to catch up. :D

Why would you enter giveaways of games you don't want to play? Just to have more?

What's the point in owning a game you don't intend to play..?

There is something to add to SG tools. Played won games.

Yep! I mainly only enter for games on my wishlist, now and then I'll have a look through the main page or a train and join giveaways for games that look interesting but that I hadn't known about previously.

I have 4,235 hidden games (although a chunk of those are games I already own since initially I didn't know you could change a setting to hide games you have-- why that isn't the default is beyond me). In my "early days" on SG I was a bit more indiscriminate and won a few games that I wish I hadn't. But now I ask myself the simple question: will I feel guilty if I win this game? That keeps me out of a lot of GAs (AAA or otherwise popular) that I won't have time to play.

I also recently began to prioritize my limited gaming time for games I've won on SG. In the past few weeks, I have finished or am in the process of playing 7 games I won on SG. =)

I actually want to play the games that I join the giveaways of, just playing too slowly. XD
If a GA write a description that asking for review in a limited period, I will consider if it possible to me to do that before enter.
I am writing a review that I promised for a gift right now; but, however, I got it about half year before. (The gifter did not give me a deadline. I think I can finished it before next sale of that game) XD

I used to enter for lots of different games, ones that sounded interesting, ones I might like but wouldn't buy for myself in case I didn't like it, ones with good word of mouth, etc.
But for the past year or so, I only enter for wishlisted games or ones I know I will play soon as long as they are tbs or rpg. It's hard to find time for gaming as is so no sense to win so many games to idle for cards or take the chance away from someone who legitimately would love to win the game. And as for word of mouth, 95% of the games get good comments within the giveaway itself so I read the reviews and then decide to enter or not.

I think most of the people here don't intend to ruin others chances. I would rephrase slightly by saying most of the people here think inwardly first before the community at large and that makes their decision for them to enter our not. There's a lot of good apples here though, some bad apples but most of the community falls somewhere in the middle.

Regarding your group, making it public (even initially) ensures it will have some of those people you're speaking out about.