When you first found SG, how did you think it worked?

honestly thought it was a scam and that id never win.

I knew how it works. Minus the contribution giveaways, which were introduced later.

Thought it was a scam, but figured I had nothing to loose. Then, as I started seeing posts like "I'm gifting this via my inventory" and such I realise they were kind people from all over the world gifting the games, mostly from their own pockets, and as I realised that, I made my first giveaway while I waited for my first win :)

lol when i first encountered it i signed up, only to realise that steam thought my account was only worth... $0. it was still 0$ 2 months later. fast forward 5 months and all of a sudden the same games were valued at $200. weird o.o

Hmmm... Just like normal giveaway sites work? -_-

I didn't think much of the site and was on and off (mainly just spam entered giveaways). I knew that everyone had a fair chance of winning, and I figured the system was based off some kind of raffling type system with the points (I never looked at the FAQ). Just through trial, error, and common sense mainly.

A friend who uses SG referred me here, and when I finally got $100 worth of games (thanks, Humble Bundle!), I checked the FAQ before I did anything. So, yeah, that's my first experience.

I wasn't sure if it was rigged, because I had no way of telling and I never won anything (first win wasn't until over 1000 entries). I was also pleased I had something to do with the game I had a spare copy of, and I decided that if I ever actually won anything I would give that away.

I checked the FAQ and read through a bit of the forum before I ever even considered registering with the site. I don't recall exactly how the site was brought to my attention though

Checked out the site, thought it was fishy, looked at the forums, gave it a chance with doubts in mind, kept at it because so far I didn't lose anything, won a game, love was born.

I thought it was a site I could use to give my extra copies away, and indeed it was.
Gave away all my second copies I got due to the golden tater. Then I wanted to give out more games, then I got into groups, and the rest followed.

Exactly as it does..

I heard of SG on another forum, when people were using it as an easy way to get rid of the spare keys from Amazon's Absolutely Great Square Pack (the games were only worth ~$1-$2 each if you sold them on your own at that point). So it was pretty clear to me how it worked before I joined.

Well I knew how it works, but I just wasn't sure if I should trust site or not, like yee free steam games like there ain't any sites doing it. Also, I found out steamgifts like 2-3 months after I started using steam for real, so I didn't know you can use your Steam profile to login to other sites. So I asked few of my friends if they knew about SG and they told me it was legit. After my first win, I started making giveaways.

At first I thought I would have to earn the points in which we enter giveaways with, luckily it's not as hard as that, lol. But.. the giveaways themselves are what I expected when I first came to the site.

I think I read a forum on Steam about the site, so I checked it out... little did I know it was down for maintenance (I thought it wasn't available in my region). So I was disappointed the first time I came on here.. The second time I came on here, I was overjoyed with the site, but It was also pretty shitty as it took 3,874 giveaways for me to win, so lots of despair.

I found that the site was pretty straight forward and worked exactly as I thought it would; Enter for a game, have a small chance at winning it.

I have no idea how anyone could even think it would work any way different from that. =P

I kinda figured the game list on the main page was for the games being given away, but I had no idea what those points were for and how the whole system works. So I looked around for a FAQ and barely found it after a while (IMO it should be moved to someplace more visible, like the top of the page).

BTW I heard about the site on another forum, at first it seemed too good to be true. :)

Just like it does; there was some confusion regarding bundle games contribution value I must admit...

I read the FAQ right off the bat and understood everything clearly.

After 100 entries I already thought im the unluckiest boy alive.

I thought points from giveaway goes to gifter. Some sort of like galagiveaways works.

I thought it was fake and passed up an invite code I could've gotten back when it was invite only. :|

Once I figured out it was real, I (gasp!) read the FAQ and poked around the forum until I understood everything properly. So in other words, I made no assumptions at all and didn't do much of anything (not even enter things) until I knew for certain how it worked.

CLICK. WIN. PENIS.