Are the games played, are you curious ? (ended)

There is a script which can check people's played wins, if you wanna look those stats up easier in the future. ^_^
(I have not installed it because even when I just manually check a few random people, it's already too depressing...)

I did the same... wish I didn't... the number of people who didn't play the wins I specifically bought off the store because they are great games(portal 1+2 bundle, fallout NV ultimate, terraria)... untouched after a decade. Then there is the one Terraria(I gave it away twice!) winner who put in a large number of hours and that made me happy.

I opted to not check anymore and is definitely part of why I don't distribute the better games outside of playing grous(PA/Tale Play/etc...)

"50% of the games won have been played"
I think big percent just farmed cards

i've played most of the asset flip games I've won (i like checking out bad games for "fun"). i want to play the good too though.

I personnaly do not force my winners to play their games.

But I clearly prefer those who play them to those who hoard them. So I installed the script Zlia talked about, and I used it to check that on my winners, out of curiosity.

It was mostly disappointing, but some people contacted me to talk about the game they won, and THAT was really nice

with my criterias i tried or played 20/54 games, i consider it low and will try to fix that progressively

Yeah, same. I postpone playing bad games I entered for (!) and won. It's the consequence of my actions, but fuck, did I made some bad decisions :D

And I have a bad habit of "keeping the best bite for the last", so I postpone playing the best thing as well. Plus I buy / get gifted games every now and then... and I can be very moody/impulsive about what I play
so despite my climbing played-wins-statistics my wins is just horrible, so many great games haven't been played, so I have a lot to improve, still.

(And I rather don't check my giveaways, very ... inconsistent inherent value, and I don't really want to see the results. Better for everyone...)

I've been trying to make an effort to only entering games that I think I'd want to play, and have started to try out some I've won (now that I've won some). That said, it'll take a while to get to all of them as I also have a large backlog on both my own Steam account plus console, a kid to raise, books to read, boardgames that need making and playing (print and play is a dangerous hobby), laundry to fold, and work to...work.

I'm trying out the Play the Games You Win monthly whatever, and thought the random monthly themes might encourage me to try out something I might not otherwise decide to pull up on a whim. Seems fun.

Having a small library of unread books gives you choices for when you're in the mood. And why not treat video games the same? It is, after all, intended to be fun.

i dont tell my winners to play their wins but it would be nice (unless taleplay group since thats a rule) personally idk how many of the games ive played that i won but im sure its a small number, and basically it comes down to the same thing as with when i buy games, i win them and play them later might takes 1 day or a weeks or months sometimes even a year+ (unless its a rule to play within certain time and i try to follow that) so basically for me its like itll come in time when im done with other games (rn doing sotf, bought cuz in sale and forgot about all my other games lol) i do also have to say i did play some to 100% tho like hellpie

Interesting. I figured it would be more around 20% but its more like 4% from those stats.

I did a similar survey last year and my results were pretty similar to yours (i.e. equally depressing :P)

• Out of 568 winners, only 33 (6%) tried their wins. Of those, only 22 (4%) made enough progress for me to consider the games played.
• Whitelist only GAs had the highest rate of getting played at 33%. Group only GAs performed the worst at roughly 1%

As you said, the results are influenced by the quality of games given away and by the nature of the groups gifted to. Many of the groups that I gifted to in my first year are dominated by "game collectors".
I've changed my gifting habits significantly since then. I do fewer GAs now and save the higher quality ones for my WL and for groups whose members are predisposed or required to play.

As for me, I've beaten around 60% of my wins. I'd like to up that percentage more, but I'm equally concerned with whittling away at my general backlog. So many great games that I simply haven't gotten around to.

I started keeping a list of all the games that I added on Steam this year and I try to prioritize those. It keeps me honest and is a great way of curbing the impulse to win/buy more stuff.

Those stats only work for the average steam user, though. Personally, I take privacy very seriously and consider achievements spyware (Valve definitely tracks them for marketing purposes, developers/publishers probably track them as well). I mostly play in offline mode to prevent achievements being recorded and I also tend to delete them with SAM, so they don't get recorded when I go online. I have a few friends on Steam who also know me from outside the internet (like friends from high school etc.), so I don't really want to explain why I played Counter Strike at 3 am at night (which is just an example - I don't even own or play Counter Strilke).

Summary: if I ever won anything from you, you wouldn't know if I tried or played it. With a few exceptions, I've played or at least tried what I've won here, though.

As someone who only enters game giveaways that I'd like to play, I haven't accumulated that many giveaway entries the past few months. As Dead Estate as the only win under my belt on SG officially so far, I've played about 10 hours of it. Great game, I finished the main roguelike part of the game a couple of times and I also finished the rather traumatizing puzzle mode Assignment Anya as well.

I've checked on my giveaway winners so far and it is heartwarming to see that some people actually play my games as well. As far as thanking goes, I think only 2 haven't said thank you.

Bump, thanks!

i mean i'd be a hypocrite if i want every winner to play all the games i gifted them, i write this for games i paid outside of bundles because it just sucks if these games will be left untouched when i specially paid to gift this. man my first game on steamgifts was actually someone friendly enough to gift me a spare copy of world of goo because he saw that i commented like 1300 times on giveaways without winning anything for like one or two months (tbh thats probably one of the reasons i might have gotten some blacklists for replying like a bot lol)

Right, this has inspired me to update my SG Wins collection in Steam. At some point I set it up and then a dynamic collection for unplayed wins, but as with everything it fell by the wayside.
If I feel I have to do something I won't enjoy it as much, so I don't enter giveaways with such requirements unless the game is a sure thing. As for my giveaways, it's nice to hope that everyone will at least try them, but I have no further expectation*.

*except where it's a new release or almost full price game, in which case fie on anyone wasting my money.

99% of the time I enter giveaways are through https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?type=wishlist , so I have 100%ed most of my wins
Interestingly the few games I did give away here, I never cared if they were played or not .. that maybe because those are games I have no interest in playing them myself

Thank you

I used to care.
Don't care too much if people don't play anymore.
But I still don't like leechers
My main concern is that everyone has a fair share of wins, not just a bunch of group-entering scumbags who do the minimum amount to stay in said groups, and "appear" to be generous. Screw 'em.

I don't care at all - they are games I gave away as I didn't want them. It was a gift for someone else to do with as they wish.

For my games won, I've stopped entering giveaways for games i wouldn't want to play roughly 4 years ago. I just have a lot of great games to play that I haven't gotten to them all, and I don't like to force myself to play a certain game at a certain time just to hit a quota. I much prefer playing the games in my library as I'm in the mood for them. Sometimes this means I play nothing, sometimes it means a large story rpg, and sometimes I decide to play 10+ Hidden object games in a row 😅

I have tried some of the games I won (tried Yoku's Island Express for like 30 minutes recently as an example before I had to sleep and beat Shotgun King a while back once), but I'm just too busy with game development to play all of the games I want to play for long. Even games I bought directly off Steam end up unplayed because my friend who I like to play coop games with is also busy most weeks.

I try not to enter giveaways where people want the winner to play a lot of the game unless I think I would actually beat the game eventually. Maybe I should just giveaway games now instead of entering, but I get bored while my projects build so I end up entering. I will try harder to play more games instead of entering giveaways this year. May not always be a steamgifts win, but I have a short list of games I've been meaning to play like Inscryption and others people gifted for Christmas. I would have tried Baldur's Gate 3 if my pc was not a crushed potato chip best suited for small games.

Sadly, that is what you get on sg. I encountered only two people who actually played random small game without need by some rules.
Easiest to avoid is not to do givaways for big games you would like to see played. I moved all my bigger games to whitelist only giveaways and always type in request for people to only enter if they will play game in three months. Even with that game like Hogwarts legacy was unplayed. Made me kinda disapointed.

That's why I will never give away expensive games in public. Chances are high some bot and/or collector who doesn't really care about the game will win it. But the real reason is I can't afford expensive AAA games. ;-)
But I often buy affordable keys on official keyshops (or gift games directly on Steam) to give them away. It would be nice to see them get played... but I can't force anyone of course. I don't really care about bundle leftovers though.
One thing made me happy "recently": on the christmas calender I gave away some games, including 'Outpath' and 'Children of Silentown', both got played with 100% achievements completion. One game was played for 20 hours, the other for 60 (!) hours. Money well invested! 🙃

I'm probably guilty here, I won Rogue State Revolution from you, and I was happy to give it a shot, but damn it didn't turn out at all how I expected. First that lady never stops talking, she non stop for 2 hours gave me tutorials about the interface going through like 10 000 systems I was going to forget on game start. I've never experienced that kind of confusion level not even in poe crafting. Then finally I started playing the game and like no matter what I did every turn the stats were a bit worse. Not sure what I didn't get, but I didn't get it. I gotta start a new run now cause I can't build anything cause they refuse to talk to me lmao, and I'm hostile with whatever nation, and there's a revolution and all I did was try to keep the budget spending to a minimum and build what I was told to build. Reviews say it's too simple, I found it overcomplicated. Feel like I'm playing on ultra nightmare difficulty.

I think with my previous SG account, my play ratios were probably very poor. Conversely, with this account, I've played every game I've won except one, and I'll be diving into that one next week.

My perspective on giving games away has changed a lot over the years. If I go out of my way to buy a game to giveaway, I do expect the winner to try it out. If it's a bundle leftover, I hope they'll try it out, but I'm not going to be too upset if they don't. That said, I never really follow up to see if they're played, so what I think about it is simply conceptual.