SteamGIfts Users, how was your first time winning a key from here?

It took about 6 months and 1000 entries before I won my first giveaway and the creator didn't send it. Then I won and received my first game about 2 months later. After that, I started making my own giveaways and increasing my CV level. As I leveled up and participated in the great puzzles and community events, I started to win a lot more often. As far as I can remember, I think there was only 2 wins I didn't receive, including that first one.

Edit: You got me curious and I decided to do some research. Here's how long I spent at each level and how many giveaways I won during each period. I used the stats page to see what dates I leveled up and compared that with my won giveaways page.

Level 0 for 8 months, won 1 game (0.125 games/month)
Level 1 for 6 months, won 9 games (1.5 games/month)
Level 2 for 1 month, won 9 games (9 games/month)
Level 3 for 4 months, won 11 games (2.75 games/month)
Level 4 for 4 months, won 26 games (6.5 games/month)
Level 5 for 4 months, won 45 games (11.25 games/month)
Level 6 for 17 months, won 106 games (6.24 games/month)
Level 7 for 64 months, won 145 games (2.27 games/month)
Level 8 for 5 months, won 25 games (5 games/month)

its been far to long to remember, it was only a couple weeks for me though before I won my 1st(ended up getting that game on console to and played it there).

We all come here because of the gifts.
We stick because of the community.
In the end, we become the supporters who create thousands of giveaways.
Fun Fact: I was Level 9.92 for 4 years :o Huge Hiatus without giving or joining giveaways.

It was about a week after joining, caught me by surprise just as every other time I've won something here.

i dont recall but it took AGES!!! like 6 months. i mostly used steam companion until it was shut down. they would let put 1 entry or you could set it to multiples entries. i liked the system they had better. would toss 100% of my points into the best giveaways and win them sometimes
the website is still up with basic functions

I won a giveaway on my very first day on the site -- it was for a DLC pack. It sort of 'proved' to me that the site was not a scam. :)

To win my first game took about 3 weeks. It was a group giveaway (Unlucky-7).

The game turned out to be weird but good, and I'm still part of Unlucky-7 as a gifter. So definitely a positive experience!

I don't know really, was maybe 400 entries before I won a game but then I really invested and after 1 month I have won 24 in 2200~ entries. If you don't invest you are not likely to win much of anything. Increase to level 5 which only takes $250 cv on sg and join a few groups and get on some whitelists and sky is the limit. You don't have to spend $250 to get $250 cv, I spent around $8 to get that. You just got to find the right keys. I know I was hooked after the first win and I have won several games that I enjoy playing. Some games I don't but you can't be happy with everything all the time, that's just irrational.

I came here a little over a week ago, I won risen 2 a few days ago and only today did I receive the key n when I went to activate it,, it didn't work in my region, I won a draw and the guy didn't say that the key had region blocking,so still trying to resolve this but no response from this person. what was supposed to be good is not being

Like 14 days, no idea how many entered, but it was a dev promo. All together 50 games in almost 4 years.

It was after 1K entries if I recall. First months felt like a kid in a candy store. I barely enter giveaways now.

My first win was Terraria. I love that game to pieces. I was so happy to win it, and was so so very happy to play it. It's one of the few games I've put more than 1k hours into. Love it.
I can't remember how many giveaways I entered before I won Terraria. I just entered to win what I wanted, and didn't care if I didn't win anything. It's not like it costs anything to try.

Don't worry. Just keep trying for what you want, and you'll eventually win a future favorite.

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Mk4p3/bit-blaster-xl

Won this the second day I was here. And overall first 4 wins were from multiple key giveaways. I was younger, just started growing my Steam Library and didn't think much about whether I would play it. So I have some of the wins from beginning which I haven't played, but eventually did start entering only the ones I knew I will try out or will like. First win - the bit blaster I actually played for 5 hour sand got 11/17 achievements. So I'd say my first win was pretty good.

And looks like the giveaway was from the dev of the game. So that's an extra point in my book

I registered 5 days ago, entered 103 giveaways and have won 1. I'm super grateful! The system seems very fair on this site, glad I found it.

My first win here was Porno Studio Tycoon with 69 copies. I can't remember what feelings/thoughts were inside me back then though.

My fist win was one with 100.000 copies.
My second win was one with 25.000 copies.

Both were guaranteed wins, as it had more copies than entries.
I miss those days.

I got incredibly lucky with the two wins I got, I entered under 400 giveaways so far and both of them weren't from groups. Just low interest I guess, but they were both on my wishlist and I completed them both to 100%. They didn't have a lot of entrants, but 0,25 - 1% is still pretty good.

I won my first game after in first month, when i got 1 level at first time. After that the next day i was decreased to level 0) After reaching level 5, I usually win about 4-5 games a month

My first win was on my second day here. It was a 25k copies one so basically everyone who joined won a key. :D

Back then I just joined everything which had a good chance of winning (screw you past me!). But nowadays I am way more selective as I also try to play more of my wins than the new ones I got to reduce my backlog step by step.

Well, I won my first game 54 minutes after registering here, according to my entered giveaways page it was also the second giveaway I ever entered on the site, it was a 2 copies giveaway with 1637 entries.

My first win was for a game with 25000 copies, so everyone won. It was at 750 entries for me.

But for my real first win without 100% chance of winning, it took me 1151 entries.

First time I won anything it was a game that had a region restriction and I couldn't claim it in the end... was a sad sad day. Was one time where it had 1000+ entries, was both lucky and unlucky at same time :o
After the first one tried to enter as many as I could and did end up winning a couple, after that I've been only entering the ones I really really want however, groups like Unlucky-7 and Playing Apreciated have got me some like that.

My first win was Cyber Hook, 6 days after I joined. It was an 85-entry region restricted giveaway. I must have won it after 250-300 entries because I was joining around 1k giveaways per month back then.

Seeing Space Cat for the first time is exhilarating. The game was good too. I almost finished it, but gave up near the end because it got frustrating and I was getting motion sick from it.

These days, I have many more opportunities to win but I also enter fewer giveaways (<200 per month). I try not to win more than 5 games a month to keep things under control.

I won my first time fairly early on, but of course the key didn't work, so I agreed to delete the GA. Then I won one with a lot of keys, so was fairly likely to win. Then I joined U7, which was needlessly complicated, and won four there, including one where I was the only entrant. I won some randoms after that, and got lucky on some new groups, region locks, and whitelists. 3 months in, 41 wins.

You have entered 100 GAs, and there were likely far more than 100 entrants in each of those GAs, so statistically, you were highly unlikely to win. The key to winning is having a high key to entrant ratio. There's multiple ways of making that happen, but the most consistent is to join small groups where everyone contributes, including you. It's almost trading with extra steps at that point, plus RNG.

You've been very selective about which GAs you enter, and given a grand total of nothing away. So it will likely take you a long time, or to get incredibly lucky, if that is your strategy.

I didin't look at back and i surprised; my first winning took 18 hours after joining SG. Dungeon Creepster(delist now) game :) And it was 46th entry.

My first real win took some time to get, maybe 6 months to 1 year after joining? I don't know how many entries that was. Back then, I joined whatever giveaways I saw just because I had points left. Now I only go for what I want most and will play soon and leave most points unused.