Why do you gift?

To troll.

because fuck you thats why

no idea, just throw my money away

Because when I climbed off your mum, she turned down my $1 and told me to give games away instead.

The two times Ive given away games it was because I had them in my inventory for a while and nobody wanted them.But i might get a game from a sale to giveaway later this year.

Because a little bird whispered into my ear

I do gift a game when I don't need it:
If i already got the game in my libary. Instead of its just lying in my Inventory I am just giving it away to people who would like to have it.

Because im currently being held hostage and forced to make giveaways, please make the bad man stop!

My gifting train pulls the "group of folks I game with," "group of folks who are themselves generous with their time and money," and "private puzzle giveaways for folks who would like to expend a modicum of effort to find a low entry giveaway" cars, with the "because I've spent worse money in worse ways" caboose. :)

Because I can and I want to

Hey look, it's this thread again. We gift because we want to, because we can, and because it gives us a sense of awesome inside.

I gift so that people "owe me one" I imagine one day when I'm facing the zombie apocalypse I'll now have a chance of running into someone with supplies and shelter, I will then say to them "Hey you're the guy who I gave a gift to" this will save my life.

Because I don't have friends.

I figured I'll answer why I give games here. The reason is that this site provides a convenient way to do it, with a big crowd of people looking for giveaways. Before I found Steam Gifts I gave away games on my blog or Facebook page, and there were very few participants. Here no matter what I give there will be a lot of entries. Even my worst giveaway (group giveaway of a $1 DLC which I opened for only 4 hours by mistakes) got 6 entries, which is more than I got for some of my old giveaways.