I have 611 entries and didn't win 1 nothing, what need make to win?

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Patience, strategy, and fellowship.

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+1 Too bad we aren't allowed to talk about SG Pr.

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I feel this comment contains a paradox :D

11 years ago
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@op for STARTERS.. give away something..

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i create giveaway right after i joined SG... doesnt help me much.

11 years ago
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what?1000 entries in a month?

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It´s totally normal :\

11 years ago
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i just got 3,9k in 1 year xD

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You have won 4 games.

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^ Most succinct and eloquent comment I have read in a while.


lucas152533 - Follow these three. All three.

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I just won my first giveaway 2 nights ago and I'm 707. Keep waiting. It'll come eventually.

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And my axe!

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There is no strategy involved. You see a giveaway, enter it and hope for the best. Unless one assumes winning chance follows Gaussian distribution, the only viable strategy would be to accede to some private giveaway group. And they all are Ivy League types.

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There is no strategy involved.

Are you sure?

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Yes, I'm sure. The only variable participant able to affect is their entry number.

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Yeah, and that's just what makes you strategize. You have to decide what giveaways you spend your points on if you want to make the most of this site. Do you want to enter a crappy giveaway with less entries, or take your chances with a popular giveaway with thousands of entries. I'm sometimes juggling with my points, taking them away from some giveaways and relocating them to another ones if I see better giveaways later on.

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I meant the index number of one's particular entry. )

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Since points needed to enter are limited, there most definately is strategy involved smartypants. Forgot that huh?

As for private groups "all being Ivy League types", what utter bullcrap. There's tons of groups, and some of them surely are lame-assed, but not all.

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How exactly does that constitute as strategy?
As for private groups all I meant is that they are secluded. Most of them don't advertise their existence (at least I don't see it) and you'll be lucky to get into one. Has nothing to do with lameness.

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Having limited resources that have a certain rate of re-stocking, and deciding what to spend that resource on, is a form of applying strategy. Like Marumisu said, you can spend your points on low entry giveaways for less wanted games, or higher entry ones for more wanted games. Having 10 times a shot at winning a game you really want where every giveaway has 50 entries, constitutes a better chance at winning something than entering 5 giveaways for a game you want even more with 30 entries.

A lot of groups have threads where you can apply for membership, and the ones that don't attract members from other established groups. Being lucky has nothing to do with getting into them. You get into them by actually conversing with people, getting to know them, and get known yourself. There's groups that have gaming competitions, events, active (and fun) chats, everything. You've only been here 5 months, and have hardly any comments, suggesting you're not that active a member. Try socialising a bit more, and reading forums more. That's how I got into about 10 active and fun groups, with good people in em, as well as becoming admin in several.

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Giveaways are unknown variables. You can't predict when something you want will occur and in what quantity, therefore you can't work out a viable strategy as to how to distribute your limited resource.

As I said the only private groups threads I've been seeing belong to newly created groups. I hardly have any comments because I don't post frantically useless thank you's into every single giveaway.

Incidentally what gave you the idea that I want to join any private giveaway group?

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i have 900+ entries and have won nothing

11 years ago
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got allmost 1600 entries and won 2 games, the secound game i won 3 days ago so i had about 1400 entries and one win (and thats was bad rats ffs)

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Just not going for 1000+ entries and you have a slightly better chance of winning something. I usually go for indie games, so this is not a problem. If I go for a AAA game I usually wait until the last hour or so to see how many entries they have. If there are more than 1500 I won't enter.

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+100. Couldn't have said it better myself. If you add "stop creating pointless threads" to that list of yours, it'll be perfect :)

11 years ago
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Your puzzle has a mistake I think

11 years ago
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Um...Thanks for skyrim?

11 years ago
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You're going on the list buddy.

11 years ago
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ROFL! That group!

11 years ago
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great group

11 years ago
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i just lol'd.

11 years ago
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Haha Awesomeness xD

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shit I'm jealous; gotta go make my own thread now

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Look its me :)

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It's you! YOU specifically were part of the reason I made the list, mostly because I saw a bunch of similar posts around the same time. But YOU! You wanted Rome Total War, which was on sale at the time for only $1 I think. I started the group with the intention of giving Rome Total War away and saying "See? You could join in this giveaway if you hadn't QQ'd..."

But it turns out that I'm mad lazy, so I never made the giveaway. And I kept Rome Total War to myself. And it turns out that it's a flipping awesome game and you were right to want it, haha. Which you should know, since you did eventually win it.

Speaking of! It's on daily deal RIGHT NOW! So: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/h42VI/

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+1

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Nice.

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xD

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fak u dolan y u do this

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Hrmm, Google Translate doesn't seem to have a Denninja to English converter. So, I am confused.

11 years ago
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Have my manbabies.

11 years ago
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See? Now THAT I can understand!

11 years ago
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Thanks, this will be useful some day :P

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XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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"I haven't contributed to the community in any way, how do I abuse this website for free shit?!" -lucas152533

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I didn't knew I had to contribute, for answer my question

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You don't. We just don't like leechers.

11 years ago
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Leeching isn't illegal or anything. Just frowned upon. Like masturbating on an airplane.

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i'm pretty sure you can get arrested for that.

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Fuck.

11 years ago
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quick check and see if anyone saw you

11 years ago
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Do I need firearms for the procedure?

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only if they saw you.
it didn't happen if no one saw you.

11 years ago
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I'm sure the adjacent passanger wont tolerate him jacking off, unless maybe it's not a girl..

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i'm pretty sure no one would like a stranger jacking off next to them.

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"Ooh is ok, we all a bit gay sumthyme." -That Chinese dude from Hangover.

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lmao!!

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Legality of fucking depends on multiple factors.

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Well whatever man, the system is broken.

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░▒Only if they see you▒░
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Actually there is a country in the middle east/Asia that if caught masturbating, gotta cut off your arm or something like that. ^.^

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IF THE INTERNET SAID SO, IT MUST BE TRUE.

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Just think!!! You're at the age of discovering it, and do it for the first time someone sees you and bam! You gotta chop your arm off!

11 years ago
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That's what you do with the dozen extra pillows you ask for.

Fap Fort

11 years ago
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Win.

11 years ago
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Not if nobody sees you.

11 years ago
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Travel business class = problem solved.

11 years ago
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Who is this "we" you speak about ? Last time I checked I had my own opinions on things...

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He.. He dares defy the hivemind.. SOMEONE BUILD THIS MAN A STATUE!

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You don't but people don't really appreciate all the whiners that complains in the forum about not winning anything after very few entries. The winners are chosen at random, so there's nothing you can do expect maybe join groups for better odds with less entrants in giveaways. But those groups don't usually welcome leechers that contributes nothing and just expect free stuff to fall on their lap.

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I just wanted to know if I should do something to win

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no, he should win the holy grail war and wish to win more.

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Slaanesh, preferably.

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A sacrifice... he needs to offer a sacrifice DUH!!!

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.. Smart-ass, he just told you.

Be more sociable, post on the forums sometimes, get to know people, get in smaller private groups that do giveaways also, and actually be a genuine person having some fun, not just someone trying to get moar gaemz hue. In other words - be someone people want to gift to.
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Well spoken! "How to steamgifts" summed up.

11 years ago
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You don't have to, but it greatly increases your chance to win as you can enter contributor giveaways.

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Contributing doesn't mean giving away games necessarily. I think you're still just trying to look at this as "what do I need to do, give me a 5 step plan to win games here". By contributing he doesn't mean doing any 1 specific thing. He means, be an actual member, get known, hang out in chats, post on the forums some, etc. Actually contribute something to the community.

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Give away $2000 worth of games so you can enter super exclusive giveaways for contributors.

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They happen. I've seen a few made in my time here. 3 or 4.

Not like TC has any chance getting into an exclusive group with his attitude.

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Seriously though. It might only make a huge difference once you've donated ungodly amounts, but putting just a little karma out there doesn't hurt.

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To win, you must not make threads about not winning anything. If you do, you are cursed.

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611 really isn't that many, considering your chances range from 500-3000+ :1 for any game and just because you have lost 611 doesn't give you any higher chance really.

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im 3.333 Entres and 14 wins :>

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I had almost 1200 entries before my first now ... now after giving back to the community I've won several times due to high contributor value.

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but the value of what you won is like 5% of what you gave. so what is the point besides killing time and playing a waiting game. Im not complaining im just not seeing the logic in it when people use this argument.

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Well then, maybe you should check my profile.

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Hot damn! Nice!

And I actually don't mind having a low Win/Giveaway ratio since most of the games I've given away have appeared in different bundles.

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I see , i decided to do a give away earlier today

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The spirit to gift away stuff. :D

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I did a giveaway today my first time, the winner was very happy so yes i understand

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You must have a blood sacrifice of a newborn baby! And call upon the SG lords!

11 years ago
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Preferably under a full moon, doubles your chances of winning and AAA game.

11 years ago
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Does the ritual circle need to be made with virgin blood or does normal animal blood work? I forgot that part.

11 years ago
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I hear expired hot sauce works particularly well as a substitute.

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Virgin blood works best, but the authorities have been watching me lately and I can't get any more of the local kindergarden kids for that purpose anymore. I've been using virgin goat blood instead and while it's not as effective, it seems to work ok.

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Bear cubs, trust me bro.
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So you like to play hard and try to capture them at their schools...nice. But if you want to do it easy, go to parties and malls they are easily acquired there, I get about 5 a week when Im lazy.

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Participate more on forums. You might find forum-only giveaways, like puzzle giveaways, that have fewer entries. Contribute more with SG, not necessarily with games, and SG will more likely contribute with you.

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thx

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Try to give something away first. Magically, odds will turn over you. True story.

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U need Unicorn's Blood!

11 years ago
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semi skimmed

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with sugar!

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It's all a matter of luck, I tend to enter giveaways with few entries to win. I have won a giveaway with 2000+ entries but that was really lucky.

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You need to capture your fart in a container and then sniff it til you pass out. When you wake up you will have all the games you entered for.

No joke.

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duplicate thread is duplicate

11 years ago
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Yayyyyy this again and with even worse spelling!

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If this proves to be a trend,i expect the next one completely in a foreign language

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Click the green "Enter to Win!" button, then wait. :D

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Oh God. More of this...

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increase your contribution amount and enter contributor giveaways, the only ones I've been able to win were the contributor giveaways I entered

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I'm sorry, but there is nothing we can do to help you.

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If by the 500 entry you haven't won anything, you have to leave.

It's in the rules. /hint

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Yep. That is the rule...

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I've left twice already then, guess that is why I am still here.

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Giving is better. Trust me.

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<.<

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Give cookies to people who create giveaways. If it doesn't work, try with more cookies.

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^This, cookies is the answer!

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So that means i must join the dark side?

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Closed 11 years ago by lucas152533.