I hate luck

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This, /thread.

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In this care in particular - I believe ~20% of people lost. But by all means, make a thread about it, every one of the several thousand of you should.

Honestly, I'm wondering where the other 4,739 threads about this are.

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To make you feel better it wasnt all that good.

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Well, you might win something else in exchange. :)

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Almost 5000 people lost what would happen if they all would open a thread to rage?:))

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Wouldn't happen. What would happen is the usual for SG: a few people will open threads, a few others will post on these same threads chiming in, and a lot of others will rage about these people's right to post, making these threads the most popular threads, until they are closed.

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How do you have 80% ? It's (1/2)^(n-1) in giveaways or did i miss something ?

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25,000 copies; 29,740 Entries -> 84% chance to win

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So when there are 3 people in a giveaway chance to win is 1/4? Seems legit...

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... X entries when the giveaway closes, each person's win chance = 1/X.

With your formula, for a 'typical' public giveaway with 1000 entries, everyone would have 1/(2^1000) chance of winning. Which is astronomically small compared to 1/1000 chance of winning xD

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Math fail. Don't screw up the simple things by trying to make them needlessly harder. Provided everyone has an equal chance of winning, you chance to win is (# of copies) / (# of entries). That's it.

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Someone has to lose.

So stop bitching about it.

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True true!

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Cool story bro.

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meh its a piece of shit anyway. crashes on launch for me, why valve allows this junk on steam i dont know.

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141412412414141224th thread only TODAY! STOP MAKING THESE THREADS AND JUST GET ON WITH YOUR LIVES

please.
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I don't think this forum can handle that many threads in a day.

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I had cereals for breakfast =)

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So did I!

We have so many things in common.

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I had bread and water.

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I feel you, but look at these comments people say to you ...WoW!

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You should hate statistics instead. Luck is just it's puppet

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Thank you for your sacrifice EpicGamerxD. I will tell my children the story of how you bravely entered a giveaway for 25,000 copies Galatic Arms Race and lost so others can play.

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All while they're playing the copy you won? ;)

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QQ any more

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cursed

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Everyone just keeps calling my name today!

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you have a weird name

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My steam name :P

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you chose a weird name

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:(

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And you chose a name that seems to be a description instead of an actual name. Having fun bothering someone for no reason?

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Tongue-in-cheek. The lowercase commenting should've given it away.

Unless you take offence to me bothering him out of jest, to which I have nothing to respond with.

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I think that's just a little too subtle for the Internet. Maybe you haven't noticed, but many people write in all lowercase with little to no punctuation.

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I did consider signing off with a /s, but I thought that would be too blatant. On most forums, most people write with proper punctuation and capitalization, so I was hoping it'd be obvious. Ah well. I'll try harder in the future. :)

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"On most forums, most people write with proper punctuation and capitalization"? You must be thinking of a different internet than the rest of us.

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Indeeed, where's that utopian place you guys are talking about?

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Metafilter, if I have to name just one.

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famous :)

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500+ entries, with several of them being >50% odds, and I still haven't won. For the record, of someone who audits me and sees I 'won' something. It was a dlc I entered for when steamgifts was new and I didn't realize it was dlc. I tried to tell them to give it to someone else, and never got a reply.

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you never won? what about the DLC?!

muhahahaha =P

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I know, laugh it up. I deserve it. T.T It really was a huge insult. It was before I ever saw the banners that indicate dlc. Even if you did include it, I'm still at 1 in ~542, which is pretty low.

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yeah, there are still a few DLC's that allow users to enter, even if they don't own the main game.

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It was a long time ago. Steamgifts was pretty new.

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Odds of more than 50%? Then you were the only entrant and can't have lost. Doubt you mean that really?

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???

GAR had 80%+ for everyone. No one was an only entrant, and anyone could lose. Same thing can apply for other giveaways(as long as they give more that 1 key).

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I was also in several private givaways among my friends, where I was one of 2 or 3 entrants. Cant even win those.

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that's cute

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ONE MAN VERSUS PROBABILITY

LIVE AT THE TURBODROME

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

ONLY ON PAY-PER-VIEW

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Hehe.

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lol

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I also couldn't win one of those, but it's ok since I've won 74 gifts so far :p

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I hate your luck >:P

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I just love it :D

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i won that giveaway but am too stupid to activate the ke. can someone help? :D

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I'd mock you for not even trying Google, but instead I'm feeling generous.

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on the top menu of steamgifts, you click 'giveaways', then click 'view won'

you will then see the steam key, copy it.
open up your steam client, click 'games' on the top menu, then click 'activate a product on steam'
then you just have to follow the directions, click 'I agree' to the "Steam Subscriber Agreement",
enter your code you copied, click next and your done!

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when i tried this it didnt work. hmm but i tried it again and it worked... thanks

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lol k np

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Post key here, let others help you activate.

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OK: 3XNG5-UH62F-EG7K4 thanks 4 your help

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i hope you didn't actually put your key there.... hahaha

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lol it was fake :D i entered my code

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Thanks for Skyrim!

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Thanks, I got it!

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I didn't win either. Pity it's not yet on Steam, so I can't add it to my wish list and buy it when it's 75% off. Still, favourited it on Greenlight.

(This was the first developer giveaway I entered.)

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oh come oooooooooon, stop crying...you don't even wanted that game like everyone else (no offense), you just saw 25k copies and you joined so SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
You're just sad that you can't leech someone!

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Mad yet

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i hate you!!

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Closed 11 years ago by g4m3rnub.