Hi, forum lurkers Steam Gifters! It's me, Mike90! Seriously, were you expecting Mario?

Today I've got another useless awesome poll for you!

This time I'm wondering about the reasons that motivate us to enter giveaways.
Personally, I only enter giveaways for games that I'm sure I'll play, sooner or later, and only if I'm sure my PC will handle them.
There's no point in Iowering other people's chances at winning, if a game doesn't really interest me, or I couldn't run it at all.

What about you? What do you think, before clicking that enticing green button?

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What's your main reason for entering a giveaway?

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Because I like that game, of course!
I just want a +1 in my Steam library.
For profitz! It's got expensive cardz!
I need to spend my points somewhere, right?
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically.
I aint't got time 4 pollz! Where r da gibs?

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8 years ago*
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HINT:

  • The category should suggest you something...
8 years ago
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the only thing I thought of didn't work, so I hit my puzzle time quota.

8 years ago
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I'm bumping this thread, even though there's nothing noteworthy in it aside from the poll... ...or is it?

8 years ago
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This thread's secret giveaway is so well hidden, I almost forgot about it!
Bump!

8 years ago
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Bump!

8 years ago
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To play games. :v

8 years ago
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I used to enter a ton of giveaways, I'd enter even if I'd never even heard of the game. After winning a terrible game that no one should ever play, I started to wonder why I entered it. Now I usually only enter wishlist giveaways.

8 years ago
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Bad Rats struck again did it?

8 years ago
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Nope. This time it was Math Rescue.

8 years ago
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I think i'll win the game and then if i won it i'll take a look for the game and if i don't like it i'll call to re-roll.

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I hardly enter nowadays, but I enter if I really want the game.

8 years ago
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I enter fewer and fewer every day.
Began to realize that if I can purchase a game for myself, I probably should and give someone else the chance to win.

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+1 I just stopped, haven't enter anything in over month and don't plan to enter anymore GAs in the future (unless highly wishlisted and some how I don't have money)..

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8 years ago
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missing this ga, +1 library ^^
no wait, that's another user.

entering to win wthog ^^
hmm, wrong again.

entering for profitz, idle to get cardz B)
:O

ok, i enter for games i really want to play and i don't care if it has cards or not. oh, i also love the feeling of winning something ;_;

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I used to enter everything because I just wanted free stuff, won some games.
Didn't play a bunch of games yet. Felt guilty. Then I decided to enter the bundled games with the cards. Won some more games.
Didn't play a bunch of those either. Felt more guilty, so I started only entering games I'd play and try to be efficient and use up all my points. Won some more games.
Didn't play a bunch of those either. Guilt. Now I enter the giveaways that I would move straight to the top of my backlog. Won some of those.
Played as much as I could, but didn't play them all. Even more guilt.
Now I keep forgetting to visit the giveaways page.

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Games are my primary choice of entertainment and the loins of my soul burn for specific things, but I have extremely limited income and can never usually justify spending money on myself for leisure. Losing all the giveaways is still more proactive than wistfully touching Steam store entries on my phone screen every night before I go to sleep, therefore I'll never stop.

8 years ago
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Only enter for games I want to play and my blacklist / ignore list of games is laaarge.

8 years ago
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Now I'm wondering how many I have blocked... I know my blacklist count for peeps... it's zero... no idea about the games though.

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Thanks for saving me the time of finding that again! I have 374 blocked aside from those I already own

8 years ago
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I was about to give you the same link.. I got 3914 on my blacklist at this point, trolo

8 years ago
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I just recently crossed the threshold of 5000 games hidden. 5317 at this very moment :)

8 years ago
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Yay, have 60 more...

I have more blacklisted games then entries :P

8 years ago
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Idk , i dont enter that many giveaways anymore

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I only enter giveaways I want to play at some point. But i am entering less and less every day thinking i can't play the with this backlog.

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^This

8 years ago
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To win them. xD And only for games that I want to play at some point.

8 years ago
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I enter a giveaway if I want to play that game? I mean, duh. I'm not a douchebag after all.

8 years ago
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where is the option : i don't know the game and it is the best way to try it

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I can feel the blacklists coming but what the hell, I'm low on them anyway xD

It mostly depends on what type of giveaway it is.

  1. With whitelist giveaways I will only enter if there's a good chance I'll play that game.
  2. With group giveaways(now that the only group I'm in doesn't have a ratio) I'll also only enter stuff with high possibility I'll play.
  3. With group giveaways(back when I was in groups that had a ratio) Id enter even when I was mildly interested cause I felt I had to "break even"
  4. With forum giveaways I generally also enter stuff I'm somewhat interested and will maybe play at some point.
  5. With public giveaways I'll just enter anything that's even slightly appealing, even if chances of actually playing it are quite low.
8 years ago
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Good to see you around more often, when spreading controversy even more so :)

8 years ago
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strolling around SG

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I enter giveaways to win them.

Same for all of you.

8 years ago
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I want giveaway creators to be happy. If noone enters their giveaways, they can feel ignored, right?

8 years ago
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because its on my wishlist. simple enough.

8 years ago
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I don't enter giveaways.

8 years ago
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For some reasons, I didn't add this option to the poll... How could I forget it?

8 years ago
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To get free stuff DUH

8 years ago
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I only enter games on my WL, but since (before the two sakura games) my last win was 2 months ago it's mostly just to spend the points on games in my WL Which (despite having a HUGE wishlist) only results in about 50 or so GA to enter (and that's even more when a Popular bundle comes out that I haven't bought yet.)

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Closed 8 years ago by MikuIT.