University... -.-

well, apart from having real life and buying heaps of games on sales so that I can't even play them all - I have one more problem. it is called australian internet and their stupid FUP - their limits are ridiculous (like in Europe 7 years ago!) so since there are more people in my apartment, I can download 1 or 2 games a month, not more... :(

It'll get played. For the past year, I had a bandwidth cap of 500 megs a day, so I couldn't DL much. I'm DLing all my games now. :D

Out of the games I've gifted to strangers most remained unplayed for month after. Even the ones that people asked for. Admittedly, I've only gifted 3-4 games, but still. It's annoying and disrespectful.

The guy that won the great gift pile giveaway only played Skyrim for half an hour. Other than that he only played pre-owned games.

i dont even have time to play games i buy XD

I know how you feel. Most of them do indeed get around playing them once they have their time cleared up about it.

People who "play" TF2 are usually idling. Usually. But yes, there are people who just enter giveaways to collect games. I feel bad when I don't play the games I've won, so I always to try rack up a couple hours on them. You shouldn't really to try and force people to enjoy the stuff they won because it would end up like torture.

I have very little gaming time, but if I won a game -especially a multiplayer game I could play with the givaway host- I'd certainly at least install it, unless I bid on it just to take it to Steam Trading and bargain for games off my wishlist (I have no game budget, so trading is how I must get anything I want).

At any rate, a game I won would almost certainly be played by SOMEONE.

If you give someone a bottle of wine, do you expect them to chug it down right away?

bro some people dont have so much time :|

yea...i rly want wind COD:S for playing..but all time this won people who rly dont need this or no playing games like this.

I have won metro, the witcher 2 and the booster trooper. Havent played any of them because my gaming pc died a year ago. When i get enough money to build a new one from the ground up including new desk, speakers and monitors i will play them.

Agreed with op . I hate game collectors who get the games for the sole purpose of collecting it in their library and not playing it .

Some people here who won 0 games can be really desperate and they just enter every single entry they see, without realizing that winning means nothing if you win a game that you don't even want.

Bloody idiots!

i enter only for games what me rly need and what i want.

Dude, if you really care about that, then you shouldn't be doing giveaways. Instead, give your free copies to friends or people you know that really wants to play. I have a shitload of games installed on my pc, but I only play a few, not because I don't like them, just because I have to be in the mood to play them, I don't know, maybe it's just me.

STOPWHINING

I don't see you making any raffles

What happened to that jerk who said he enters giveaway to use won games for trading? I see that he deleted his post (and my and everyone elses replies with it)

I have a whole load of new games from christmas and such and all I have been playing lately is Battle for middle earth 2 NOSTALGIAGOGGLES

For some individuals, games are like Pokemons, Gotta catch 'em all!!

I bought Magicka way back thinking my laptop could run it. Also Amnesia.

it's there game, its there life. if you want to give a game to someone and force what they do with it, than its not truly a gift.

I FEEL REALLY BAD ABOUT THIS BUT LET ME EXPLAINNN MYSELFFF.
Some very nice and generous soul offered me a free copy of HL2, and naturally, I ecstatically thanked him and right away installed. However, I have yet to play through HL1 so I don't want to spoil the gameplay of its sequel. Moreover, I'm saving HL1 for when I get back to school (our internet limits multiplayer games, so it'll be single player for awhile for me!) so that I have something to do. Thus, HL2 won't be touched for awhiiiileee. I feel bad cause I really am grateful for the gift and do want to play it! So person who gifted me that, if you see this, please know I willlllll get around to HL2 in the future!
And yeah, perhaps other people out there have similar circumstances and whatnot.

I have a lot of games that I've actually had to spend hard-earned money on that I haven't installed for weeks or even months. There are lots of reasons why someone wouldn't install it immediately. E.g. school/work/social life getting in the way of game playing, wanting to play other games with friends in the limited time that they do have. Not to mention disk-space! My wife bought me RAGE and F.3.A.R. for my birthday and it was almost a month before I installed them because I've got something like 200 games installed and can't afford to get another hard-drive just at the moment. I eventually uninstalled a few games that I hardly ever play! I might feel differently if someone hadn't unpacked the game and kept it in their inventory to trade it, but there are too many legitimate reasons why someone may not have installed the game (or installed it and barely played it) to make a big deal.

Also, I've barely played games (like F3AR/RAGE/Arkham City etc) that I got recently because they involve a more significant investment of time. A quick 10-15 minutes tooling around in TF2, CS:S or Peggle is easy to grab but I like to sit down and commit 2-3 hours to story-driven single-player games.

Well I won a game just before Christmas and I haven't had time to get to it... Eventhough I really want to play it, there's been game on sales at Christmas that appealed me more, I try to have a social life and there's university... How come you can blame someone for doing something else than playing games ?
I won monkey Island, but I got gifted Saint Row 3 for my birthday and I decided to play it before, what's the problem in waiting to clear your backlog a little ?