The final entry on my cakeday train! I hope you've all had fun and best of luck to everyone who entered. Have a wonderful holiday season, whatever you are celebrating! Please bump the thread so more people can take part.
As a reminder in case you skipped the wall of text in the original thread: WINNER MUST PLAY THIS GAME IN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME. I dithered about whether to put this behind a Playing Appreciated group restriction but decided to keep it open so more people could join. Please, winner, don't disappoint. You don't have to 100% it--you don't even have to finish it-- but please don't enter unless you plan to play it.
There shouldn't be any region restrictions (it's a ROW key guaranteed to work in the US).
What is a reasonable time trime for such a huge game? 3 months?
I wish you wonderful holidays in advance~
Bump here
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Like I said, it doesn't have to be finished. But yes, following PA's guidelines is probably reasonable. So in the first 2-3 months after winning, play at least 5-10 hours of the game and have reasonable achievements for that amount of playtime (so you'd have the early story achievements, and some easily acquired achievements like "pick a lock" or "purchase an item" showing that you didn't just idle the game). Basically, I just want the winner to have a genuine interest in playing it and not just to get a +1 to their steam library.
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Sounds doable. Though, I don't think that genuine interest corresponds to when the game is played. I think, one can really anticipate playing a game even though over a year has already passed since it has been installed on one’s hard drive. There is just sometimes so much going on in life and so much backlog in addition to that. But I can understand why you would prefer your game to be played as soon as possible
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Sure, life's busy and backlogs are a thing but realistically, if a winner can't find 7 hours over the next 2,160 hours then they probably just aren't that interested, at least not compared to other potential winners. Just committing to playing for one hour a week would be sufficient with time left over.
Also, just as a matter of practicality, I have no interest in stalking someone's steam profile for the next 2 years to see if they actually play. Since I didn't do this via PA, I will have to check manually.
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I personally don't like to play for just one hour. It takes a bit to get into to atmosphere of the game but with play sessions of just 1 hour you quit right at the moment when the game finally pulled you an. I don’t get the same enjoyment as when a I find the time to play 2+ hours straight. At least this is my experience, maybe you have different experience regarding that.
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Look, I'm not here to manage my winner's personal life. My point about playing for one hour a week wasn't meant as a requirement; it just demonstrated that even for legitimately extremely busy people, my play time requirement is very doable without having to change anything in their typical routine. Obviously, a winner could also easily play for a single Saturday afternoon and achieve the same playtime. Hell, the winner could even have some crazy idiosyncratic trait like only playing horror games on the full moon and still achieve it without much difficulty.
Here's the thing: I bought this game with the sole purpose of making a random stranger on the internet happy. That's it. That's literally the only return that I am getting on this purchase. So I want to make sure it gets to a person who will be genuinely thrilled to win it. I presume the type of people who might enter this giveaway fall into three broad categories: (A) people who think "nice, a +1 for my steam account and some free trading cards," (B) people who think "oh! a 50p game! This is the one with zombies right? Yeah, I think I'd like to play that sometime, maybe," and (C) people who think "hell yeah! This has been on my wishlist for ages! I really want to play this but just haven't had the spare cash!"
I really want the winner to come from category (C) because seeing that I've made someone genuinely excited and happy makes me happy. Requiring the winner to play the game in a timely fashion makes this more likely because it will discourage those with no interest or only mild interest in the game. If someone see's a requirement to put some playtime in--not even to finish the game but just to play it for a couple hours-- and thinks "what an onerous requirement, ugh, I don't want to have to do that," then I'd rather they not be the winner of this giveaway. I am completely okay if all 23 other games that I am giving away in this train go to people who never play them or don't play then for years. But not this game.
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I didn't mean to step on anybody’s toes. I just wanted to show that someone can be really hyped about a game even though it takes him a year or longer to play it. Let me give you an example. I really love the Dark Souls series. I have played every Souls game for 150+ hours and I am really hyped about Elden Ring. Even though this is my most anticipated game atm, I could still wait a year or longer till playing it without losing my excitement about it. My comment wasn't meant to criticise your giveaway system, I just wanted to show, that game anticipation doesn't necessary correlate to when the person plays the game. Though, I agree with you that most people are not that interested in the game if they don't play it shortly after they got it and your method should be sufficiant for increasing the chance of a person in your category (C) winning it.
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That's fair, agree with you.
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I wouldn't call it a huge game unless you mean the factory level, which drags on and on. Two of the boss encounters are rather brief in comparison. Plenty of backtracking though.
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I thought it was a 50+ hour game but I just looked up the length and it is a surprisingly short game. Kinda pleasent to see short AAA games for once
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I like this game but sadly I have extreme motion sickness even just watching it :(
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Oh, god, yes. The new RE games are kinda terrible about that aren't they lol. I got the chance to try out RE 7 on VR and barely made it two minutes before I had to quit due to motion sickness (although the normal version isn't as bad). You can play with the settings somewhat to minimize that, specifically camera and aim acceleration I believe, but yeah it's a problem.
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Try regular RE7. It is amazing so far and I will get the rest of the DLC because of how batshit everything becomes.
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Yeah, I have played the regular version. It's much better haha. And an excellent soft reboot for the series =D
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Merry Christmas! :)
Very nice train, with a great caboose! Thank you. :)
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awesome!
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Wishing u a very Merry Christmas and thanks for the amazing train!
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Merry Christmas, and thank you!
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Thank you very much for my wishlist game :)
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You're very welcome! Enjoy!
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