No, I don't, as it is unfair for others if I win a game wich I am not even probably interested into.
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Well, I sure would like to play a lot of these games, but for many of them, it's more like "I'd like to see how much I enjoy them" rather than "this is really and something I definitely want to play".
I guess it also helps that I have unusual tastes in games relative to the average Steam user.
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I enter giveaways that I can win. I like games, I like free shit.
I don't enter Skyrim, or other expensive ones because they are crowded and I rather use my points on something with better odds.
For me does not matter if I want the game or not. I will play it anyway. So yeah... I enter giveaways just for the sake winning. That's what everyone does. What other reason you would enter a giveaway if you are not interested in winning? Even if the game does not interest you at all. It's free.
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I've only entered three of those, and twice it was for games that I actually want. I'm guilty of one count of dumping 30 points into a game that I only might possibly want.
Though it was Fallout 3. I've heard good things about Fallout 1 and 2, which I want, but they never show up in the giveaways here, so I was like, why the heck not.
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I don't think everyone does that - or even most... I don't. I enter ones that I'm either intending to buy at some point (meaning on sale for a killer price) or something that looks really cool that I haven't thought of before.
It seems kinda pointless to me (and likely to piss people here off) to enter giveaways for games that I'm not interested in just because the odds look good.
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I only enter for games other people want, but only if they're also games that my pets want, and then only on full moons in months during which major battles occurred in the Balkans in the last 200 years. Also, any games with the letter K in them are completely off-limits.
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I usually never enter a giveaway if there are more than 300-400 entries. So for all those Skyrim giveaways with 4,000+ people...forget it because your chances of winning are next to impossible. I definitely do believe that people just enter for the sake of getting something free because my friend once traded me a copy of Portal and told me to go to the Steam trade forum and trade it for something he didn't have. It took 2 weeks and over 200 private messages before I found someone who actually wanted it, sad thing is that I also had to trade away one of my own games along with Portal just to make a trade. So whenever I see a giveaway for a copy of Portal with 500 entries I know it's just because people want free stuff and not because they really want that game.
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If only you'd gotten in touch with me and your friend wanted Recettear.
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Also, aren't you not allowed to enter for something if you have it already?
Though I guess nothing prevents you from making a new Steam account just to enter stuff, as long as you don't enter it with both accounts.
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When I first signed up for Steamgifts I entered a few Portal giveaways and won 2 and gave one to my little sister because she couldn't use this website (something to do with the ip). I was new and didn't know the rules against trading gifts away. But now I know so I learned my lesson and it wont happen again. Not sure why that is a big deal though.
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Because if it wasn't a big deal people would be doing exactly what you are doing.
That is, entering for other people so they have a (better) chance of winning a game.
In turn it would make entering giveaways not a matter of pure luck but a matter of how many people you can rally.
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Well, depends on what "intend to play" means. There's a difference between "I'd like to have this game because all my friends are talking about it and I wanna see what it's like" and "I expect to spend 50+ hours really immersed in and enjoying this game".
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I put quite a bit of thought before entering a giveaway. "Is this something I've wanted to try out? Has there been good reviews? Has any friends praised this game?" I don't like to have games that I don't ever play, although I have quite a few of them currently.
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Sometimes I end up burning points if I'm at 200-250, once you hit the cap you start to lose out on money so it does nothing to just let it get wasted.
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Nope, I only enter for games I'd actually play and I like games that have steam achievements. Games I've won / got gifted private I've almost 100% completed by now.
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I only enter for games that I know I want to play. That's why I've been sitting at 300 points for quite some time.
I'm fine if I never win anything. I'd rather not win anything than win a game that I don't care about, which someone else would have loved.
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I do not enter for games which do not interest me because i am lacking points even for games i would love to play. Later on when you participate in a giveaway for a game that you are not really interested and actually win you will meet that feeling - YES I WON A GAME!.. but wait.. actually im not very happy about it because I would never choose to play a game like this.. and rules say that you must activate the game right away. Not the best feeling, I can say. So I suggest everyone to participate game givaways that they have interest in, because maybe someone out there would enjoy this misterious game much more than you do.
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I enter for games which interest me and I plan on playing when I get a better computer. I find it kind of pointless to just extend my game library, of course it would be nice to, but if I'm never going to play the games it seems kind of unfair to the others who legitimately want the game
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Because I sometimes get that feeling, and I remind myself that there is no intrinsic point to winning a giveaway for a game, or winning some other contest to get a game, or having a bigger Steam library.
For example, my computer probably can't run Skyrim (although I haven't checked the hardware requirements), and I have many other games I am more interested in playing than Skyrim, so entering the rare but lauded Skyrim giveaway is kinda pointless for me. I actually entered one once. Then decided that I'd rather enter six drawings for $10 games I want rather than one drawing for Skyrim.
And I'm at peace with not winning anything. In entering giveaways here, I'm not expected to win anything. At least, I won't be behind par probabilistically until after I've entered several hundred contests anyway and still not won anything, and even so, it's still a low-chance lottery.
That said, based solely on probability, I'm most likely to get Portal before anything else. I still don't have that; I missed the free weekend a while back, and frankly speaking, there are enough giveaways of Portal on here (and I have enough other games to play) that I don't feel like buying it myself. Maybe I'll snatch it up the next time they do a Portal free weekend. Still, though, I'm at peace with not being able to play it. In fact, I think there's no game that I really, really want to have, even anything on my wishlist, and I'm fine with that.
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