Winners Not Playing Games Won

Play the games we own? What kind of crazy talk is this.

Too many variables and too much desired control on your part there. Not realistic. Myriad reasons why a player might not be playing a game. I can barely get through a game a month on my schedule, but that doesn't mean I don't want to play the games I've won (and many others in my backlog).

I guess most people who dont play the games they've won enter those giveaways because its one more game which they can add to their library whether they play it or not. It's selfish and vain but nothing bars them from doing so.

I don't mind too much myself, as I know I'm not perfect at that myself, for several reasons.

• The game isn't as interesting as I had hoped (which can happen no matter how much research you do)
• The size of the download prevents the winner from getting it at that time (some users do have datacaps or smaller hard drives)
• They want to wait until a time when they know they can devote themselves to a bigger title
• They want to play the series in order (my own win of The Witcher 2 is waiting for both this reason and the previous because of the first game)
• Their current PC isn't quite up to the job of running their wins

So people need to play the games they won immediately after they won it? Not even all people play the games they bought immediately.

I own a lot of games, and a lot of them I haven't yet played. I play games one at a time for the most part, and a single game can take quite some time to play through.

I'll be the first to admit that I haven't played many of the game I've won, but I'll get around to them all eventually. That's why I like SteamGifts, I can enter giveaways for games I'm interested in, but not enough so that I "must" get it. Whenever I win a game I think to myself "Cool, I'll play that some time" and I make enough giveaways myself that I think me not playing my games immediately can be at least somewhat forgiven.

i just want to win games.

whether i play them or not aren't really for you to decide

I just want to win a giveaway :( haha

Many games.
No time.
I can not play them all at once. Limited space on my computer.
I finish a game and then install another.

I won 3 games in the last 2 weeks but I have exams until the end of July so I won't play them for about another month.

I always try to play the games i won, haven't played the last one i did won though, need to complete other games first. Maybe they don't have enough time perhaps?

Use the search function, please.

Honestly, I've never checked if the winners played the games I gave away or not. If they end up on my friend's list, I might remember they won the game from me if I see them playing it, but I never thought to check.

As for why I might not play a game I win right away,

...ooh, I think I see something shiny.

Well right now my computer can't run Bioshock Infinite, Civ V, Fallout: New Vegas, Just Cause 2, Total War: Shogun 2, etc. So I'll wait until when I can

Just to let you know also shitty laptop that can't run most of recent games.

Not everyone has the time to play games. Some people have only their weekends of free time, and it's hard to actually remember playing some game you won at a giveaway you already forgot about.

Also, what if the game doesn't even run on their computer?

I don't think you should bash people for this.

I tend to be slow about getting to games, but if I like a game I tend to play it on and off for as long as it will play on hardware I own, rather than powering thru it in a weekend and uninstalling it like a lot of folks seem to do. Doubly so for anything that has co-op play...hubby and I tend to co-op games and still play things as old as Doom and Quake together.

Some people don't have heaps of data so they can't download it straight away.

Not really, I don't bother about it too much.

I'm currently playing through my game list... achivmenst :D so maybe 100% off the games i have won i dont play because of that reason... and limited download speed and DATA storage

If it makes you feel better I can compile a list of reasons why I entered for certain games and why I stopped playing them. But I am sure you don't care lol.

I don't really care.

Eh it doesn't really bother me, I recognize that a lot of people have large backlogs (like myself) and will get around to the game eventually. Part of the reason I haven't got to play some of the games I have won recently is the fact that my GPU died on me so until I can get together some cash I am stuck playing less graphically intense games. For those reasons it doesn't bother me too much, as long as the person gets around to the game eventually, even if it is several years down the road.

There are better ways of making this site better, than getting all creepy into peoples playtimes.

Things such as,

Marking titles you think may be crap to never show up on your list..or if you have the same game under a different name, (GOTY versions, etc)...or if you own the game, but say on a console or just not on steam...and maybe having the option to only show games you have the points to enter the raffle in..etc

All of these would be better.

Actually, I played the crap out of Fortix when I won it until I got all the achievements. Some of the games I really liked and played like crazy until I was done and others I didn't really care for once I started playing them. I have at least given a decent percentage a try now.

And then one like Penny Arcade 3, I do want to get the first two before playing that and haven't been able to afford them. I'm hoping they'll have a decent sale on them during the summer sale so I can grab those and the fourth one as well.