Your logic is flawed. Not everyone who gives away a lot of games (high level) owns a lot of games (and vice versa - not everyone who owns a lot of games make giveaways). I'm fairly certain cg won't add this sort of filter to the site, as it directly diminishes the purpose of the level system.
However, there are other ways to accomplish your goal.
- You can use SGTools to make giveways with a plethora of criteria.
- If giving games to those who don't own many is truly what you wish, you could forego the SG giveaway process entirely and directly gift games to people with fewer games. You'd also be foregoing any associated CV, but you'd get some warm fuzzies inside.
- You could start a Steam group with the intent to make giveaways for those who don't own many games.
- Though it's self-evident, it's worth mentioning that lower level giveaways tend to attract more lower level entrants.
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I'm an example of this. I own 245 games, but I have given away 128 games and I will be level 5 when my winners decide to stop being dicks. I'm not a game collector and I don't want to own games I don't want to play, so I have given away a lot of games I wasn't interested in from bundles I bought.
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I think the OP is thinking of high level in Steam, not in SG.
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I actually think OP means he'd like to create giveaways for those who don't own many games on Steam. I was just pointing out that level on SG (or Steam, for that matter) is no indication of how many games someone might own.
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If someone has given away $50,000 worth of games, the odds are they're not struggling to buy a game they want.
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I was just pointing out that level on SG (or Steam, for that matter) is no indication of how many games someone might own.
Thank God for copy/paste.
Edit: Worth pointing out, though -- if those people spent their money on games for themselves, there would be others who would have fewer giveaways to enter. Something to think about. ;)
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Great, thanks for telling me the SGtools. I speak Spanish so it is very difficult to understand all the little details on the page. My idea is to make better draws and give more opportunity to those who deserve it. And excuse me if I make 'stupid suggestions'. Goodnight!!
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Speaking of fair I have seen many users with a lot of games (10k+), but they also had as many useful reviews, guides, and translations to the community. I value that more than a random new account with nothing on it complaining.
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Ohhh, sorry for not belonging to 4 years or more and coming to complain about my ideology.
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How do you deserve to get more if you give less? For example does someone running 100 level 0 bots deserve to win the most of all?
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Yeah I don't understand that logic either.
And since we're talking about levels, let's be honest, there aren't that many GAs for level 6 and up, and level 8+ GAs are extremely rare so if people who give more games end up getting less odds to win, that's pretty ironic.
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That's rich, coming from someone who's won over 1000 giveaways.
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But also gave thousands of games.
I think it's just a matter of perspective. Personally I don't discriminate against anyone on SG as long as they're active in the community, if they don't make GAs, it's fine.
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it's steamgifts not steamgetsomethinginreturn ;)
The fact you've won a lot. Anyone in your fluffy situation would be happy, and making a joke about comes off all pompous.
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most of my wins are from time when SG started, it was way easier to win then than it is now. and i've entered a lot of giveaways
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https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/jBN3uCD
Sorry, not retyping it all. :3
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Oh yeah that didn't even come to mind because I never really got into the Steam level thing lol. I don't even know how I got to mine, probably events during sales or some such.
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I'm entirely cool with the OP wanting to make giveaways for those who don't own many games, if that is indeed his intent. (edit: In fact, I think it's really cool).
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Oh I think it's really cool too. And that's why I also pointed them to Unlucky7. Not owning a lot of games on Steam is a bit of a problem as a filter on SG though since your account is supposed to have a certain amount of $$ just so you can register. And then there's also people with multiple Steam accounts.
Not owning a lot of games in the account connected to SG doesn't mean a person doesn't have tens of thousands of games in other accounts.
It's a good goal but SG might not be the best way to go about it.
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He just said people with few games deserve to win something, he didn't explicitly say people with lots of games do not. So, I'd say it's at least unclear whether he meant it the way you understood it (unless he elaborates somewhere in the thread and I didn't see that yet).
While I definitely wouldn't agree with the notion that people with high game count don't deserve to win more games, I kind of understand why he would do some GAs with such a restriction. The Unlucky 7 is based on the idea that people who didn't win much get some nice chances. This is more or less similar. People with few games get a better chance of winning something. At least I like this idea better than excluding people because of 10 year old VAC bans, So, my opinion is - why not? Even if that definitely excludes me from his GAs. ;)
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Only problem I can see is that the number of accounts with fewer games owned on steam may in fact be the second, third, fourth, so on and so fourth, account of someone with many games on their primary account - given the known use of bot accounts on both SG and steam, the idea that you may be giving a game away to someone with fewer games may in actual fact be a fallacy - but we are all for someone doing whatever floats their own boat and makes them happy :)
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This (sorry for, almost, pointless post but since there are no upvotes)
Edit: No, this is not me saying that upvotes would be a good idea. I prefer that if someone think they, almost, have something to contribute they make an effort to communicate that.
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It might be counter-productive for me to say this (as I am one of these guys with 10k games on my account), but I would assume the number of people who actually have multiple accounts running on SG successfully without getting caught is probably smaller than the number of people with thousands of games. And that is just an assumption, as I don't have any real numbers to work with here.
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Like has been said, SG level has nothing at all to do with how many games you have or even have won from here. You can theoretically own 20k games of which 10k you won from here while having given away nothing. So you're a low level user who for some mysterious reason deserves to win much more than someone who has 100 games of which 10 are won from here but has given away 10k away here thus getting to a high level.
So if leechers deserve to win more, why not add cheaters to the list and only give to people with VAC bans, makes about as much sense to me.
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You can also join the "Unlucky 7" group here on SG. You can opt to make your giveaways for unluckies only by writing it in the description. Those are people with less than 8 wins on SG. Other members of the group won't enter once they see that in the description.
There are a few other groups like "Playing Appreciated," "Pay or Play," and "Playing Matters." In these groups there are rules that the winner has a specified period of time to play their win, or they get kicked out. At least with those groups, you can be almost sure the winners will play the games. If I had an expensive game to give away, I'd be considering that since some games don't deserve to end up in the hands of a card farmer.
Check out the group recruitment section for some of the groups I mentioned.
I sometimes give games away outside of SG to people on my friend's list that don't have many games and a small wishlist. If I see that I have something from a bundle that they want, I generally give to them. =)
But... You can never be 100% certain that people with lower level Steam accounts have less games. The account they use on here might not even be their "real" Steam account.
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I'm not really sure what you mean by "deserving" but if you want to give away only to people who haven't won a lot of games (which is very different from people who have given a lot), and who have still given some games, I recommend joining the group Unlucky 7 and making "Unluckies only" GAs there.
Only people who have less than 7 wins will be able to enter.
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I'm not really sure what you mean by "deserving" ...
Yeah, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that concept, myself.
A person seen as worthy of being gifted something totally superfluous which he can likely purchase himself for the sole reason of having been selected by a random number generator.
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Good Idea but never going to be real , its a Curel World mate hehe
there should be a filter for those who dont own many games and cant efford to either buy or giving em away
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Many people got it by linking their Bethesda account, and got a copy for it for ~8€.
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so, you only needed a bethesda account and get a massive discount? You didn't even need to own it?
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No, if they owned it on Bethesda acc, they got it for free on Steam. They bought Bethesda copies for ~8€.
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Seem I got ripped off. Which I assumed from the beginning regardless of price, but anyway... :P
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i got it free from bethesda luancher free and i bought it for 8 box do i look like a rich guy to ya ?
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i saw it and i`m right what more should i know and even with it i got only 50 games and most of em are trash
there are so many who own like 5 or 10 k games .. its not like you could compare me to those
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So what? I agree with him and I own over 9000 games.
If there were ever one filter on SG I'd support including, it's a filter for those who don't own many games.
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yeah but no one care some win every day or 2 some every 3 week or month .. thats not fair ..
cause no one takes us in the groups nor whitelists us ...and now that im writing it here no one cares again
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thats not fair ..
I agreed that I wouldn't mind a filter for those who don't own many games, but this new addition is something I simply cannot agree with. No one deserves any more than the giveaway creator decides. I myself dislike small game-trading groups, but I also have the tools at my disposal to exclude them from my own giveaways.
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Rather than lament what you're not able to enter, appreciate what are are able to enter? You're given the chance to win some free games. That seems pretty damned cool to me (I know I certainly appreciate every given opportunity).
Anyway, I must go play a game now. Stay healthy and safe, and happy gaming. :3
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im grateful of those game i won im not sayin that
its just my opinion mate
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It does not seem fair to me, to make a raffle to give games to those who DO NOT HAVE and that people with more than ten thousand games win them. I propose a filter so that high levels do not participate in some games as it takes away the opportunity to win someone who has no games. Thank you for your attention and good night.
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