Calculating - How much need to spend to win something?

Every single cent you have

I believe it took me a month of daily participation to win for the first time and I count myself lucky! :)

I place on every game, what is interesting for me and I use all of my points every hour.
A month? Oh my God!

hey, welcome to steamgifts.
you'll find that there is no way to improve your odds of winning unless you enter private or group giveaways

I entered roughly 800 giveaways before I finally won my first game. Your odds are slightly better on private or group giveaways, but overall it just takes persistence and patience.

A guide for idiots to help their chances to win
But the best chances are gained by being a popular user. Given you have destroyed any chance of that, I'll recommend spending that money buying the games you want.

you can increase your chance by giving away a lot of games (worth about 2000$ would be sufficient for the start). WIth this, only enter contributor giveaways that have a contribution minumum of 2000$ set. You will see, your odds are heavily increasing.

Hmm.. nothing really. Just be sure to spend all your points. it's really about luckiness. i won 2 giveaway in 1 day after 2 month of joining.

Don't enter in giveaways with over 1000 entries, the less people the better chance, simple as that.
Forum and puzzle giveaways will have far less people.
Lastly, take a look at your profile, 85 giveaways entered .09 estimated wins. You really haven't entered very many and they've all been low chance.

Well known fact: you will win sooner if you grow a goatee.

I seriously need to win 2 or 3 of the games I'm interested in soonish, so I'll have enough points for the other ones I'm interested in to at least enter them :D

Durrrrr.

I've been here for a month, already won 5 games & 3 of those had over 1,000 or 2,000 entries with only one having a CV requirement. So I guess i'm really lucky here lol all I can really say is just keep entering giveaways, it'll happen eventually. 85 total entries isn't much at all. There's private giveaways & keydrops in the forums a lot too if you look out for them.

You sound like you don't wanna give anything until you receive something first (to make sure the site isn't a scam or something), but you'll actually have a higher chance if you give games as well. Some games with contributor values tied to them tend to have less entries overall. But you don't HAVE to spend to win anything here.

Can't believe no one so far said the most obvious answer! You need to spend over 9000, simple as that.

On my first day on the Site, I won 2 games in a period of 35 minutes. The only Downside to winning 2 games is that it was the same game. XD But, still 2 wins.

Oh, you're being serious?

2 months of checking every few hours. ended up winning payday 2 :D

More than a month, but worth it, i won a Tomb Raider collection.

sell off your house , cars and everything you have . I'm sure you will win something called poverty :D

"Need"? Zero.

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Creating this thread might have lowered your chances to win something

It takes no money to win anything, it just allows you to enter giveaways with lower entries, giving you a better chance on that giveaway. Nothing will increase your chances, giveaway to giveaway, and it will take a lot to noticeably increase your chances overall through the greater accessibility. If I had to guess what would give you best odds for value would likely be just over $30, but I can't say that it will benefit you within a month or a year. It is quantity that gets you the prize, you can do nothing but live on this site, and still win nothing in a year, or your first giveaway could get you something. Don't jump in and assume within a week you will win something, it seems it takes about a month for an average user to win something, took me 2-3 months to win something I believe, and my estimated wins was above 2 by that time.

Just get a job earning the minimum wage. You'll earn enough money to buy most of the games given away here.