Why do you make giveaways?

I make shit giveaways so people can invite me to private groups so I can leech in max level.

I honestly dont know, and seeing as most of my giveaways have been indie bundles (low income means low cost giveaways) through the forums I couldnt tell you if people actually play them. I suppose its not like they could trade them away even if they wanted to though.

cuz

I actually purchased Evil Genius a few days ago for the sole purpose of creating a puzzle giveaway. I was sitting on my bed in my dorm and I thought "HOLY HELL I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A PUZZLE" and that's why. No other reason. hahaha

Because i feel like it, specially if I target deserving ones

I'm glad I don't check what the winners do with their gifts. I'm disappointed though that few bother to thank for them. The winners of my first giveaways thanked, but most of them haven't since. It bothers me more when I give outside of the normal Steam Gifts process since then I can't tell if people got them.

Anyway, I've always been a collector of gifts, physical or digital, and this is just a place to get rid of some of these gifts.

if you noticed anyone who traded the prize, report them immediately using the support button. This is against the rules. They are not to do this. I am very appreciative of the games you are giving out.

Why give when u can get games for free?

Because, why not?

Just because. I don't get a good feeling out of it or anything like that, but I feel like doing it anyways.

Simply I somehow feel happy giving away my games. I don't really care about what the guy(s) do with the game after that. But as you mentioned, yeah, I do get the feeling being ripped off when the guy(s) doesn't/don't actually want the game (even just to add up to Steam collection) and trade the game away for profit.
Lol, I wish I had CSGO right now to make a puzzle giveaway. Fun time.

Because I want to, because I can, and because some games just need to be played by more people

I like giving away stuff. I've been trying my hardest to make an AAA title giveaway, sadly so far never managed it. Currency exchange rates here are crazy (6 egyptian pounds to 1 dollar) so in Egyptian pounds (my currency) that's too much money. Still, I'm saving for it.

I never actually checked what the people who won my game did with it. I do know that the one giveaway I made on the forums, for QUBE, the dude was really happy and started playing it right away, so that made me happy.

Judging by your comments, I'm not even going to look at those who won my giveaways so I won't get depressed.

It's a good way to make people frustrated by my puzzles. :-] (And every now and then, someone trying to solve them is brave enough to contact me, and the chat with them is generally quite pleasant.)

Havent given away anything on steam gifts yet, the things I did have were a few extra copy of lucid and faire solitaire felt like they clogged the site up too much, so just gave them out to random people >.<

For the free sex.

Obviously.

Because I am a strangely disturbed individual?
Potato!

I ussually give games to my buddies. I have won one game from the site. and hopefully i will return the favor. it may be fairy solitaire but i like it alot. put 2hrs on it so far.

The sad thing is people actually enforce the ”do not trade” rule. This is sad because more than half of the games won here won't be played, and since trading is against the rules, that basically means more than half of the games won here will rot in someone's library for a +1 to their Steam games. Very well thought out rule, if this were a perfect world and people would only enter giveaways for games they are interested in. But instead, we have a situation where a person can't trade game X for game Y, which would mean that both games are played.

But hey, the important thing is "Received Gifts Valued at $480,900.59", fuck the games, because who cares about those anyway?

For shits and giggles.

Because it makes me wet.

It's simply that making people happy makes me happy too :)
I like to do some good actions sometimes.

Doing good to other people makes them do good to someone else, I hope. Well why wouldn't I be nice, in this case giving away games, if I can do it without a bigger trouble. But I'm pretty sure everyone gets some ego boost of such giveaways on the internet, even just a little. This is still only the internet and it is far away from if you do physically good to others.

If the person who enters/wins a giveaway, I consider it to be up to them and their moral. I wouldn't punish for whatever they may do with the won prize. You are trying to do good and setting limits to it doesn't make it any better.

because i have extra codes sometimes and i am way too lazy to find someone to trade with. also, my friends either almost never play steam, or own almost everything on it...

Because this site is refreshing, frankly I have a pretty cynical perception of humanity. It's nice to see a site that exists based solely on peoples willingness and desire to spend their money to give others games they may not otherwise get the opportunity to play.
Buy contributing to giveaways I do my own small part in seeing that it thrives.