10 days total - 5 teams = 2 wins each.

  1. Purple
  2. Red
  3. Green?

Both teams won by taking large margins at the start and looks like green does it today.
So is it actually rigged to create competition to increase number of craftings?

No giveaway because I'm lazy...

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Has anyone from steam gifts won the 3 wishlist games?

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There was a link to a Spanish (I think, didn't check exactly) forum somewhere in a SG thread to someone who won Dark Souls 2, Wolfenstein and another game...

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proof or it didnt happen !

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Pretty sure Valve would not lie about giving away a couple games, rich as hell, its a drop of rain in a world full of rain for them...

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Here you have clicky

10 years ago
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They are actually listed at the faq site: "free games" or something.

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Which means they get them for free.. -.-'

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yeah, because they won that "3 games from your wishlist" thingy. I don't see, what's "-.-'" about this now.

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I might have misunderstood what you meant in that reply because it seemed pretty stupid. I thought you said that they are winning f2p games from the wishlist.

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I just had a look, someone won ORION: Dino Horde LOL

Most of the games won are decent, lucky peoples.

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Haha...I put expensive ones up on my wishlist lol...

10 years ago
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Me too, just in case, lol

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I suspect that they've designed the rules of the summer adventure to encourage people to craft more badges, yes, but I don't think they're actively rigging the results and which teams win each day.

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It's probably influenced by the many badge-crafters over at Reddit. Tomorrow, Blue should be up for the win.

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Fuck, pink is never gonna win =/

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They did yesterday...

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Don't own the original game.
Cheers, tho!

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Same here, actually.

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And here I was thinking it was an encoded link for a giveaway or itstoohard puzzle...

10 years ago
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Same here :/ What is original game I wonder...

10 years ago
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What was the key for out of curiosity?

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Saints Row IV GAT V DLC (which was free before release, where I got key from too)

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Of course it is. Valve is making a killing by lol people.

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That is a serious accusation.

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Oh, please.

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I'm pretty sure it is. If the same teams win every time, many users will lose interest.
Less interest = Less crafting = Less profit for Valve.
Easy solution, make sure that every team wins at least once.

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And if you make them win 2 times each they will be happier

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exactly!

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They should of had it be random and have each team have the same number of people. I suspect latecomers are just joining whatever team is winning, so one team could have a lot more people and therefore more points.

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Teams are assigned randomly.

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But then I'd just craft a badge when my team wins so I can get 2 cards at the end of the day..

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I think they randomly give a team or two a boost or a head start and encourage others to actively compete.

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This.

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Purple is doing suprisingly badly now...

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They (we) blown the cards on first day. And since second place gets nothing, there is no reason to craft, if there is a major differerence between a team and the leader team. Just save the cards for next day and craft then.

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^This.

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I just think that once a team is in the lead, it's more tempting to contribute than when it's at the bottom. So, whenever a team wins, purple for example, they lose interest in winning again and are pretty much exhausted from when they contributed while they were #1. I mean, why would someone contribute right now to the bottom 4 teams? They don't look like they're gonna win, so those people might save their craft for next time when they see they're in the lead.

I doubt Valve is rigging this battle. It makes complete sense why different teams seem to be winning at least once.

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That would make some sense unless you paid any attention to the scores yesterday. Purple and red were fighting it out all day and the lead flipped between the two teams multiple times. That and purple's score was higher yesterday than it was when they won. Purple was very determined to win a second day and then lost steam in the last 6 hours somewhere since I recall a 10k lead for purple when I went to bed 6 hours before it ended.

Right now though? Yeah, not much of a point since everyone is 40k points behind green. Unless someone else gets close green will likely have no competition all day.

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Yes, but Purple was at the very bottom day 1, while Red (I believe?) was at the top with an extremely wide lead. Then, the next thing you know, Purple took it. So anything could happen provided the teams don't give up.

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It was pink, day 1 red was on the bottom all day.

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It still makes sense. Someone on red started going at it early on. Once you've already contributed that much, you're in it for the long haul: irrational sunk cost fallacy. On the other hand, if you're team is close to winning, everyone might be encouraged to craft that second badge. Each vote, erm point, matters right? Plus, if your team is winning, everyone is sure going to craft at least once for a chance at three free games.

And that means Pink and Blue are building up their tokens. As a Pinker, I'm already waiting with my Adventure Cards for those 10 points.

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It isn't rigged! Green is just too good!

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yes, it's rigged no doubt.

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It is possible.. But I think people are just smarting than what you think.

Think of it this way, your team is last place, why would you craft the badges at this point when there is no chance to win? Heck, save the cards for the next day and give your team a huge boost.

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No, but illuminati is real.

10 years ago
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Steamnati

10 years ago
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those mountains are actually pyramids

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And the background is masonic checkers minimalised so people wouldn't suspect a thing. I got my Sherlock magnifying glass on the case.

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Also first winner, purple's head is a triangular prism :3

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I don't even know what's going on with points anymore, there's no way people are crafting 1 badge per second, or more...
Unless those massive changes are just due to a bunch of point stealing tokens or whatever.

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There is a smoothing going on there, as points go down there is counter too...

Still badge per second isn't that unrealistic considering how many users there are per team.

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There is an item that lets you make others lose some points or steal them for your team.

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75 million active users (Janaury) with around 3 million new users per month. So that's around 80 total.

16 mil per team. But daily users users is probably a lot less and only portion of these are idiots enough to craft. (tenth? 1.6 mil still)

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You assume everyone bother to click to join team. Joining team is not on front page. I think about half of my shortlist of friends are not registered, literally.

10 years ago
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yep, the same here xD ppl just dont care...

10 years ago
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Yeah should have broken down to active users too (that vote and participate events). Others may just use steam to play.

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the thing people really don't realise is that you need to contribute at least one point otherwise your not in the running.SO yes there would be tones of people in each team but only a small percentage who are actually in the running

10 years ago
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came for giveaway...i'm dissapointed

10 years ago
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Do I need to make up for it?

10 years ago
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I expected something new for me! ;D

Still interesting topic.

10 years ago
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Ah, pink team sucking as usual.

10 years ago
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No worries, they will win tomorrow probably. And they were 2nd earlier, but there is simply no fight to give green.

10 years ago
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Yay! We all get a free card!
Merde.

10 years ago
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no you need to make point to get card

10 years ago
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Oh, well, fuck you Gabe, you're not getting another cent from me.

10 years ago
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You're terrible demeanor is souring my midday coffee, sir!

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What about poor African children who can't afford coffee?

10 years ago
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Well chances are a great many of them are farming it. Fair trade I hope!

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What about poor African children who can't afford coffee?

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Yeah, probably yes. Everyday one team wins, to make everyone happy.

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Let's just hope all the teams will win 1 time each. So everyone has a chance on winning those top 3 games from their wishing list and let's be honest. When people always switch to the winning team, Steam makes more money with those tokens.

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There's html code that you can easily edit thought.

<div class="summersale_board_winner_overlay">  
     <div class="winner day_0 team_purple"></div>  
     <div class="winner day_1 team_red"></div>  
</div>  

I'll leave it as home work how to add or edit winners.

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well that messed up, but maybe you still get the idea :)

10 years ago
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Oh, I don't take it very seriously. Just something someone linked that I thought was interesting.

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This is very serious topic indeed :)

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Blue's got about 19 hours to overcome it.

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50k points difference, and it keeps increasing

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so, if green wins, not rigged, if it is blue, then it is rigged.

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That was pretty much my thinking. Since this was linked yesterday, there was a one in five shot at getting the second day right, which is plausible, especially if they already had something to go off of when the points were shaping up. Getting two in a row right you only have a 4% chance, maybe a bit better if you consider knowledge from partial points, as mentioned. Either way, much slimmer odds. Getting yet another after that would make it as good as proven in my book, but even today's winner being right would be extremely suspicious due simply to the odds against it being chosen randomly. If there were good reason to assume that prior winners could be excluded until everyone had won once, then the numbers become more plausible, but that supposition relies on the assumption of rigging already, since there's no other reason to think that would be the case.

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I'm hoping for green to win. Not because of rigging, but because I invested 110 points today and want my free cards to sell.

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I accidentaly deleted my post, but was talking about this picture. Probably fake, but I still think the competition/winners are rigged.

Note: I don't mind if it is, I really don't care.

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Well... every team is way behind Green. So I don't think this will happen.

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There are active genocides in the world, some entire populations have an inadequate supply of drinkable water, poverty, corrupt governments, disease, THE WORLD IS IN PERIL. But if Steam doesn't start acting right, motherfuckers are gonna LOSE it.

Daaaaang.

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Wait, if you really do care, what the fuck are you doing here? Why aren't you out there, stopping wars, feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, fighting diseases, bringing down corrupt governments, saving the world from imminent destruction? You know why? Because these things are on your mind exactly 20 secs in your day - when you write smart-ass comment and when you're flicking channels on your big, overpriced LED/LCD/PLASMA 55" TV and your remote decide to briefly stop working on one of "dem boring, 24/7 news" channels.

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Well, as powerful as I may appear, I can only do so much each day.

..But..

Relax, I'm workin' on it, yo!

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This argument always irritates me. If I stub my toe, there may be much greater tragedies in the world, but that's no reason for me not to swear.

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But think of the children! oh the humanity of it.

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I imagine many things irritate you. But that's no reason for me not to respond.

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How terrible.

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It is...
Do you know how many ribbons I have to wear because you turds won't stop destroying the world?

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You should try that at a funeral. "Your dad died? Come on, man! There are active genocides in the world, some entire populations have an inadequate supply of drinkable water, poverty, corrupt governments, disease, THE WORLD IS IN PERIL. But just one person dies and you're losing it? What's wrong with you?"

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Long time no see!

..wait...

Are you comparing the possibility Steam may be conducting some devious tactics with the death of a parent?

Well

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..wait...
Are you comparing the possibility Steam may be conducting some devious tactics with the genocides, poverty, corrupt governments, and diseases?
Well

I have you tagged as a flame troll for some reason. I don't remember what for, but I think I can see why already.

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Hell, I don't remember "what" it was that one of us said to the other that led the other party to shun the other.

I'm thinking it had to do with one of the scam threads back when the EA bundle was riddled with problems such as cc fraud and such. I don't remember.
I don't get pissed at anyone, so are you the the thin-skinned one?

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i love how people remembers the big problems in the world just to win an internet battle.

10 years ago
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When does the day end, according to Steam/Valve?
I asume it'll be in about 20 hours, seeing as Red just won a few hours ago, right?

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10am PST

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19:00 CEST

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Alright, 4 hours ago then, and 20 hours from now. Then I war correct, thank you (All who replied)

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19:00 CET, 10am PDT.

I only know these

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1 pm gmt-5

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8 PM GMT+3

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I think it could be rigged.

10 years ago
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world is rigged.

unbelievable i didn't ninja active thingy thing..
just wonder what i lack

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I don't think it's rigged, but it's most certainly broken. People can get tokens that allow them to change teams. So people can jump over to purple team now and well. Make it win.

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purple team is 3rd right now

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well, if one team has a (big) lead the following happens:

  • players in that team will craft things to keep the lead

  • players in other teams will craft the next day, because second place gets nothing

consequently the winning team will probably not be the same 2 days in a row

the only thing screwing that is the change teams tokens -> if one team gets significantly more players it will always win (and everyone will change into that team)

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Closed 10 years ago by madjoki.