Edit (4): We're discussing changing the entry requirements in the group right now. We haven't agreed on anything final yet, but for now, we're considering at least 30% finished games won on Steamgifts instead of the current 20%. There will also probably be different requirements for users with a low amount of wins. As soon as we have decided, this topic will be updated, until then, wait a bit with your application if you have finished less than 40% of your won games, and if you have finished less than 5 won games from Steamgifts. The new requirement will probably not be as high as 40%, but if you're at 40+% you should be well above any new limit.

Edit (3): The Dark Souls III giveaway in the group is now over, but there are still a few more giveaways running (and check how few entries the giveaways have, good chances of getting some nice new games to enjoy), including the currently third most wishlisted game on Steamgifts, hopefully they will act as some kind of incentive to join the group. Do you play the games you win, have over 20% of your won games finished, and meet the other requirements (Level 4+, 1.2 or higher sent to won real CV ratio)? Then you should join, the group could still need a few more members! Read the rest of the post on how to join.

Edit (2): This group could really need a few more members, so I'm lowering the entry requirements to Level 4, 1.2 sent:won real CV ratio, but I would also like to see 20% finished won games on Steamgifts instead of 10% before any new applications. So, a bit more relaxed SG-account related requirements, but a higher percentage of finished games.

I'm hoping to add 10 more members to the group.

Edit (1): The group is now live, and a few invites have been sent out. For those of you who haven't joined/applied, if it's any incentive to finally create that BLAEO account, you can check the group giveaway list, in case there's anything there you would enjoy playing.

I'll go through this thread and write some replies later this week.

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Most of the time (maybe 98% of my giveaways) I'm happy if the winner marks the game as received, and getting a "thank you" is always nice, but sometimes I really hope that certain games I give away will actually get played. These games I've mostly given away through my whitelist, and it's worked fairly well, but inspired by aurorable's "Win, Play, Win more", I've had the idea about a giveaway group with a similar concept. A group wouldn't be as excluding, and would also make it possible for others to easily do giveaways for the same group of people.

This is the first time I've ever made a group, and I don't know how much interest there would be, but I'm hoping for at least 20-30 members.

The plan is, leave this recruitment topic up, hopefully get at least 20 applications, and then get back to it in about a week from creating it, inviting applicants and doing some giveaways for the group. I have a few nice giveaways on their way, and I was planning on doing them for this group instead of my whitelist.

Requirements:
Since this is a group for people playing games won on Steamgifts, the main requirement is to have finished/played some of the games you have won. The more the better, of course. To make it easier for me/future admins of the group to check progress in games won on Steamgifts, a BLAEO membership is required (and yes, I've asked mandrill, BLAEO creator and got an OK for this requirement). It's a very good tool for keeping track of the progress in the games you have won here on Steamgifts, and also works as a support group for those of us with a backlog ;)

When you have a BLAEO account, after doing the initial sort-all-your-games (drag-and-drop, takes 1-3 seconds per game), I would encourage you to do a list/"attack plan" containing at least one game won on Steamgifts. It doesn't need to include all your unplayed wins, or be followed step-by-step, more as a general plan, perhaps just the next 10 games among your won games you want to play, and/or any games you are already currently playing. If you're in the mood for other games, just add them, takes just a few seconds through the BLAEO interface. If you've already been an active BLAEO member since August or earlier, you don't need to have a specific list.

The recruitment to this group won't close anytime soon, so if you still have too many unplayed won games, just start playing them, and note the progress over at BLAEO, and you'll be closer to being able to apply for the group.

As I mentioned earlier, I was hoping that this group would attract like-minded, who also think it's a nice thing to sometimes do giveaways for people who are more likely to actually play the games they win. To make it more likely that the group won't die after the first giveaways I'll do, there will be an initial real CV ratio requirement of 1.5:1, as well as a Level 5 minimum. These might be lowered and even removed in the future, depending on how many giveaways/entrants there will be in the group. Lots of giveaways and low amount of entries means the group could use more members, and the requirements would be lowered.

My plan is to not have any giveaway requirements in the group (only do giveaways when/if you feel like it), but I'll ask the future members for their opinion on this.

Step-by-step application process:

  1. Level 4, 1.2 Sent to won real CV ratio (initial requirements, might be lowered further on, read more above), 20% or more finished games from the ones won on Steamgifts. You should also have a public Steam profile, and activated all games won on Steamgifts. (Please also see Edit 4 at the top of the post)
  2. Apply for BLAEO here
  3. After logging in to BLAEO, sort your Steam Library in the categories
  4. Make a list/"attack plan" over at BLAEO (a list containing at least one game won on Steamgits you're playing/plan to play soon). Have you been a n active member of BLAEO since August 2016 or earlier you can skip this step.
  5. (If you haven't already) Start playing your won games!
  6. Apply in this thread, to help out, you can format the application like this (but using your data instead of mine):
    [BLAEO profile](http://backlog-deepness.rhcloud.com/users/tso184)
    [BLAEO attack plan](http://backlog-deepness.rhcloud.com/lists/rlw8o4l)
    [Real CV Sent](http://www.sgtools.info/sent/tso184/newestfirst): 3633.23
    [Real CV Won](http://www.sgtools.info/won/tso184/newestfirst): 1457.55
    Real CV Ratio: 2.49 (sent/won: 3633.23/1457.55=2.49 in my case, you don't need to add the info inside this parenthesis)

Have fun playing some games, and I hope to see some applications here! If everything goes well you can expect some invitations and giveaways in about a week.

There isn't a set limit for amount/percentage of finished/played games of the ones you've won, but I would like to see at least 10% 20% finished games won from Steamgifts before you make an application. Over 50%? Impressive! Apply at once :)

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I'm totally missing the forums for the last weeks (months? D=), but sappyMA suggested I should apply here =3 The group idea is great!
BLAEO profile
BLAEO attack plan - this is a top priority part of my plan =)
Real CV Sent: 2,071.65
Real CV Won: 253.80
Real CV Ratio: 8.16

I think I've finished about 50% of my wins... Oh, it's 16/31, still over 50%, even after my two wins today =)

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Currently away from home for a few days, only have the phone with me. Hope to be able to sort it out with the group as soon as possible, worst case: have some patience with me until I'm back next week.

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Bump with love! <3 Ill categorize the rest of my games eventually ;p been just adding the ones i 100% mainly heheh

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Yeah, you have a few to sort, but it could be worse - think of the people with 5000+ games, there are a few over at BLAEO :D

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Oh, this sounds great! I'll have to keep an eye on this when/if I ever get my level up. So here, have a bump!
and/or my shameful stat of 40% of SG wins played up somewhat

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The requirements have just been lowered.
If you mean 40% finished games, than that is probably quite a bit above the average :)

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Nah, that was just played percentage. I'm currently sitting at 16 % completed / 6 % beaten / 42 % never played. So close, but... :D

Not sure if there was that last mention of having played games in actual numbers or if I skipped mentioning the exact completion percentage since I didn't qualify anyways (lv5 -> lv4, 1.5 RCV -> ~1.3 RCV)

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Well, 16% completed + 6% beaten is above the 20% finished games required, and the SG account requirements are now Level 4 and 1.2 sent to won real CV ratio.

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Not looking to join the group at this time, just wanted to note that people like me may win games that take them awhile to get around to playing. I've only really played 5/11 games I've won so far, not because I'm out to leech games (I only enter for games I do want to play), but rather based on mood. I go through spurts of interest in certain styles of games, and I have quite a few games I've purchased that I still haven't gotten to either. Thus what I play is pretty damn random. Nothing is planned, I just one day decide, time to try this game.

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Of course, but I think I've set the requirements quite low, 10-20% finished games, so there's some room to wait with a majority of your wins until you're in the mood, as long as you've played/finished some of them.

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Well originally I had no intention on joining, but I see you're still lacking entries on some of the giveaways, and they're great games, so I'm waiting on invite for BLAEO to setup an account. Figured while waiting though, I'd inquire a bit more about your group, naturally I'll do giveaways from time to time, but I'm curious if bundle games are ok. Unfortunately I'm unemployed right now, so my game budget is really tight, and that's the best I can do. I follow a strict policy with bundled games though, I only do giveaways for them if they're games I've personally enjoyed, or they have a fair amount of decent reviews. Anything with negative reviews just gets key dropped as extras in descriptions. Sure lots of people collect games for cards, but I prefer to give stuff they may actually enjoy as appose to idle, even if only for a few hours. Just want to be sure that's alright.

Edit: I also have to inquire based on 20% completion requirement... What if it's a game that has no real method of completion? For example, 2 games I have won and played, Rust and Super Mega Baseball have no actual ending. Regardless, I've still beaten 4/13 games without considering those 2, which puts me at 30% completion... But I have to ask.

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All giveaways are welcome, there are lots of nice bundle games out there as well. Right now the group wishlist has mostly newer, expensive games on 5+ wishlists, but as the number of users increases, I'm sure there will more bundle games on the group wishlist as well.

I would say that when you feel that you've experienced much of what the game has to offer, you can mark it as "beaten" on BLAEO. If you get 100% of the achivements, mark it as "completed".

When playing Cities: Skylines I decided to go for a 100.000 inhabitant city and 50% of the achivements before I would consider the game "beaten". When I played Stardew Valley, I wanted to have completed all the "bundles" (delivering a pretty long checklist of items to improve the town/world in the game), reach the 4:th year and have a family with two kids before considering it "beaten" the first time.

Do something like that, set up a few goals, and if you feel you've reached them, consider it "beaten", if you still have some more playing to do until you get there, mark it as "unfinished" until then.

One user who applied to the group earlier this week marked Rust as "beaten" after 4 hours of gametime, and I wasn't OK with that. I haven't played it myself, but I'm guessing 30-40 hours of gameplay would be needed to have discovered enough of the game to get a feeling you've seen a decent amount of it. Since Rust doesn't have achievements, screenshots helps, maybe some showing if you have crafted higher tier items and such.

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Okay, still sort of working on the BLAEO stuff, bit confusing to me, but think I got what's required here done.

BLAEO profile
BLAEO attack plan
Real CV Sent: 254.40
Real CV Won: 139.00
Real CV Ratio: 1.82

I marked Rust as unfinished, I think I did pretty much all there was to really do, but in all honesty, I didn't enjoy the game that much. The base building was all I really cared for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6JCoevWB8

Edit: You might be iffy about beaten for Shelter 2, not sure if you've ever played it, but yah, it's a really short game, I did not expect that, was a bit disappointing really.

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Ah, that looks pretty neat (the video). As I mentioned, I haven't played Rust myself, but if you think you've experienced most of what there is to do in the game, feel free to mark it as "beaten". 30-40 hours was just a guess from my side.

Yes, I noticed that finishing the game once is easy/fast, and that most of the achievements in the game revolve around multiple playthroughs.

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Well I wouldn't recommend Rust unless you like all out PvP, if you ever do consider it. The game doesn't offer much else. Has a great base building system, but that's not enough to make it worth it imo, really comes down to how much you like PvP. Anywho, thanks for the invite, much appreciated.

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Interesting idea, won games on this site is the main way to choose what to play now as for me :)
I'm in BLAEO since the beginning, had some breaks from gaming tho, but I never used their site as I never thought that I would need it.

looks like I didn't update this for quiet a long time :P

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apply

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Donald Bump.

Make this thread great again.

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second term

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How can I resist this?

BLAEO profile
My attack plan is at the top of my profile, but basically at least one SG win per batch, more if I feel like!
Real CV Sent: 5495.22
Real CV Won: 819.90
Real CV Ratio: 6.7

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Looks like you've had quite a bit of luck on Steamgifts lately, I remember you being very unlucky for a while there :) Unfortunately that means your percentage of finished games is a bit low now, but I would love to invite you to the group later when you've had time to finish some more games.

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I got invited to the last Simultaneous Giveaways group, so July saw a mini-explosion of wins all on the same day. Apart from that my normal month-to-month average is around 2-3 less wins than predicted. xD

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I absolutely adore this idea tso. Have a bump <3

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Finally back!

Some invites have been sent out, and I've made a few of the giveaways I was planning on.

I'll go through this thread and write some replies later this week.

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I really like your idea for a group, and love focusing on playing my SG wins. I've never taken the plunge to join BALEO though because I already spend enough time usually at work doing gaming-related stuff other than gaming itself (e.g., Steamgifts). So I didn't want to add to the list.

Good luck!

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I know what you mean, but for me it has shifted. Now I spend more time on BLAEO than Steamgifts (mostly because I spend less time on SG, not that I spend extra time on BLAEO), and I've started to play games more of my free time, it has had a positive impact on my life :)

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Have another bump - this is looking like it'll be an excellent group and I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on it.

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I like the idea of this group (except the high requirements, but I'm okay with them as a temporary step).

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Wow, Fallout 4 giveaway. Only 2 entries. muchas gracias!

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Wow, it's even 3 entries now, for the currently third most wishlisted game on Steamgifts.

I would say that the group giveaway list could be described as "giveaways for great games that could use a few more entries". Dark Souls III, Fallout 4, Arkham Knight. I would have guessed those would motivate people to get those BLAEO applications in ;)

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Ah you changed the entry requirements. Jeah, I mean those level-ups just come with time. :>

Maybe it's also an incentive to make giveaways, if one knows people enjoy the gift. At least for me it would be an incentive to make more decent giveaways, if I knew people would actually enjoy the game I give away! :D

Oh well, let's see how it goes!

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That's exactly how I'm reasoning, it's more fun to give away less common games when there is a large chance that the game will end up being played. If the game is only going to be a +1 in a collection and not be played, it feels like it matters less whether it's Dishonored 2 or just some random, not as often wishlisted game.

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Fight the backlog!
gives away 300h+ Fallout4, 1000h+ Civilization
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You got to feed your backlog to keep it strong.

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Bump for very nice group giveaways!

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If only I had time to play games :( - too busy prepping for xmas craft fair at the moment - perils of the self employed I guess

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Well, the group will hopefully still be there if you have more time in the future :)

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Hello. I want to get in this group increase my steam and want to help as i can for other members. :) But the problem is i just won a little number of games and most of them is like indie games so that means i did not play much like. Is it a problem? Like i said i want to help the other members of the group nad joining some giveaways. :)

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It's not a problem if you haven't played/finished every single game you've won on Steamgifts, but consider only entering giveaways for games you actually want to play. There are lots of nice indie games as well, and if you don't like any indie games, don't enter giveaways for them then ;)

You don't meet the other requirements right now, but if you're planning on applying in the future (if you meet the requirements then), have some fun with the games you won so far and hopefully at least half of them will be games you enjoy playing.

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Yes of course i will join only games that i want to play, don't worry. So, can i join? :)

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You don't meet the other requirements right now.

But maybe later!

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Thanks for helping :)

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BLAEO profile
BLAEO attack plan I maked soon as soon.
Real CV Sent: 127.82
Real CV Won: 96.80
Real CV Ratio: 1.32

Add Me pls :-)

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Hello sahintez.

From the 59 games you've won on Steamgifts so far, you've not gained a single achievement in any of them. I also noticed that the only games that have any playtime on them (1-5 hours each) are the ones with trading cards, while games without trading cards are all left unplayed. This looks a lot like the playtime does not come from actually playing the games, but from using software or idling to get the cards.

I'm sorry, but you're not a good fit for this group and you won't get an invite. That you didn't set up a simple list or categorize your games (that were listed as requirements) didn't help either.

Hope that the BLAEO account will help inspire you to play some of your games, I see that you have 850 in your account, and according to http://seiyria.com/steam-avg-pct/ you only have achievements in three of them that aren't Counter-Strike, so that's a lot of games to enjoy, I hope you will.

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This was meant to be a reply, fail :(

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BLAEO profile
BLAEO attack plan
Real CV Sent: 2.692.99
Real CV Won: 1.897.05
Real CV Ratio: 1.41

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Looking promising on the Steamgifts side, but I got curious, what's up with almost 50% of your library being "won't play"-games? Games only for idling?

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Yeah, something like that. I'm prioritizing sg wins over other games and my sg backlog is huge enough, so for now these games landed in "won't play" list :)

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Ok, let us see...

BLAEO profile
BLAEO attack plan
Real CV Sent: 954.11
Real CV Won: 1398.14
Real CV Ratio: 0.68

So I guess I do not qualify, well, at least not yet.

So, with my Schwarzenegger impersonation...

I'LL BE BACK

(when my ratio is better)

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Nice, over 100 games won on Steamgifts finished! Looks like you'll be a good match for the group, welcome back, remember to check in case the requirements change too, you might meet them sooner that way :)

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Tso184, would it be alright if I had no specific plan (as in which games I'll beat), but instead set goals like "beat 4 won games this month" for myself? (That was what I did this month, and I've beaten 5 games, just started a 6th). I tried to do a more strict plan, but kinda failed at following it...

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Sure! Since you're also a long time active BLAEO member, the list requirement doesn't apply to you (that information is not in the step by step application description, but in the main text), so you're good to go if you want to join the group, just let me know.

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Yeah, sure, I would like joining (also 6 games beaten)

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I'm not interested joining your group but I came to thank you for your initiative, it's nice to see people playing the games they win. I try to play mines but I have too many left to finish.

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Thanks!

I have quite a few games to finish as well, but I'm happy being over 50% finished, and know I will get to every single won game within a reasonable amount of time.

I'm surprised this group is getting so few members, it might be the BLAEO thing or the current level/ratio requirement, I'm hoping it's not just a few people here who have played 20% or more of their won games...

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