Birthday GiveMonthAway

this is a pretty cool idea you got here :D. Wonder what you're so excited about, are you getting a new car :)
i hope i get invited cause groups are always fun, and if i don't, i congratulate the winners. oh and
HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY :)

maybe whoever has the best percentage of received giveaways according to how many they've given away, as in 30 received out of 30 would be better than 20 received out of 20. maybe something like that

Hmm sounds like a great idea... But how to select the members I'm not sure off

To select ppl I would make a list, having first classified them with the parameters you consider and leaving out the rest (Comment/entry ratio, contributions, win/entry ratio whatsoever) Then make a random selection with a website that does that, stream it (streams are always good) and then invite the lucky winners.

I guess I don't fit on any of those criteria I have proposed, but well life is harsh.

Happy Birthay BTW :D

A early happy b-day from me ^^ I'm not sure how you could invite the "right" 31 people for your group. It may be better to do it with just friends or on your friendslist. But you might not know the people on your friendslist that well.

I do see what could be a minor problem; the last few people who have not won anything, might not enter your giveaways if they don't find it to their taste. Or the last one is more or less "forced" to accept the last giveaway, because there are no alternatives.

So I suggest you do make it clear from the start that they should only join if they want the game (to curb their potential greed) and that you only give away 31 games and no more. If someone has not won a game by the time you have created 31 giveaways, I would say, tough luck :P And perhaps use the games left for a public (or different group) giveaway with or without contribution value.

Happy birthday man! Cool idea too :)

Use the classic Eeny meeny miny moe pick-n-choose method :D

happy birthday on whatever it is! must be epic :D
as for choosing, i'm not sure how. i think personal judgement is best though it'd probably be biased, but nothing is really ever neutral. if you could look at their steam profile and base it off that with your own criteria. it shouldn't be entirely based on contribution alone to the site, there can be reasons as to why someone contributes more then others. such as employment or unemployment. Totally random isnt such a bad idea either, as you could determine that fairly enough i would think.
having people give you reasons as to why they should be in it, isnt fair either as thats kind of like being greedy "you should pick me! cause blaah blah bull blaah"

dont know if my opinion helped but those are my thoughts on it

Just get your friends on it + people you think deserve it AKA NO FUCKING EXPLOIT GIVEAWAYS.

Happy month!

interesting idea; good luck to lucky bastards :P

How about letting everyone choose a number, maybe between 1 and 1000. Then just use a random number generator to pick 25 people. Quick, easy and totally random so there's no favoritism.

happy birthday! and umm... i guess select those you notice to be nice and active people, and those who have contributed a generous ammount non-exploited games, and have few to 0 wins.

whatever's happening for your birthday next month, i hope it is as awesome as you say it'll be, and thanks for your generosity in doing this :)

that's actually one of the best of ideas of heard of for a group. First off...it's awesome what you are doing. Having a maximum group number of 31 people is a nice number to have because people have a greater chance and/or and equal chance. With 31 games, the group will be incredible and I appreciate the fact that you're including indie games as well. My idea for choosing the other 25 people is that you should have something kind of like the olympic games. Yeah it sounds funny, but it might be worth trying. You could have "games" every day on Steam Gifts until the group fills up to 31 people. Some examples would be:

• the closest person to my number gets a spot.
• the person who picks my favorite animal gets a spot.
• the person who guesses my first name gets a spot.
• you could create one of these and the first person to solve and send you a screenshot will get a spot.

I think that you could get VERY creative and make some nice "olympic" style games. I'd like to know your thoughts on this :) Thank you and Happy (early) Birthday!

For picking the 25 people, you should choose people who have their birthday in that month as well and make it EXTRA AWESOME!

Good idea!

Happy birthday!

I haven't had any luck lately, so the lucky bitches who get in will have ALL the luck!

Thank you for giving when you should be getting!

You should get people all excited to get attention and then make them dance for you!
DANCE, PUPPETS! DANCE! MUAHAHAHA

Also since there's plenty of time, make the selection process a 1-per-day thing as well for the sake of continuity :)

Or have people say random things and then somehow base a system on randomness to pick from those. Might as well bring creativity and innovativity to the next level :D

Maybe reserve a spot for the person who guesses what happens to you, if it's within reasonable bounds.
I'm guessing you are about to acquire some superpower that gets unlocked when you reach a certain age, or turn into a dragon!

Last, but not least, don't forget people got stuff to do, might wanna put up a bunch of the giveaways right off so they can enter beforehand :P (and have a mod in your friends list to reroll the double wins)

Happy birthday! Here is a mildly complicated but interesting way:

• Have a thread where people recommend their favorite game that hasn't been taken already (so each game is listed once).
• Compile a list of your 25 favorite games.
• Those people would be invited.
  This would select people with a similar taste in game as you with some randomness. It would take some effort, but might be fun. For bonus points you could limit the games to indie games or some category of games that would have less exposure (so people saying "half life" wouldn't get in automatically).

I would recommend making a puzzle of some sort and deciding it by the first 25 people to solve it, obviously not making it too easy and thus first come first serve.

I would ask people to post numbers, from 0 to 1000 lets say. Then use random.org, and roll the dice, always pick the closer, roll the thing 25 times, there go. :) happy bday btw

It's good, just like when greedy gifters was around....though I would have to ask that people would have to do some slight work for the giveaways.

Also happy early birthday! <3

First happy birthday and I appreciate your contribution to the community.

Do a game where you need to guess the amount in a jar of jelly beans!

I would suggest a number guessing game. You pick a number between 1 and 300 and the first people who guess a correct number are added to the pool of contestants.

Thank you for this :) It's my birthday in November, too. Happy Birthday!

hey, happy birth day my friend

Good idea Amnesia85

Here's my suggestion - if you cba making some survey, puzzle or something similar i suggest that you make it simple (like i would) and use one of those sites for random number generating. That's true randomness. Try www.random.org for instance. So what i actually suggest is that you put in everyone who contributed to this thread and link them with one number, then pick 25 numbers by using random number generator and that's it :) Of course, you can choose when you got enough people and how much will it last (until your b-day or much before that).

There, i hope this helped a bit.