Inviting idea:
create google poll, long, ask some serious questions there (can be e.g. obtainable only by playing some demo games), require some effort from ppl. I think it would be even better to create all giveaways as private with puzzles, but it would be time consuming for you. The truth is, only ppl who REALLY want some game badly will sacrifice much of their time to get a chance to win it. E.g. I participated in Gothic Universe giveaway, when you had to download demo, and play even couple hours to find all answers. Puzzle was public and open for many days, but only about 20 users entered.
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Happy birthday and I wish you good luck with whatever the secret of the gift/experience is! :)
I think you should invite people at random with no real perk or reason since the holidays are a time of giving, not judging. That's what I'd like to believe anyway! It's a great idea and I hope (think) you can (will) make 31 people really lucky and happy!
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Happy birthday!
That's how I'd do this if this was my group:
Remove any kind of randomnes. Filter possible candidates by registration time on SG (1 month, 6 months, 1 year, your call). Good entries/comment ratio, no VAC ban, no regifts, no unactivated gifts.
5 chunks of 5 invites each. Some ideas(some have already been said):
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an advent calender with games? Cool idea .
also good that everyone will win something and not like 1 wins all or so.
(of course i wanna join the group ;-))
hope i win an indie title, like indie titles :P
BUT: you said like there will also be expensive games. What if the group members (or some of them) do not enter the "cheap" giveaways (then all but them get kicked) and then enter the expensive ONLY? i mean- they could either win an expensive game and get kicked or wait for the next expensive game. That's kinda bad...
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Hi there. Happy birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and awesome Grand Unknown Thingy.
I guess that covers your month of epicness. I shall bake muffins for those occasions.
As for the picking, just go with intuition, it's the best thing we have, but it's underestimated.
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First of all Happy Birthday! :)
I like your idea very much, and I have some suggestions about how to choose the participants.
First of all, invite people who have already contributed to steamgifts (even if it's just one game, or even a dlc).
Secondly, choose people who didn't win many games, let's say 5 max (give some chances for the less fortunate ones).
And since you said you don't like people who spam thanks you could choose to ignore those with high comment ratio. I think less than 1/10 should do, however I would advise you against this, since you shouldn't punish those who just like thanking contributors :)
The first two(three) steps are used to filter people. After that, you can make some sort of competition to choose the 25 from the remaining ones.
The competition can be anything you like, from puzzles on istoohard, to trivia games held on a chat. And I think you should do more than one, like a tournament of some sorts. At every step, you reduce the number of participants, until only 25 remain.
Hope you like my suggestions.
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The 25 people who get the furthest in CLOP/some other difficult game :D
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I remember Hichigo doing a thread about posting some music that he'd like, and based on the answers he invited some people to giveaways of their choice, if he liked the song(s) they posted. It can be menial, but you'd have an easier way to choose that 25, because you'll need to find only 25 people in a chronological order of posting their respective songs, and after the 25 is chosen, you don't have to waste your time on the rest. This may actually work also with movies/games, though with a slight change; instead of asking for recommendations, let them guess your favourites, and the first 25 to do so (without dupes of course) get in the group.
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That's very nice, thanks for your generosity :) I personally don't think you should only choose people with a high contribution, as some people say, even though I still think that a minimum value would be a good idea. Maybe a value that is a bit higher then the highest bundle-only value. But that's only my two cents.
And letting the people guess random things can be a way to get the 25 people. E. g. you can create a public group and from time to time you start events, telling people to get in chat. There you ask a question, maybe things like "What's my favorite colour?" or maybe something game related. The first right guess will get invited. If you do this several times on different day times, everyone has a chance to enter. I'm sorry if this was already mentioned, I'm a bit in a hurry and I don't have the time to read everything.
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Select people with some contribution (50$+ - maybe) and with not so many of games(under 50 games)
Happy birthday anyways!
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ultimate idea: pick and invite your 25 best friends in your Steam friends list and include the "6" too aswell
that exculdes me so... just want to wish you the best on your special day
and it's always good to see such a positive thread =)
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Hello guys and gals,
Next month is a special birthday for me as something personal is going to happen on that day.
i'm not going to tell what but its pretty awesome for me.
Anyway, i would like to say that i'm not a guy who goes around spamming thanks on every giveaway i enter as i believe thats just bull.
I wouldn't want everyone to say thanks when i'm giving away, as long as the winner does it after recieving its oke.
But to show that i'm really no "leech" or whatever kids call people like me these days i came up with this plan.
I hope you guys will like it.
December being a holiday month for everyone, but i will up the stakes.
I will create a group next month with a max cap of 31 people.
31 Games will be given away(i will buy them as soon as i know wich one i want to give)
There will be some decent games,awesome ones and a few "lesser" indie games(sometimes indie can prove even better)
so 1 december i start the give aways but when you win one, you get kicked out of the group.
Everyone in the group will win a game eventually :)
As i said 31 days = 31 people but i reserve 6 slots to people i know IRL and to the ones from wich i recieved a gift after winning a giveaway :)
So basicly i will invite 25people in the group.
I would love some feedback on this idea and also some ideas about how to select the "25" :)
Remember: DONT be greedy :)
EDIT: The one that provides me with the ultimate idea for choosing the 25 people will be invited as one of my "6"
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