Giveaway whoring

I know how you feel.

And with this restriction people who win games will simply put the game to run for 1 hour without playing it.

Also you need to realize the fact that if some people are whoring for sales, like in summer sale buying tons of games that they probably won't ever play then it would obviously be more rampant with free games.

And I know I have lots of games with only little play time, but that' only because I don't have time to play games for now.

Because some people expect to play them in the future. Think about it.

It's winner's right to not play the game. Not fair to those who really really want the game (like I wanted Frozen Synapse) but you might as well get used to unjust world.

I can only speak for myself, but... I have a ton of games on Steam that I have barely touched BECAUSE my backlog of other games on various other platforms is so huge that it's taking me forever to play through them. Eventually, I will come back to my PC and Steam and clear out all the games.

No matter how wrong you think it is, you can't punish these people. I don't think it's the right thing to do.

Thought crimes much?

I agree with you that entering for games you never want to at least give a try is bad form.
I also think that if you really, really want a game, you should consider buying it yourself and not be upset you did not get it free here.

I completely disagree with your entire premise.

I won Bioshock here, and played it almost entirely in Offline Mode. As a result, I've finished the game (and loved it - it's been something I'd been meaning to play for a while), but only have 0.7hrs of playtime.

Similarly, the winner may intend to play it at a later date, but have irl commitments at the time.

You can't punish users simply because they don't have registered play-time.

Also, seriously, THIS topic, with THAT username? Yeah, subtle.

Someone's mad for not winning anything yet.

I'd have more sympathy if you actually demonstrated some generosity in the first place. Your tone of entitlement is inappropriate.

Theoretically it should be possible to create a system which checks how many hours a person plays and which games he's played, and have that affect his chance of winning. However, that would probably raise a lot more objections than it would solve.

In the end the only control I'd like to see and I think would work to an extent is to be able (as an option) to limit a giveaway to people who have won under a certain number of games. Possibly also "games per time period" (e.g., less than one a month). There are already such groups, but if this becomes a regular feature for public giveaways, some people might consider not entering for games they don't really want in case the games they do want are limited in this way.

no

As long as the game is added to their library, I don't care when they play it. Game being in their library shows their willingness to play them at later date.

Just to see this clear.

Everybody who has thousands of entries and more than 10 wins actually had interest in playing the game and actually played it?

no. I intend to at least try out every single game I have, but so far I haven't had time to play most of them. Also, who are you to determine whether playing is sufficient "acceptable" reason for getting a game. I have started to consider myself a collector and I intend to try and get every single game on Steam eventually.

I understand what you mean, I only enter giveaways for games that I am interested in playing, but I know some people enter just to win. I wouldn't just jump to conclusions though, I just do not have the time to play games too often being in graduate school so I haven't played many of my wins yet, but I know that I will play all of the games I win eventually though (it is my goal this summer to play a chunk of them).

So far, I've only won games and DLCs which were part of bundles in which I had no interest due to me already having more than half of the games included (and for which most people only paid $1 anyway), or games which were on 85% off sales on Amazon. If I ever won a big giveaway for a real title (even if it was on Steam sale for 75% off previously), I would definitely play it ASAP. Heck, if I actually saw a legit CoD giveaway for a change, and somehow managed to win it, I wouldn't play anything else for a whole month. :P

Hey, you should make a thread about rich people in this world, who have way too much money on their hands and not enough time to spend it all.

See what i did there?

I have a better solution for this problem.

Work and study in my stead, so I can have more free time to play all these games I'm planning to play.

There, problem solved.

Well I plan on planning all the games I won. And before you go "That's what they all say", my computer is in terrible standing and can't even run anything. Once I start to earn more money from jobs, I'll be able to build a computer that could play my games that I won. And some games I won and know I have to wait. I REALLY wanted Civ V, Just Cause 2, and Bioshock Infinite, but I know I'll have to be patien befor playing them.

I know what you mean, though. I used to be oe of those people. You can tell from my first few wins (Although I did really want Indie Game the Movie)

Do I need to donate $1000 to make my opinion not seem selfish? Bloody hell, Its like how I pissed off that 9gag/pewdiepie army that one time.

yes, i'm a collector, but that doesn't mean i don't or won't play any games. i just don't have time to play, however i have time to enter a giveaway.
that's the thing, a lot of people don't have time to play because of jobs, schools, families... why would they be worse than others?