Suggestion - Win Limit ?

Offline mode does count your hours, unless you mean true offline mode.

You have created 6 giveaways in which people did not receive a game. How are you still a member of this site?

Rabble rabble rabble rabble!

1) you have only entered 49

2) its all luck

3) winners should not be limited or it's not luck at all and then based on mechanics

4) everyone should have the same chances to win as the next person

5) i do not agree with the idea

6) i am super super cool

7) end

it's fun

pro tip allways use the pointy end of a stick

Some people are here because they actually cannot afford to buy games, and thus cannot gift them either - a participation requirement, possibly, but not one based on how many successful giveaways someone has made.

The problem is, and i don't know how it works,
but what if you gift someone and they don't check in to say received?
Then you could be giving and still get restricted

That proposal is unreasonable, and I will explain why.

There are three types of people on this website:

1. People who want to send gifts
2. People who want to receive gifts
3. People who want to send and receive gifts

You assume that everyone on the site is #3. You would be incorrect. Some people are NOT here to send gifts. Maybe they cannot afford it. Maybe they are afraid of being scammed somehow. The reason they don't want to send a gift really does not matter, that is their choice.

I don't think this community would benefit from trying to force people who don't want to send gifts to do so. By doing so, you are creating a community where only those who gift can receive gifts, which cuts group #2 right out of the equation. You would be making a situation where those who are "wealthy" share the wealth between themselves, and no one else has a chance to enjoy that wealth.

I don't think he's trying to suggest that they're given any less of a chance of winning; after a certain point with no new giveaways created, simply bar them from entering altogether. It wouldn't affect randomness.

I have a backlog of several games and backlog of about a hundred books to read.

a simple post that summarizes the situation perfectly. i'm pretty glad a lot of the ridiculous ideas that get brought up here haven't seem to have been implemented at all.

bingo

You should never give up. It takes no time at all just to click "enter," and you might win one of these days!

It costs you nothing to enter, and even if 1,000 people are in the raffle with you, someone has to win.

Plus, you are bound to win something someday. Eventually.

Don't give up, you're not alone :)

Why do you enter giveaways if you don't NEED to win something?

How dare you have hopes and expectations? You should be grateful that you are able to join this site or enter giveaways.

You should be proud to see that people are jealous of you. Not use that as an excuse. If you want to give, you can give. There are games fit for everyone's budget on Steam.

Congrats on winning, DrPepperPenguin. Yeah, there is shit being talked about you on numerous threads that you probably haven't even seen and if I were you I would not want to give back to a community whose vocal majority are a bunch of jealous assholes. That said, this thread is surprisingly more understanding than the other shit-complaint threads that have either faded back into the nether-realms of the forums or been deleted, so I recommend reading what people here have written and using that to influence your decision.

I would completely understand if you were completely turned off to the idea of giving back to the community already, I know I'm starting to question who is winning my giveaways and whether or not I could have just given a game to any random asshole troll on the internet.

Oh wow, 8 gifts and I thought I was lucky with my 2. Well another main point that was already mentioned is the value of any gift. I mean winning Portal/HL2/EP1 is pretty common I would guess. Also other low cost games. Now I'm not saying they are less of a value as some indie concepts are more fun than AAA titles (as they should be with low development/high risk gameplay combination). However if someone has 8 games perhaps 3 of those are Portal, Ep1 and HL2 wins that most have anyway.

I for one consider my win of RUSE priceless. Also I love the Frozenbyte pack I got. It's hard to compare my wins against 8 wins of DrPep as I don't know what he has won. Maybe 2 Portals before the most-not-own-game ban was enforced?

Since this subject has become so touchy, I would like to disclaim first and foremost:

1. I hold no ill will towards you as a person (or a penguin), and hopefully you don't forget this as you read the rest of my post as I'm really not attacking you. Anything you read from henceforth, even if you might be able to construe it as an attack, is not intended to be. It's just a clarification.

2. I do not feel "entitled" to win anything. I understand that the gifters are being very kind and that I'm not owed anything.

That being said, I believe that the precise point trying to be made was not that there are a lot of bitter losers who hate your guts, but as someone already pointed out, you've entered so many giveaways, won a vast number of games, and yet you have no playtime on almost all of them (including the ones you bought yourself).

Ideally people are entering (sometimes hundreds of times with no wins) because they intend to actually play the games they win, and were I doing a giveaway, I would want to know that my gift was actually being used and enjoyed by someone. And I'm only entering for games I would like to win because I would really like to play them.

I understand if you're a busy person and just don't have time to play games, but then why keep entering for them? Well to an outsider who doesn't know you, it's very easy for them to misunderstand your intent as being a negative one (denying games to people who wanted to play them), or maybe they even thought that you're some sort of (very lucky) mule account that exists to have extra entries in giveaways (which is what I honestly thought before).

Totally agree with this. I have no wins and haven't gone around looking for people with a high number of wins to call out. I also haven't created any giveaways - the Summer Sale blew my budget for games for a while >.< but if I were to win the next 8 then it could easily be me that people start complaining about and I don't think I would have done anything to deserve that.

Additionally, there may or may not be (no really, I haven't checked) someone who is complaining about these people who are winning more often than the rest of us who think they're justified to do so because they have actually created a giveaway, even though the giveaway is worth $1. Jussayin.