Are you more likely to buy a game after seeing a Giveaway for it?
I never bought bundles until I joined this site. I have bought 4 or 5 already and some games I got interested in after seeing them here but not winning it.
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I just bought a bundle because I failed at winning a game like 10 times in the last 3 days :( I really wanted it. Another I bought because I saw it on here a ton and realized it was only 9 cents in the Steam Store.
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I added hunders of games to my wishlist after I saw them here.
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Do you usually go on to buy them? I tend to forget about games in my wishlists until I see them on sale.
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Sometimes, of course. If I added it recently so it's on my mind and it got a good discount to get my attention, I'd most likely buy it. I saw Victor Vran in a giveaway site and bought it couple of days age on sale.
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Yup. Saw giveaways for Team Indie and Tormentum - Dark Sorrow a couple of days ago. I took a look at the trailers and entered the giveaways because I thought they looked good. Watched some gameplay footage of both on youtube and still liked the look of them so added them to my wishlist.
Might very well buy Team Indie during the sale as it's quite cheap at £2.29 (77% off).
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That's good to hear. I've been making YouTube videos and making giveaways for one of my favorite games, so I'm hoping it will influence other people to buy the game, or at least check it out.
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I had to trick people into getting Bad Rats because of extra bundle keys I had. Those people are no longer my friends.
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Lol, I enter 1 out of 15 Bad Rats GAs (13 so far). It's like a Russian Roulette.
One time there were only 18 entries, I thought my time was up. I debated removing my entry but I didn’t back down.
Sometimes I consider hiding the game, just to stay away from temptation. Alas, I haven’t learned my lesson yet. I’m still participating in 2 active giveaways as of now.
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Friend request sent, I have a present for you. No Bad Rats :3 Kappa
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I had to trick people into getting Bad Rats because of extra bundle keys I had.
I just want to state here that I’m totally aware I’m most probably walking into a trap with that invite. But I can’t help myself.
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nope. never get affected or influenced by others.
have my wishlist, will follow that list no matter what people giveaway. besides, most of those giveaways are with games i would never play
every game i bought so far was not being given away before i get it.
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So you never see a giveaway, think "That game does look fun!" and add it to your wishlist or buy it on a whim? What about the games you've won, are those games you'd never play?
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well yas know - there are ppl who look through every game that gets released on Steam (I for example look through all new releases once a month) and adds anything that seems intresting to whitelist. For such a person it may be hard to find a GA for great game he/she never heard of ;p
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games i win are games i want. from the giveaways i won, only 1 of them was a game i was never interested on (just joined the giveaway cause a friend was doing it). in that i don't count the 100k keys giveaways i won. every other game was in my wishlist already.
and no, there has never been so far a time when i said "oh look, a game i have never heard of, looks interesting let's try it". i am against the crowd theory (aka lemming theory) and i do my best not to fall into mistakes driven by the mass.
besides, it is so rare to see new games being given away here so the chances are extremely low
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Well, i won Spec Ops: The Line here. I think i would have never bought with my money but it turn out that it's a real good game (as all of my friends told me lol ).
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Met a few games here I eventually purchased, yes. But mostly I still enter "would be interested to play, but don't really want to give even a dollar for it" games.
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well, surely GA sites drive some extra sales, but I'd say it's not a lot, considering we're still a very little community compared to whole Steam userbase ;)
But yeah, if not for GAs sake I'd probably be buying much much less, because nowadays I rarely even buy anything for myself - maybe 10 games a year max (excluding bundles), I have too big backlog and I win too much to just go shopping spree to buy games for myself, so generally 90%+ of what I buy is just for the sake of GAs. If not for GAs I'd be buying 1/10th of what I am actually buying ;p
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So if you were given a game on here, and you liked it, you'd likely buy more for your friends or to giveaway here?
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yes and no. Yes - I'd likely buy a nice game for a GA, even if I won it already, but no - it's not likely that I'd learn about this game from SG - I track all new releases looking for sth intresting and add them all to wishlist, often I end up giving away wishlisted games I don't even own yet ;)
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Well, this site does have 797,000 users. Even if you're skeptical and eliminate half of the users, that's still almost 400,000 potential buyers. That's a market that game makers would do well to appeal to.
I know my awareness of games has grown exponentially since joining SG. There are literally hundreds of games that I wasn't aware of and have purchased (one way or another) directly due to this site. I've bought two copies of a game (one for me and one to giveaway) quite a few times, or made impulse purchases to give away when I needed a pick me up.
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sure, but now consider 80000000 Steam accounts :D: our 400k userbase (still I doubt it's so big, best dev GAs never get over 35k entries, even considering ppl may have the game or miss it I'd say it's 150-200k most) would still be 0.5% of whole Steam userbase, so even if every active steamgifter there is would learn about your game from SG and would decide he wants it - it's still less than 1% spread ;p That's why I said it may drive some extra sales, but very little compared to whole Steam userbase ;)
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True, but its not like the SG userbase exists in a vacuum. We're not at the forefront of exposure, but we take our experiences here with us to CAG, or Reddit, or any of the other dens of sin and depravity we frequent. Even if we just end up informing one other person each about a game, that still doubles the total exposure. Its largely irrelevant for the big titles, as those don't need the help, but for the small games, they would be ecstatic to have 100,000 new people find out about their game. Especially if even 10% of those make a purchase.
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I don't say it doesn't influence sales at all - heck - i gave multiple examples how it does. I just say it's still pretty small exposure comparing to for example any gaming news website like IGN, and we should be aware of this. Sure - SG boosting awareness of new indie title resulting in just 1000 more sales will mean all for small indie dev (not to mention that games like fortix, Secrets of Mana Crystals or Bad Rats got their sale numbers mainly because of us), but for any bigger publisher we're still too small to be taken into consideration ;p That's all ;p
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My wishlist did increase with games I saw here first. I bought a few (if they were in a bundle or on discount) but with some I'm adamant in not buying them because I want to just win them here.
Do giveaways drive sales? I think they mostly drive bundle sales! xD I used to buy less bundles because I was only going to use a few games and now I buy bundles from bundle sites I didn’t even know existed before.
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giveaways sometimes make me aware of a specific titles.
but I would say that I doesn't effect me that much. like 2 or 3 times that I added a game from a giveaway to my wishlist but didn't bought them till today.
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Makes no difference. It's possible I have forgotten though.
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I only come here to see what games people want to play, I've bought everything that seems to be worthwhile and won games that require tactical entry.
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On the whole I'll say no. But once or twice a game that had managed to slip under my radar caught my attention as a giveaway (cuz of the cool icon) and then I bought it later on.
However I have no doubt that cheap junk games sell dozens more copies than they would have because of giveaways. Every time one sees something go on sale for less than a dollar on usually sees quite a lot of giveaways for it.
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Everything you do that is not hurting sales is raising sales.
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Well yes, but not because it's given away, a lot of times I get to know games, especially smaller ones, that I've missed out and add them to my wishlist for a future purchase :3
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I had bought five bundles in my life-- all from Humble Bundle-- before discovering this site in February of this year.
In the four months since then, I've bought 38 bundles.
Usually the first indication I get that a new bundle is available is from seeing all of the giveaways on this site.
So: yes. =)
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I'm backwards. I've bought about a dozen games today specifically to give them away later.
But not here.
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That's still god though. I've been giving away copies of my favorite game lately. Though I have been doing it here. I tend to buy them for my friends too if they're multiplayer.
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I lost track of how many Chivalry:Medieval Warfare giveaways I've entered in the 11 months I've been active here, and it was seeing all those that convinced me to play it during free weekends. Still, even $5 on sale wasn't cheap enough for me to commit(Warband was, and will probably remain, my go-to medieval combat simulator) but I card-farmed enough to buy it when it was 90% off yesterday. I got tired of seeing "Giveaways entered" and then a "ended ~~~ hours ago" next to CMW GAs. In my case, yes.
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Giveaways do not make it more likely for a user to purchase a game. What happens is that making giveaways for a game increases that game's awareness - This means that many users who never heard about that game will get to know it, and can be potential buyers. People who already know the game either want to buy it or not, giveaways won't change that decision.
So yes, making giveaways will likely increase sales of a game. Because more people will know that the game exists, and as a consequence, more people will buy said game (unless the game is extremely bad and undesirable - increased awareness does not mean the game will sell more, because more people knowing about a really bad game will hardly make more people actually buy it).
I think that users here should give games they like, as a form of supporting the developers of said game. You increase the playerbase, and you increase the game's awareness, therefore supporting the game developer A LOT. It's much better than a simple purchase.
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I've been giving away copies of a little known mech game that I really like, hoping it will translate into more people wanting and playing the game. I just hope it helps them out. I'm not sure anyone has given the game away here other than me, and it's never been bundled. So hopefully people will notice it and want to pick it up.
About 2/3rds or poll respondants seem to think they drive sales. Which gives me hope that it helps.
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If someone is giving away games here, are you more interested in buying games after you see it here? Are there cool games you've found out about because of giveaways? Have you gone on to buy them? If you win a giveaway are you more likely to buy that game for a friend/another giveaway?
I know I'm guilty of all of these. I bought copies of a few games for my friends after winning them here (Cities in Motion for one).
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