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This is my favourite topic
Posted August 03, 2016
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chadjenofsky: As for the other topic, I generally prefer asking thought-provoking questions rather than just having participants state "I'm in". Not too strenuous on the participant and not hard to "judge" entries since you have a time constraint on reviewing them.
A valid suggestion, if ever there was one, to bring the civility and open mindedness of the community, while also helping with bumps of various lengths and actual ideas.

Also, shameless bump. This thread could turn out to be great.
Post edited August 03, 2016 by GioVio123
Posted August 04, 2016
it could turn out great but for now the interest is falling again
Posted August 04, 2016
I assumed batch 5 was the end of this GA, so I'd stopped checking in. Not that I'm in for anything, but hey, I'm around to bump the thread and chat.

I've done a few GAAs, and it's a pretty careful balance. The more requirements you set / tasks, as a general rule you get less participation. There are exceptions, though. For now I've stopped hosting my own GAs and have just been throwing my extra keys at Zeo (Steam) or moon (GOG) to incorporate in the community GAs. But I do think it's great that there are other GAs besides those 2. We need more, I'm just a little disillusioned at the lack of enthusiasm when I've hosted them. So I feel ya.

_Slaugh_ runs a mystery game a few times a year where the game itself draws more interest than the prize - but he also puts a ton of work into it. ZFR and a few others run puzzle games that can be amazingly complex to solve, and usually only I'd say 4-8 people actually work out the solution and maybe 15 try.

That just doesn't work as well for a GA where you're trying to move a number of games.

Personally I quite liked the design of this one - teasing out the prizes in batches provided a reason to keep coming back to check. Even though I wasn't really planning to enter (and yet managed to win one, somehow) it was still fun to see each group of games revealed.

On that note, I did finish Anomaly 2 (made a post about it in the 'Games finished in 2016 thread), and after a slow start, it was really a fun, impressive 'tower offense' game. So thanks! Lots of extra +1s for keeping this going.
Posted August 04, 2016
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bler144: I assumed batch 5 was the end of this GA, so I'd stopped checking in. Not that I'm in for anything, but hey, I'm around to bump the thread and chat.

I've done a few GAAs, and it's a pretty careful balance. The more requirements you set / tasks, as a general rule you get less participation. There are exceptions, though. For now I've stopped hosting my own GAs and have just been throwing my extra keys at Zeo (Steam) or moon (GOG) to incorporate in the community GAs. But I do think it's great that there are other GAs besides those 2. We need more, I'm just a little disillusioned at the lack of enthusiasm when I've hosted them. So I feel ya.

_Slaugh_ runs a mystery game a few times a year where the game itself draws more interest than the prize - but he also puts a ton of work into it. ZFR and a few others run puzzle games that can be amazingly complex to solve, and usually only I'd say 4-8 people actually work out the solution and maybe 15 try.

That just doesn't work as well for a GA where you're trying to move a number of games.

Personally I quite liked the design of this one - teasing out the prizes in batches provided a reason to keep coming back to check. Even though I wasn't really planning to enter (and yet managed to win one, somehow) it was still fun to see each group of games revealed.

On that note, I did finish Anomaly 2 (made a post about it in the 'Games finished in 2016 thread), and after a slow start, it was really a fun, impressive 'tower offense' game. So thanks! Lots of extra +1s for keeping this going.
thanks for your insight on this and for the ending of this GA well so far ive been only dashing out my spare humblebundle keys, still got a load of bundlestars, indiegala and groupees keys that need new homes so aslong as i have keys and theres interest this will keep running :)
Posted August 04, 2016
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bler144: _Slaugh_ runs a mystery game a few times a year where the game itself draws more interest than the prize - but he also puts a ton of work into it. ZFR and a few others run puzzle games that can be amazingly complex to solve, and usually only I'd say 4-8 people actually work out the solution and maybe 15 try.
oh, yes slaughs Hacker Giveaway was the greatestest GA puzzle I ever had. Just glad I solved it in the end, else I would have had to change my nick in shame ;)

Anyway it's a lot of work to create those, I'm sure. So it's definitely not for everyone to make/enter these.
I have to echo bler here, saying that I mostly look at the community GAs (and steamgifts) if I have leftovers, but I very much like that there's more Giveaways around :) So thank you very much for that Aveweto. it's just nice things to have in a forum. Gotta remember to make one myself again one day.... ;)
Post edited August 04, 2016 by mchack
Posted August 04, 2016
ive also donated a couple games to moon's GA and a huge bunch to the awesome GA sachys an foxworks used to host
Posted August 05, 2016
Bump!

Kinda weird to see this giveaway got so little interest

You know what, sometimes when we want to do good things, it doesn't work as easy as we hope for. This had happened to me and many people I know. Me and my friends used to talk about how when we were doing a random charity and somehow all those people we would give donation to suddenly disappear.

I salute you to keep going with your giveaway for it take a lot of effort and time, therefore I would honored you by entering again. Hopefully others will too

I'm in for Towerfall Ascension :)
Posted August 05, 2016
All right, I think I'll be in for PixelJunk Eden.

I've saw the constant bumps and thought that Aveweto was being middle of the year Santa, why the disinterest? :v
Reminds of the two giveaways I've did hahaha... haha... ha... :|
Posted August 05, 2016
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neurasthenya: All right, I think I'll be in for PixelJunk Eden.

I've saw the constant bumps and thought that Aveweto was being middle of the year Santa, why the disinterest? :v
Reminds of the two giveaways I've did hahaha... haha... ha... :|
well sometimes the timing just sucks
Posted August 05, 2016
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neurasthenya: All right, I think I'll be in for PixelJunk Eden.

I've saw the constant bumps and thought that Aveweto was being middle of the year Santa, why the disinterest? :v
Reminds of the two giveaways I've did hahaha... haha... ha... :|
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Aveweto: well sometimes the timing just sucks
Yeah, I guess. But still weird, you've been hosting this for about what, 2 months now?
Posted August 06, 2016
the sixth batch ends in less than 17 hours
Posted August 06, 2016
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neurasthenya: All right, I think I'll be in for PixelJunk Eden.

I've saw the constant bumps and thought that Aveweto was being middle of the year Santa, why the disinterest? :v
Reminds of the two giveaways I've did hahaha... haha... ha... :|
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Aveweto: well sometimes the timing just sucks
My GA of any of the 3 Commandos games garnered no interest at all, at least you are pulling in some success Aveweto. I never want to be greedy or take folks for granted, as such I have been sitting out for the last couple of stages and allowing others to partake.

I think a lot of active users may feel the same.

Keep it up, you are appreciated.


I have now gone from 113 rep down to 62 in a couple of weeks. I won't likely stay above 50 to even qualify for this GA anymore soon....oh well, more for others.
Post edited August 06, 2016 by TheSaint54
Posted August 06, 2016
Yeah, I usually give my games out on SG (much easier to handle for me compared to hosting a giveaway on the forum and keep trak of it), but often I end up with no entries or just one entry even for little gems. From time to time I also give some keys to Zeogold for the Steam Community thread and to Foxworks when he used to do giveaways (sadly I'm not a benefactor for Moonlight thread simply because I'm buying from GOG much much less compared to the past).
Posted August 06, 2016
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Aveweto: and a huge bunch to the awesome GA sachys an foxworks used to host
Does Foxworks actually intend to still do that? Sachys left the forum a while ago, and I heard a lot of donors got their keys back.
Posted August 06, 2016
Nice thread. Will there be that special tenth batch, Aveweto?

REDVWIN
Post edited August 06, 2016 by REDVWIN
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