Banjo_oz: Also, I still don't understand how people were getting free games; I ended up buying a dozen titles, both fresh and classic, and didn't get a single freebie, not even when clicking on the ones I already owned. While I don't mind that part so much, since I was happy just getting them at a cheaper price, it's left me baffled why the whole "free" mechanism seemed to be working for so many other people and not a select few. Is it browser related, perhaps?
Some people have been adding the games to their cart from the game card or similar, not getting a freebie, and doing that over and over and wondering why they never win. You have to click on "Buy Game" directly on the homepage though, not put it in your cart from elsewhere on the website. So that explains why some number of people don't win, they're not playing the game correctly. Aside from that though if everyone clicks on 200 games over a few days of the promo or whatever and person A wins 0 games, person B wins 1 game, person C wins 3 games, person D wins 5 games, their ratio of try to win mathematically is:
A: 0/200 = 0.0% win rate
B: 1/200 = 0.5% win rate
C: 3/200 = 1.5% win rate
D: 5/200 = 2.5% win rate
This shows that despite some people winning and some people losing, mathematically the percentage of difference they have in their win ratios are very very small, only a 2.5% variance from not winning anything to winning 5 games. In a small sample size of people posting in forums and seeing other people's results it is well within the margin of error of pure randomness. It only gets interesting if somehow one person tried 200 times and won say 25 games or something less likely mathematically. Even then it's possible however because some people do win longshots on the lottery with enormous odds.
