^This. Well said.

^^Much this. Well said stg83, I couldn't have said it better. +1

Congrats to the winners, BTW. And thanks for organizing this giveaway, Fox and Chimp!

Actually, you've not won anything recently because I've been unable to find any activity from you recently that wasn't in a giveaway or gift request thread.
I couldn't.
Foxworks couldn't.
Bing, Google, Yahoo couldn't.
Actually ...checking a great deal of threads under general I still couldn't.

The system isn't perfect, but it's what we have to work with.

As to your accuations that only people I / we like win, well I can tell you for a fact that several users I have no interaction with or dont see eye to eye with have won - some with frequency. This is set up in as a fair a way possible for all entrants. Some simply don't make the mark under the first rule because they haven't been around long enough, others because they have not made enough effort within the wider community or perhaps dont come up in the search results when we check for them... most of them seem to understand or guess that and not kick up a fuss - several in fact can be seen to increase their general interaction around here.

Having conferred with foxworks, it would also seem that you did, in fact, win in the first week a copy of Dustforce.

Those would of course be easy for you to find, as they are YOUR RECENT POSTS.
It does state clearly in the OP a months SEARCHABLE activity on the forums.
Your entry was treated equally to others.
Regardless, the matter is closed as far as I am concerned.

Yeah, search doesn't help at all. Not even through Google or Yahoo. I ran a check and it didn't find most of my June posts.

I'll state this once and once only:

THE RULES OF THE GIVEAWAY SHOULD BE CLEAR ENOUGH.
IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE RULES, DO NOT ENTER.
IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE GENUINE CONCERNS ABOUT YOUR ELIGABILITY TO ENTER, THEN YOU CAN ALWAYS PM FOXWORKS OR MYSELF.
IF YOU ARE A REGULAR DONOR AND HAVE CONCERNS - PLEASE DO THE SAME.

Edit: and I shouldn't have to say it at all really... O___o~

I found three non-giveaway June post with GOG's forum search and two more June posts with Google (VanGe1 site:gog.com).

Do you want some cheese with your whine?

The rules for the giveaway have been posted. They require at least one month of somewhat recent forum participation. The oldest of your messages (at least of the ones you linked) is 10 days old. Hence you don't qualify. Even though you don't qualify you were still entered once and won a game.

And you have the balls to insinuate that foul play is involved because you don't qualify according to the rules?

If you think the rules are too arbitrary then say so and suggest better ones. I (or others) might or might not agree with the rules you suggest but that is something that can at least be discussed.

But saying that the organizers "only give games to people they like" without any proof is pretty low. Actually, that comes pretty close to the lowest thing I have seen on this forum so far.

I suggest to Fox and Chimp to apply the last sentence of point 3) of the rules to BranjoHello: Extreme cases will be banned.

I'm not complaining. I'm just confirming what you said about "the system not being perfect, but that's what we have to work with."
Sorry if sounded as a complain.

just trying to make sure that this doesnt turn into some monsterous derailment is all. :)

Edit: and to get us back on track...

so what ? you prefer the mess was the ninja giveaway thread when it was closed ?

since when the numbers of games on an account is a rule ? o_O

for the record my steam profil is only visible for others steam's users i have on my friends lists , i will never put it on public (except for some reasons)

and i don't either enter in all give aways.....

IF you don't like the rules ,don't enter in those GA, if you are a genius, please input better rules ....sigh

If you were discriminated for no good reason, would you stay quiet?

I'm active on this forums almost on daily basis since September 2013, I follow the discussions and if I don't post in some thread that means I didn't have anything to add, not that I've didn't see what's going on. There is a bunch of people from here that I interact with either through PM or Steam chat, I'm no newbie.

This whole thing started with me saying that luck won't help you if Sachys "disapproves of you", and now it's clear that I was right.

Sachys did mention some shitlist of his, so maybe it would be good if he post it on his giveaways, that way people would know if they have a chance or not. Lack or transparency led to this situation.

You are just so wrong, let me tell you why, a while back ago sachys and me turned into an arguement which i won't go into details here, but he blocked me and whenever i posted something in another giveaway (also asking if i could enter) he ignored me. Yet i won here 3 times (only because i picked games noone else entered (beside arma maybe, i can't remember), nothing about being biased etc), despite what i feel about sachys for what happened back then (and vice versa) i will stand up for him here and you proven nothing.
I think if he has a list it only involves a few certain people that really been a pain to him and others, or having scammed.
Just take your loss and move on.

This discussion about a GIVEAWAY, where someone BOUGHT games just to GIFT them here on GOG, is disgusting.

Luck is luck, and both Sachys and foxworks are very good members of GOG.

The thing that "only some members won because are in good relationship" with them is, and excuse me for this word, since rarely I saw bad language here on GOG, a bullshit.

I've only exchanged a couple of PM with foxworks, because usually when I receive a game for gift, I send a PM to the gifter about the game. It doesn't happen ALWAYS, but I tend to do it as I can. And I can guarantee that this giveaway is only luck based. I won twice, and this is great, but it's, of course, luck.

Discussing about it it's very very sad.