Steam Summer Giveaway 2014

So, as most of you probably aren't aware, Palamedes and I are currently running a game giveaway thread over on the other OTHER forum. (You know, the one with the black color scheme instead of the gray or the white one? Yeah, that one.) Basically the idea is that we buy games when they're on sale for super cheap on Steam, and then we just throw 'em all in a pile and sort it out so that everybody gets something new.

But apparently I severely underestimated the generosity of some of our donors, because there's currently way more games up for grabs than there are people actually signing up to receive them. I mean, this originally started out as a much smaller thing, but I guess it just decided to roll itself into a big, multi-forum giveaway all on its own? Okay whatever, I'll roll with it.

Anyway, it works like this. You sign up for this game and then come back to poke your head into the thread every few days for the next month or so, and in return you get a free game on Steam, no strings attached. We're going to be cross-posting everything that happens on the Choco Pi Forums over here and vice versa, so you won't even have to sign up for a new forum account or anything. You will have to have a Steam account though, obviously.
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The Rules: Every single game up for grabs will be revealed right at the very beginning of the game. (Or a bit before, more likely.) Every player is then given 100 points to divide among whichever games that they like best. After everybody has distributed their points, we will then determine the winners of the four most popular games currently on the table. The more points that somebody has placed into a game, the better their odds of walking away with it.

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For example, imagine that a game has 200 points on it, with the points distributed like so:
Player A - 100 points
Player B - 50 points
Player C - 25 points
Player D - 25 points

Player A has a 50% of winning that game since they have 50% of the points sitting on it right now. Player B has a 25% chance of winning it, and Players C and D each have a 12.5% chance of winning it. If any other players decide to jump onto the game before the deadline, it drags down the odds for each of the other four players by however many points that they happen to throw in.

If Player D decides that they don't like sharing these odds with the rest of the pack, they can always pull back out and move those points elsewhere.

Alright, so let's say that you placed all of your points into the very popular games in the first round, and didn't win any of them. That sucks right? Well yeah, but it's not the end of the world. At the end of each round, the lucky winners will each receive the game that they won via Steam and then leave the game. The remaining players will each receive another 25 points as a consolation prize, and will be given another 48 hours to distribute them before the next round begins. Rinse and repeat until every single player is matched up with a game.
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By the way, if you're one of those people who tend to feel guilty accepting things for free, please don't. I can promise you that if you don't take it, the game will likely just end up sitting around unplayed in somebody's Steam inventory for the indefinite future. So really there's no reason to not sign up. Plus, something about the strengthening of inter-forum bonds and alliances to protect us from 4chan invaders and all that jazz.

P.S. Special thanks to Palamedes, Kocel, Demonsul, Amosmyn, and Vancho for their game donations, and for helping to get this thing off the ground. You guys are great.

Signups: 44/44

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1. Vancho Had his brain removed by a dentist D4
2. Leafsword Driven mad by the elder gods D10
3. Raptarion Slain by robo-zombies, I mean Dredge D5
4. Bramzter Got hopelessly lost in the desert D9
5. Credit Wandered into a monster filled dungeon D6
6. Demonsul Blown up by socialists D5
7. Pagan Silenced by the mafia D9
8. SupahKiven Got a nasty papercut D1
9. Druplesnubb Got trapped in a time loop D5
10. Kaynato Flung out of town via trebuchet D1
11. Sam B Rocked out too hard D8
12. KatoHearts
13. Supernerd Overheated D7
14. Anacreon Sent to the hospital D7
15. Speedchuck Got radiation sickness D1
16. MQuinny Died in space D8
17. Amosmyn Sued for malpractice D9
18. Granolaman Befriended a monster D8
19. MasterBlade Sailed away D9
20. Mecha_Goomba Carried off by birds or something D3
21. Cyber95 Took an arrow to the... gut D2
22. Akumu Got murdered in the opening cutscene D4
23. Gnauga Had to go to Detroit D5
24. Ixcaliber
25. TehPilot Abducted by aliens D4
26. Garuru Angered a sentient diving suit D3
27. Scoffles Asphyxiated D7
28. Schazer Didn't escape the guards D7
29. OzTheWizard Fell down an open pit D8
30. Paranoia Fell through a hole in reality D3
31. Cat Died thirty-one seconds into D6
32. Pick Yer Poison Skeletonized by the cops D6
33. AgentBlue Shot up by Hong Kong gangsters D2
34. SleepingOrange Nuked by Gandhi D1
35. Bigro Suffocated in the vacuum of space D2
36. Loather
37. Deceptive
38. Dragon Fogel Avenged his great-great-grandfather D3
39. Sruixan
40. Rivenforge Overrun by the Byzantine army D2
41. Donut Locked away for his own protection D4
42. Konec0 Crashed into a brick wall D9
43. Hector212121 Made a noble sacrifice D6
44. Crowstone Fell off the edge of the world D5