RE: Steam Summer Giveaway 2014
07-14-2014, 05:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-14-2014, 06:02 AM by Coldblooded.)
Alright, so we should be starting very soon now. But before we begin, I've got a few short announcements/reminders to get out of the way first.
1. The full rules list is in the OP, but for those of you who need a refresher, the short version is this: Everybody gets 100 points to start off with, which they can distribute however they want into the various available games*. The more points you have on a title relative to everybody else, the better your chances of winning that game. After each round, we determine the winners of the four most popular games, and everybody else gets another 25 points to deposit wherever they want into the remaining games. Rinse and repeat until everybody has a copy of their chosen game. Sounds simple enough right? Right.
(*Up until a certain point that is. If I see you trying to distribute single odd digits worth of points into dozens of different titles at once, I am probably going to ignore you and ask you distribute them in a way that doesn't make me want to cry whenever I start thinking of tallying up the current points.)
2. Keep in mind that this game is being run simultaneously on both the Chocolate Pi and Eagle Time Forums. I will do my best to keep the points list updated for both forums at least once a day, but you might want to consider keep an eye on both threads if you're worried about somebody stacking too many points onto the same game as you. You can find a link to the other thread in the OP, or alternately, right here.
3. Please make sure to post all of your point deposits in either this thread and/or the other one, and NOT through PMs or any other offsite chat services. This is partly because I don't want Pala and myself to be trying to record actions coming from eight directions at once, and partly because there's not any real need for them to be secret in the first place anyway.
4. A good fraction of the games that we have up for grabs here are link/codes that were picked up from places such as humblebundle.com. I'm fairly sure that most of these codes should work, but on the off chance that you get one that doesn't work for some reason, just let us know and we'll try to give you a choice between a few other backup games instead. To redeem a game code, just open up the Library tab on Steam and look in the bottom left corner for the option to add a new game. It should look something like this.
5. Since I expect the first round to likely end up being much more chaotic and high stakes than the following rounds (due to the higher point values and so on), I've decided that the first round is going to last somewhere around 4 days while we wait for everybody to check in. After that first round though, subsequent rounds will only last about 48 hours.
6. And finally, remember to have fun, and try not to feel too bitter if somebody else manages to yank the game you were hoping for out from under you at the last second, or whatever. After all, it's not their fault that they were born with such great taste in games.
Good luck everyone.
(P.S. Good timing Crowstone, you just barely made the final cut.)
1. The full rules list is in the OP, but for those of you who need a refresher, the short version is this: Everybody gets 100 points to start off with, which they can distribute however they want into the various available games*. The more points you have on a title relative to everybody else, the better your chances of winning that game. After each round, we determine the winners of the four most popular games, and everybody else gets another 25 points to deposit wherever they want into the remaining games. Rinse and repeat until everybody has a copy of their chosen game. Sounds simple enough right? Right.
(*Up until a certain point that is. If I see you trying to distribute single odd digits worth of points into dozens of different titles at once, I am probably going to ignore you and ask you distribute them in a way that doesn't make me want to cry whenever I start thinking of tallying up the current points.)
2. Keep in mind that this game is being run simultaneously on both the Chocolate Pi and Eagle Time Forums. I will do my best to keep the points list updated for both forums at least once a day, but you might want to consider keep an eye on both threads if you're worried about somebody stacking too many points onto the same game as you. You can find a link to the other thread in the OP, or alternately, right here.
3. Please make sure to post all of your point deposits in either this thread and/or the other one, and NOT through PMs or any other offsite chat services. This is partly because I don't want Pala and myself to be trying to record actions coming from eight directions at once, and partly because there's not any real need for them to be secret in the first place anyway.
4. A good fraction of the games that we have up for grabs here are link/codes that were picked up from places such as humblebundle.com. I'm fairly sure that most of these codes should work, but on the off chance that you get one that doesn't work for some reason, just let us know and we'll try to give you a choice between a few other backup games instead. To redeem a game code, just open up the Library tab on Steam and look in the bottom left corner for the option to add a new game. It should look something like this.
5. Since I expect the first round to likely end up being much more chaotic and high stakes than the following rounds (due to the higher point values and so on), I've decided that the first round is going to last somewhere around 4 days while we wait for everybody to check in. After that first round though, subsequent rounds will only last about 48 hours.
6. And finally, remember to have fun, and try not to feel too bitter if somebody else manages to yank the game you were hoping for out from under you at the last second, or whatever. After all, it's not their fault that they were born with such great taste in games.
Good luck everyone.
(P.S. Good timing Crowstone, you just barely made the final cut.)