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

Well um



okay

you aren't gonna like, take my soul when i'm not looking because of this, right?

Okay if people want to give me free games who am I to argue.

Is it too late to throw more games into the pot? I'd feel bad taking games without at least a symbolic gesture of giving.

Alright count me in too.

Is it too late to throw more games into the pot? I'd feel bad taking games without at least a symbolic gesture of giving.

Sure thing, but keep in mind that we've got a pretty big pot already, so there's definitely nothing wrong with not throwing in anything extra right now.

If this one goes well though, we might try to do something similar next year too, so I guess you could always wait until the next sale to get something at a more reasonable price and throw it in next year if that makes you feel any better?

Well to be fair there is still black friday and winter steam sales not to mention more humble bundles. SO the game pile is only going to grow xD

if anybody throws in copies of bad rats can you figure out a way to calculate the losers so you can give it to them

I will totally put all of my pennies on Bad Rats and walk away a winner

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you know what i will in as well

Unfortunately we only have one copy of Bad Rats, so I guess you guys are all just going to have to duke it out for last place.

Okay. I'm up for this.

Alas, I missed my wonderful second co-mod spot.

I will say that those of you who can't get your hands on Bad Rats won't have to be too disappointed, we have a couple other odd (read: terrible) backup options to win as well.

okay I'm in, but you better make sure to remind me to spend frivolously

I'd like to sign up.

Ahahahaha sure, sign me up.

ALso let me dig through my pile of bundles to see if there's anything to sweeten the pot.

um... sure...

Video games just happen to be one of my favorite kinds of games, sign me up

i guess

If I hear one more limp-wristed noncommittal response to some people who are doing a cool, generous thing, I will punch one lucky entitled asshat straight into the sun.

Jesus, learn to show some gratitude.

I want videogames, but I don't want people to think I'm a tryhard.

I'd also swear I already signed up for this but apparently not? I'd like to be in please. Thanks for setting this up, it's pretty cool.

*While I would like to try my luck at perhaps getting an interesting game I have not been acquainted with, I already have games that which I have yet to play. Therefore, I will enter for the fun of it, perhaps bidding here or there, but without expecting anything in particular. My apologies for my earlier bluntness, for my body has been colonized by viruses and I was not thinking straight.

Steam!

Videogames are nice things, I'd like to join in

If I hear one more limp-wristed noncommittal response to some people who are doing a cool, generous thing, I will punch one lucky entitled asshat straight into the sun.

Jesus, learn to show some gratitude.

I'd like to sign up.

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