NPF Steam Secret Santa 2013

[Bells]

I wanted to think of a funny subtitle, but i failed... :ohdear:

So, this worked... but it was a bit rushed so we never did manage to organize. Steam sale is coming up, most likely on Nov 27, might be a good date, so let's have a thread for it now.

And please someone take over this thread from me, i just have no clue on how to properly organize this stuff right...

So, here is what we need.

keepig with the model used on 2012, 3 suggestions of gifts (as specific as "Game X" to broad as "Any DLC for any game i have" stuff like that)

Say if you want in, and what is the gift price range you are comfortable with.

Also say your steam handle.

Games are steam primarily (just to streamline everything), but i see no problem in talking about other systems as well.

Suggested date for purchases is the entire duration of the steam sale, with gifts being sent the day after it ends, so everybody gets full access to all deals equally and there is an agreed date for delivery of the gifts.

Now, on feedback... even though we all will be connected via steam, we should talk about the secret santa primarily on the forums, no?


So, what you guys feel is the best? People just openly say who their secret santa is? Give clues and the others try to figure it out? Keep it a secret?


C'mon people, let's get the holiday spirit of savings i gaming going!

[mauve]

What if we just set up a general price range for everyone rather than have people keep track of each person's individual price range? That way no one has to worry about whether they're asking for too much or too little.

What about $15 and under, or $20 and under? I don't remember how, if at all, we worked this for various countries' differences in currency.

EDIT: Oh, also, everyone should post the operating system/etc of the computers they game on so they don't end up with a game they can't run.

[Bells]

Oh sorry, i didn't explain it. I was thinking of running the average of everyone's price point. Last year we agreed at around $15 was best but that people could go higher if they wanted to. IIRC

[mauve]

Ah, ok. My bad!

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I'm in. $15 sounds like a reasonable cap, especially with sales around the corner.

[Revising Ocelot]

I stuck to the Steams last year, but people shouldn't be limited to that. There's Humble codes and downloads, GOG etc. as well as all those things that aren't games, which I believe we did last year? But the games are much better for international borders.

In terms of sales there's obviously the Black Friday stuff from around the corner, as well as Steam's Christmas sale through the period and past the big day, as well as all the other stuff other sites will do (GreenManGaming, so many better sales than Steam this year, as a hint). I think just generally saying a large time period up until year's end would be best.

Then after the new year we reveal what we gave & to who, and who gave you your thingy. I myself messed with an alternate account to gift, but people may not accept unsolicited friend invites so I say just stick to main account and do away with subtleties on the personal front. Just gets awkward otherwise.

Count me in anyway.

[Azisien]

I'm in. My slave paymasters have been kind to me this year, so I'm willing to give a little extra, or gift to multiple people. Hohoho and shit.

[Ryong]

Aw what the heck, I'm in. I'll go with $15 but I'm getting steam games in Brazilian money which, while worth less than USD has lower prices so there's that.

I accept gifts in PC games, vita games and PSN codes.

[Steel Shadow]

Yeah, I'll get in on this again. Money, I'll go with whatever you guys go with, I'm not too fussy, and I have to work in £ instead of $ anyway, which requires math I'm not prepared to do or look up.

PC games, Steam stuff... Steam's probably best for me just so some weird region blocks can't crop up - They totally will if you give them the chance.

[Aerozord]

is there a way to check what games people have? I'd rather do kind of a blind pick, encourage the spread of games we otherwise might not have tried

[Flarecobra]

You can see game libraries on Steam.

[Arcanum]

is there a way to check what games people have? I'd rather do kind of a blind pick, encourage the spread of games we otherwise might not have tried

Steam Profile > Games > All Games

For non-steam games, you'd have to ask them (through a proxy such as whoever organizes the whole thing so you remain secret).

Anyway, I'm willing to participate again this year.

Also, I agree with RO that it shouldn't be limited exclusively to Steam.

And finally, there should be a span of 2 or 3 days, either near Xmas or after the Steam Xmas sale has ended (probably the latter), where everyone sends their gifts. Last year people were kind of sending their gifts whenever over an entire week, and I feel that contributed to the lack of post secret santa feedback/excitement. So you narrow that window down to 2 or 3 days to account for real life schedules, but you still get that "unwrap our presents as a group" vibe.

[Ryong]

Steam has a wishlist for a reason.

If people want something that's not on steam, they should say it in a post.

[Bells]

Unless people are ok with PM'ing serial keys, we need to stay with systems that allow Gifting, no?

I for example, have origin and steam, and i have bought games on GOG. But i would prefer steam just to keep my stuff organized. But if someone sees i game i wanted cheaper on GOG than on steam, then please, go right ahead y'know...

Same goes if you prefer a certain game on a linux or mac version. sure, it's less common, but if there is the option...

Bottom line, anyone going into this, needs to give a good set of information.

that being said, i think Arcanun is right on this... we need to define a window of purchase and gifting so stuff get more organized.

We also need someone who can pair everybody up and oversee this operation

[Aerozord]

Anyone know a good program for randomizing pairings of this nature? If so I suggest that person organizes thing

[Azisien]

http://www.drawnames.com/secret-santa-generator

Is that sufficient?

[Bells]

using that generator we wouldn't need a "Secret Santa Moderator" it would be all automatic, is that right?

If so, great!

We have a good group of people here, if that is ok, maybe we can start putting dates down and information from people?

We need a final date to signup, and someone willing to receive all data and generate.

We also need a date range for delivery of all gifts within those days.

Also, how people like to handle their secret santa? Reveal, not reveal, give clues and others take guesses...? Either way, in-forum feedback should be the way to go. Maybe give clues as to who your scret santa is BEFORE sending the gift?

i think that covers that part.

As for personal data, e-mails should be sent only to who agrees to generate the pairings via PM.

Other than that we would need

Preferred Platforms for gifting (with related Handle or account name)
Preferred genres of games
Link to library of titles (if possible)
3 suggestions of stuff you would like


i think that covers it, no?

[mauve]

Well guys, the Autumn sale is upon us. Do we want to do this now or wait till the inevitable Winter sale? My vote's for Winter, since we didn't actually get this secret santa dealie up and running in time.

[Aerozord]

I'd prefer the winter sale. I work retail so oddly enough right now is most hectic

[Azisien]

Winter. Sales will probably be a little better, or at least a few games people want will go on first/bigger discount.

[Bells]

The sale right now feels a bit lacklust. On the winter sale we will get the exact same deals or better ones. No way it will be worst. With that in mind, i think winter will be better.

[Revising Ocelot]

It won't be much better... this is how Steam sales have been the past two years now. That's why I say you should keep an eye out for stuff from GreenMan, Amazon, all the other retailers that offer Steam keys or alternatives. I've noticed Amazon in particular love to beat the price on a Steam sale as quickly as a day afterwards.

Winter sale's pegged for December 19th, FYI.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Not Steam sale related, but Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition is on Grand Old Games for tenbux (http://www.gog.com/game/neverwinter_nights_diamond_edition)

Secret Santas, take note.

HowVkIzBixc

[batgirl]

Put me down for participating, I enjoyed it last time.

Steam name Batmedic14

[Bells]

BTW Steam X-mas sale starts right about these days, so perhaps we should get this rolling?

[Revising Ocelot]

Bells just volunteered for matching people together.

[Bells]

Yes i'll jingle my bells all over all'yall...

....wait...

well, if it's done it's done! ONWARDS WITH THE THING!

C'mon people. Give me Options!!

- Steam Account:
- Origin Account:
- Uplay Account:

Up to 5 Ideas or Suggestions of games you would like:


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So, here i go.

Steam Account: Bells85

5 Ideas or suggestions:

- Anything from my wishlist
- Any DLC i don't have
- Consider that i have a gaming channel on youtube, so something like Woodcutter simulator 2013 is something i can actually make good use of and have fun !
- Any multiplayer game i can play with the people of the forums.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Steam Account: shyriadracnoir

Ideas:
Anything on my Steam wishlist
As previously posted, Neverwinter Nights (http://www.gog.com/game/neverwinter_nights_diamond_edition)
Similar to Bells, anything that gets regular multiplayer time with folks on the forums. I never see you dudes anymore :(

EDIT: I'll also take stuff for TF2, mostly MvM tickets or cosmetic items, but nothing too expensive.

[mauve]

Steam Name: florgis (I think i'm set up to only let friends see my profile, so I'll change this cuz I don't think I have all the forumites on mah friends list. THIS SHOULD CHANGE THOUGH.)

EDIT: My operating system is Vista 64, if that's helpful.

Ideas:
Anything on my wish list
RPGs, stealth games, adventure games (a la Monkey Island), puzzlers, multiplayer games, dungeon crawlers
Hats for TF2 engineer, pyro or soldier (the Killer Exclusive would be great!)

Please no "scary" games. I don't care for them.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I sort of jumped the gun and already did a little bit of open gift giving for Mauve and Doc. Hope that doesn't screw anyone up.

[Revising Ocelot]

So hey I'll take anything on my Steam wishlist, or perhaps surprise me, but really I want to know who I've gots to gets the gifts for before the first set of deals expire so someone doesn't miss out on their Monacos or Bioshocks or, even worse, BUYS THE GAME BEFORE I BUY IT FOR THEM. Which is terrible.

Steam (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197983070006/)
Origin: RevolvingOcelot

[Arcanum]

Steam: Arcanum (http://steamcommunity.com/id/arcanum_mbd/)

Ideas:
-Anything from this wishlist (http://steamcommunity.com/id/arcanum_mbd/wishlist)

[synkr0nized]

The offline method for Secret Santa is typically that of filling out information and dropping it into a box/hat, and individuals then later fish out one each.

Last year, in order to make sure that everyone got paired up without knowing who was Santa to whom publicly, I collected the participants' info individually via PMs. I did the matching randomly (I think I just randomized a column of names against a static column of names in Excel, but I might have written a brief function for it), and I was ready to be a Santa to anyone left out if we had odd numbers. Then I sent out each person's relevant game/steam/etc. info in private to their Secret Santa.


I mention this only to offer caution -- if everyone just posts in this thread it is entirely possible that friends and others may take their own initiative and make gift purchases, potentially resulting in duplicates or in some people having multiple Santas where others might not have any.



Ultimately, all that matters is everyone involved has some fun and spreads some holiday cheer!

[Arcanum]

The offline method for Secret Santa is typically that of filling out information and dropping it into a box/hat, and individuals then later fish out one each.

Last year, in order to make sure that everyone got paired up without knowing who was Santa to whom publicly, I collected the participants' info individually via PMs. I did the matching randomly (I think I just randomized a column of names against a static column of names in Excel, but I might have written a brief function for it), and I was ready to be a Santa to anyone left out if we had odd numbers. Then I sent out each person's relevant game/steam/etc. info in private to their Secret Santa.


I mention this only to offer caution -- if everyone just posts in this thread it is entirely possible that friends and others may take their own initiative and make gift purchases, potentially resulting in duplicates or in some people having multiple Santas where others might not have any.



Ultimately, all that matters is everyone involved has some fun and spreads some holiday cheer!

Well...


Bells just volunteered for matching people together.

Yes i'll jingle my bells all over all'yall...

....wait...

well, if it's done it's done! ONWARDS WITH THE THING!


Looks like Bells accepted for pairing people up. And then there's this for matching people:

http://www.drawnames.com/secret-santa-generator

Is that sufficient?

We just need to keep our fingers crossed for an even number of people.

[batgirl]

Steam Account: Batmedic14

5 Ideas or suggestions:

- Anything from my wishlist
- Something with comedy perhaps, looking for a laugh
- I'll jump on the multiplayer train, though my hours are odd so I might not be able to play as much as I'd want to.

[synkr0nized]

Well...


Looks like Bells accepted for pairing people up. And then there's this for matching people:



Yeah, I saw that suggestion.

Like I said, it was an observation / just a thought of caution after five, now six, people have just posted their wishlists and info in the thread, not a claim that you were doing it wrong or unable to pair people up or anything.

[Steel Shadow]

Steam Account: Steel Shadow

Ideas or suggestions:

- Anything from my wishlist
-- Yeah that's all I can suggest. I will literally be happy with anything on there though. Maybe. Pick something nice?
--- The sale has begun, go go go so I can buy the other things I want!

[Azisien]

Steam Account: Lord Captain Commander Llama (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197977690701/).

Origin Account: TheLlamaReborn

Wishlist:
- Steam's up to date (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197977690701/wishlist)
- Can you even gift on Origin? I don't really want much here. SimCity DLC maybe?

[Arcanum]

Thanks for implying I cannot read, though.

Glad to help! :D

---------- Post added at 05:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:02 PM ----------

Although that Secret Santa generator needs emails, so it can email everyone the person they are getting a gift for. So either include an email address in your post, or if you don't want to have your email address out on the forum, PM it to Bells (if he's okay with that) or make a temp email.

I'll edit my email into my post with my steam account link.

[Bells]

Thanks for the tips Synk, i actually had overlooked that detail!

Sure thing though, i'll make sure this rolls out fine.

Here is what we'll do... we will lock out entries this SATURDAY. It's quick enough for people to enjoy the current sales but enough time for everybody to join in. Plus, we've been talking about thsi for quite sometime, so people now know this exists. So please, poke eveybody you guys want to invite for this thing.

ANYONE who wants can PM me right now with a contact e-mail alongside their entry. i'll collect these. Anybody who didn't, i'll send a PM SUNDAY 21st asking for it.

Assuming everybody is ok with that, i'll make the pairings and you will all get it via PM between Dec 22nd and Dc 23rd.

That being set, feel free to purchase away!

Considering that people may want to shop around, or may not be online during the actual holidays... you'll all have until December 26 to send your gifts.

Now... pay attention to this part. Cause you have options...

Don't keep this in PM's or Steam chat... bring it HERE ok? If you want to tease your secret santa, give clues to who you picked up before gifting them! If you want to be playfull, give us clues of who is your secret santa after you gift them.

Either way is fine really, as long as you guys have fun and share it here.

Also, taking up the tradition of Santa Synk, if anything fails through or if there is an Odd number of people, i'll take up the gaps.

Cool? Alrighty then... get those PM's going.




PS: The joke Gift this year is Aliens Colonial Marines for 1.99 on amazon for Steam. Consider it a terrible sock stuffing! =3

[mauve]

If we need more gag gifts, both my sister and I have copies of games we got for free in the 2011 Steam Sale that we literally can't even give away. I have Day of Defeat: Source and she has Demolition Inc. Maybe we could hold a random drawing after the secret santa event ends with a bunch of "Rejected Games"that people might have.

[Bells]

with all the bundles i got in the past, i assure i have gag gifts to add to this pile with glee =)

[MuMu]

Decided to join in, sent the PM.

I'll be just like everyone else and prefer something from my wishlist (http://steamcommunity.com/id/Samuringa/wishlist/), you may be as random about it as you want.

[Arcanum]

Assuming everybody is ok with that, i'll make the pairings and you will all get it via PM between Dec 22nd and Dc 23rd.

Well the whole point of getting emails is to put it into that secret santa generator and letting it email everyone who they are getting a gift for. This way you will also get included in the pairing process, Bells, without knowing who everyone's secret santa is.

[Bells]

Yeah, that's what i meant. Mental fart on my end! mah bad!

[Ryong]

A SITUATION HAS ARISEN and I need to back out.

Sorry everyone.

[Bells]

that's bad to hear Ryong =/ but thanks for the heads up!

Also, c'mon people. I only got 3 PM's thus far. Let's get this jolly jelly train rollin....

[Ryong]

Also, and this is unrelated:

Apparently Steam will begin region locking some purchases ( such as MGR:R ) because of price differences ( a bunch of games are actually cheaper in Brazil and Russia than everywhere else ).

Just a heads up.

[Revising Ocelot]

Lots of games that were tagged as ROW (Rest Of World) rather than Russian-specific were getting purchased in that region and traded, either by Russians themselves or foreigners using VPNs. Not surprising.

Lack of PMs with emails is probably because people signed up here already and not seeing the point of this when we have the messaging system here already?

[mauve]

Do we want to do the generator thing with emails or do we just want someone to draw names from a hat and send PMs to everyone? I'm cool with either way.

[Bells]

i was just going to use the generator, it's safe, clean and easy... no real downside really...

[Steel Shadow]

But it requires more effort from me! Won't someone please think of the lazy?!?

I'm also not super comfortable handing out my e-mail, nor do I see the point in using a generator when there's a hat. What'cha gunna do, Bells? Blackmail us with the threat of revealing what cheapasses we are? But whatev, I'll get PMing.

[Bells]

This is all a ploy for me to steal all your steam badges... they are like crack you know?



Unless i screwed up my Maths we have 9 people in (me included)

Thanks to all who are taking this in. Go poke someone else to join because we are locking this out today!

[mauve]

As long as we know for sure that this generator site is legit and isn't going to farm/sell/spoof/whatever my email address, I'm okay with it. Besides, only Bells (and I guess maybe our secret santa?) will have our addresses, right? I'm assuming the generator itself is just going to send us a username or something?

[Arcanum]

Pretty sure only the site (and Bells) will know your email. The site only emails you the name of the person you are gifting.

[Bells]

So, all you guys have to do is trust a virtual cybernetic entity and me!

Super easy right? ....right?

.......guys?

---------- Post added at 03:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:30 AM ----------

Alrighty then, saturday has come and gone. As far as i can tell we don't have any last second entries so this must be our final group!

Steel Shadow
Mauve
Batgirl
Azisien
Revolving
MuMu
Bells
Arcanum
Shyria

That's 9 entries.

I've copied all e-maisl sent to me to a txt file on my pc and deleted the PM's. Arcanum, you're the one that posted your e-mail on the thread, so, if you want you can edit that out now.

I'm only missing Shyria's e-mail, already sent a PM. As soon as i have it, i'll do the pairings.

Anybody who wants to hop in on the last second, send me a PM today with your steam handle and e-mail, and you all should be getting messages at the provided e-mails soon. So make sure to check your spam folders just to be sure.

[Arcanum]

Just pointing out that you can easily do Secret Santa with an odd number, and the generator shouldn't mess it up.

If you assign each person a number, then the gifting goes like so:

1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > 1

[Bells]

Alrighty everybody Here is your NPF 2013 Secret Santa :

Steel Shadow - Steam Handle: Steel Shadow
-- http://steamcommunity.com/id/runningawayisaniceoption

Mauve - Steam Handle : Mauve
-- http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004573354

Batgirl - Steam Handle: Batmedic14
-- http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198047753856

Azisien - Steam: azisien / Steam Handle: Lord Captain Commander Llama
-- http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197977690701

Revolving Ocelot - Steam Handle : Revolving Ocelot / Origin Handle: RevolvingOcelot
-- http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197983070006

MuMu - Steam Handle : Samuringa
-- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Samuringa

Bells - Steam Handle : Bells85
-- http://steamcommunity.com/id/bells85/

Arcanum - Steam Handle : arcanum
-- http://steamcommunity.com/id/arcanum_mbd

Shyria - Steam Handle : Shyria
-- http://steamcommunity.com/id/shyriadracnoir


My suggestion, everyone, please add everyone on steam right now. So it's not as obvious when you are gifting someone. You have now all received in the provided e-mails the name of your secret santa pairing, so lets get to it!

Please remember to bring all of it here to the forums and thread. play around and have fun with it, and remember that gifting goes up to December 26th to accomodate those who want to shop around for deals or are not around the forums during the holidays.

So, have fun and let's celebrate!

If anything goes wrong, just PM me right away.

Remember you have to join the group (to confirm your participation) before we can draw the names! So check your e-mails and don't forget to check the spam box.

[Arcanum]

You have now all received in the provided e-mails the name of your secret santa pairing, so lets get to it!

Actually we just received an email asking us to join the secret santa group. Once everyone clicks the link in the email to join, then names will be drawn and emails sent with those names.

[MuMu]

Since this is the games thread people are paying the most attention to right now, I'll share my extra Humble keys here. Just PM me here or on Steam if you want one.

-Jack Lumber (http://store.steampowered.com/app/220900/?snr=1_7_15__13)
-Hero Academy (http://store.steampowered.com/app/209270/?snr=1_7_15__13)
-Serious Sam 3 BFE (http://store.steampowered.com/app/41070/?snr=1_7_15__13)
-Sanctum Collection (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/17085/?snr=1_7_15__13)
-Cities in Motion 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/225420/?snr=1_7_15__13)

[Bells]

hey MuMu i'll send you a msg on steam, if you can part with that copy of Zeno Clash i would love to have it!!

Also, names have been drawn...

And my Secret Santa is old and moody and that's the clue i'll give at this time to protect my own nards. But i'm looking into that wishlist right now.......

[mauve]

Names have been drawn; emails with santa recipients have been sent! LET THE GREAT GIFTENING BEGIN!

Just to clarify once and for all, what was the final decision on the day we'll be handing out gifts/ announcing our Secret Santas? New Years? Christmas? The last day of the sale? I've been poking through the thread but I can't seem to find what we ended up deciding to do.

[Bells]

The general idea is that Gift giving happens until Dec 26st . I imagined people would have different schedules for the holidays, so it felts better to have a larger margin of time for it.

You can gift right away if you want to, or wait. If everybody wants to expand the deadline further we can also do that... just have to agree on it right away.

Until then you can poke clues about who you gifted and/or who gifted you if you want right in this thread!

[mauve]

Awesome! Thanks for clarifying!

[Steel Shadow]

Time to brave the Christmas rush.

[Arcanum]

The general idea is that Gift giving happens until Dec 26st . I imagined people would have different schedules for the holidays, so it felts better to have a larger margin of time for it.

Wait, did you type that properly? Or did you mean "No gift giving happens until the 26th?"

[Bells]

Initially that was what i was going to type... i for one, already have the gift bought for mine but i'll wait until Dec 26th to give it.

But since i don't know other people's schedule, i didn't want to restrict anybody in case someone couldn't be around on the 26th for any number of reasons.

[Arcanum]

Okay that's fine. As long as everyone comes back to this thread and brags about posts what they received so we can keep the Secret Santa Hype Train rolling I'll be happy :D

[mauve]

I have my secret santa gift purchased as well, and am also gonna try and send it closer to Christmas; I just hope they don't buy it for themselves in the meantime! XD

But if they do, it's no big deal: Someone else will be getting a gift too then!

[batgirl]

Gift gotten, apparently my secret Santa has expensive tastes, maybe they forgot to think of their gifts in American dollars.

OHHOHOHOHOHO!

[mauve]

Meant to send my gift out this morning but Steam Community is down. Likewise, I received my gift from my Secret Santa but can't accept it until Steam comes back. XD

So! Until it returns, here's a clue about my secret santa recipient!

My secret santa does not live in the United States.

[Arcanum]

You know, with two Canadians, two Europeans, and two South Americans, these non-American hints aren't very effective ::V:

[mauve]

You know, with two Canadians, two Europeans, and two South Americans, these non-American hints aren't very effective ::V:

I am aware. :smug:

[Azisien]

Merry Christmas all!

I'm sending this from hotel wi-fi, I was travelling to family for the holidays.

...And as it happens, my family lives in New Brunswick, aka "That place that got hit by a massive ice storm" and I haven't had power or water for two days and counting, and I'm just leaving this message quickly.

My Steam transactions aren't going through, possibly due to the hotel wi-fi settings? Or I don't know. I'll try to log on once a day if I can, but worst case scenario I'll be back to my wonderful urban internet connection (and water, sweet, sweet water) by Dec 29th.

And that's... my secret Santa hint! If you haven't gotten a gift in the next 72 hours, you might be the lucky recipient. :P

P.S. I scored big! Thank you Anonymous! Metal Gear Rising, SoaSE DLC, *and* D&D Chronicles of Mystara! Thank you!

[Bells]

Merry Christmas all!

I'm sending this from hotel wi-fi, I was travelling to family for the holidays.

...And as it happens, my family lives in New Brunswick, aka "That place that got hit by a massive ice storm" and I haven't had power or water for two days and counting, and I'm just leaving this message quickly.

My Steam transactions aren't going through, possibly due to the hotel wi-fi settings? Or I don't know. I'll try to log on once a day if I can, but worst case scenario I'll be back to my wonderful urban internet connection (and water, sweet, sweet water) by Dec 29th.

And that's... my secret Santa hint! If you haven't gotten a gift in the next 72 hours, you might be the lucky recipient. :P

P.S. I scored big! Thank you Anonymous! Metal Gear Rising, SoaSE DLC, *and* D&D Chronicles of Mystara! Thank you!

Merry Christmas !! Stay safe and well there!! Hope it clears up soon.

Also, wow, your secret santa sounds more like a secret admirer!! :smug:

Also, my Secret Santa already received it's gift (it for genderless reference) but hasn't picked up yet, which means it's slow as a slug. Which is a very recent reference that my secret santa is more likely to be the only to understand =3

[mauve]

Stay safe, Azi!

[Steel Shadow]

I got Ys Origin! Thank you, Secret Santa! May your hat never jingle unnecessarily!

Before I rush off to play, a hint as to who mine was! The first letter in their user name is in the first half of the alphabet!

[batgirl]

Yay! Saints Row the Third!

[Arcanum]

I received Bioshock Infinite's Season Pass :dance:

And since everyone is giving out hints I guess I'll do it as well, but I'll be the only one to provide a useful hint.

Okay, no, that's a lie. My Secret Santa lives in one of the Americas :smug:

[mauve]

I got season 1 of The Walking Dead!

And my secret santa gift-giver lives in the same country as my secret santa recipient!

[Bells]

Just got my gift! The Wolf Among us!! that's Super Awesome!

My secret Santa is assisting with my Addiction to telltale games! And it was the person i gifted on last year's Secret Santa, so he had his revenge!!

[Revising Ocelot]

I got given Spelunky. Because Rogue Legacy only killed me a few hundred times in clearing it once, and my masochism demands more death, more suffering.

My Secret Santa loves certain creatures which I just can't abide. They're almost always magic, because they throw aerodynamics out the window.

[MuMu]

Shit, I got Payday2 and Spacebase-DF9. This kinda makes me feel bad about my gift, I think i'll look for something else to give to my pick. Or my secret santa has serious budget issues.

My SS was the star of a Disney movie but I guess it preferred fighting to singing.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Savant, Torchlight II and Bastion. I feel spoiled.

My Secret Santa may or may not be into caroling.

[Bells]

I'm just gonna come out and say that all your clues for your secret santa are terrible =3

But i think everybody got something cool, so that's awesome that it all worked out well!

[Azisien]

So I've had a spare XCOM Enemy Unknown sitting in my inventory for a while. I tried to gift it to a friend, but they lost their account. Anybody want it?

[akaSM]

So I've had a spare XCOM Enemy Unknown sitting in my inventory for a while. I tried to gift it to a friend, but they lost their account. Anybody want it?

Dibs on shotgun-to-the-alien-face simulator 2013.

[Doc ock rokc]

ill take it if you dont wanna aka it