TTG Secret Santa 1.5: This Time, It's Summer!

edited July 2011 in General Chat
I promised last time to do this when the next sale occurred, and now it has, so fun fun fun! It was a tremendous success, everyone got games that were fun and (I'm sure) were fun for all.

Rules
If you don't know what Secret Santa is, it is a common holiday event between larger groups of people. Basically, a bunch of people sign up, and are assigned a random other person who also has signed up, and everyone buys eachother something without knowing who their gift will come from!

Rules Specific to This Secret Santa
Applicants must gift items using Steam.
Items should not be worth less then $3, or rougly £2.
Items purchased should not exceed $30, or £18, roughly, so we don't have anyone buying anyone else iPods and other people buying Laptop Covers.
You must send your gift by July 10th, 2011.

Registration
To register, please reply below saying you're in and send me a PM with the email address your Steam account is linked to, so your Santa can gift it to you. If you have titles in particular you would like, feel free to send a link to your wishlist. Registration does not close until July 5th, but once a sizable amount of people have joined I will start pairing people up.

Other Information
If you have any questions, please, contact me by PM or reply below!

Note
Steam works in an odd way where if you buy a gift for someone, it sends exactly what you bought. For example, if an Australian gifts someone in the UK Left 4 Dead 2 then it's the censored version Australia gets instead of the UK one. This is just a disclaimer, but it potentially could make anyone in Australia want to hold off on buying titles like L4D2.

Applicants (So Far)
Wishlists are linked if available.
1. Ribs
2. jeeno0142
3. corruptbiggins
4. divisionten (in order of preference)
5. Javi-Wan Kenobi
6. Strong Badinator (deluxe/goty editions of Oblivion and Borderlands)
7. SilverWolfPet (in order of preference, do not gift racing games)
8. Rather Dashing
9. Giant Tope
10. FitzoliverJ
11. Comrade Pants

(Feel free to turn this into 'Discuss The Steam Sales' like it did last time, too)
Have Fun, and do sign up if you can!
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Comments

  • edited June 2011
    Count me in! I love secret santas. I won't be able to send my gift over until at earliest the 8th July, but that's within the time period so I assume there's no problem with that.
  • edited June 2011
    I'm up for this, though will have to wait until I get some money which should be on the 6th and like jeeno I assume this won't be a problem.
  • edited June 2011
    I'm totally game. And I don't give lame gifts.
  • edited June 2011
    Uhh is telltale a main contributor to the sale this year?
    The main page is of Marty and Max.
    EDIT:Whoa there is a competition, earn tickets to get free stuff.
  • edited June 2011
    I'm surprised about the picture choice, too. Go TTG!
  • edited June 2011
    I'm surprised about the picture choice, too. Go TTG!

    And yet none of the challanges for today involve telltale.
    In fact I have none of the games today, but at least I have the group ticket. I should be able to get the TF2 hat at least:D
    EDIT:Oh I have Bit trip, but it isnt installed.
  • edited June 2011
    Everyone who's entered, please send me a PM with the email address your account is linked to, as that's the easy way to send a gift via Steam. I've bolded the post above to highlight this, as it was a problem last time too and some people had late entries because of it. In addition, if you'd like to assemble a wishlist, please do so, so the person buying you something doesn't assume you'd like Dinner Date (yes that is a real game on steam) and buy it for you.
  • edited June 2011
    FYI Ribs, I WONT be doing the sale this time from the looks of it so if you could remove me there...
  • edited June 2011
    I can never remember the email I use for steam, either my real address- sbwin{at}udel.edu or my spam email little_kero_girl{at}yahoo.com.

    It's one of those two. Steam name is division-ten and my list is ordered by things I'd like.
  • edited June 2011
    Count me on.
    To my Secret Santa: I made my Steam wishlist bigger just to enter the Steam contest. Actually, I don't want neither Call of Juarez, nor Hector (wich I'll buy from Telltale's store when they launch the three episode bundle), nor The Next Big Thing (which I'll buy in Spanish on my usual retail store)
  • edited June 2011
    I can never remember the email I use for steam, either my real address- sbwin{at}udel.edu or my spam email little_kero_girl{at}yahoo.com.

    It's one of those two. Steam name is division-ten and my list is ordered by things I'd like.

    Just open Steam, and go under the settings part in the 'view' bar of the main window.
  • edited June 2011
    FYI my Steam handle is the same as my username here. Just makes things easy.
  • edited June 2011
    Here's the wishlist.
    And the email is sbwin[at]udel.edu
  • edited June 2011
    Im still on the edge of this but for now mark me as "not doing this", but I will use this thread to mark my progress on tickets.
    2 down and that is all I can get since Bit Trip is the only game on the list I own.
  • edited June 2011
    Sounds fun, i'll do it.

    Also, on my wishlist, not to sound greedy or anything, but I'd like the Deluxe version of Oblivion and the Game of the Year version of Borderlands. It just doesn't show up on the wishlist.
  • edited June 2011
    Here is my wishlist. Most of the stuff in there is nice and cheap for my buyer. :) http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011935713/wishlist
  • edited June 2011
    Also- "On the Rain-Slick" is dirt cheap as a set, but that wasn't a wishlist option.

    ECIT: THe set was $1.50. I treated myself. Cheaper than most iOS games, to boot!
  • edited June 2011
    I never ever ever did this in my life... I HAVE to join in this time! :D

    Question: What if I buy something to that person and it's NOT the game they want, or, worse, it's something they already own??
  • edited June 2011
    I never ever ever did this in my life... I HAVE to join in this time! :D

    Question: What if I buy something to that person and it's NOT the game they want, or, worse, it's something they already own??

    You can see the list of what they own on their STEAM page.
  • edited June 2011
    And even then the person should have a wishlist on steam.
  • edited June 2011
    Also, Steam won't let you gift something if it's something the person already owns on Steam.
  • edited June 2011
    In addition to your disclaimer, could we also add near our names the Country we're in?

    Oh and, since I don't really have a wish list, is it possible to add (Not Racing Games) near my name, please? :p

    This is fun!
  • edited June 2011
    Count me in!

    My profile
    My Wishlist
  • edited June 2011
    Count me in!

    My profile
    My Wishlist

    Gotta PM me the email your steam is linked to, as the only other way to send a gift is to add you to their friend list which sort of ruins the element of surprise.

    Also, not just to you but to everyone, please try and do your best at keeping the things you would like the most at the top of the wishlist and the things you would like but aren't dying to play towards the bottom.
  • edited July 2011
    I stickied the thread :) Yaaay!

    And I updated my wishlist. Yaaay! :D

    EDIT: Question!

    Will we be paired like this:

    a with b, b with a, c with d, d with c

    or like this?

    a with b, b with c, c with d
  • edited July 2011
    I stickied the thread :) Yaaay!

    And I updated my wishlist. Yaaay! :D

    EDIT: Question!

    Will we be paired like this:

    a with b, b with a, c with d, d with c

    or like this?

    a with b, b with c, c with d

    Well, I use a random number generator and assign people numbers. I already did this with 10 numbers, and assuming 10 people join then only one pairing will be gifting eachother, and the rest giving someone else stuff. So mostly like the second one, I guess, but less obvious.
  • edited July 2011
    When will we know who we have to gift?
  • edited July 2011
    Also... do we have to gift only one thing? I mean, if I see on someone's wishlist two games of 5 pounds each, can I gift them both and make the total of 10 pounds?
  • edited July 2011
    Also... do we have to gift only one thing? I mean, if I see on someone's wishlist two games of 5 pounds each, can I gift them both and make the total of 10 pounds?
    Yes, of course. Many of us did that on the previous secret Santa thing. I think I got Bioshock and Secret Files Tunguska from my secret Santa.
  • edited July 2011
    Yes, of course. Many of us did that on the previous secret Santa thing. I think I got Bioshock and Secret Files Tunguska from my secret Santa.

    You did- 'cause I gave them to you!
  • edited July 2011
    I'm up for it!
  • edited July 2011
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    I'm up for it!

    Need your steamail in a PM, and if you would like to make a wishlist please feel free to do so and link us to it.

    I'm giving a few people there targets earlier than others because there's still 3 days until the deadline to join but there's a chance some of the games the people want will be on sale during those three days. Everyone will have there's by evening GMT (midday EST, late morning PST) on the fifth, though. Don't have access to my spreadsheet with the people and their targets, which I regret as two titles high on my wishlist are on sale. Normally Steam redoes more popular items from the sale as a recap day, so my hopes are still high.
  • edited July 2011
    Ribs wrote: »
    the email address your Steam account is linked to,

    Er... how do we find that out?

    From Steam, I mean. It's jsut that I bought some stuff from Steam yesterday (not having seen this thread, dagnabbit) and despite promising to email me details of the order, they haven't. So I;m wondering if my account is attached on an old email address. But I can't work out how to find it in my profile. Can anybody help?:confused:
  • edited July 2011
    Er... how do we find that out?

    From Steam, I mean. It's jsut that I bought some stuff from Steam yesterday (not having seen this thread, dagnabbit) and despite promising to email me details of the order, they haven't. So I;m wondering if my account is attached on an old email address. But I can't work out how to find it in my profile. Can anybody help?:confused:

    Under the bar that says 'file, view, etc.' just click view and then settings.Email should be listed there.
  • edited July 2011
    I WANT IN.

    I have... like... no money. But I want in.

    [URL="[10:56:37] The Josh: http://steamcommunity.com/id/iambecomedeath7/wishlist"]HERE MY LISTS[/URL]
  • edited July 2011
    I've modified my wishlist, so now there's no need to ignore the bottom three
  • edited July 2011
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    Unfortunately, I lack the finances to support such a scheme, so that was my only contribution to this topic. Enjoy your games, y'all!
  • edited July 2011
    So yeah, get all your wishlists done and enter if you haven't because I'm sending the recipients and stuff as soon as I wake up tomorrow (at the latest, should be around 11am EST/4pm GMT) so you have the chance to gift something from today's sales if you want. I'm off to go draft the 'Here's your target!' letter now.
  • edited July 2011
    Just to be on the safe side, I will NOT play Hitman tonight. I usually get emotional over the atmosphere in games and it would be a shame to shoot my target instead of buying him/her a game.
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