Telltale Games Forums Secret Santa 2.5 - The Summer-ing LE BIG REVEAL!
Hello! Welcome again to the Telltale Games Secret Santa Extravaganza (Summer Sale Edition)!
Sometime within the next few weeks, Steam will host it’s annual(ish) Summer Sale, reducing the prices of very nearly every game in its catalog. During the Summer and Winter sales, us here at the Telltale Games forum like to hold a “Secret Santa” event. In this, everyone agrees to buy a gift to a random ‘target’ and to receive a gift from another who signed up to participate.
Basic rules:
Unlike previous competitions, there is no maximum on the amount spent (it is up to your discretion). You must, however, spend at least $2.50 USD. However, to counteract any potential scammers trying to get a free game, we request that anyone who signs up has a join date of April 2012 or earlier. Anyone who joined later will be capable of joining the Winter Santa event.
To Sign Up:
Post in this thread saying you’re in (preferably with your Steam wishlist, so your gifter knows what to buy for you)! Then, please PM user divisionten with the email associated with your Steam account. We're co-running this iteration of the Secret Santa event. Simple as that! The second day of the sale will be when we contact you regarding your targets. Until then, just wait!
List of Participants:
Captain Picard
corruptbiggins
Darth Marsden
der_ketzer
divisionten
flesk
Giant Tope
HelloCthulu
Jake
Jennifer
lovetodo22
Rather Dashing
RingmasterJ5
ted12
TomPravetz
Most importantly, have fun!
This is a good bit of community interaction that I can speak from experience as having helped me become even better friends with some of those who frequent these parts.
Ribs
PS. Opinion survey: Do you think it should be made immediately known to those who get their gift who their gifter was as soon as it arrives, or should it remain anonymous until the conclusion?
Sometime within the next few weeks, Steam will host it’s annual(ish) Summer Sale, reducing the prices of very nearly every game in its catalog. During the Summer and Winter sales, us here at the Telltale Games forum like to hold a “Secret Santa” event. In this, everyone agrees to buy a gift to a random ‘target’ and to receive a gift from another who signed up to participate.
Basic rules:
Unlike previous competitions, there is no maximum on the amount spent (it is up to your discretion). You must, however, spend at least $2.50 USD. However, to counteract any potential scammers trying to get a free game, we request that anyone who signs up has a join date of April 2012 or earlier. Anyone who joined later will be capable of joining the Winter Santa event.
To Sign Up:
Post in this thread saying you’re in (preferably with your Steam wishlist, so your gifter knows what to buy for you)! Then, please PM user divisionten with the email associated with your Steam account. We're co-running this iteration of the Secret Santa event. Simple as that! The second day of the sale will be when we contact you regarding your targets. Until then, just wait!
List of Participants:
Captain Picard
corruptbiggins
Darth Marsden
der_ketzer
divisionten
flesk
Giant Tope
HelloCthulu
Jake
Jennifer
lovetodo22
Rather Dashing
RingmasterJ5
ted12
TomPravetz
Most importantly, have fun!
This is a good bit of community interaction that I can speak from experience as having helped me become even better friends with some of those who frequent these parts.Ribs
PS. Opinion survey: Do you think it should be made immediately known to those who get their gift who their gifter was as soon as it arrives, or should it remain anonymous until the conclusion?
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As for the question about when to let people know who your secret santa was, I don't have any particular preference, but I don't see any harm in letting people know who your secret santa is as soon as you receive your gift.
As for my vote: Wait until it's all over before revealing giftees. Adds to the mystery.
Also, this tread is now sticky'd.
Here's my wishlist. I think I just quickly through stuff in there the last time the "win all 10 items in your wishlist" thing was going on, so feel free to go off of it. Makes it more surprising/exciting. ^.^
Also, is it possible to go anonymous?
Nah, it'd be fairly easy to figure it out at some point as I believe the gifting page links to the gifter's steam page. But we could go on the honor system assuming we don't sign the gifts as being expressly from us.
Oooh. Who could that be? The secrets are already starting! *squee*
2. I need everyone participating to send me the email they used to sign up with steam in a PM or you can't participate. Thanks
Also; corruptbiggins, your profile is set to private so we can't see your wishlist
Oops, forgot about that. Should be sorted now.
Okay, fine, I'm in!
Cheers. Not that I was worried or anything...
And this is now the biggest TTG Secret Santa ever, with 13 participants (over last summer's 12). Odd to see Summer be more popular than Winter, but whatever.
Think it's likely for the sale to start very soon, so I must remind you all to PM divisionten with the email your steam account is associated with and to befriend her on Steam so she can recieve the gift to gift to another. Thank you!
This article claims that the sale'll start on Monday.
Don't games disappear from the wishlist when you buy them? I'm pretty sure I've seen that happening on more than one occasion. If it doesn't happen that's probably a bug.
Sometimes they do. But it happened to me several times now that I found games I own on my wish-list. I re-made mine when I entered here though (and actually had to delete a game I already own from it at that point).
EDIT: Wishlist. http://steamcommunity.com/id/capcrazy/wishlist
Nope nope, just post your wishlist and send your email to divisionten's PM Box and you're good to go.
ALSO ALSO, PLEASE FRIEND ME ON STEAM IF YOU HAVE YET TO DO SO. THIS WILL MAKE IT MUCH EASIER FOR ME. EASIER FOR ME=YOU GET YOUR GIFTS FASTER. GOOD? GOOD!