Holiday Event 2019

it's that time of the year again...

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! ^_^

An idea that comes to mind is to have 5 "gift tags" to use each day, which you apply to a gift box to give you some random information (such as usertags, metascore, points to enter, current number of entries etc) to help decide if you want to open it or try your luck elsewhere. Could be a nice compromise between giving away too much info and being caught out by loads of troll boxes...

Yeeeet! Thanks for bringing the event back! :D

I say 100 boxes per day

My favourite Holiday Gift What's-in-the-Box event

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This is my first Christmas on this site and I LOVE this event. So cool!

Can I say this--I hate opening boxes for games I have hidden (SG) or ignored (steam). I don't care if this helps people "figure out what a box probably contains." I abhor "wasting" (as it were) my 5 chances on boxes for a chance at games I would never touch.
Please, please, PLEASE allow a filter to not show items we've hidden. While it is pretty to look at all the designs and work people have put into their boxes, I can do that when I have no chances left. Also, perhaps in the popup (the one about warning you have only X more chances today you could include something like warning: you have hidden the contents of box.

I do not care as much about DLC, but uncovering hidden games is a big letdown. Kinda like when you were a kid and get this really fancy package IRL, you get all excited thinking it is your dream item, and it is something you neither need nor want (for some, this might be socks; for others it might be art stuff; for still others, a book of poetry; etc, etc, etc.). You appreciate the effort that went into the gift, but not the gift itself.

If we could save box designs, that would be nice.

Choose 2 more gift boxes to open today. The day ends in 13 hours

why all this cruelty...

Random game from "black box" good for chance win, also bad for choose (you like beautiful design).

Maybe need filter for DLC/BASIC GAME, because part user like +1 counter for steam game (LOL, sometime game don't give +1).

5 or 10 box? Level UP for open more box!
Example:
Level 0 = 3 box, 1 = 5, 2 = 10, 3-5 = 15, 6-9 = 20, 10 LVL (max) = 30 box (Very good contribution for very good chance win).

10 per day, with hints

Would be great to increase the number of boxes per page :/
Make it 10/15/30.

This is a wonderful event. Thanks for doing it again this year!

good to see this event back.

Do you think gift boxes should contain hints?

tag boxes that contain games/dlc marked as hidden on sg. that will help finding something decent instead of randomly clicking based on the box design (which is either uninspired or trolling 99% of the time).

There are a couple of filters I think this should have. Part of the fun is opening a gift box and not knowing what it's going to be, but at the same time, you kinda want to know that there's some chance you might want to enter the GA.

Mac/Linux: I have my GAs filtered by OS, so I think that filter should run across into the Holiday Gift Boxes as well for mac and linux users.
Hidden GAs I'd like to see the filters on those carrying over too. Seems like a lot of people want that too.

The rest of it is just the luck of the draw.

Good to see this event again.
Maybe add tags like they do in mystery book giveaways? It reduces trolling and it also helps people avoid things they don't like.

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A friendly reminder to box creators that ownership of DLC and Profile Limited games can't be detected by SG. Would be great if boxes weren't made with these types.

imo would be nice to have, if possible, an auto-send function for these giveaways: nice both for ga creator and the winner

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Thanks for bringing back this event this holiday season.
I believe 5 boxes/day is plenty, especially with all the other events and things going on.

I don't have a strong opinion either way about filters, other than I'm okay without them. It makes the thrill of finding something you'd really like to enter and win that much greater.

Just found this which doesn't properly detect that I already own it.

And after a short thinking, I got an idea. What if we are allowed to cancel a box opening 1 or 2 times per day and get a refund?
Of course even better would be proper detection of these sort of games, or filtering hidden games.

edit: I got a second box of this!!!

Hi cg, thanks for this amazing Holiday Event. I have a question that wasn't asked (i looked into previous comments). If one day we didn't open anything, shouldn't the allowed openings be reported for the next day ? I know everyone jumps on gifts as soon as possible, me too, but yesterday I spent the entire day with my kid away from pc and I missed the chance and now I'm allowed to open just 5 for the current day. Just curious. Thanks !

5 boxes is good in my opinion
but
Every single box I have opened so far has been games I already own or on my ignore list

Would be great if the holiday event did NOT show gifts that we already have and/or on our ignore list.

this is really neat, thank you for being awesome...

nice my favourite every year

Really cool event!