Hello SteamGifters, It's my 12-year anniversary on Steam today and tomorrow it's my 12th cake day on SteamGifts.

I created my Steam account just to activate one of the first HB Indie Bundles, but didn't use it actively up until the summer of 2014 when I found out about the Steam Summer (Flash) Sales, trading gifts and the existence of CS:GO.
Most likely same goes for SteamGifts or I started to use it little bit later, I see that my first giveaway was created in April 2015.

Even though I wasn't the most active member, I still opened the site daily and checked out if there are any interesting discussions, recommendations, new bundles (yes I use SG for checking out if there are new bundles, thank you sensualshakti).
In the past of course I opened it to enter giveaways, but after a while I realized that I don't play the random games I win, so I stopped entering them and only joined giveaways for games that I would play.

One of my favorite things here were the puzzle giveaways. I have solved many and have created a few on ItsTooHard as well.
Because of the amazing feedback that I got on my university graduation project (EasyGamePrice) thread, I decided to give back to the SG community and created ItsTooHard alternative, 2Solve.Me.
I know it's not perfect, I created it in relative short time, but it's good enough and I keep it running for the people here that keep using it.

Another favorite thing on SG for me was the trading forum, which in the past was part of SteamGifts, and nowadays as separate site, SteamTrades.
I am not active trader now, don't have the time or the energy, but in High School and University I was trading all the time.
Well besides the trading, the other favorite thing was chatting with the people when trading.

Thanks to SteamGifts/Trades I met lot of amazing people, with two of them I became close friends, and even though we are from different countries, I met them in person, had lot of fun and created great memories.

It's crazy to think that I started using SG when I was in High School (18) and now I am "high functional" 9-5 working adult (almost 28).

Thank you to all members, discussions creators, bundles threads makers, giveaways creators, to all people bringing positive energy in the comments and big thanks to CG for creating an amazing site with amazing community.

To celebrate this special day, I created a giveaway train.

If anyone wants to chat, I am always happy to meet new people, you can add me on steam. I have interests in many different areas so I am sure we can find common things to talk about.

Also I recently created twitter/X account (@MickyTheDev), I am doing giveaway there at the moment as well.

Edit:
If there is someone that I have blacklisted, I am sorry, please message me and I will remove it. If there is a option I would like to clear all of my blacklist.

Edit 2:
Thank you all for the amazing comments, you made my day/week so much better. Not to bump the thread anymore, since the giveaways ended, I won't reply to the newer comments, however want to say thank you as well, I read the comments, don't worry :)

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Have a happy cake-factory day!

1 month ago
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Thanks!

1 month ago
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Woww 12 years is a lot!!! Happy Cakeday! And Anniversary! πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³Also thanks for the train.

1 month ago
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Thank you! I hope you will stick around to celebrate the same in 11 years haha

1 month ago
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Thanks a lot!! I would really love that! πŸ’œ Also is nice to chat with people here. It's a really nice space to know people and know games. Cheers for more years for you too. Wish you the best πŸ€—

1 month ago
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oh wow, thanks for creating 2solve.me!

1 month ago
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Thank you :)

1 month ago
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Happy Cakes Day! Thanks

1 month ago
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Thank you!

1 month ago
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Big bump for a big celebration! Thanks for being a part of the community!

1 month ago
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Thank you too!

1 month ago
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Happy cake day!!

1 month ago
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Thanks!

1 month ago
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Congrats on the double milestones - wow 12 years!! Thank you for the train :)

1 month ago
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Thank you. Yeah, I can't believe it has been 12 years. I hope you reach the same milestone one day!

1 month ago
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Congrats and happy cake day! Thanks for your contributions and the train! You sound like an awesome person.

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Thank you for the kind words <3 Danke

1 month ago
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Thanks for the train and muchos cakes! :)
And agree, puzzle giveaways are great, you never know what you will get as a giveaway and a lot of times don't even enter them but the puzzle is it's own reward^^

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Thank you!
I agree, a friend that isn't even a member here, loves to solve the hard cypher puzzles, he is creating one of his own and wants me to share it here, will do soon.

1 month ago
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That's nice of him :)
Hope I'll catch it when you/him do it :)

1 month ago
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Dear MikBok the 117th, seems like I am on your blacklist. I am still working on getting my ratio more balanced but my job doesn't help making this easier I guess. But I'll continue giving back as much as I can to our SG community.
Congratulations to this amazing achievement. Seems like you can count yourself a Steam/SG veteran now^^
Have a nice week and keep gaming, Best Regards Sir Myr the 13th.

1 month ago
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Hi MyrXIII, sorry about the blacklist, I don't remember the reason, I removed it.
Thank you so much for the nice words!

1 month ago
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Happy early cakeday. Amazing milestone.

1 month ago
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Thank you!

1 month ago
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you're welcome

1 month ago
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Happy Cake and Steamaversary!

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1 month ago
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Thank you NateSCC and thank you for giving so much to the community, contribution value of $11k is crazy 🀯

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Just saw your edit and there is a way to clear your blacklist all at once, you can use ESGST, the option is called "Whitelist/Blacklist Manager"

Oh, and my name ain't "Nate So Cray Cray" for no reason ;)

1 month ago
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happy 12 candle cake days. thank you for the train ride and for sharing your origin story

1 month ago
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Thank you for gifting so many games in just 3 months and thank you reading my story :)

1 month ago
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Happy Cake Day ;)

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Thanks ;)

1 month ago
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Happy Steam anniversary and SG cakeday!
Kinda impressive that you managed to join SG a day after creating your Steam account.

1 month ago
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Haha, it really is.

1 month ago
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Thank you!
Haha I was a kid back then, so I guess saw a site that was giving out free Steam games and rushed to join. The rules either were different back then or I covered them with the HB Bundle that I activated on my first day. However I didn't use Steam nor SteamGifts for the next 2-3 years, so it was probably that day and forgot about it.

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Happy Cakeday!

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Thanks!

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Happy Cake Day

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Thanks!

1 month ago
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Happy 12th Cakeday!!
And thank you for being one of the contributors to the site :)

1 month ago
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Thank you for the kind words!

1 month ago
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Happy Cake Day! ^^

1 month ago
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Thanks ^_^

1 month ago
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Happy Cakeday and 12 year anniversary MikBok117.

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Thank you Cole420!

1 month ago
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happy cake day!

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1 month ago
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haha thanks, forgot that the new season started, watched the first 2 episodes today.

1 month ago
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Happy Cake Day!

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Thanks!

1 month ago
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Thank you so much for 2solveme and everything else. I have gained a lot of enjoyment from this site and the puzzles.

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Thank you so much for the kind words. I am happy that people use it and that it brings enjoyment.

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Happy cakedays! Thank you for the GAs and for creating 2solve.me! :D

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Thank you :D

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Happy Cakeday and thanks for the ride!

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Thank you and thank you for giving away 3,345 games!

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