Hi SG,

Happy holidays! We have a holiday event starting now and ending on December 25. The event allows users to create custom gift boxes which can be opened by others in the community to reveal giveaways. To get started, follow the below link to browse all of the available gift boxes, or to create one of your own.

https://www.steamgifts.com/happy-holidays

How it works

  1. Creating a gift box and giveaway

    • To setup a giveaway, use the link above and click "Create a Holiday Giveaway".
    • The giveaway will start immediately and end on December 25.
    • The giveaway will be available to the entire community, although region and contributor level restrictions can still be configured.
    • The giveaway will appear as invite only on your profile and not be visible throughout the site.
    • Once created, you'll see your gift box in the link above and users will have a chance to open it to access the giveaway.
  2. Opening gift boxes

    • You can open 5 gift boxes each day until December 25.
    • When you open a gift box, you unlock the giveaway link and are able to enter the giveaway. Unlocked gift boxes are highlighted in green on the holiday page above, and you can freely revisit those gift boxes and giveaways.
    • You will see a notification if you cannot open a gift box. This could happen when the giveaway contained within is region restricted, when you do not meet the contributor level requirements, when you already own the game, when you do not own the base game for the DLC, when you have previously won the game, or when you have been blacklisted by the giveaway creator.
    • You cannot join a giveaway by only having the direct link. If you did not open the corresponding gift box, but received the link from someone else, you will see an error when attempting to view the giveaway.

No spoilers. Please do not share what games you found or what was contained inside of a gift box.

If you have any questions, please ask. I'm looking forward to seeing all the gift box designs. I'll add a few throughout the month with Steam gift cards and games as well. Have fun!


Updates

  • You can now open 5 gift boxes each day, instead of one every 12 hours.
  • A dropdown menu named "Browse" has been added to the top of the screen. This allows you to filter gift boxes by "All", "Available" (only those you can open), "Opened", and "Created".
  • If you have a giveaway creator blacklisted, you'll still see their gift boxes on the "Available" page, and the button on the gift box page will display "Open Gift Box". You'll only be blocked when you attempt to open the gift box (this will not count towards your daily limit of 5 to open). This will prevent users from blacklisting a user, and then checking whether or not a gift box remains on the "Available" page to identify if they are the creator.
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lmao... this is so rude

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No other user would be able to get away shitting on SG 24/7 under the guise of "humor" but hey mods play favorites with the most bitter humans this site has ever seen.

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Digging up 11month old comment while you'll make 11 more comments the very next day shitting on as many parts as SG as possible in as many separate threads^^ But hey maybe one day adding emotes after every sentence will be considered innovative humor XD

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such a bitter and funny human ^^

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Naw... Mully doesn't get extra treatment. She's been suspended repeatedly and at least one member of the mod team even has a problem with her.

Granted, she walks the line but I'm pretty sure it says nowhere in the rules it's forbidden to make fun of idlers, shovelware collectors and people who would slit their own mother's throat for a copy of Brilliant Bob.

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When it comes to Mully's images, the guilty are often the first to be offended.

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Hmm... that's usually how it works.

Also I always assumed Mully does those things not because she's such a spiteful person but rather to encourage others to re-evaluate their obsessive behaviour.

Afterall if I remember correctly she also had a 1500+ game library before she quit the rat race and purged her library to a more manageable size.


Edit: I guess this concludes tonight's episode of Let's talk about Mully like she wasn't here. :D

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but rather to encourage others to re-evaluate their obsessive behaviour.

Indeed. Any time I have to question something she says, it's more often than not that I need to question myself.
Edit: Mully's also never had more than 500 games.

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As a box creator, are we allowed to link our boxes to various places?
Not linking other peoples boxes, just our own.
Thank you in advance for whatever the answer is.

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I've seen some websites/Steam groups post the links to their boxes on Steam, so I suppose it's ok. They never said what's in them, as that's against the rules.

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Thank you for the information. Yes, obviously posting the contents is illegal.

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best for cg himself or someone from support to confirm officially but I'd say it should be fine - boxes are nothing else but limited invite only GAs so same rules should apply to them as to invite GAs, puzzles etc - aka you are not allowed to share, spoil or hint anything without GA creator permission, but if it's your own GA then you should be allowed to do as you please ;)

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Thanks for the advice! I was thinking similarly, but thought I ought to get others opinions about the matter. :)

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men, you can open 2 time the same box, lol

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Hmm, can't you preview what the box looks like before publishing a giveaway? Would have been easier to just adjust the package dimensions on the fly instead of having to figure out the image aspect ration first ;) 'Cover design' refers to the lid I suppose, will the base texture just extent over the cover sides if I don't specify side cover images?

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Preview doesn't work at the moment because https://cdn.steamgifts.com/js/holidays.js appears to be broken. As soon as that's up again, boxes should continue to spin in all their glory before you create them.

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Ah well. Thanks for the info.

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Curious, I created 3 boxes a few minutes ago and the spin was working.
Is working now when I try to create a new one.
Are you sure it is on SG's end?

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It's a CDN, so it might be a load balancer issue where not everyone has trouble. I can't 100% confirm it's not on the client end, though I did disable ESGST just in case. You may have a cached copy that makes things work -- try force reloading (Ctrl-Shift-R). Beware that that might actually break it for you too. :-P

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It'll be fixed in about 2 minutes.

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Works now. It's a cgristmas miracle! Sorry.

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when can i reedem the game?

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If you win one of the giveaways you get the reward once the key is posted, which may take up to 7 days,, after which you may mark it not-received if you haven't gotten your game.

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9 hours since last bump??

have a boomKeo, then!

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Again here?

YES, because he hates the christmas!!!

One step closer

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oh no :(

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What... did he say?

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Go on a run with the Grinch they said, it'll be fun they said.. I just ran a 10k marathon with the fuzzy green cynic and I STILL can't rock the yodeling outfit as well as he does! Bah, humbug!

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Mhhmm strange, but somehow I enjoy it. :-)

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I searched EVERYWHERE, to get here. And yet, I don't know what to do here

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Yup you are close, hot hot hot, follow the grinch's path

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I seem to be lost on the track too. o_o

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I thought it was a cute event, but I wasn't sure if I would participate or not. In the end, I did. And despite the fact that my box isn't perfect was tired of photoshop-ing, I beat up my OCD and told it to shut the hell up, I think I really love it. I don't care if I don't open a box I'm interested in the giveaway... this was fun and it's all that matters to me, at this moment. :3

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What's up with SO many accounts asking "I opened box, where's mah key?" - Even in this topic, just scroll up.
I've seen SO many of those and you would think maybe SG newbies but no, ALL of these are YEARS old accounts. What's up with that?
I was going to let it slide but every 5 boxes atleast 2 have a comment like that making it feel very very odd, and I wondered if somebody has a logical explenation.

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I wondered if somebody has a logical explenation.

Transferring real world logic to a digital environment maybe? I mean when you open a gift box in real life it usually contains a gift not a chance to maybe get a gift at some point.

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But why would 2-5 year old accounts with 0 wins/0 gifts crawl out of the woodwork for this even with zero knowledge of Steamgifts itself?
It's just happening too often, making me wonder "what?"

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What is your chance of winning on 25th?
Mine is 23%, not bad (I entered only half of Christmas giveaways I opened)

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44% somehow... I opened boxes almost daily

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7% , I've only entered maybe then 10 of the boxes I've opened though.

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57%, but probably affected by some non-event GAs as well.

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Same as usual.

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I made a little public service announcement to help with the event... in the form of giveaways!
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/BKZbQ/
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/SWdg6/

:D

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The amount of bots in giveaways without level restriction is beyond me.
They usually have 0 wins and 0 giveaways and 5 years register date.
Kinda crazy, do you really want to feed them when you make a box?

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as most of my boxes are traps (and ones that are not have level restriction ;p) I don't mind at all xD

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oh my, the boxes will be full of LEGO games now.
I guess it's better to open the old ones :)

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Probably, that's a good idea. I've opened some new ones. The most simple variant - just activate recent free games, then all these games will be excluded from your list of available boxes.

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I went and got a free copy of that LEGO game just so I could stop tripping over the damn thing. xP

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I don't know if it happened to anyone else but yesterday when I came to opening the 4th boxes, it started to open then stopped and after that told me I had opened 5 boxes when I had only opened 3. Just curious if it's a bug or something I did somehow?

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I have 94 opened boxes, and I am pretty sure I opened the max number each day.
So it should total to 95.

Guess there could be a bug hidden somewhere.

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I have 94 too :o
Maybe because in the beginning, it wasn't the 5 boxes per day like now.

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It could be if gib creator had deleted his box after some time.

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I noticed some extra points and checked my entered giveaways, there was one that was deleted.

Edit: Yeah, I have some extra points again and 93 open boxes

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zelghadis is a dick.

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:D

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<3 merry xmas to you as well <3

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No, that's only if someone else did it.

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For him to have still found it funny enough to keep going after creating over 100 of the damned things, I admit I'm surprised he survived the incomparable hilarity the first handful must have provided him...

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couldn't it just be I enjoy creating different boxes? :)

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Yep, I always liked Lina Inverse more ;)

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heresy!

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He probably thinks himself the pinnacle of comedy when he reminds me more of those clowns who flew drones over Gatwick airport. Hilarious!

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What's the story behind Gatwick airport and drones?

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Many flights were cancelled after reports of drones in and around Gatwick airport that compromised passenger safety, far more than 100,000 passengers were affected. After all is said and done there may or may not have actually been drones, the people arrested in a blaze of publicity have been released without charges, there may or may not have been massive police/government incompetence, a lot of expensive Israeli Drone Dome technology has been purchased by the UK government and significant cuts to public health funding have been effectively buried during the media frenzy.

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A bummer hitting a box that you already own but the site thinks otherwise. :c Other than that, neato event!

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For the 5 boxes opened on the 25th, can will we still open giveaways that already ended? Not sure since giveaways end at different times and my reset time is in the afternoon.

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all event GAs end at the same time

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How do I report inappropriate boxes, without opening them to report the user?

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Send support the box-link?

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Hey CG, any chance we could get the ability to upload our own 3D models for the boxes? Something simple like a 250 triangle mesh w just a low res (like 128x128) color and opacity texture? I think it would be a lot of fun to see what the community could come up with and would definitely make a bunch myself. I suppose it's too late for this year, but maybe next year? :)

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so many missed chances :/

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Not been around for months and seen this, great idea, sorry to see some people shitting on it. Some people are(still) just bitter horrible people who wouldn't like anything.

Definitely not enough for me to start giving again but its definitely a cool idea, more of this and improvements to the site would be great!

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No one is legitimately "shitting on it." All holiday good fun.

Nice to see you back, but no need to let the past affect your attitude in the present.

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No one hating it is good(definitely read people getting needlessly pissy about DLC and chances to win), I have no intention of letting dickheads ruin my day which is why I avoid here mainly. Definitely not me being back, but still nice to see efforts being made to create a community again. The same two issues are still running amok though, enjoy your holidays!

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buon natale, cg!

...and thanks for all the fish

<3

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Closed 4 years ago by cg.