Pretty much.
Woop! Thank you!!!
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Steam Gifts now has a “Happy Holidays” event. Each day you can choose 5 Gift Boxes to open - each one allows you to enter a limited/private giveaway, i.e. your chances of winning are higher.
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Dunno so much - my first one already has almost 1700 entries still has 2 weeks to run 
Also, don’t be a chop like me and filter your gift boxes by Available from the beginning, so that you don’t get frustrated like me with the first 3 I selected being “exists in account” GAs. 
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Redd’s 13-Days of Christmas Giveaway Extravaganza
It’s the season for giving, and I’m wearing my Santa hat.
I’ve been collecting odd Steam keys throughout the year and now is the time to let the RNG gods decide just how naughty or how nice you’ve all been this year.
My SteamGifts level allows to me create up to 26 giveaways, so that’s what I’ve done. The giveaways are spread over 13 days with the first being the 13th and the last being Christmas Day itself. The giveaways increase in number over the 13 days, with 5 games going out on Christmas. All the giveaways are open for entry immediately and are set to expire at 5:00AM on their respective end days – I’ll do my best to release the keys as soon after the deadline as possible so that the winners have as much of the day to play as possible (but I may well sleep in every now and then!)
All 26 of the games have at least one person in my Steam Friends list that has the game wishlisted. But equally, all 26 of the games have at least one person that already owns it. Enter as many or as few as you’d like.
Good luck, merry Christmas, jingle bells, and ho-ho-ho!
Day 1 – Thursday 13th
- Bombshell = @Flex
Day 2 – Friday 14th
- SpaceCom = @Avatar
Day 3 – Saturday 15th
- Sky Break = @Wyvern
Day 4 – Sunday 16th
- Soulblight = @PsychoFish
Day 5 – Monday 17th
- Dead Island Definitive Edition = @PsychoFish
Day 6 – Tuesday 18th
Day 7 – Wednesday 19th
- Just Cause 3 XXL Edition = @TechThief
- The Dwarves = @Wyvern
Day 8 – Thursday 20th
- Tropico 5 = @Flex
- We Were Here Too = @MetalSoup
Day 9 – Friday 21st
- The Sexy Brutale = @Flex
- Forts = @PsychoFish
Day 10 – Saturday 22nd
- 7 Days to Die = @Donisia
- Seven: The Days Long Gone = @PsychoFish
Day 11 – Sunday 23rd
- Kona = @Flex
- Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition = @Wyvern
- Day of Infamy = @jacosmitza
Day 12 – Monday 24th
- Hearts of Iron IV = @ Deadlypinecone
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain = @ Wyvern
- Wizard of Legend = @ Weasley
Day 13 – Tuesday 25th
- Mad Games Tycoon = @ Wyvern
- Figment = @ Wyvern
- Cities: Skylines + After Dark DLC = @ Kwaai
- Oxenfree = @ Wyvern
- Dungeons 3 = @ MetalSoup
I’ll use this thread to update and @ the winners as they happen.
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Day 1 – Thursday 13th
Day 2 – Friday 14th
Day 3 – Saturday 15th
Day 4 – Sunday 16th
Day 5 – Monday 17th
Day 6 – Tuesday 18th
Day 7 – Wednesday 19th
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Day 8 – Thursday 20th
Day 9 – Friday 21st
Day 10 – Saturday 22nd
Day 11 – Sunday 23rd
Day 12 – Monday 24th
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(winner of this one will also get separate keys for Ground Zeros and Definitive Edition DLC via MEW PM) -
Day 13 – Tuesday 25th
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(winner will get a single key that should include the After Dark DLC) -
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Fantastic giveaways Greg!
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Awesome giveaways @GregRedd
Just one thing, I tried entering the Hitman giveaway but because I have the free prologue added to my account Steam Gifts tells me that the game already exists in my account (despite not having the full season)
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Sorry about that. Was worried about that one when I set it up and the picture didn’t show. Couldnt find plain “Hitman” in the games list at all - the one I used was the closest there is. Am being loadshitted at the moment, potentially until midnight 
Will have a look at it if power comes back earlier, else first thing in the AM.
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Okay, so it seems I may have held onto that key a little longer than I should? The plain vanilla version of Hitman (https://store.steampowered.com/app/236870/HITMAN/) no longer has a price on its’ store page and can’t be bought, which I assume is the reason it doesn’t come up in the game lists on SG. It looks like the game is now only available in the GotY Bundle and I’m pretty sure that the key I have is not the full GotY version.
To avoid further confusion, I’ve decided to pull that one from my Giveaways and replaced it with a key for The Sexy Brutale instead. Unfortunately I now need to wait until one of the earlier GAs is won and marked as received before I can create a new one 
Soon as that happens, I’ll add it in.
Meanwhile, I’m going to ask Darth (if he doesn’t mind) to check if the Hitman key actually gives him anything…
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The key works, added all the episodes and DLC. Thanks Greg!
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Excellent! Glad it didn’t go to waste! Jingle bells are ringing early for you 
@GregRedd this is an awesome list of games!
Could someone please approve my Steam group request? Pretty please? @MetalSoup @SIGSTART @Solitude
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Well done and thank you.
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There is a pending request from @BlackSwan to join the Steam group.
What are the rules for joining the Steam group and participating in giveaways at this stage?
Is it maybe worthwhile to run two separate groups like before… one with an entry requirement for giveaways, and one without?
Or should we only have the one group for anyone we know from the forum, with an honour system that only people who are Level 2 or higher in Discourse’s Trust Level system may enter giveaways?
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Now you need to install the free version of Hitman 2, then you can play all that content in there instead.
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For what it’s worth, I think going back to a 2 tier system would be more pain than it’s worth to administer, and would split an already small group with very low response rates. There are only 50-odd people in the Steam group, of which only 30 are on SteamGifts. Of those, only 13 have made giveaway contributions. The average number of entries into the MEW giveaways is just 3.
Honestly, we should be doing stuff to encourage more participation, not looking for ways to restrict entry. Having the minimum Level requirement here as the entry point is more than enough. In fact, we should use the promotion to Regular as a way to reward and encourage folks to participate here.
I don’t know if the system can be set up to automatically send out a custom message when a user becomes a Regular as opposed to the default message, but something like this could be a nice touch:
Congratulations! You’ve just become a MEW Regular! Thank you for being an active member of our community. In addition to the incredible bragging rights that you’ve earned, as a MEW Regular you are now eligible to join our exclusive Most Epic Win SteamGifts Game Giveaway Programme.
In order to take part, or contribute, to the Game Giveaway Programme, you’ll need to do 3 initial things:
- Go here and add your Steam user name and profile link to the list.
- Go here and apply to join the MEW Steam User group.
- Go here and join SteamGifts with your Steam account.
Once that’s all done, and your application to join the Steam User Group has been approved, you’ll be able to enter any of the Giveaways created by other users and listed in this thread, and will be able to create your own Giveaways marked for the exclusive use of other MEW members.
My 2% of 
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Oh cool, I thought I had to own the full season of Hitman 2 to do that. Will definitely do that
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