Puzzle Giveaway! [My first posted on the forum!] [ENDED!]

Rules:

• Do not leak the link nor the game being offered.
• Do not share answers.

There are no hints provided on the puzzle. If it seems that no one can get it, hints will be provided via update to this post and nowhere else.

Which game is it, you say? Well, you'll have to solve the puzzle, won't you?
That's the fun of it!

Good luck! Ends Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 7 PM PDT.

http://itstoohard.com/puzzle/ctZewYmC

• Update: Set inventory to private so the game won't be known!
• Update 2: HINT: The first question utilizes a polyalphabetic cipher, whereas the second utilizes a monoalphabetic cipher.
• Update 3: HINT 2: There are no spaces in the first question. All letters provided represent real letters.
• Update 4: HINT 3, The Monumental Hint: Actual words, not gibberish.
• Update 5: HINT 3A: Plaintext and key are made up of intelligible words, not random letters.
• Update 6: HINT 4: Cipher used was coined before the seventeenth century.
• Update 7: HINT 4A: To build upon the prior hint, this cipher was one of few notable polyalphabetic ciphers in use during that period.
• Update 8: HINT 5: This cipher in history included some involvement by Kasiski.
• Update 9: HINT 6: Key is NOT equal to or greater than the plaintext length. That would create a sort of one-time pad, which is perfect secrecy, granted the key is used no more than once and is also random.
• Update 10: HINT 7: It uses the Vigenere cipher (Question #1).
• Update 11: HINT 8: Key length is between 1-10 characters.
• Update 12: HINT 8A: Key length is between 7-10 characters.
• Update 13: HINT 9:, Mad Dash to the Finish: There are nine cipher alphabets used in Question #1.

Ended! Solutions were:

• Question #1: Key/Answer: gladiator

  • Full codeword: gladiatorgladiatorgladiatorgladiatorgladiato

• Question #2: Answer/plaintext: this one is far easier to solve than the other one

NOTE: There was an error (by me) in the converting of the seventh character of Question #1. This was unintentional and for this, I apologize. However, to look at the bright side, it did help to simulate (just a tiny bit) the difficulty one might have had when it was solved back when the cipher was prevalent in use as there was human error and intentional errors. Future puzzles will be checked ten times over as well as being checked by a third party who will either know nothing of Steam or will be disqualified from entry.

You may wish to view the giveaway's page directly as there are some comments on there that you may find interesting from the first couple solvers: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/C6Bgh/fortix