Greetings community,

It's been a memorable year here at SteamGifts and I felt I've helped out a bit around here. I've made a lot of friends in the process and tried to stay active in the community while moderating. Unfortunately, the activity over the last few months has truly been exhausting for just one person, and I haven't been able to keep up. A few dedicated users in the community have been promoted to (Support) to assist with tickets, but it's only helped with organizing a backlog of tickets in the hundreds.

Fortunately, those Support members will eventually be promoted to moderators on the site and we'll have a full blown staff. We hope this helps many issues plaguing the site, such as requests taking too long or suspicious activity not being dealt with in a timely manner. The FAQ has the new staff listed and this will be updated accordingly to reflect their new positions when the system is ready. As many have noticed, support already received categories to better organize tickets.

The admin is currently working on other helpful updates that will greatly aid the new team. They'll be loaded with features that will make a more robust and efficient bunch than this dinosaur. While I will be stepping down, I won't be leaving the community or abandoning the newly appointed mods when they're just starting. I'll try to remain active and share with them my experiences after moderating SteamGifts solo for a little over nine months, but I will no longer be the primary moderator.

I volunteered to assist moderating SteamGifts when Cult was still boss during the fall of 2011, but due to personal reasons, he had to drop out of the community. I loved the community and what we do around here, so I've dedicated a lot of time and effort in keeping things in order. When I could no longer remain on top of the increasing demands of the community, I decided to step down for the same reasons. It's best for the community and will give me time to start knocking out my gaming backlog. I'll finally be able to start on those purchased during last year's Summer Sales. ;)

Best regards,
loko

12 years ago*

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Thanks for all your hard work, loko. You've really done a huge amount for this community. Hope to still see you around. Enjoy catching up on your gaming.

12 years ago
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Thanks for all your sterling work Loko. Hope you enjoy having a bit more free time for gaming and "real life" :)

12 years ago
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Thank you lokonopa for all the work you've done here. Glad to know you'll still be active here anyway :)

12 years ago
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My only regret is that I have ... boneitis.

12 years ago
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You and "That Guy" :P

12 years ago
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Thanks! Good luck :)

12 years ago
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Thanks for all the time and effort you've put in Loko. You've made this community better. <3

12 years ago
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Thank you very much for the wonderful work you've done and all the stress you must have endured.

12 years ago
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Thank you loko, for all the hard work.

I'm hoping you can stick with us when you can :)

Have a nice one.

12 years ago
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Oh, I'll be around. :D

12 years ago
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Thanks a lot for all you have done here.

Hope you finish all the games you want too. :D

12 years ago
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You will be missed. Especially when all these young upstarts start stretching their claws. :)

Enjoy your games.

12 years ago
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Good going loko. Now rejoin all the groups and sing with us marry summer sale songs.

12 years ago
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As I've mentioned to the chronicd, retirement has its perks. :)

clears throat in advance

12 years ago
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It has been great having you as a moderator, Loko, thank you very much for your time, your efforts and your patience! I hope you get to play many games in your newfound free time and stick around the forums to create a couple of Summer Sales threads every once in a while, we really need more of those. See you around, man!

12 years ago
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Thanks for everything you've done and good luck with the rest of your life. :)

12 years ago
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Good that you will stay a member of the community.

Also you should play DE:HR + The Missing Link; Sanic; Alice: Madness Returns; Arkham Asylum; Bioshck 1 and 2; Capsized(beautiful game); Chantelise; DMoMM SP; FO3 and FONV; Far Cry 1 and 2; Fortix 1 and 2; Gemini Rue; Greed Corp; Heroes V; LA Noire; LEGO Batman; Machinarium; Metro 2033; Mirror's Edge; Nuclear Dawn; Overlord 1 and 2; All the Red Factions; and OGOD SO MANY UNPLAYED SAM AND MAXES; Civ V; Monkey Island DEFINITELY; Witcher 1 and 2; DoW II;

You may have played most of those nonsteam though.

12 years ago
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dies

12 years ago
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Thanks Loko and enjoy your games! :D

12 years ago
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Thanks so much for your time Loko. You've answered three support requests from me and I would have considered myself low maintenance. :p I'd hate to see how many hundreds or thousands you got on a normal day. o.O

12 years ago
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Thank you for all you have done and good luck on your future endeavors. Don't make yourself too scarce around here.

12 years ago
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I'll actually have time for your awesome puzzles! Woohoo!

12 years ago
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BYE BYE LOKO you will always be my freind down the bottom of my freind list

12 years ago
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It has been a pleasure and we will all miss you, except Wormy

12 years ago
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Thank You, Loko. <3

12 years ago
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Loko is leaving? The best moderator there ever was... What will happen when you know who becomes a moderator? We're all doomed!

12 years ago
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Thanks for everything you've done for this great community =)

12 years ago
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Best of luck, loko ;)

You've been responsible and dedicated, and I think we the SG community thank you a lot for that.

Hope the new guys can do an equivalent job, or even better :) All for the community!

12 years ago
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I'm truly sorry to hear this :( But nothing is permanent, so all the best to you Loko! Kill that backlog!

12 years ago
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you were great mod :) i hope new mods will be great as u was :) happy gaming ^^

12 years ago
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Good luck, loko.

12 years ago
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Closed 12 years ago by lokonopa.