Thanks, cg!
A DLC marker might be nice. Also, perhaps a warning that the item is on one's filter list.
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Depends on the volume of gift boxes. For example 5 boxes if < 20 boxes made per day on average or 10 boxes if >40 per day on average.
No hints needed, usually the wrapping has hints unless someone is trolling :P
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Thanks for the event! I don't want any hints, except for free games, and possibly for dlc
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5 boxes per day should be sufficient. The downside might be that some of the GAs could end up with less than 5 entries.
I'd totally agree to be able to see if it's a DLC tho 'cause most owned DLCs (and some complete packs) still show up and can be opened/entered even if you own them and hid them from your general GA feed.
Filtering out all hidden games from the christmas GAs would be nice but might be a bit too exploitable knowing that I got like 16.000 games filtered myself (my reason is that I just want to enter for stuff that I'm gonna play tho).
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5 a day is fine for me.
Notifications for DLC would be good, but aside from that I like the surprise element and searching for games I want.
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DLC boxes bite when I already own it :/
That said, 5 is enough for me as with 10, I'd probably exhaust all the options.
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Thanks CG! Always lovely event, thanks to everyone who contributes too <3 Happy Holidays in advance!
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Yay, it's back. Like others, a dlc tag is good due to the issues those have.
Disagree with hiding things on the hide list- too exploitable.
5 is probably enough (depends on amount made) but I like the bonus random roll per day idea floating around here.
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Should we allow 5 or 10 boxes to be opened per day?
I think the number of tries each day should depend on the point value of the gifts inside the boxes opened. Meaning, if someone opens a bunch of 1P gifts, they get extra tries that day.I am aware that value doesn't always reflect quality and it's also a matter of personal preference, but it's still very frustrating when you spent all your tries for a day on 1P "trash".
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+1
I think there's a lot of merit to this idea! It's flexible, not easily abused (if implemented with careful thought), and definitely warrants further consideration. If some troll wants to add 50 boxes of "Putin Asset Flip Battle Royal Simulator 2021", all I ask is a way to protect myself from losing 20+% of my daily resources because of said troll. As we saw last year, the honor system doesn't work in this event and people will go out of their way to deliberately waste your time.
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Okay, so let me make this suggestion more concrete: how about 50P worth a day, but no less than 5 boxes a day? So it would be possible to open another box as long as you're not over the 50P limit or don't have used up your 5 tries yet. In extreme cases someone would be able to open a lot of 1P or 2P value gifts, but that's exactly the point, they would get some kind of compensation for being unlucky with their picks.
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This is GREAT.
But, why do we see a lot of games we have HIDDEN before? Or the ones we already OWN?
That makes the list too long, for some of us.
Also, a small question: Is there some game someone of you would like to see from me in the Boxes? List is here: https://barter.vg/u/3f74/t/
(feeling charitable)
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Do you think gift boxes should contain hints?
Should we allow 5 or 10 boxes to be opened per day?
Like many others, I think it'd be nice if the gifts containing DLCs were labeled as such (because SG has troubles tracking owned/unowned DLCs). And I think 5 gifts per day is perfect :)
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Choose 1 more gift box to open today. The day ends in 13 hours
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heck i love this event every year, its great.
would be cool if there was a randomizer option you could use once per day, to open a random gift. or even make the randomization be it will open one wishlisted game type gift.
once per day for a super cool treat would be awesome, then the other 4 can just be you opening with fingers crossed lol
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Maybe not excluding DLCs, but marking them would be nice. As they are improperly detected by SG and sometimes allow users to enter even when they do not own base game (like in case of F1 2007...).
And games with Steam is learning about could be excluded, as it's not possible to detect them. So users can enter for something they already have.
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I love this event, but i do wish we could open more boxes each day.
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thank you so much for this great event and happy holidays to everyone =)
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Don't show boxes for games we have hidden. Maybe it already works that way. So many "Steam is learning" games that SG can't detect as owned, as well as DLC and banned/removed games. I hide them all but it would be a waste for them to show up again as boxes if I've already hidden them. Thanks :)
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That's too exploitable though :/
(So no, doesn't work that way)
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Maybe better would probably be to disallow creating boxes for those games/DLCs in the first place. If the Steamgifts database shows zero owners, just block that GA from the event.
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I think Hassat replied about the hidden games - other than that, DLC/pack/profile limited could go with a warning or something - one can own it and SG can't filter it out unlike the base games.
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Not really. There's over 40K games on Steam atp, and even the most extensive hide lists still come up at least 20K short of covering it all.
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This way users quickly can search their top wishlisted games. (endless scroll (or open pages in new tabs) -> ignore Cyberpunk -> endless scroll (or open pages in new tabs) -> find the missing ones -> open Cyberpunk boxes)
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Easily solvable by making the hidden games list only work for users who actually use it (ie. have over a certain number of games hidden). You could also simply ignore games that were hidden after the start of the event (all hidden games are dated).
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Thank you for the event, Merry Christmas in advance!
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How about allowing us to post spoilers to troll GAs? I've already opened my first (and obviously not the last) "Cyberpunk" GA, and that's not fun at all.
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Welcome to lootboxes. Also, having no expectations makes it a lot more fun, just look for nice boxes, we have enough giveaways anyway ^^
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Just a heads up to anyone having issues with the box graphics loading...
In my case it was endless scrolling with ESGST.
As setting the extension to click to load & not loading it on that page reset all my permissions!
So for those with the issue click here & turn off endless scrolling.
https://www.steamgifts.com/account/settings/profile?esgst=settings&id=es
So if you're having problems try that. Hope that helps somebody. 🙂
Thanks as well to iciao for the link. 👍
Edited: With a better solution that doesn't reset permissions! 😉
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Infinite scrolling also seems to mess with page 2+ on filtered games list.
Interestingly, I changed my permissions back and they kept.
I did change it both with ESGST permissions section and it in Chrome Extension manager
The load ESGST on demand works for me and I actually prefer it.
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Nice. 🙂
Everyone has there own preferences. I'm glad you found a solution that works for you. For me it's easier to turn endless scrolling on & off once a day when I look at boxes. To each there own I say. 😉 Just glad it got figure out.
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Hi SG,
Our holiday gift box event is back for 2019, starting now and ending December 25! Dust off Photoshop (or Paint) and get ready to share your creative designs with our community and to unlock great giveaways each day.
https://www.steamgifts.com/happy-holidays
How it works
Creating a gift box and giveaway
Opening gift boxes
No spoilers. Please do not share what games you found or what was contained inside of a gift box.
Happy holidays!
Updates
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