Hello SteamGifts users !

This is my first thread on this forum, and as I'm not good at writing stuff, I'm going straightforward.
Thus it won't be the novel you're used to read on other threads, unfortunately :(

Sooo, to summon my current situation, I've created a week ago a certain giveaway for my blueheart people, because why not ?
As I've never done any whitelist recruitment before, everyone on my current whitelist are people that were nice to me, so I wanted to thank them.

But they disapointed me, a lot. 1 entry so far within 1 week ! What a shame. To take my revenge, I need to expand my whitelist, so they will have LESS chance to win (I'm an evil one).
Tbh, I just want to let everyone its chance but I like creating unnecessary drama, clickbaiting heh :P

There won't be any criteria besides my own jugdement, based on :

  • You're playing your won giveaways.
  • You have a good ratio.
  • You have the game (Tales of Symphonia) wishlisted before ... let's say July 14.
  • You sometimes do giveaways for your blueheart people.
  • You sometimes do public giveaways.
  • You are level 4 or more. It shouldn't be a criteria, but I set the giveaway for level 4+, I don't know why, maybe because all people in my current whitelist are level 4+

Feel free to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria. Because as stated above, there's no criteria.
I plan to add no more than 10-20 people, I am verry sorry if I could not whitelist you :(

Thanks for reading, and here's something for everyone :) Now with a hint, a real one.
The giveaway above and recruitment ends the day of Humble Monthly reveal. And then I'll take a look case per case to whitelist people.
I'll notify everyone that has been whitelisted, that it won't be a hassle to check by yourself.

I will read undoubtledly all of your comments, even if I will probably not answer at all of them.
Please feel free to correct me if I've made any error, english is not my native language.

And I wish to all of you a wonderful day :D

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EDIT : August 3rd

I am currently checking everyone, I'll be finished soon :)

Puzzle solution :

Every letter that compose the word HINTS have a wikipedia link.
The first one links to Pi,
The second one links to K (Anime)
The third one links to Near, from Death Note
The fourth one links to Tea
and the last one links to Bee

You simply need to take the first letter of those words, and it sounds like P K N (thats the nickname of the character, though.) T and B.
And for upper case and lower case you need to refer at the dots and the dashes that comes after the letter. A dot stands for : the previous letter in lowercase and the dash stands for : the previous letter in upper case.

And here's the link : https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/pknTb/ken-folletts-the-pillars-of-the-earth

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I set the thread category on Off-Topic, but it should be

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Who cares ? Gimme more games <3
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You shall not take my head, 13 !
Thanks for your comment, and have a nice day :D

6 years ago
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Welcome to my whitelist !

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Applying for the party 🐸💙

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Your application have been registered.
But frogs are not welcomed in the party, only princes :D
Thanks for the comment and have a nice day :)

6 years ago
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Can I join WL?
I played Symphonia a while ago, It is a masterpiece of 3d Tales ^^
have a nice weekend!

6 years ago
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It surely is !
Thanks for the comment and have a nice weekend yourself :)

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Any free spot in your blue heart? :D

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There's always free spot in my heart, you just need to find the key :D
Just kidding, thanks for the comment and have a nice day :)

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Thanks for the whitelist :D
And sure, you'll be considered :)
Thanks for the comment and I wish you a nice day !

6 years ago
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Welcome to my whitelist !

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Applicationnnn!!:)

6 years ago
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Considerationnnn :D
Have a nice day :)

6 years ago
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Awwww okieeeeeeee

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Personally I’m not interested in this GA but would like to apply :)
Anyway I added you to my but don’t feel forced to do the same

6 years ago
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Thanks a lot for the whitelist !
Sure ! I'll consider it once the giveaway ends, but your profile seems nice ! :D
Have a nice day :)

6 years ago
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I don't have it on wishlist, but my wishlist is overall quite small.

Since I think I meet other criteria I will try to apply. :) Thanks for the chance.

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Sure you do !
Thanks for the comment and have a nice day :)

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Welcome to my whitelist !

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I would like to join your WL!!
Thanks for the giveaways :)

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You will be considered, thanks for the comment !
Have a nice day :)

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Mmmmmm, ToS is on a tier of games for me where I'd be interested in playing it if it was bundled with other Tales games or if I happened to get it, but not enough to actually wishlist it. Ignore the inconsistency where I considered it a game I'd play enough that I already bought it at an 85% discount to giveaway to Playing Appreciated.

If this is not good enough for WL now, hopefully you will consider me afterwards. I have 💙 you for giving away so many more games than I have in about the same time.

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Thats unfortunate, ToS still is a very good game despite it's old. IMO
Of course you will be considered :)
Thanks a lot for the whitelist and have a nice weekend !

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Welcome to my whitelist !

6 years ago
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Damnit. I make all but the ratio, I think, and the blueheart GA since I can't make any right now. I LOVED ToS on the GC. Wishlisted it when it was preorder too. Ah well. Thanks for sharing, though.

Edit- I forgot to mentiont hat I did whitelist you, though.

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Don't worry about what I've written above, I'll be checking all these but at the end only my feeling about it counts. And also the number of applications, though
Thanks for your comment and have a pleasant weekend :)

6 years ago
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Can I join? I have long dreamed of getting this wonderful game.

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Thanks for the comment !
I'll review all applications in a week, you'll be notified if you successfully passed through :)
Have a nice day :)

6 years ago
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I would love to join your whitelist but I don't plan on entering the GA for this game (just not my thing) and I'm not lvl 4 so... maybe for the future haha

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The level 4 is not even a requirement to enter my whitelist, back then I just set my ToS giveaway on level 4. You'll be considered after the GA :)
Have a nice day !

6 years ago
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Hi may I enter? I've had it wishlisted for quite a while!

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Hi, thanks for your comment !
I think I should be adding people right now instead of waiting friday, I never know how to answer this kind of question :/
Anyway have a nice weekend :D

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May I? maybe...Anyway mate, thank you very much for your generosity. Bump.

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You may ! ... I guess ?
Checking it friday, but considering the amount of people applying for ToS right now it shouldn't be a problem :)
Have a nice day !

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Thank you again pal. God bless you.

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Welcome to my whitelist !

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I already have the game but you have a good ratio. Welcome to my blue heart 👻💙

Have a great weekend! 👻

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You do too !
Thanks for your comment and have a great weekend yourself :)

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I have never play Tales of Symphonia, just played Fairy Fencer.
It's seem like same type RPG.
I think that I should apply it.
However, appreciation with you.
:)

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Owaw, I just finished the Goddess route of Fairy Fencer, the combat-system is pretty different but all JRPG are story-focused. So if you do like that part you should :D
Thanks for your comment and have a nice day :)

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Welcome to my whitelist !

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I would like to apply, I love JRPG but haven't played the Tales series before and would love a chance to try.

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Sure ! ToS is a really good one to discover the Tales series IMO :)
You will be considered ! Thanks for your comment and have a great day :D

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Tales of Symphonia is a rare RPG for two-players, I want to play it this way some day :-)
And I want to join your revenge ofc :-D You can join my revenge too 💙
Anyway I want to bump this for solved puzzle as well

View attached image.
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Thanks for your comment and the whitelist :)
Tales of Symphonia used to be a JRPG that could be played up to 4 players, even though 3 of them only participate on battles. But it was on GameCube, with the steam version it's only a singleplayer game unfortunately :/
Congratulations on solving the puzzle, I wish you a wonderful weekend :D
Oh, and thanks for the gif <3

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But it was on GameCube, with the steam version it's only a singleplayer game unfortunately :/

I have a clue that local (its ok for me) multiplayer still exists
That's why I still hope to play it co-op. tbh, it interested me even with single mode)

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Oh it's really good to know, thanks a lot for the heads up ! I'll definitely play it again with friends :)

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Welcome to my whitelist !

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May i Join your whitelist?(not for that game tho) U were added to mine long time ago xD

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Oh, nice to meet you then :D
I'll add you right after the GA is finished :)
Have a nice day !

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GA, Puzzle and recruitment still running
Bump for 2 days left !

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But they disapointed me, a lot. 1 entry so far within 1 week ! What a shame.

To avoid encountering similar disappointments, here are some suggestions :

  • You might want to check the wishlists of the people you have in your whitelist, if a game seems to come up pretty often on their Top 20 and it's within your means/budget, then it'd make a great choice for a 💙 giveaway. At the other hand, if it's a game pretty much everyone owns already, then it's no surprise you barely get any entries.

If the game is only on the wishlist of a single person or two, then why not surprise them with a nice gift and give them the game directly, it won't get you any CV/ratio, but you'll make someone happy.

  • Check if they're still active, a cleanup might be in order to free up spots and keep it small, tidy and most of all, relevant.

  • Feel free to allocate more time, a week is a decent amount of time, but there's no harm in making it last for an additional week or two (15 - 21 days), this is especially true since it's summer holidays (in northern hemisphere at least), a good time to take a break from technology, a lot of people travel around and spend more time with family and loved ones, which means they'll be away from the computer for an extended period of time. This is a closed, whitelist giveaway, there's no point in setting a short duration to improve the odds of wining the game as you'd typically do in a public/private forum, people generally want the exact opposite, give everyone in their WL a chance to enter.

The only Tales game I played is Tales of Legendia on the PS2, not the best entry of the series but I still enjoyed it, I am not overly fond of A-RPGs with action-packed combat systems and generally prefer turn-based games or RTWP, but we can't be too picky, J-RPGs are well past their prime, so the best ones are to be found among older releases (the mid 90' to mid 00' era).

I plan to play the series in order of release, someday…if ever, we must be close to 30 games by now, half of which were never released in the West and are still untranslated to this day.

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Hello !
First of all, thanks for the very long comment :D

Obviously, I am not really disappointed about anything, it was a certain excuse, or perhaps a reason (even if there's trully none) to make a whitelist recruitment. My purpose was to gather a fair amount of nice people to periodically give them something, I was a bit bored to make either public or invite-only giveaway, because of a selfish reason. Most people that won my GAs has a huge amount of wins, plays very few of them or maybe none, I didn't bother checking every single game, and have given very few amount of games. I know that's pretty much dick-thinking, everyone deserves the same chance as we are all human beings, I am also aware that not everyone can afford giving away much games, but it's how I feel right now. I've given some game I really loved, and I used to check if they have played them, and usually the answer is a no. But I consider that some people would really love to play games I give away, and I'm the guy thinking like "one's happiness is another's sadness". I like utilitarianism, I believe that one's happiness can overcome the sadness, and it would be worth it. But not when their happiness consists in a +1 in their library.
Even if I say so, I honestly don't expect anything from anyone, I don't like to force people doing things, I just hope.

I don't know anyone on my whitelist personnally, it's just some people that I had fun talking with, or that were nice to me, it's a nice idea to surprise people giving them a wishlisted game, but I see two problems, first is the budget, I am still a college student and I am not working right now, thus I'd have to decide arbitrarily to whom should I give a game, some moral shit, sucks to be human right ? That's also why I don't like cleaning my WL, I feel bad about them, but being human has its good part too !
The second one is the wishlist, I believe we all have tier list on our wishlist, and much more. Redirect on a thread talking about wishlist

Wow I feel it's pretty much a long writing, sorry for my bad english though, tell me if your eyes hurts at some point, don't feel forced to read everything :P

I'd also like playing all Tales series someday, they can easily be played in a different order, I don't think it'll affect your understanding. There are some link between them. MINOR SPOILER For example on Berseria you can meet characters from Xilia on a sidequest

Anyway have a nice week :)

EDIT : I have probably forgot many things, since I'm too lazy reading myself :(

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I already have Tales of Symphonia, thanks for giveaways! Good luck!)

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Thank you for your comment :D
Have a nice week :)

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I have Tales of Symphonia for PS3, so I wouldn't enter the giveaway, but I think I meet all your other criteria if you're looking to add people to your whitelist.

Also, if you like people playing their wins, as I do, you may want to consider applying to the Playing Matters group. They're a great group of people that take playing their SG wins seriously and prioritize doing so.

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Hello, thanks for your comment !
You absolutely do meet my ??????? !
I am actually a member of PA :) Thanks for your suggestion anyway
But inside I prefer trusting people than contraining them with a rule, not saying that's bad neither saying that we should stop it and actually I might think that it could be necessary, but isn't trust wonderful ? :)
Have a nice week !

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I'm also a member of PA, and I really like that group.

PM is like a more dedicated version. Where PA qualifies playing a game as spending 5 hours on it, PM considers playing to mean beating the game (or committing an equivalent amount of time). There's not a set timeframe to do so, and the rules themselves are very lax, but the requirements to get in are far more strenuous such that the rules aren't really needed. If someone is a member of PM, you can trust that they will play their wins without a rule requiring it (and you can make giveaways for the group without being a member).

But yes, trust is wonderful. :) Have a great week too!

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Welcome to my whitelist !

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Thanks for the puzzle :) It was fun after the frustration fiftykyu's puzzle gave me

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Took some hours to solve their first puzzle too haha :p
Have a nice day :)

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