IN THE CUBICLE FARM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™.
You are somewhere inside the ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™, but this does not appear to be one of the attractions. It seems keeping this much disappointment in motion requires a lot of work behind the scenes. Perhaps you were mistaken for a new hire?
A legion of unhappy-looking people are working here, typing and clicking and waiting for death. You attempt to speak to someone but they pretend not to notice you, clearly hoping you will go away and bother someone else instead. In one of the cubes you can just make out a voice muttering "God I hate this..."
There must be an exit somewhere, if you can find it. More cubes can be seen SOUTH and EAST.
o_0 excited for the wins, but no rush on delivering them, dealing with some "winners" from the Cake Factory at the moment...
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Ahh... :)
So far I have only heard of three bad keys, which is three more than I should have, but you never know how things will go... Often, it seems dodgy "developers" + old unused keys = trouble... :(
I wonder if they lose track of which keys they have already sold, or maybe they check and give unused keys to their friends, resell them, random revocations, or what... My three-year-old Riddick key worked perfectly... :)
Hope you won some good stuff, but I wouldn't expect much in here... :)
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not so much a key issue as a... leak... issue
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Ouch... :( :( :( Don't even know what to say... :(
Did someone tip you off, or did you notice somehow? I wouldn't even know how to check for something like that... :(
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Someone entered through an sgtools link they couldn't have unless someone told them about it. And they admitted as much via chat. If you want to discuss it further, I can do that off of SG.
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Ahhh, now that you mention it, the one time I made a sgtools-protected giveaway, someone did that too. I forgot all about that... Just wanted to try it out, see how it worked. :)
It wasn't even a puzzle, just some private giveaway. A few people mentioned they had a not redeemed or multiple win or whatever so I just gave them the giveaway url directly. No big deal. But one goofball saw it was a sgtools link, so while he's talking to me he gets a friend to use it for him. Then he's thanking me blabla like a normal person, never said a word about it.
I only noticed afterwards, in the thing showing who didn't get the url via sgtools. Then looked at the chat timestamps, sgtools thing, and the giveaway. There were the people I gave the giveaway url, and that one person who I didn't give it to. And one of that person's friends who used sgtools but didn't touch the giveaway... Oh well. :(
Puzzle cheaters are the worst, but I don't know if anything ever happens to them... Hopefully it didn't spoil your event! :(
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Yay, no bad keys here! :)
Thank you very much for... freakin' 12 new... things! Should I call them games? Umm... maybe? But they're definitely at least things! :D
Honestly, I'm actually looking forward to a couple of them -- CrazyCars has been intriguing me despite it's simplistic look, just because anything resembling a roller coaster always gets me interested, Johnny Graves (oh, maybe it's the cover art) has had me interested for a while (according to negative reviews, the completed game might be better... (oh right, sorry... the completed thing might be better). Who knows? :) I guess I should prepare to be... ... ...disappointed. :)
Thank you for all of that, fiftykyu, and I'm hoping to jump back into the ol' Zig soon!
Sorry, distracted while posting -- almost forgot -- I'm posting the thanks to this GA because this out of the bunch is the one I'm really curious about! :) So yay, for finally winning it! :)
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Hooray! :) Glad to hear it! :)
So far I'm only out $16 for gift copies of bad key games, which is better than it could have been... :) I guess that's one advantage of just dumping keys in the forum - if one of those keys is bad, who cares? People assume someone else grabbed it first and move on. :)
Yeah, things sounds about right for 99% of this stuff. :)
As people have been writing their thanks it's been interesting to see how few of the "games" people won bear any resemblance to what I'd consider a game. :) And how a mediocre old game suddenly looks like Citizen Kane when it's in a pile next to 1000 asset flips and umm, Billy's First Programming Project... :) So now I feel guilty for all the things I've said in the past about mediocre old games... :) Thank you Steam, for showing us what garbage really looks like... :)
I don't remember how far you got in this puzzle, but despite appearances there are a few actual games buried deep underground... :) Probably nothing on your wishlist, though, hmm...
Oh, interesting, something called "Karma. Incarnation 1" was in my pile of keys for this puzzle, but https://www.random.org/lists/ put it too far down in the list to be used. So let's see who reads this reply first... :)
Karma. Incarnation 1 DR8CE-T0CDR-MCFF7Hope you have fun with some of those things, and if not, hope you get some trading cards for the profitz! :)
Thank you! :) And good luck in the rest of it! :)
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Yay, the bot named 'godprobe' ninja'd the key! :D
Thank you!!!
Wishlist: Added on 12/22/2016 :D
Beautiful point and click adventure, with good music and nice art! :D
Super super happy! :)
(Also, still at that room where I commented "216 rooms explored, 360 rooms left", but I think I have some time... been mostly "away" from the main face of SteamGifts compiling my report for SG support as well as busy with other life things. Definitely intend to full explore the Ziggurat, even if it ends before I can do so though!)
(Also also, I don't really do the trading card / idling thing. If there's game time on my account, it's because I was playing the game. And the cards... are pretty much all still in my inventory. I know, free "money", but I prefer a more accurate game time count.)
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Happy to know at least one bundle leftover made someone happy! :)
Maybe I'm lazy, but it's just too much effort to research which cheap bundle games are hidden gems, and which are hidden garbage... :( Or this puzzle would look a lot different... :)
Hope the situation doesn't get you down... And sorry in advance if you're expecting anything fun at the end of this puzzle... :) It's just a bunch of games, maybe some good ones, but maybe not...
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I'm only expecting some nice exploration and satisfaction for filling the grid... :)
...or disappointment. :D
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