Merry Gerstmas! 2013 Giveaway of 500 games to 300 duders.

Thanks to Branthog and all those who provided gifts - Merry Gerstmas indeed :-)

• Ciffy - Humble Indie Bundle 7

Got my copy of Gish. Thanks bro!

Man oh man... This must be an ass load of work for you. Hats off to you for getting it done and doing it in an awesome job. Maybe next year you should get some help."I will if I am free" Maybe get a team together... Santa has elfs to help him. You should get some too.

I will still take that copy of Warhammer 40k off your hands if you still have it... just a side note.

@HellknightLeon: Yup, at this rate I wouldn't be surprised to see Gerstmas roll over into next Gerstmas

@HellknightLeon said:

Man oh man... This must be an ass load of work for you. Hats off to you for getting it done and doing it in an awesome job. Maybe next year you should get some help."I will if I am free" Maybe get a team together... Santa has elfs to help him. You should get some too.

I will still take that copy of Warhammer 40k off your hands if you still have it... just a side note.

Yeah, I seem to be getting much slower responses this year, than last and when I eventually *do* hear from people, it takes a little extra time to let them go back and pick from what's still available. If we do this a third year, I will probably just put up a site with a simple interface where people will have to enter all their information (steam info, choices, personal email address, etc) so it's all quickly accessible and I don't have to go back for anything.

Oh well, we learn and improve, I guess. :D

@Fredchuckdave said:

@HellknightLeon: Yup, at this rate I wouldn't be surprised to see Gerstmas roll over into next Gerstmas

DOUBLE GERSTMAS?!

I'm still waiting...and hoping.

@jakob187 said:

I'm still waiting...and hoping.

Same here :(.

or just do a "snooze you lose" thing on next year. not fair to you branthog or the people waiting. if they can't be bothered to get back to ya, do they actually care?

@Branthog: I think it would save you a lot of headache if you set a restriction on the window of time for response. That way if one (or a few) individual(s) turn into a problem and take forever to respond, they just forfeit the winning. As long as it is reasonable, I don't see anything wrong with it.

didn't think about it but i guess it makes sense that you have to wait for responses before doing the next round of giveaways :doh:

I'd like to confirm that I received Resonance and thank @branthog and whoever donated the game.

Reposting from before the GB move:

• Gordo789 - Warhammer Dawn of War II
• Ghostiet - Resonance
• BulletproofMonk - Legend of Grimrock
• ripelivejam - Serious Sam 3
• Ducksworth - Awesomenauts

PS: Where the hell is the First and Last button on the forum threads?!?!?!?!

Also.. great.. can no longer open multiple pages of a forum thread at once. CTRL+CLICK on the page numbers at the top/bottom of a thread simply forces it to load that page... not load it in a separate tab. That... makes this a lot more work (going through to find people's wanted list).

*sigh*

@branthog: What browser are you using? I'm on Opera and Chrome - both CTRL and SHIFT + click works fine in both browsers.

In Chrome, both CTRL+CLICK and SHIFT+CLICK on the page number just loads that page number in the existing tab. (For example, if you're on page 5 of this thread and you CTRL+CLICK on page 8, it'll load page 8 in the same tab, as if you had simply just clicked it).

@branthog: Weird, it's working completely fine for me.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/drdre187

Alpha Protocol

Cave Story

Civilization V

Basement Collection Binding of Isaac

Blackwell Deception

Blocks That Matter

Civilization III - Complete

Cortex Command

Cryostasis

Cthulu Saves the World

Received my copy of Grimrock, thanks to everyone who donated and to @branthog: for doing all of this!

• believer258 - Serious Sam 3
• ssj4raditz - Walking Dead
• Aetheldod - Wings of Prey
• Mento - Basement Collection
• xobballox - Legend of Grimrock

Received, thanks Branthog!

Truly a Gerstmas miracle.

Thank you! I'm typing this while at work so I can't put the code in yet, but I'll tell you when I do get it in.

@branthog: I assume Gerstmas is over, or was the topic merely unpinned from the forums?

I think it was unpinned, because a couple people came in and started entering their names for the drawing, like a month after entries had been closed.

• Dacnomaniac - Dungeon Defenders
• MrT - Darksiders 2
• Cramsy - PENDING CHOICE
• Mastercheesey - Payday: The Heist
• MetalBaofu - Hero Academy
• Ezakael - PENDING RECEIPT BY PREV WINNER IN CASE NEW TITLE CHOICE NEEDED
• phrosnite - STALKER
• CelShader - Vertex Dispenser
• OldManLight - PENDING NEW TITLE CHOICE
• Happenstance - Bejeweled 3

@branthogStalker redeemed successfully. Thanks :D

@branthog: Game has been received. Thanks again for putting this together, dude, and thanks to all the contributors, too.

@branthog Just got my copy of Bejeweled 3, thanks again!

Darksiders 2 revived thank you very very much.

wow still havent won a thing :-( im so unlucky at drawings

Well in theory everybody is going to win something based on the number of entries to prizes. I ain't won anything yet either :( But I aint really fussed. This whole idea is great and Branthog is doing a great job

@branthog: I redeemed the Dungeon Denfenders code on Steam. Thanks a lot for putting this all together, I really appreciate it :).

Oh hell, I won something! Flatout get, Thanks Branthog!

@branthog Terraria recieved. Much appreciated, thank you and thanks to the community too.

I got LIMBO, this is awesome. Totally made my Sunday morning. Thanks @branthog for putting this together, and thanks to everyone for being awesome.

Okay, I'm not going to list the games next to this batch. That's just way too much typing and I'm a lazy American (says the guy who writes 3,000-word meandering posts on GB all the time).

• lumberingjackal
• Sean2206
• Atramentous
• bibamatt
• Triumvir
• DocHaus
• Maidenmatt
• crunchmonkey
• darthslughorn
• lanerobertlane
• Bishna
• pizzapotomus
• ttocs
• SexyToad
• mattjam3000
• Totoni
• headn00b
• Mrsignerman44
• Carnage1290
• Akyho
• Benny
• DumbFounded
• CCforUA
• wwfundertaker
• MyNiceIceLife
• Fattony12000
• Rappelsiini

god @Branthog, its like you're not even trying anymore! ;)

and if you didn't see it thanks again for the gift and organizing this!

@branthog: Yay! Just got my copy of Frozen Synapse! Thanks!

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Received the code for the one and only Miner wars, I then smashed that key into Steam.......then I realised I was jamming a square peg into a round hole....I had to checked and the right hole it Desura.

It has been redeemed and downloading it now.

Thanks @branthog and all the donor's!

Just wanted to say thanks again for the THQ bundle! :D

Thank you very much for Defense Grid. Btw, it did include the DLC. Much appreciated!!

Thank you for Just Case 2! @branthog pulls off a Gerstmas Miracle!

Just posting here to confirm my receipt of a Steam key for Avadon: the Black Fortress. It was successfully claimed, too.

Merry Gerstmas, duders!

Just entered in the code for STALKER and it seems to work. Much love to @branthog and Merry (belated?) Gerstmas!

Redeemed my copy of Dota 2, thanks Giant Bomb community, and Branthog in particular for working this hard, this thing has been going on for a while.

Thanks for the Broken Sword Trilogy.

It's a Gerstmas miracle! Got a copy of Torchlight 1, Thanks to @branthog and all the duders who contributed!

Merry gerstmas duder! Thanks for the time and effort, I'll be sure to do as much dumb crazy stuff in my game (Just Cause 2) as is inhumanly possible!

It's weird, but I read that in a sarcastic tone. As if I was supposed to reply "sorry, I should have fixed the Sword Trilogy before giving it to you". Hehehehe. :D

Anyone else have a bugged inbox that keeps showing a ton of messages in it even though it's empty? I do.

If I end up winning something and don't reply, it will likely be because I was unaware I even had mail in the inbox. I do check on a daily basis though.

I'm not sure. I have over 800 unread messages, but they are actually legitimately unread. :/

I am also not getting email notifications of new posts, either.