You Can Now Gift Premium Memberships

Hey all. Just a small update from the Top Men. You can now gift yearly Whiskey Media premium memberships to your family and friends. Simply go to http://auth.whiskeymedia.com/gift/ and fill out the form. Once completed, you'll receive a code and instructions that you can pass to your buddy so they can redeem their membership. Note that gift codes are only available in the Yearly subscription format, but do come with $15 store coupon as well. For those members who already have subscriptions, redeeming a code will extend your next billing date out an extra year, so it's a great gift for everybody.

Hey all. Just a small update from the Top Men. You can now gift yearly Whiskey Media premium memberships to your family and friends. Simply go to http://auth.whiskeymedia.com/gift/ and fill out the form. Once completed, you'll receive a code and instructions that you can pass to your buddy so they can redeem their membership. Note that gift codes are only available in the Yearly subscription format, but do come with $15 store coupon as well. For those members who already have subscriptions, redeeming a code will extend your next billing date out an extra year, so it's a great gift for everybody.

Cool, Ill try to get some homies on this

Thats awesome... hope it works for you all at Whiskey!

Have a heart!

Now I can force my lazy friends to enjoy all this content!

Nice. Too bad I don't know anyone who deserves such a gift. 

Anyone want to give the joyful gift of Whiskey Media to myself?

Which one of you bastards wants to gift me a membership? I can't place it in my budget right now, so if one of you assholes do it, I might appreciate it...

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

All I want for Christmas is a giant bomb.

So...who wants to gift me?

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

Want to spend some money on a complete stranger? here's your chance! Also, ME ME ME PICK ME!!! AAAAAAH

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

Very true. I never gifted anything before Steam implemented it into their service.

F you guys, gift me a membership.

Cool! Might just spread the love of Whiskey Media

Oh thank god, now I don't have to hem and haw over what to get everyone this year.

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

Cool, I guess. Now I just need to trick someone into gifting me a membership (kidding).

So... anyone want to give me a years premium membership? I probably won't pay you back whatsoever so, you know, you have to do it!

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

I didn't know that they were gifting games.

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

When you narrow it down to specifically gamers and digital, well played my memory doesn't serve well enough on how long you've been able to gift steam games for. Regardless, there was definately in game gifting for gamers beforehand, and without narrowing it down so specifically gifting is actually a worldwide thing that people have been doing for a while now.

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

This a is very cool idea, I would love a gift like this for the holidays =), If only there were a kind person to do this for me (wink) ;)

Excellent stuff. Would like a monthly option though, for larger-scale mass, random donations. Can probably convert some more Whiskey lifers this way!

[EDIT - Ah you replied to me on Twitter. Thanks!]

Jeff needs to get a sweet new ride. Get to dem invites boys!

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

Very true. I never gifted anything before Steam implemented it into their service.

Okay, but only because you said it was okay to give Whiskey to my little cousin...

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

You can gift anything in this day n age you idiot.

I still don't know whether whiskey supports Paypal, on the upgrade page it doesn't show it, and whenever I put my CC number it fails

Sweet, I'll get one and gift it to me! Thanks Whiskey Media! ^___^

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

You've been able gift subscriptions on IGN since ages ago actually (not sure if they've since gotten rid of it; it used to be a nice sign of respect/appreciation on their forums). Glad to see Giantbomb gaining this feature too.

gift me bro

I will heart anyone who gifts this to me :P

@HarlequinRiot said:

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

You've been able gift subscriptions on IGN since ages ago actually (not sure if they've since gotten rid of it; it used to be a nice sign of respect/appreciation on their forums). Glad to see Giantbomb gaining this feature too.

You've also been able to gift games on Steam for years. The gifting of hats and other bullshit is recent.

man and i *just* ran out of money right before this year's premium content started up

@Zolfe said:

I still don't know whether whiskey supports Paypal, on the upgrade page it doesn't show it, and whenever I put my CC number it fails

It does.

@I_smell said:

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

You can gift anything in this day n age you idiot.

The ignorance of some of these posters is amazing. No wonder this site attracts mostly a console crowd.

@Buzzkill said:

@I_smell said:

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

You can gift anything in this day n age you idiot.

The ignorance of some of these posters is amazing. No wonder this site attracts mostly a console crowd.

You call other posters ignorant, yet you yourself talk down about the users as 'mostly a console crowd'. Get the fuck outta here, what makes you so special?

Sounds like a very generous and nice idea,not gonna sit there and panter and beg like most people will for a gifted membership if someone gives me one then ill be thankful for it. and a plus is the people who do gift someone with that get a coupon so kind of a win-win situation?

So... like DeviantArt?

Maybe for Christmas this year, somebody could buy WM some honest business ideas.

hmmm payday on Friday, how generous/open to bribes of a sexual nature am I feeling?

Awesome

I just sent my first membership gift to Chrismafuchris, who won it in a topic I made a month ago. It will not be my last gifted membership!

This is great, it's neat that the $15 coupon comes with this as well.

I tried to redeem a code and got an error 500. Would that invalidate the code?

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

@I_smell said:

@Buzzkill said:

@emergency said:

@Buzzkill said:

This is a cool idea ripped off from Steam, but if GiantBomb becomes more like Steam they are on the right track.

The ability to gift stuff has been around since before Steam y'know?

For gamers? Digitally? Do tell...

You can gift anything in this day n age you idiot.

The ignorance of some of these posters is amazing. No wonder this site attracts mostly a console crowd.

You call other posters ignorant, yet you yourself talk down about the users as 'mostly a console crowd'. Get the fuck outta here, what makes you so special?

He plays the same games I do, but on a machine that costs 3 times as much. That's how you know he's a real smart guy.

Hey Snide, upon entering the code, I got an error 500 and the site would not let me reenter the code. Can something be done to sort this out?

inb4 people on the forums beg for membership to be gifted to them.

whatever helps get more members i guess.