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Let's do this... the Unofficial Giant Bomb Wiicret Santa!

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Yeah, I'm going for it.

The Giant Bomb Wiicret Santa is here, folks.  It's like a Secret Santa, but with less gag gifts.

It's pretty self-explanatory.  One of the more interesting features of the Wii Shop Channel is the ability to send Virtual Console and WiiWare games as gifts.  Here are the rules... and I'm going for silliness here.

  1. If you want to be part of the Wiicret Santa, just post a picture of a kitteh (sic) with your Friend Code in the caption.
  2. You have until December 19th (next Friday) to submit your code.
  3. I'm PM the name and Friend Code of the user selected by me... and it will be totally random.
  4. I recommend you send your gift on Christmas or Christmas Eve... don't be a jerk and forget about it until New Year's Eve.
  5. Make sure your Wii is connected to the internet, you've got enough Wii Points, blah blah blah... the obvious.
  6. There will be a $10 minimum, or 1000 Wii Points.
  7. There is no maximum... if you feel generous that day, go crazy.
  8. Unfortunately, I must make this US and Canada only... you can only send gifts if you live in the same country, but Canadians can change their country setting to US in order to participate.  Sorry, Europe.
  9. Don't stiff the person you have to buy a game for... I'll hunt you down.
Simple enough.  If anybody wants to chime in on additional rules, go ahead.

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3076-9971-6194-2612
Yeah, I'm going for it.

The Giant Bomb Wiicret Santa is here, folks.  It's like a Secret Santa, but with less gag gifts.

It's pretty self-explanatory.  One of the more interesting features of the Wii Shop Channel is the ability to send Virtual Console and WiiWare games as gifts.  Here are the rules... and I'm going for silliness here.

  1. If you want to be part of the Wiicret Santa, just post a picture of a kitteh (sic) with your Friend Code in the caption.
  2. You have until December 19th (next Friday) to submit your code.
  3. I'm PM the name and Friend Code of the user selected by me... and it will be totally random.
  4. I recommend you send your gift on Christmas or Christmas Eve... don't be a jerk and forget about it until New Year's Eve.
  5. Make sure your Wii is connected to the internet, you've got enough Wii Points, blah blah blah... the obvious.
  6. There will be a $10 minimum, or 1000 Wii Points.
  7. There is no maximum... if you feel generous that day, go crazy.
  8. Unfortunately, I must make this US and Canada only... you can only send gifts if you live in the same country, but Canadians can change their country setting to US in order to participate.  Sorry, Europe.
  9. Don't stiff the person you have to buy a game for... I'll hunt you down.
Simple enough.  If anybody wants to chime in on additional rules, go ahead.

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This makes me want a Wii. :[  Nice idea, though.

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What about folks from Canada? Will that work? Together we are North America.

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ThomasP said:
"What about folks from Canada? Will that work? Together we are North America."
This should clear things up.

Nintendo said:
"Country setting must be the same as the Sender."
If enough Canadians want in, we can do a separate Wiicret Santa for you and your brethren.
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Nice idea, 

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Any Canadians in the house?

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If i could buy you a present Dalai, it would be the gift of love.

Thats worth more than all the Wii points in the world.

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I want in, I'll have to get my code, but I do wonder, what happens if someone sends something you already have? Also, why a $10 limit, what if I love a certain SNES game so much I want to share it? Should I get a SNES and a NES game too?

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BoG said:
"I want in, I'll have to get my code, but I do wonder, what happens if someone sends something you already have? Also, why a $10 limit, what if I love a certain SNES game so much I want to share it? Should I get a SNES and a NES game too?"
A limit isn't a requirement.
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BoG said:
"I want in, I'll have to get my code, but I do wonder, what happens if someone sends something you already have? Also, why a $10 limit, what if I love a certain SNES game so much I want to share it? Should I get a SNES and a NES game too?"
If you try to send a game someone already has, you'll get an error message.  Whoever wants in this could disclose which games they own (even if you own the non-VC version) just to avoid sending something he or she already owns.

The $10 limit is just a minimum amount you have to spend.  I've got no reason except that it's a nice, round number.  You're encouraged to spend more if you want.  You can send more than one game... hell, send 5 or 6 games if you really want.
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SuperMooseman said:
"US only? Pfft, fine!
*puts away 1 million Wii points*"
I know... Nintendo didn't make this as easy as I thought.

And BoG is officially in so this thing has some legitimacy.  Bring me more kittehs!
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I just noticed, the country setting must be the same... Does that mean we can trick it? I mean, perhaps not European Wiis, but definitely Canadian ones.

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I'd love to do this, but I'm a Brit :(

I'll post a kitteh anyway

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BoG said:
"I just noticed, the country setting must be the same... Does that mean we can trick it? I mean, perhaps not European Wiis, but definitely Canadian ones."
I've been doing some searching and I believe it works.  I'm not going to try to mess with PAL regions and Japan (sorry, Europe), but I think Canada is fine as long as you change your country setting to US temporarily.

Then it's settled.  Canada is good to go!
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How much do you want to bet people will sign up for this and then not send points? =P

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AndrewGaspar said:
"How much do you want to bet people will sign up for this and then not send points? =P"
I'll take that bet.  We're not sending points... We're sending games.  I refuse to stick out my tongue, though.

C'mon, Giant Bomb.  3 people is certainly not enough... we need more kittehs!
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We just need the Canadians to realize we changed the rules, they don't know it. Caps lock should get their attention: HEY CANADIANS GET IN HERE!

I'm actually surprised we aren't getting more, so far.
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I'll be posting my friend code tomorrow. Stoked to get a nice Christmas surprise.

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ThomasP said:
"I'll be posting my friend code tomorrow. Stoked to get a nice Christmas surprise."
If by tomorrow you mean tomorrow, awesome!

3 people isn't enough for it to be very secretive.  I want more kittehs!
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I really hate to do a double bump, but I don't feel like resorting to excessive spam.  The deadline is today... and we need more people.

Should I resort to begging and groveling?