I also want to be clear, DO NOT send your keys to anyone but me. If anyone pretends to be me asking you to resend keys DON'T DO IT. I have every key stored sent to me and they are secure and will be delivered when it is time. I don't know if this has been attempted by anyone, but I want to make sure nothing untowards happens at any point during this awesome event.

If anyone has any questions don't hesitate to contact me, just click on the start conversation tab when hover over my avatar.

The Witcher 3 is still not giftable unfortunately, so if anyone has it on their wishlist it is one you can buy at anytime. It is on sale at this time!

If the winter sale starts on December 2nd I will have everyone a secret Santa by December 5th and the latest anyone can sign up is December 10th

The winter sale has mystery games. If you purchase a mystery game after the 5th please purchase it as a gift. If the game ends up being on your wishlist hold on to it until after Christmas. If you receive the game as a gift from your secret Santa please redeem that gift and giveaway the gift you received from the mystery game, and if you don't receive that as a gift from your secret Santa then redeem the mystery gift at that time.
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It's time again for Secret Santa!

Just to clarify this is not a giveaway. In this event if you sign up you will be given someone to gift a game or games to and someone else will receive your name. If for some reason you are unable to gift someone please let me know.

This awesome event was hosted by momo last year and is normally hosted by nmillar, both are unable to host this year so I have stepped in to take on the duties. This is an awesome tradition that is a joy to participate in, so let's get the Christmas spirit going!

There are guidelines that must be followed if you wish to participate, this is to make it easier on the host and all the helpers involved.

1. Gifts can be GOG games only, no Steam games or any form of currency please.

2. Your wishlist must be made public, whoever your secret santa is has to be able to see what you would like. If you do not want to make your wishlist public or don't want your secret Santa choosing from your GOG wishlist then you can post a wishlist in this thread. I will make sure your secret Santa has a link to the list.

3. Once your secret santa is assigned DO NOT BUY OR REMOVE anything from your wishlist! If you think you will be too tempted to buy something on your wishlist please remove it ahead of time so your secret santa does not buy it. This also means DO NOT enter into any giveaways for anything from your wishlist. You can add to your wishlist at any point.

4. All gifts will go through me and I will give them out on Christmas Day. If you would prefer to use my email address instead of chat I will provide it to you upon request.

5. If you would like to participate you have until December 10th to sign up, any later and a secret santa can not be guaranteed.

6. All gifts must be in my possession by December 20th, any later and I will ask any helpers who volunteer to help with games so all wishes can be fulfilled.

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If you would like to keep yourself anonymous GOG makes it hard since all gifts will be tagged with your name. The only suggestion I have is to create an alternate account to buy the games with. ie if you have trentonlf as the person to buy gifts for you can create an account called trentsSecretSanta. I realize this is a pain to do and is not a requirement. If anyone has a better suggestion I'm all ears!

Just keep in mind it's not about how much you give or receive, it's about reaching out to a fellow gogger and wishing them a Merry Christmas in the form of a gift no matter how big or small.

If you would like to be a helper please indicate this in your post. You can be a helper and still participate as a secret santa, all helpers will be much appreciated.

Any other ideas or suggestion are welcome.

Music to get you ready

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List of secret Santas:
1. akhliber
1.1 amrit9037
2. anoffday
3 . arxon
4. billymaysfan59
5. bjwanlund
6. blotunga
7. branjohello
8. budejovice
8.1 cecil
9. celton88
10. chadjenofsky
11. chaunceyk
12. couchtr26
12.1 Crazybear
13. crewdroog
14. cristigale
15. dedoporno
16. dawnreader
17. dessimu
18. doc0075
19. docbear1975
20. dr.schliemann
20.1 DreamedArtist
21. duragon
22. dutchexcalibur
23. elterprise
24. emachine9643
24.1 Empress_Owl
25. exoanthrope
26. flubbucket
26.1 gamefood
27. ggf162
28. grargar
29. helpo1
30. hummer010
31. iamsinistar
32. ingsoc85
33. innerring
34. jadegiant
35. joek0
36. leolr
36.1 leon30
37. licurg
38. lifthrasil
39. linusthebold
39.1 lukaszthegreat
40. mchack
41. mcleodone
42. melhelix
43. mindblast
44 misteryo
45. mrkgnao
46. ovaltinejenkins
47. pablodusk
48. pardinuz
49. pateralf
50. pazzer
50.1 pcgameguy
51. penumbren
52. phandom
53. quisquid
54. rampancy
55. real.geizterfahr
56. renkalan
56.1 rwarehall
57. siulebuo
58. toxictom
59. truhlik
60. willyum
61. woosk
62. xxxsprayvwarxxx
63. yezemin

Final Secret Santa is trentonlf :)

I would like to be a helper! :)

I'll like to join but I have a bug which doesn't allow people to view my wishlist and yes it's public. Any work around?

Alright thanks! When will the secret santas be assigned?

I will more than likely Start assigning them sometime in Early December, hope to have them all assigned before the next GOG sale.

Or if larger, post it on pastebin and link it here. If you open an account there, you can also edit it later.

edit: Forgot about GOGWiki.

Thanks trent for organising this!

Alright, I favorite this thread and if you can do me a favor and keep us (me) informed when it will happen. I add and edit my list all the time so I don't want to add it now, knowing that in two days I'll add/delete things. So I'll post it the day before the santas are assigned.

Thanks for carrying the torch this year. Count me in!

EDIT: Count me me in as a Helper-Elf!

Are you in :)

Something tells me santas will be very busy this year and as I don't want to put extra strain on aging fellas' backs I'll keep myself out for now. I also wouldn't like to see them forming a union against you.

I'll donate some codes. Don't want anything in return.

I'm in!

To my Secret Santa: Sorry for the long list but I wouldn't know how to narrow it down. On the bright side, something from there is bound to go on sale. :P

Also, if you need an extra helping gnome I'll be available.

Have you changed your GOG username at some point in the past?

Yes and I tried what the blues suggested by typing my old username in the address field and nothing happened just GOG bear. They know of the problem and added my name to a list of bugs to be fixed. Gnostic was the one that noticed you can't view my list or start chat with me.