Problem is, that this was in fact not true. Many people entered Secret Santa before the Winter sale started and where thinking they would not need a seperate wishlist since in the last years the holiday sale was always starting mid dicember and lasting until new year. Then it would have been easy to just wait until Secret Santa ended to buy something for yourself. No one probably expected to have a sale this early and only so few weeks after the last sale.

Of course even when it is hard to do so, no one should buy games from their secret santa list. Go on hating the sale instead and having fun in the tracker thread. At least that is what I did :D

Yeah, GOG kind of messed around with the Holiday Sale (and thusly Secret Santa as it has been run in it's previous incarnations). But the rules haven't changed...

FINAL Secret Santa letters will be sent in 21 hours... that will give the remaining Santa's 19 hours to buy gifts from the GOG Winter Sale.

So don't be square - be a round Santa soon ;-p
1) You post your wishlist
2) You receive someone else's wishlist AND buy a game from their list
3) You send me the gift code
4) I give YOUR wishlist to another Santa
5) THEY buy you a gift
6) They send me your gift code
7) On Xmas day, I send each of you your own gift.

You could still have changed your wishlist when you got to know it. I don't think too many people chose to be early Santas so fast they couldn't change anything anymore.

But let's just leave it now. I don't want to condemn anybody around here. Was just amazed how people can apply for Secret Santa and then buy the gifts themselves. That's all.

I could not change it, was already early Secret Santa, but as I said, I did not buy things I just went on hating the sale :P

That's alright, I bought a few games, and still hated it. ;-P

Ok, last call for alcohol.... I will be going to sleep (soonish) and when I awake, the final Santa letters be going out. Get in you last minute Secret Santa's!

Wait what?? Why was I removed? you said I had till the 14'th to do whatever I needed to get changed around.. Calling me a jerk and making me look like a bad guy? seriously?

Y'all got anymore of them Secret Santas?

Well GOG has this thing where if you post twice in under five minutes, and no one else has posted, the posts merge.

So I saw that you had edited out your wishlist and thought you'd decided not to participate.

THEN, someone completely different broke one of the rules. AND I said, don't be a jerk in a very generic manner to everyone. So yeah, I think you might be taking this a bit too personally.

Now where is your list? I gotta get the final letters sent out for the peeps in Europe...

DEADLINE to participate and have your updated wishlist posted in NOON CST today! (that is in 2.5 hours)

~I might be amenable to adding a few late entrants if there are enough people. If you find this thread after noon CST, December 14th, please PM me and I will put you a waiting list. ~

Sending it now to you I just got back from the hospital and did not get enough time but will be sent 10 minutes from this post

I AM BACK BABY! >:) SANTA TIME

Excellent! Got my assignment today.

Thanks for organizing this Momo1991!!!

Ok, this one was way beyond my powers of Momo comprehension;

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/secret_santa_2014/post628

If anyone can figure out what it means and gift Popinjay, lemme know! As of now he is not assigned to gift or receive but I figured someone here would love a puzzle...

The final list of Santa's is in the OP!

Santa's = 94
Elves = 25

Giftee gifts under the spreadsheet tree = 77
Pending gifts due by no later than December 20th = 17

About gifts: I will send you a PM upon receipt of any gift. If you've sent more than one, you will get a reply PM from me for each gift. IF you do NOT get a PM from me, please resend your PM! GOGBears love, love, love to snack on PM's ;-p

He wants whatever the secret santa thinks is the most underrated game . He's probably asking for Sacrifice .