As others said, it's up to you. Usually the winners of a giveaway do get announced publicly.

When you buy the prizes, make sure that create a single order for each individual game. If you put them all into one order, then you wouldn't be able to gift them separately.

After a bit of further testing, the interesting thing is that it does work, just not when I'm using the spoiler tags with the Barefoot Essentials forum addon and want to add empty lines before the spoilered section.



Thanks for your input! :)

This is so awesome
So much generosity!
Here are some haikus:

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Pirates and Titans
An epic war continues
- My immodest wish

(Risen 2)

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The bard writes poems
This summer I would love to
Listen to his tale

(The Bard's Tale)

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(Thank you for the great giveaway! Risen 2 has been on my wishlist since it appeared here and since you specifically called for more expensive wishes, I dare to include it. But if That's a bit over the top I would also very much like to play the modern version of The Bard's Tale.)

The child sleeps wearily
during winter's sorrow
His mother coos from afar

Among the sleep haiku, and the game i'm in for.

Yes, wheras if I had gone

Blood, slippery planks
A flag flaps above the clangs
Aloof as ocean

this would have taken EVERYBODY by surprise. ;-)

Also, for the heck of it :

Posthumous gift
Is the answer to life and death
Still a question ?

Honestly, it's Spring.
Yes, of course you're feeling cold.
This is Icewind Dale.

Autumn has arrived,
But dead leaves don't decompose
Here inside the Zone.

Well I cannot remember the last time I've written a Haiku. Never been much of a poet, thankfully I do know it. I'm fascinated with Japan though so I'll give it a shot.....

The weather is cold
ice breaks the trees like puny twigs
here in neverwinter

+1 for the inventive giveaway =)

I'm in. Very nice giveaway.
My haiku:

Steps softly fall
World becomes orange
Dark stone shines

And here is something I'm a little better at: (I think)

Now my journey ends
I rest beneath liquid sky
Down deep where the whale bones lie
I held it in my heart

Even the now I dream
For someone to hear my plight
But I no longer see the light
The hempen rope has crossed my eyes

I promised I'd come home
Never more to leave your side
My stars my life
I promised you a ring
Hope, I hold you still

I've recently started playing the Heroes of Might and Magic series from the very beginning:

The Might, the Magic,
Together on the shorelines
Of strange, summer isles.

And a few weeks ago I finished Benoit Sokal's Amerzone:

Nights grow shorter as
We reach across the still sea
To the Amerzone.

On Steam, I'm playing Darkout:

Night falls, there as here.
Outside my window: summer;
Inside the screen: dark.

Thanks a lot for an amazing and creative original giveaway Sazanamistyle. I used to do some poetry but it has been quite a while since I have flexed any creative muscles. I never really understood how a haiku is written but your suggestions and some great examples in this thread have enlightened me. Apologies in advance for probably butchering the essence of haikus, here are my very first meager attempts:

Scorching sands spare him
Death defied, to the hourglass
The truth eludes her

Eyes weary, open
Fall insomnia beckons
Behold, mocking Keane!

Ice in veins, takes aim
No sensation felt by prey
Cold, he lies crimson

Eons of pain endured
Angel of death seeks vengeance
Monster, fear the wraith

EDIT: One more added, I will reveal the games if no one guesses them. :)

All into your mouth
You slurp it like no other
noodle eating girl

Ode to Top Ramen

What were you thinking of...pervert.

The old thread,
A forumer jumps in :
"Bump"

[Basho, circa 1681]

Eighteen eighty-five:
The first of January.
I'm the Living One?!

(Arcanum)

Hahaha! Brilliant :D

Boots from above—
Right in the face
Shifting sands never wait