• Square Enix want to give you a Christmas Surprise


    For a one week period up until December 20th 2013 at 12:00pm GMT, you can purchase a special gift box from the Square Enix Europe Store. The box contains Steam keys for four PC games that retail for around £50/€75 combined. Square Enix, in festive spirits, are selling this box to you for a mere €6.49!

    Should you end up already owning the yet to be revealed 4 games, then, in the spirit of Christmas, the keys are giftable so you can give them to friends or family.

    No word on if this offer will be available in other regions, as of the time of writing.

    Here's the full release announcement:

    Merry Xmas from Square Enix

    The Square Enix Christmas Surprise is an incredible holiday assortment packed full of games worth over £50 (RRP or equivalent) - available for a limited time only exclusively to the Square Enix Store.


    The question is, what´s in the Christmas Surprise box?

    The Square Enix Christmas Surprise is available until 20 December 2013 (12:00pm GMT) and will contain four PC Downloadable Games (Steam Keys) which are giftable after purchase.*

    *A confirmation email with the full contents of the Square Enix Christmas Surprise will be sent on the afternoon (GMT) of December 20th 2013. Payment will be taken for the Christmas Surprise at the time that the order is placed. The purchase of a Christmas Surprise is subject to our full Square Enix Members Terms of Use found here. You may cancel your purchase in accordance with our cancellation policy located here. If you have any questions, please contact our customer support service here.


    This article was originally published in forum thread: Square Enix want to give you a Christmas Surprise started by Aulayna View original post
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    1. Aulayna's Avatar
      Aulayna -
      For a one week period up until December 20th 2013 at 12:00pm GMT, you can purchase a special gift box from the Square Enix Europe Store. The box contains Steam keys for four PC games that retail for around £50/€75 combined. Square Enix, in festive spirits, are selling this box to you for a mere €6.49!

      Should you end up already owning the yet to be revealed 4 games, then, in the spirit of Christmas, the keys are giftable so you can give them to friends or family.

      No word on if this offer will be available in other regions, as of the time of writing.

      Here's the full release announcement:

      Merry Xmas from Square Enix

      The Square Enix Christmas Surprise is an incredible holiday assortment packed full of games worth over £50 (RRP or equivalent) - available for a limited time only exclusively to the Square Enix Store.


      The question is, what´s in the Christmas Surprise box?

      The Square Enix Christmas Surprise is available until 20 December 2013 (12:00pm GMT) and will contain four PC Downloadable Games (Steam Keys) which are giftable after purchase.*

      *A confirmation email with the full contents of the Square Enix Christmas Surprise will be sent on the afternoon (GMT) of December 20th 2013. Payment will be taken for the Christmas Surprise at the time that the order is placed. The purchase of a Christmas Surprise is subject to our full Square Enix Members Terms of Use found here. You may cancel your purchase in accordance with our cancellation policy located here. If you have any questions, please contact our customer support service here.

    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      inb4 four copies of the last remnant
    1. Rantz's Avatar
      Rantz -
      Ordered it for the hell of it!
    1. VeloZer0's Avatar
      VeloZer0 -
      Yeah, while I might trust some companies to deliver value on faith, SE isn't one of them.
    1. Hollycat's Avatar
      Hollycat -
      My guess:
      Just Cause 2
      Deus Ex Human Revolution
      Final Fantasy 7
      and
      Tomb Raider.
    1. Dat Matt's Avatar
      Dat Matt -
      £5 for 4 random games seems alright. Lets see what comes with it.
    1. nirojan's Avatar
      nirojan -
      Europe only it seems

      Our products and services displayed on the Store are not available for purchase by individuals outside of the Serviced Countries. Our system indicates that you are outside of the Serviced Countries for this Site.

      For more details on what countries are serviced please refer to the Terms of Use.
    1. AssassinDX's Avatar
      AssassinDX -
      Quote Originally Posted by VeloZer0 View Post
      Yeah, while I might trust some companies to deliver value on faith, SE isn't one of them.
      Agreed. That and I own or have rented a fair few Square-Enix games available on Steam already including The Last Remnant, Hitman, Just Cause 2 and Final Fantasy VII, in fact other than FF VIII and Tomb Raider I can't even think of four more games I'd want of theirs.

      Sods law says all four games on this box will be what I already own, and probably really old games like the first two Deux Ex games which have little face value even as gifts. So yeah, my faith in SE to give me not only good value for money but game i don't already own is also pretty low.
    1. Heath's Avatar
      Heath -
      Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Shauna View Post
      £5 for 4 random games seems alright. Lets see what comes with it.
      It's a pretty good deal. My concern is that I already own a couple of Square games on Steam, and I expect at least one of them (Hi Last Remnant) will be one of the four random games.
    1. Jowy's Avatar
      Jowy -
      *shake shake shake*

      Anything have those system requirements off the top of your head?

      Attachment 49199
    1. AssassinDX's Avatar
      AssassinDX -
      Those are apparently the specs required for Tomb Raider.
    1. Jiro's Avatar
      Jiro -
      Don't knock the original Deus Ex or you might end up banned by Pike or Mister Adequate.

      Europe only means I don't get two trouts about this. Nobody smurfing loves Australia
    1. Ayen's Avatar
      Ayen -
      This isn't on the table for me because I'm a no good rotten American who butchers your language, get phrases wrong and rename your sports and stuff, but even if it was I'd be hesitant to take anything that doesn't say what's in the package. It just screams, "These are most likely games you either own or will never play, give us your money!"
    1. Aulayna's Avatar
      Aulayna -
      Quote Originally Posted by ToriJ View Post
      This isn't on the table for me because I'm a no good rotten American who butchers your language, get phrases wrong and rename your sports and stuff, but even if it was I'd be hesitant to take anything that doesn't say what's in the package. It just screams, "These are most likely games you either own or will never play, give us your money!"
      Get your American cynicism out of this thread!
    1. Ayen's Avatar
      Ayen -
      Quote Originally Posted by Aulayna View Post
      Quote Originally Posted by ToriJ View Post
      This isn't on the table for me because I'm a no good rotten American who butchers your language, get phrases wrong and rename your sports and stuff, but even if it was I'd be hesitant to take anything that doesn't say what's in the package. It just screams, "These are most likely games you either own or will never play, give us your money!"
      Get your American cynicism out of this thread!
      Very well. Us Americans are easily frightened but we'll be back and in greater numbers.
    1. Carl the Llama's Avatar
      Carl the Llama -
      So the Christmas box was opened! http://eu.square-enix.com/en/blog/ti...s-surprise-box

      "A couple of weeks ago we decided to try something new, and put together something we called the Square Enix Christmas Surprise Box – a mystery collection of digital PC games for one low price of £4.99/€6.99… but anybody that bought it had to wait to see what was inside!

      Wait, that is, until now – because it’s time to unwrap the box to see what’s inside! Well, here we go:

      Just Cause 2 (RRP £9.99/€14.99)
      Hitman: Blood Money (RRP £6.99/€8.99)
      Tomb Raider (RRP £29.99/€49.99)
      Dungeon Siege III (RRP £9.99/€14.99)

      Plus, we also dropped in a 20% discount voucher* to put towards purchases in the future. In total, that’s an RRP of £56.96/€88.96... and the beauty is that, if you already have any of those games, you can gift the Steam keys to your friends or family!

      Just so you know, the codes will be sent via email today (Friday December 20), but in case anything goes wrong you can also access them via your Square Enix account page at some point today."

      Pretty happy, dont have any of those game
    1. Hollycat's Avatar
      Hollycat -
      Called 2 out of 4.
      I'm considering that a win.
    1. Rantz's Avatar
      Rantz -
      I'm happy with that batch!
    1. AssassinDX's Avatar
      AssassinDX -
      I feel like I dodged a bullet somewhat, I already own Just Cause 2, rented Hitman on the PS3 and didn't enjoy it, I have little interest in Dungeon Siege and Tomb Raider was the only game I would have wanted and I get the feeling Steam will try to one-up Square Enix by selling it for £4 on its own at some point during their winter sale.
    1. Ayen's Avatar
      Ayen -
      The only game on that list I recognize is Tomb Raider. I see people are already complaining about the fact they're all Eidos game and not a single RPG is in that package.
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