Talk:Gift Wrap/Archive 1

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Tradable?

The main page says "purchase only" but also that it's tradable? Is that an error, or is it actually tradeable?

• Correct. I've purchased one myself, traded it to another account, then wrapped up an item and delivered it back to my own account. The original item you get from the store can be traded. The packaged gift (if I remember) cannot be traded; it must be activated (like a Paint or Name Tag) to deliver it to someone.RukiTanuki 16:10, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Gifting process

Right now, the wiki reads "After the gift is opened, the gifted item will have a descriptive 'tag' telling you who sent the gift and when you received it." I think this can be made more useful.

I propose that we expand it that so it'll be more informative. I was thinking, "After buying the gift wrap from the Mann Co store, you can use it with any item from your backpack, including untradeables. This will create a (gift? I have no idea what it looks like). You then select a player to send the gift to. The gifted player can select the gift and click on "use with" to receive his gift. After the gift is opened, the gifted item will have a descriptive 'tag' telling you who sent the gift and when you received it. In addition, any untradeable items will become tradeable when gifted."

I would have added the above, but I don't have first hand experience with it. All the above information were gained from the forums and in-game chats.

ShunyValdez 04:28, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Gift Wrap-able or Gift-Wrappable?

Both are used on this page, which one would be grammatically correct? I am inclined to think gift wrappable is correct, but I'm not sure. Time wave 05:45, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm going to put my ridiculous degree to use and say that gift-wrappable (arguably without the hyphen) is probably the most correct option.::Scurve :: 05:47, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd say that it would be Gift-Wrappable because Gift Wrap-able looks a bit more like slang, or a way that children would spell it.::Attaint 00:44, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

New Quote Suggestion

While I agree that the current quote from the Scout quite readily fits the Gift Wrap, I did get a good chuckle out of this line from the Soldier: *"I'm gonna mail my boot to the Kaiser with your ass around it!" Wasn't sure if I should make this a serious suggestion or not, just thought I'd throw it out to see if others agree. --Fragment of Nothing 18:56, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Cap

Err the Wiki Cap isn't mentioned at all. It's true that the Community Weapons are being spoken of, but hats aren't weapons. Soo should it be renamed to Community Items instead of Weapons or add the Wiki Cap near the other non gift-able items? Vulturas 11:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Gift-Wrap is Gift-Wrappable?

YO DAWG, WE HEARD YOU LIKE GIFTS, SO WE PUT A GIFT IN YO GIFT SO YOU CAN GIFT WHILE YOU GIFT. Seriously, has anyone done that? :P McComBat 23:21, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Sir, please talk like that on the steam forums. there it is acceptable. On topic, most likely seeing how it is "giftable". -= M-NINJA =- 21:33, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't intend to sound offensive or something :( McComBat 19:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Mann Co. Cap

The page for the Mann Co. Cap states that it is not giftable, but it isn't included on the list here. Is this a mistake? --Fragment of Nothing 20:29, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I've added it to the list for now. ^Scatman _John (Talk | Contrib) 20:36, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Dev Weapon really not gift wrap-able?

Are we assuming this or is there concrete proof of this? I'm just asking because thought the policy was "NEVER TO ASSUME." Girlycard / Suika-kkuri [CP-ORIGINS] 04:33, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

If Dev Weapons were gift wrappable, havoc would happen. Tilde tilde tilde tilde. Amidoinitrite? Sparkpin out. 16:23, 24 July 2011 (PDT)

Video demostration

Maybe this article need an explanation with a video. Anyone can do it with a HD and panoramic video? Dio ★ (talk) 08:41, 28 July 2011 (PDT)

Regifting?

If you receive a gift and have a tradeable item that says "Gifted by [whomever]," can you re-place that item in gift wrap and send it to someone else? If you do, will it say "Gifted by [your name]" instead of the other person's name? - GAMEchief 13:47, 10 September 2011 (PDT)

I can confirm for a fact you can do this. I did this with my unusual trilby because I didn't like the gifted text that was originally on it. Additional question. If the person who gifts an item changes their name, does the gifted text change or is it locked into the name at the time of the gifting? Desiderata03 22:30, 18 November 2011 (PST)

Like the "Crafted by:" text, the gift text changes when the gifter changes their name. TheIgnorantMedic 03:22, 19 June 2012 (PDT)

Black Rose Knife untradable

Gave a guy a gift-wrap for his Spy Knife, the Black Rose, but it wouldn't work on the item. This may be an oversight and fixed later on down the line, like the majority of other achievement-related items. DarkQuill 00:34, 17 February 2012 (PST)

Race occurence of Gift Wrap duplicating

I gift wrapped myself a Black Rose from one of my alts. I received the Black Rose and unwrapped it, but it also stayed wrapped on my alt, wrapped and fully tradable. The Wrapped Gift duplicated itself. You can see that here, page 9: http://tf2b.com/tf2/daverik Should I add it under the "Bugs" section? --SLBros 13:34, 23 July 2012 (PDT)

Since when do strange counters no longer preserve kills?

Apparently, Gift Wrap has been 'nerfed' recently. I'm just wondering WHEN Valve did this change, because there is nothing in the update history of this page. - Selbi 10:16, 9 March 2013 (PST)

Decal Tools cannot be gift-wrapped

I'm not sure how to edit the list but here's proof: http://imgur.com/GXQIWCp (it has a gifted tag because it came from a Secret Saxton). — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fishercat5 (talk) • (contribs) 20:56, 16 April 2013

Added. -- Seven Five Seven 14:14, 16 April 2013 (PDT)

Rented Items?

Should rented Items be on the List of non-gift wrap items? Barack Obama (talk) 18:38, 31 May 2014 (PDT)

No. As they're just regular items just rented. So no need to list them. Ashes (talk) 18:41, 31 May 2014 (PDT)

Gift-Wrapped Items Non-Craftable?

I recently got a gift form someone called [unknown], and tried to use it in crafting. All the items I'm trying to use don't say not useable in crafting, but I still can't craft.Darkswirl (talk) 11:12, 14 November 2014 (PST)

Stuffed Stocking and Halloween Cauldron

Since the wiki-page only lists items that are confirmed to be non-wrappable, I'm interested to know, if the Gift-Stuffed Stocking and the Halloween Gift Cauldron work with the Gift Wrap. I'm not sure if it would help to have a list of "Confirmed wrapable non-tradables". BadKarMa (talk) 11:23, 28 December 2014 (PST)

Both of their pages state that they can't be gifted, so I guess the Gift Wrap can't be used with them. --Omolong (talk) 11:26, 28 December 2014 (PST)

Gifts untradeable (and undeliverable) for a week

I just had to find out the hard way that when you wrap up an item with freshly-purchased Gift-Wrap, you cannot trade NOR deliver the gift. Just putting this warning out there. DatWut (talk) 14:24, 14 April 2015 (PDT)

February 29th update

As is well known by now and already report in the page, in Feb 19 patch Gift Wrap was made unusable on untradable items. An unreported change I've just noticed however is that almost every item (that I've checked so far) was also made giftable during the same update. This means there is no change to items that are always untradable and before now were also ungiftable, but it means that all the items that were tradable but ungiftable are now actually giftable.

As of such I think a review of the Item giftability list may be in order. - Tasty Salamanders (talk) 21:45, 9 March 2016 (PST)

I removed most of the tradable items, however I left Gift Wrap because despite it now being "giftable" in the schema, it won't work if you try to wrap a copy of itself. I did wrap a piece of scrap though. Also I wasn't sure what to do regarding Halloween Spells, given their history, but they are currently untradable so just left them there. - Tasty Salamanders (talk) 22:27, 9 March 2016 (PST)

Confirmed: You can use Description Tags on Wrapped Gifts:

On my previous edit on the page, I mentioned that I was unsure if you could use Desc Tags on it. Well, looks like I was right: https://imgur.com/a/y5ZuXBO. Just wanted to put this somewhere, I don't want to edit the page just to add that on the summary edit. - ▪ - 21:03, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Free To Play Players are unable to use the Gift Wrap

And the Giftapult as well. Very unfortunate, because I wanted to wrap something for a friend. Play doh clay doh (talk) 09:04, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

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