Following on the heels of Jeremy's 'Year' review', JCB decided to post a 10 year gift list.

This season marks the 10th year that holiday gifts have been distributed. Lets take a look back at what has been given for each year.

1997
The launch of our glorious game! The developers started the time honored tradition here of giving out gifts on holidays. During the first year, nearly every major American holiday saw gifts distributed. Even St Patrick's Day. Not only were gifts distributed, but Santa Claus and his Reindeer spawned on production shards. You could even kill Santa and loot his prized red chainmail tunic.

Gifts were distributed based on your notoriety If you had bad karma, you got a bag saying "You were naughty this year!" and it held a lump of coal, switches, spam, etc. Good karma players got a Season's Greetings card, Bottle of Champagne, Fruitcake, etc.
http://www.uorares.com/Database/Item...oliday1997.php


1998
This year saw a change in how gifts were distributed. Instead of just getting the gifts in a bag you received a numbered ticket. You had to find another player with a matching number ticket to claim your gifts. This added a whole new dynamic and adventure to gift collecting. But it might have been a little too difficult with dozens of different numbered tickets. Also changed was the number of gifts. You could only select one.

Gifts given were Black Dye Tub, Coupon for Free Hair Restyling, Deed for a Holiday Tree, Fireworks Wand, one random Piece of Ranger Armor or Spyglass (not tinkererable at the time).
http://www.uorares.com/Database/Item...oliday1997.php


1999
One of the greatest holiday seasons in my opinion. It had the perfect balance of desirable gifts and you still had to interact with other players. But this time only two tickets had to be matched, no fiddling with numbers. Once again you could only select one gift.

Gifts given were Clothing Bless Deed, Holiday Timepiece, Deed for a Holiday Tree, Deed for a Potted Plant, Holiday Timepiece and Pile of Snow.
http://www.uorares.com/Database/Item...oliday1999.php


2000
This year saw two major changes to the gift giving system. One was the elimination of having to interact with other players. You simply double-clicked your holiday ticket and claimed a gift. The second was the obvious "dumbing down" of gifts. Previous season gifts were turning out to be worth tons of gold. To try and "fix" the problem only two new gifts were given. Some very lucky players were treated with a rare white bell. However, the town snowglobes and bells were still a very good gifts in my opinion. It would have been nice though to have more choices which had more year round use.

Gifts given were Deed for a Holiday Tree, Pile of Snow, Holiday Bells and Snow Globes for cities.
http://www.uorares.com/Database/Item...oliday2000.php


2001
Almost exactly the same as last year except Bells were changed to Statues. The snow globes were changed to different names also. One nice change was the the introduction of artificial rarity in the statues.

Gifts given were a Deed for a Holiday Tree, Pile of Snow, Holiday Statues and Snow Globes for new locations.
http://www.uorares.com/Database/Item...oliday2001.php


2002
You might think that this year (2007) is the first time gifts were regifted. I thought so too until I created this list and saw it happened in 2002. Only one thing changed this year and that was the name of the wrist watch to a holiday timepiece.

Gifts given were Deed for a Holiday Tree, Pile of Snow, Holiday Statues (same as last year), Holiday Timepiece, Snow Globes [City] and Snow Globes [other].
http://www.uorares.com/Database/Item...oliday2002.php


2003
After such a disappointing previous year, the development team turned it around and came out with some decent gifts. One big change was the elimination of cards and the introduction of the gift box container.

Gifts given were the gift box, Poinsettia (red flowers), pile of snow, holiday wreath, snow flake, [incomplete gift list]


2004
Gifts given were gift box, mistetoe, Light of Winter Solstice Candles, one of three random winter themed potted plants, [incomplete gift list]


2005
Gifts given were gift box, sleigh, reindeer [incomplete gift list]


2006
After reusing the same package for years, finally a new one. The red and green stockings were a delightful change. As with previous years all the items were very holiday themed, but at least there were many.

Gifts given were stocking, gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cookie recipe, gingerbread mini-house deed, candy canes and a card from a random developer to your character.


2007
The current year. An exact rehash of last year's gifts except the date on the card was changed to 2007. It is such a shame that the prior year was pretty good and then to have it redone exactly. This is even worse than what happened in 2002, at least then you had the chance to get some old snow globes or try again for a rare statue.

Gifts given were stocking, gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cookie recipe, gingerbread mini-house deed, candy canes and a card from a random developer to your character.

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JCB's list brought this response from Jeremy

This is a really neat and useful list - thanks!

E. Jeremy Dalberg
UO Community Coordinator
EA Mythic
www.uo.com

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Hear ,hear JCB a nice little wander down memory lane

I haven't gotten anything this year. Did you?

I have a char on LS that I never play but do log to collect gifts etc.. so heres what I have for her:
2003: same as below
2004: snowy tree (1 of 3 random plants), glacial snow, candle, mistletoe deed
2005: big ?? have a box w/o dates but it has a snowglobe, reindeer deed, tree deed, soulstone frag token
2006 & 7: same ole thing.. gingerbread cookies, candy canes, card, pile of snow, gingerbread house deed

As far as I can tell, the giftboxes only contain 4 items, random colors on the boxes, candles, snowmen, wreath deeds, and 1 of 3 random on the themed plants.

I vote for new stuff or a rerun from way way back... I want sum eggnog!

I still would give all my g-g-g-gifts fer a nice ethereal donkey if UO would g-g-g-get der act together and make one.

Dat would be cool.