Post by Duckbreaker on Jan 8, 2022 14:39:35 GMT
Welcome, future slaves of duck kind, to the 2022 Play What You Get, Get What You Play challenge, often affectionately referred to as PIGWHIP!
FOR NEWBIES: THE ELEVATOR PITCH!
Spending too much cash on games you never play? Dipping into games for a few hours and then abandoning them? What you need is a bit of a social covenant to get that shit back in order!
You can go cold turkey and just play ten games for the whole year, as some of your fellow forumites have done. That'll force you to make better choices and actually play what you get.
If that's too hardcore, many forumites opt for an easier challenge: play as many games as they like, but limited to only a few at a time. Before you can play more, you need to finish what you've already started. Three at a time for the pure, four or five at a time for the weak.
That's Pigwhip in a nutshell. Read on for the devils in the details.
FOR THE OLD HANDS: WHY ARE WE HERE?
For Graxlar, it's an annual ritual of self immolation before a group of peers. For founding failure Phattso it's some horseshit about reconnecting with a lost youth. For duck puppeteers nazo and Samildanach it's about having the word "preorder" expunged from the lexicon.
For you, though? Maybe it's that you want to wring more value from your hobby. Maybe it's that you want to curb your spending entirely and explore the backlog. Maybe it's because you want some discipline in gaming, to free you up to spend more time curing all disease and learning to play all the instruments.
Frankly, I don't care. You're here, under my beady gaze, and I will hound you throughout this year until you get that which you seek. Or a bloody good hiding.
THE CHALLENGES
For this iteration of PIGWHIP, there are four challenges on offer, and people will be knocked down to "easier" challenges if they fail at proper ones:
π THE TEN GAME CHALLENGE
The pinnacle of pigwhipping.
Any game you owned before the 1st of January 2022 is available for you to play as much as you like. From that date forward you can only obtain ten new games. I say "obtain" and not "buy" because I don't care if you bought it, found it, fucked it, pre-ordered it, got it from Aunty Maude on your birfday, borrowed it from the Pope, or coded it yourself. Ten. Games. New to you. Only. Or else.
We don't care if you finish them, only that they number ten or fewer. You can demote yourself to a lesser challenge at any time, as long as the number of games you've played doesn't exceed the slots. Once you have more than five, therefore, you're totally locked into this challenge. Stay strong!
π₯ THREE SLOT HERO
You can play as many games as you like, but only three at a time. Once a game is in a slot, to get it off your list you need to complete* it. New games count. Backlog games (after a 2hr grace period) count. DLC counts. Subscription service games are treated as backlog. Basically the same as last year.
* see updated rules on completion below
π₯ FOUR SLOT PRETENDER
As with the three slot challenge, but allowing you a fourth simultaneous game because you're weak-willed and disgusting. But at least you're trying, and I'll allow a sliver of grudging respect for you. This was literally last year's challenge, and that so many made it to the end confirms that it was a bridge too far. Easy mode.
π₯ FIVE SLOT FAILURE IN WAITING
Why are you even here? Is an attention span something that only happens in sci-fi novels when humankind has evolved? I can't even look at you. Begone from my sight (and site) with your five slots.
WHO IS PLAYING?
All participants from last year have been re-entered this year in the THREE SLOT HERO challenge. Anyone that wants to upgrade to THE TEN GAME CHALLENGE needs to declare that before the end of January. Anyone that hasn't popped into the thread to throw their hat in the ring by the end of January will be automatically removed from the challenge.
New peeps can petition to join throughout the year.
NEW RULES ON WHAT COMPLETION MEANS!
There are three ways to "complete" a game:
π― The traditional way. You know: finish the bastard thing. Credits rolled. For people in the three slot challenge: we're watching.
π° Cashing out. You can "finish" a game if you've spent at least 1 hour playing it for every Β£1 (or euro, or dollar, or whatever) you spent on it. That's easy for actual purchases, but for services like GamePass, you can count the cost as the RRP for one month of that service. Game Pass Ultimate? That's 13 hours, my failing friend. But there's a catch: you can't have more cashed out games than traditional completions. No easy way out for you.
ππ½ββοΈ Beg His Duckness for forgiveness and plead your case to the thread. You need a simple majority in favour, out of those expressing an opinion, to get it off your list.
USE EMOJI OR YOUR UPDATES WILL BE IGNORED!
Please let us know you've started something new with the traditional π¦Name of Game.
When you complete a game, you need to use one of the above three icons: π―π°ππ½ββοΈName of Game.
This is mainly because my minions gripe and moan at how tedious it is to parse everyone's blather for actual updates, and participants complain at missed updates.
Additionally, you can refer to last year's first post for more of the nitty gritty rules and we will update this post with reminders if any of you go off the rails. We're mostly old hands at this now - take the piss at your peril!
FOR NEWBIES: THE ELEVATOR PITCH!
Spending too much cash on games you never play? Dipping into games for a few hours and then abandoning them? What you need is a bit of a social covenant to get that shit back in order!
You can go cold turkey and just play ten games for the whole year, as some of your fellow forumites have done. That'll force you to make better choices and actually play what you get.
If that's too hardcore, many forumites opt for an easier challenge: play as many games as they like, but limited to only a few at a time. Before you can play more, you need to finish what you've already started. Three at a time for the pure, four or five at a time for the weak.
That's Pigwhip in a nutshell. Read on for the devils in the details.
FOR THE OLD HANDS: WHY ARE WE HERE?
For Graxlar, it's an annual ritual of self immolation before a group of peers. For founding failure Phattso it's some horseshit about reconnecting with a lost youth. For duck puppeteers nazo and Samildanach it's about having the word "preorder" expunged from the lexicon.
For you, though? Maybe it's that you want to wring more value from your hobby. Maybe it's that you want to curb your spending entirely and explore the backlog. Maybe it's because you want some discipline in gaming, to free you up to spend more time curing all disease and learning to play all the instruments.
Frankly, I don't care. You're here, under my beady gaze, and I will hound you throughout this year until you get that which you seek. Or a bloody good hiding.
THE CHALLENGES
For this iteration of PIGWHIP, there are four challenges on offer, and people will be knocked down to "easier" challenges if they fail at proper ones:
π THE TEN GAME CHALLENGE
The pinnacle of pigwhipping.
Any game you owned before the 1st of January 2022 is available for you to play as much as you like. From that date forward you can only obtain ten new games. I say "obtain" and not "buy" because I don't care if you bought it, found it, fucked it, pre-ordered it, got it from Aunty Maude on your birfday, borrowed it from the Pope, or coded it yourself. Ten. Games. New to you. Only. Or else.
We don't care if you finish them, only that they number ten or fewer. You can demote yourself to a lesser challenge at any time, as long as the number of games you've played doesn't exceed the slots. Once you have more than five, therefore, you're totally locked into this challenge. Stay strong!
π₯ THREE SLOT HERO
You can play as many games as you like, but only three at a time. Once a game is in a slot, to get it off your list you need to complete* it. New games count. Backlog games (after a 2hr grace period) count. DLC counts. Subscription service games are treated as backlog. Basically the same as last year.
* see updated rules on completion below
π₯ FOUR SLOT PRETENDER
As with the three slot challenge, but allowing you a fourth simultaneous game because you're weak-willed and disgusting. But at least you're trying, and I'll allow a sliver of grudging respect for you. This was literally last year's challenge, and that so many made it to the end confirms that it was a bridge too far. Easy mode.
π₯ FIVE SLOT FAILURE IN WAITING
Why are you even here? Is an attention span something that only happens in sci-fi novels when humankind has evolved? I can't even look at you. Begone from my sight (and site) with your five slots.
WHO IS PLAYING?
All participants from last year have been re-entered this year in the THREE SLOT HERO challenge. Anyone that wants to upgrade to THE TEN GAME CHALLENGE needs to declare that before the end of January. Anyone that hasn't popped into the thread to throw their hat in the ring by the end of January will be automatically removed from the challenge.
New peeps can petition to join throughout the year.
NEW RULES ON WHAT COMPLETION MEANS!
There are three ways to "complete" a game:
π― The traditional way. You know: finish the bastard thing. Credits rolled. For people in the three slot challenge: we're watching.
π° Cashing out. You can "finish" a game if you've spent at least 1 hour playing it for every Β£1 (or euro, or dollar, or whatever) you spent on it. That's easy for actual purchases, but for services like GamePass, you can count the cost as the RRP for one month of that service. Game Pass Ultimate? That's 13 hours, my failing friend. But there's a catch: you can't have more cashed out games than traditional completions. No easy way out for you.
ππ½ββοΈ Beg His Duckness for forgiveness and plead your case to the thread. You need a simple majority in favour, out of those expressing an opinion, to get it off your list.
USE EMOJI OR YOUR UPDATES WILL BE IGNORED!
Please let us know you've started something new with the traditional π¦Name of Game.
When you complete a game, you need to use one of the above three icons: π―π°ππ½ββοΈName of Game.
This is mainly because my minions gripe and moan at how tedious it is to parse everyone's blather for actual updates, and participants complain at missed updates.
Additionally, you can refer to last year's first post for more of the nitty gritty rules and we will update this post with reminders if any of you go off the rails. We're mostly old hands at this now - take the piss at your peril!
