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Announcement for Community Gaming


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Hello everybody! We have a few items we want to clarify and mention some upcoming plans for community gaming.

 

For starters, the awards. As most of you are aware, certain XBA members vouch for everyone's participation in a CG event HERE. After an event is over, we make a record of who participated HERE and submit you for an award when you're eligible. This has never had a deadline before (meaning 6 months later, you could be vouched for and receive credit) until now. After May 31st, members will only have one week (7 days) after an event is over to vouch or be vouched for. After that, you won't receive credit. Between now and May 31st, if you've forgotten to vouch for someone please do so before then. Moving forward after the 31st, we feel one week is plenty of time to post in the appropriate thread saying "so-and-so played such-and-such game".

 

Multiple games in one event. Everyone by now understands when our GotW has one game, no matter how times you play it during the week, it only counts as 1 credit towards your CG award. However, there's some confusion for when there's multiple titles/games/platforms. Here's the breakdown:

 

GotM- This is the month long event focused on the XB1. It will always be an XB1 game. However there will be times when it will have the same game available on the 360, such as this month's Tomb Raider. Playing this game on either platform will earn 1 credit towards your award. Playing this on both platforms will still only earn you 1 credit towards your award.

 

Replay Events- This event is the result from your votes on which games you would like to play again. There will always be 2 games to play during the week. 1 retail, 1 arcade. Playing both games will count towards your award. No more than 2 credits can be earned during this week. 1 credit for the retail game, 1 credit for the arcade game.

 

Games with Gold- This event will always be the last week of the month. When the Games with Gold are announced, we will look to see which titles are multiplayer. If both games are multiplayer, they will both be available to play during the week. Playing both games will give you 2 credits for the award. If only 1 of the free games is multiplayer, then playing that one game during the week will give you 1 credit for your award. If there are no multiplayer games available that month, then the CET will choose something to replace that month's GwG event.

 

Special Events- We sometimes have events that are a bit out of the ordinary. June will see a couple of these. We've also had some in the past. When we have a "theme" or "bulk" events such as Magic the Gathering and Guitar Hero, we are doing so simply to increase the popularity and participation. We are not trying to boost your award count. During those weeks, playing these games will only give you 1 credit towards your award. There will be some upcoming events starting in June where "extra credit" may be earned towards your award. We will mention this in the write up and if both available games are played that week, you can earn 2 credits towards your award.

 

Also, a reminder that Grid 2 will be automatically played each June and December. We want members to always have an opportunity to earn the Grid 2 award.

 

When June's write ups are posted, you'll notice some subtle changes. We hope these will benefit members looking to play during these CG events. People sometimes forget to check the thread for members looking to play. We hope the reminders to use XBL to message people along with other means will help increase participation.

 

Thank you for being a member of this wonderful community. As always, if you have any questions please ask. We are happy to help. :)

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Is there a place to sign up to get included with the people that play these?

 

Forgive me if its a stupid question or the wrong spot for it...

 

But I don't see an explanation on how to get involved with this.

 

Each week there is a new game, every week/month has its own thread. Just post in the thread for the game you want to play when that game's time comes and people will message you or you can message people that say they want to play.

 

For example. Every month one week is dedicated to a games with gold game that is multiplayer/co-op enabled. In this case it will be Bad Company 2, so just go to this thread http://www.xboxachievements.com/forum/showthread.php?t=591997 and say that you play and what timeframe and timezone you're in to make it easier to match up. You can also just post "I am on now if anyone wants to play"

 

Hope that explained it clearly or well enough.

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Is there a place to sign up to get included with the people that play these?

 

Forgive me if its a stupid question or the wrong spot for it...

 

But I don't see an explanation on how to get involved with this.

 

If you look at the main Community Gaming Forum (HERE) we put ads up for the upcoming events. So for October we have:

 

Game of the Month: October 2014 (Destiny)

Game of the Week: October 6-12 (Injustice: Gods Among Us)

Game of the Week: October 13-19 (Risk: Factions)

Replay Events: October 20-26 (Grand Theft Auto V & Castle Crashers)

Game of the Week: October 27-November 2 (Games with Gold)

 

These are also the threads were you would post if you are interested in joining in and playing with us. During the week of the event you can check the threads to see when other members are playing or one of the CET, then just jump on and send someone a message to let us know you want to play :)

 

EDIT: Ninja'd! :p

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Just so everyone knows, the absence of a replay vote for December is not a mistake. We have something special planned for Community Gaming in December, where essentially everything is a replay event. We're sifting through our past two years of events to find the best and most popular games to be part of a "Greatest Hits" month.

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So, just to alleviate any concerns, yes the announcement of January's CG games have been a little delayed. We hope to have them up later today. The delay was caused by the fact that we are making a few small changes to how the CG program operates. We will be mixing in XBox One games into the Replay program, meaning that each month will be lacking one of the types of games, so February's replay events will be XBox One and 360 retail games, March will be 360 XBLA and XBox One, etc.

 

 

We will also be adding an XBox One Game of the Week, replacing one of the 360 Game of the Week events. We will continue to hold events on both platforms, but will be shifting to what we believe is a more even mix between the two. We will also continue to play an XBox One Game of the Month, for larger, recent releases.

 

 

Here's what you can look forward to in January:

 

 

Borderlands:The Pre-Sequel

Sunset Overdrive

Halo 3: ODST & Charlie Murder (replay)

Our regular Games with Gold event

The Crew (Game of the Month)

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