The Reverse Gamerscore Whore Challenge!

[Transience8985]

I'm throwing this out there to see if anyone is interested.  I had this idea the other day, but I'm not sure if it'd be fun or worthwhile to organize, so let me know and if there's enough interest we'll run it.

I propose a Reverse Gamerscore Whore Challenge.  Basically, it's like a gamerscore challenge, but one in which you have to avoid earning achievements.  Here are the rules:

1. A start date will be announced.  Anytime on or after that start date, the participants will make a new silver account (which is free, though you can upgrade it to gold if you really want to), and send a friend request to me on that GT, as well as a message through Milk telling me they want to register that tag in the competition.  At this point I'll add it, verify that it has 0 gamerscore, then send an email back giving the go-ahead to start the contest.

2. The contest will run a significant amount of time given it's larger scale than most (6 months?).

3.  Once the go-ahead is given, each player will play games on their alternate gamertag, attempting to finish the single-player campaign.  During this time, the player must avoid earning achievements while finishing the game.  However, there must be an achievement earned at the end of the game showing it's completed, that way the completion of the game is verifyable.

4. The choice of games will be up to the player, but it's best to focus on shorter games that reward little gamerscore along the way, or has easily avoidable achievements.  Games must be the full version of any retail Xbox 360 game, or any full version XBLA title.  You can play on any difficulty as long as it has a game completion achievement.

5. At the end of the contest, each player will submit a list via the site of all the games they completed on that tag during the contest.  These games will be verified to see if the "completed game" achievements are unlocked.

6. Each completed retail game will earn the player 1000 points.  Each completed XBLA game will earn 200 points.  However, the total gamerscore of the contest gamertag will be subtracted from your score, whether that score comes from a completed game or not.  Highest total points wins.

7. The winner will be announced and will win a prize.  The prize will likely be fairly large (any retail game $60 or less?) since it's a long contest.

Let me know what you think.  Would this be a good contest or a shitty one?  Do you see any potential problems or need anything clarified in the rules?  Any other suggestions?  If this works out we may start it Jan 1 2011 or even sooner if people want to start sooner.

[THE (jb) CAPE]

yes...... this is terrible.

[Irishbrewed]

Can we use steam games?

[THE (jb) CAPE]

fuck you tripod!!!!!!!!!

[Transience8985]

I don't know if any conversion would be required, but maybe things could be adjusted to include other systems. I'd have to get back to you on that.

Irishbrewed said:

Can we use steam games?

[DDTM Admin]

I think it sounds like a cool idea.

[Transience8985]

Dear sir,

Read the rules before commenting. I said you score 1000 points for each SINGLE PLAYER retail game and 200 for each SINGLE PLAYER XBLA game FINISHED (as in beat the campaign). At the end this is totaled up and your total gamerscore for that alt tag is subtracted. So you score points for beating games but lose points for earning achievements. So not playing on that tag at all will leave you with a score of 0 at the end, and playing multiplayer games doesn't earn you squat, but can hurt you if you earn achievements in the process (plus since it's a silver tag you won't be able to play MP on it).

Dummyface.

Flibbity Floid said:

I think it sounds rather stupid. Unless you're playing SP or new games, you could just play MP games that have no achivements or play your SP without signing in your Gamertag.
And on IB's proposal - even stupider b/c not every achievement/trophy/whathaveyou matches

[RED RING]

Meh, this seems like too much of a beating for me. Besides, once I finish Far Cry 2, I think I'm done with the xbox for awhile. I'm not planning to start any new games until Cat. I'd be up for some MP RDR or L4D or something, but I'm phasing out of the box for awhile.

[RED RING]

Yeah, but I'm phasing out of the xbox. I'm waiting for Cat, so I won't be on for awhile.

Flibbity Floid said:

You've been saying this for almost every post since the new WoW announcement.

"I'm done with the xbox for a while"
"More wow. Less xbox"
"blah blah unimportance blah blah"

RROD said:

Meh, this seems like too much of a beating for me. Besides, once I finish Far Cry 2, I think I'm done with the xbox for awhile. I'm not planning to start any new games until Cat. I'd be up for some MP RDR or L4D or something, but I'm phasing out of the box for awhile.

[RED RING]

more WoW
less box

Flibbity Floid said:

[Transience8985]

[Travers36]

[THE (jb) CAPE]

how is that game? ive had interest but never picked it up.

RROD said:

Meh, this seems like too much of a beating for me. Besides, once I finish Far Cry 2, I think I'm done with the xbox for awhile. I'm not planning to start any new games until Cat. I'd be up for some MP RDR or L4D or something, but I'm phasing out of the box for awhile.