[P!M!] “Playing Matters” - a group for people who play their wins

We need to emphasize that our group is oriented into beating possibly all wins. Not just trying/starting won games and dropping them. Beating games is not about just getting 25% of achievements either. Majority of games unlocks 25% of achievements way before being beaten and these dropped wins are not what we are looking for with our requirements. We have to look into each applying account personally.

While for members of PM the maintenance rule will be checked using Kelnage's scripts plus by periodically looking into playing statistics (to counter cheating etc.), when we are checking accounts of a person who applies to the group, we wish to see more than 50% of wins beaten. If account has less than half of wins taken a good care or if this percentage is unclear for us, we will prefer the future member of PM to play more of their wins first before entering our small community, where mostly everyone exceeds our minimal requirements by a decent margin and deserves similarly responsible and passionate winners.
We are totally not in hurry to make our group bigger.

We'd like to emphasize also, that entering our group while winning games outside of the group which remain not played, will not be taken lightly. An honest person should learn to control own appetites and possibilities. While we don't have specific formal rules regarding members' wins outside of PM, our group is created for people who believe that playing SG wins is the only correct approach to received gifts and who acts correspondingly and consistently to it (with the only relaxation regarding very old wins, which are still encouraged to be given a decent try). Our group formal rules are only a projection of our ideas, not the other way around. Everyone who wants to join, please seriously consider if you are up to our standards and course.

Not spammy at all - if you haven't gotten a response in the previous topic, you can reapply here without any issue.

(This also applies to others in the same situation, just in case they happen to stumble upon this reply)

Oh, I liked Mafia 1 a lot. It surprised me with how well whole setting was made and how it felt, and story was much better than it could be expected, especially compared to Godfather or most GTA titles.
I never got Mafia 2 though, had plans. Noticed a lot of DLCs, waited for complete edition which wasn't coming for too long, until this undertaking was forgotten. Recently though, I see quite a lot of praise for Mafia 2.

upd Ugh, apparently it still doesn't have a complete edition

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:blissful_creep:

Right, no level restrictions and no unnecessary country restrictions if giving away a restricted present (e.g. through Steam or some key shops).

I liked puzzle agents too. Frankly the art style and generally oversimplistic graphics of this game was the point I disliked the most, but it got covered by this funny feeling of being in this small village where everyone loves puzzles and a lot of mystic things are mixed together. It also reminds a lot (if not draws inspiration from) Twin Peaks, at least for me the feeling when playing these was somewhat close (if ignoring these visuals..)

Valkyria Chronicles is probably one of my favorite games. I got it as a present and it turned out to be a squad tactics game with a brilliant, unique mechanics (unfortunately afaik not repeated in VC2 and 3), pretty good story for this genre and generally well-developed setting. And really well-balanced difficulty.

Yes, your account satisfies minimal requirements per script, but I'd like to ask what happened with your playing wins in last few months? Your first won GA page is full of games you either didn't try or dropped. When are you planning to beat all these games? (If something is preventing you now from playing games, you seem not to take any action to win less).
There is also a number of longer games or games with no achievements dropped or not played at all.

This said, we are always glad to see more people who play wins. Your application is being handled with others atm, and your position regarding your recent wins is important; but don't be surprised if we will want to wait a bit to see how this will be resolved factually.

Hi, we didn't find available account statistics convincing enough to invite you yet.
Time passes, and things may change.
Meanwhile, you may be interested in group "Unlucky-7" where new users with less than 8 wins can win nice games.

Enjoy playing games!

You have yet to play anything so far, while also basically saying you're not interested in half of your wins already. Most of us joined random giveaways just for the sake of winning at the start of our SG experience, but we still ended up playing most of those wins.

Your current approach is pretty much against the whole point of the group, but I'll leave the actual judgement for the time when you feel you're ready to apply ;)

Some progress was made, but you're still quite ways off. Keep on playing :)

≥25% complete: 28.8% (17/59)

Ha, nice description.

Due to multiple mod team members traveling, your application may be handled not very soon.
Meanwhile, you can enjoy more of your wins to reinforce the application.

You have quite a big backlog of games you didn't touch, but most of played games look taken a good care. What is your approach to choosing games to play? Do you have many games you already know you are not going to play ever? In what time range are you going to play other games, do you plan to shorten the backlog? This may be important.

If you want intriguing.

Practically every person has potentially a possibility to join PM. Though the paths may be lengthy and difficult, bringing to the end only the ones who are sincerely closer to the group spirit.
At the core of this undertaking, we are not interested in bare statistics or promises, but it is what we ask from new persons, to show own approach by past deeds, and to accept certain rules for future acting in our group.

This said, there is no point in explaining what we are looking exactly for or what you should do. We don't want to make others to act in a way to fit the profile formally, going far from what feels natural. We wish to gather a collective of individuals who are already looking in the same direction as the group, on their own, for this shall be directed by inner drives, not anyone's guidance, and accepted deeply.

Just do as you feel like doing. You will get to every place which is supposed for you. Maybe some day adventures bring you closer to our lands :3 I think our available info on Steam gets pretty rich image of the group spirit.

Very unlikely to have that happen in our group as we try to give away stuff worth playing, not broken messes that almost nobody would be willing to join. But if it did happen, it would be discussed on a case-by-case basis, depending on if there truly is no solution that could fix the game and various other factors.

I don't make rules for other groups, so I can't speak for Playing Appreciated. Gonna have to ask someone else for their group.

as per Playing Appreciated: gave away a lot of those games :P

shouldn't be a problem, tho: giveaway creator could already know that, and act consequently (approving your "win" even with a very low score). if not, it takes a message to PA thread and/or GA creator, PA group @steam, any PA mod... to get things done :D

Happy cakeday and no, you are very far from meeting the requirements for application.

Oh, I enjoyed LiS 1 a lot too <3

Glad you are reapplying.
I remember trying Westerado and it felt really addictive. Despite not being fond of its general mechanics, played a few hours to get to the end, it has so many small fun things. I understand the game has multiple endings and a lot of secrets to explore, optional quests and events. Glad you have had so much fun exploring all this!