Playing events?

There are already several groups doing exactly this.
Maybe you should join them and follow their rules if you qualify.

I mean its a good idea but a 20-30 hour game to be 100% on a weekend is a pretty tight timeframe. But I would try to give it a shot never the less ;)

Its a nice idea, but i think that just a weekend to 100% a 30h game is a bit steep.
At least i dont see me playing 3 days in row for 7-10h on 3 consecutive days for this amount of time.
But i mean thats just me. I guess there are for sure people out there who wouldnt mind at all :)

Still much appreciate the thought of making an event for the community and i hope it will be a success \o/

The thing is it's definitely going to be hard to pick and complete such games in such a short time.
It'd definitely be a challenging experience. Could be fun though depending on the number of participants.

Hopefully 100% is not achievement-wise?
I think 48 hours is pretty short for a game over 10 hours. But if you want to go for long games, maybe at least 5 days would be fair, or even a whole week.
Personally I have way passed my "marathon anything" age. :)

mass suicide from exhaustion event

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While I love a challenge, 2 days (or 3 if it ends on Monday evening) for a 20 hours game is a bit steep if one has something planned for the weekend. I just hope it would be okay to combine it with other playing events.

Also, as others mentioned, cheaters... yeah, that can make things a bit harder for you. I've seen some on other similar events and it's pretty hard to weed them all out.

If people don't have enough time to properly play and enjoy the game, and instead are speedrunning it over the weekend, doesn't that technically defeat the purpose of "playing" it for the intended purpose? Or does the giveaway maker want the player to skip all cutscenes and not remember the game at all?

All I can imagine is this:

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For comparison playing matters group gives you three months and playing appreciated group one month to play your win. With monthly in a month it's also one month but you have to play six games. IMHO for a 20-30h game it should be at least a week of time.

Man, some games achievements just suck. I've spent hundreds of hours in games just to find out it would require hundreds of more hours straight grinding just to get all the achievements. I actually kind of like a soft hour rule, even if it means the game isn't complete. Sometimes you just bounce off a game despite how you think you'd feel about it and it'd be cool just to move on (and put the rest of the hours into another applicable game). I think if you wanted to reward people doing speed or challenge runs probably the easiest way would be to solicit posts and then manually invite them.

I'm a big fan of playing events (PAGYWOSG, POP) and I like the idea of spicing it up (shorter time, 100% required), although just 1 weekend is a bit too steep for me.

"Alpha female: furries and robots"??? That's my #1 wishlisted game, thank you!

As others said I think a weekend could be a little too difficult and too excessive to play 10h a day..
I would suggest first start with a week just to start the event and people understand it better and see what works and what doesn't.. Get feedback from participants. Personally I would rarely participant in something like this as it's a weekend also and if 1 day you are busy, 1 day to grind is maybe too much...
Also in "Monthly in a Month" where you have to play humble bundle monthly/choice 6-7 games and have to just beat them and the time is 1-2months, On average I think about 23 people do the challenge, so you might get just 5 people max finishing the challenge(if it's just 2-3days).. Also depends on the game/s as prizes probably.

Maya did a very similar event two years in a row (although it's 20 hours worth of games for 10 days... yeah, even if I was in my best possible mood and had no IRL distractions, a weekend would be pushing my luck). Hasn't done it again since then so I'd guess it was super stressful to manage.

Sounds good! Except 2 days is quite short for a 20h-30h game. I can, but I really shouldn't :P Maybe 5 days or a week?

I personally like the idea, but I wouldn't join, because I play based on mood and time, and usually I use weekends to rest after week of work; I think you made an ideea of how i play my games and I complete them (I do it, but not in such a short time).

I remember similar event year ago:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/iDN6L/giveaways-live-gaming-event-2in20-no2/search?page=2

You can check it to see how things worked. For me it ended premeturelly because one of the games that I selected had game breaking bug in the middle playthrough xD And because of f***ed up save system I had to start from the beginning.

ANyway - I don't really have time to take part in that kind of events nowadays xD

bump for alpha females and bump for the event. Idea is great , but unfortunately impossible for mommies/daddies :3 . But I do remember attending these types of runs before.

Similar to this also maybe playing events++ achievement running, I also remember doing achievement runs with fellow sgifters - like multiplayer deathmatch achievements for shooters , or extreme hard co-op campaign achievements...

now I feel sad as I am old and grumpy and no time for those , looking forward for my little shit to grow up and play games with me.

so I chose "Cancel event, add me on steam and just buy me all games" to leach for glory and salvation.

Wow. It sounds fun on a detached level, a race on stopwatch for a price, but the more i think about it the more stressfull it seems.
Anyway i would watch who made to the final line but would never participate myself...

im someone who usually finish games in a year, and playing appreciated i feel like speedrushing on crack. Im that much of a slowpoke playing games- it all adds up: time per playing session + me exploring every nook and cranny and doubling back, reading everything, smelling the roses, reloading saves a lot because i suck... and now that steam added notes, for someone like me that often make longer pauses? Now im also taking notes on top, in case i suspend and come back waaay after

Also 100% achievements...? That means every game that have harder difficulties with achievements attached, heck some even tie then to gameplus...

And that is where it crumbles to me- its one thing speedrunning or taking on a challenge you know your way around; You know if its feasible, maybe you finished it on hard so nightmare could be doable... UNPLAYED tough? How to know if you can even fiinish normal in that time, even harder to imagine if you can 100%

sounds good! I would be interested in joining another group.

I would join an event like that of there was more time. Like, playing long games in a limited ammount of time sounds cool. But a weekend?

Not really feasible or practical for me, but it's not mandatory :P whoever likes the rules and feels like they can achieve it can join.

Original idea sounded too masochistically, some suggestions contained in your edits making it definitely a bit more humane :D
Anyway, chances I would enter such event are low to zero, so I'm just bumping this thread as I entered that Alpha female: furries and robots giveaway.

Bump!
Am more of a stubborn lazy gamer than a driven, competitive gamer. But there seem to be interested folks with nice suggestions. Good luck!

Sounds fun but I agree with the general sentiment that a week is probably a better time frame.
You selected a great game to start your event. I enjoyed the game so much (after I won it in CJComplex's event last year) that I started and completed a NG+ as soon as I finished my first playthrough.