We're working on new rules right now, sit tight if you're waiting to join - we'll open a new thread shortly :)


This thread was opened to introduce the group Backlog Assassins Extraordinaire, or BLAEO for short. This is what we do:

  • Play our backlog-games [mostly focusing on SG wins first]
  • Post about our progress in dedicated threads and here on SG on our brand-new website O.O (thanks to mandrill!)
  • Possibly sometimes share giveaways (this is not a GA group, there are no ratio requirements or any expectations of GAs)
  • Play games based on monthly themes

What you need to have if you'd like to join us:

  • An SG account
  • A Steam account with unfinished games (i.e., a Steam backlog)
  • A willingness to work on your backlog

Requirement to stay in the group:
Please set up your backlog plan in your profile on our website and sort your games there, or post your progress thread in our Steam forums sometime within 3 weeks of joining - otherwise we may think you're not serious about your backlog and may ask you to leave the group ^^
Reply to this post if you'd like to join. Feel free to ask questions about the group here as well - I can't promise any answers, but I'll do my best.

We recently started excluding inactive members (no posts or organizing their profiles on the website since joining 4 weeks ago or earlier). If you feel we've made mistake excluding you, please post here with your reason(s) or contact us in the group's chat.

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Hummm... I've looked at this thread for countless times. I have a serious backlog. I don't like 'interrupting a story'. So if I'm on a schedule, like I usually am, I go for something map or level based I can leave and pick up whenever. Not really conductive to finishing stuff.

How do people order their backlogs? Want? Time? Value? I'm confused.

Would be soo in, if I knew where to start. :D Someone make me a list!

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Sent you an invite. :) You can have a look at the backlog threads and see for yourself what each member's approach is for some inspiration. My approach is to simply go in the order of the games I won. :P

As you probably don't have a lot of time, I would suggest checking http://howlongtobeat.com/ and starting with games that are shorter.

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Yep, quietly and very slowly working on my backlog here. I'd like to join.

8 years ago
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Invited :)

8 years ago
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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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What about multiplayer games like Counter Strike games, Left 4 Dead and many many many others ?

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I don't know anything about CS, but L4D has a singleplayer campaign, so you can consider it complete after you're done with that. For games that don't have a singleplayer campaign, you could set up a goal for yourself, like, play until a certain point, or you can skip multiplayer games altogether. It's all up to you. Let me know if you'd like to join.

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Sure i want to join ! :) But this week it's a bit hard for me to work on my backlog, because holidays, I visit my parents :)
Okay for multiplayer games !

8 years ago
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No problem, take your time. :) Sent you an invite.

8 years ago
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Thanks ! I joined :)

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I thought something about that too.... so I decided to just ignore multiplayer games (of course, I can play them, but don't try to "finish them". Actually I even did a multiplayer category in my Steam to know what games won't be in my Backlog Extermination.

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I think i'll do the same, make a special category for or ignore if I don't really like some of them ;)

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Is a good idea... this way you know what games you can finish, and what you can't. I have "100% - Perfect Games"; "Finished", "Unfinished" and "Installed" categories :D

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If you guys are still recruiting i'd love to join. I've finally sorted my backlog into groups to tackle them easier and I think i'm ready to get these games played :)
Seeing others do the same would be awesome motivation.

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Sent you an invite. :)

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Do you happen to have an open slot? :)

I seem to have a 'small' impulse control issue when it comes to buying bundles/sales/etc. ;)

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Always :)

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noticed, thanks <3

8 years ago
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Well, if there's a spot still remaining I'd like to apply! Have been trying my hardest to play my backlog but it's grown so big. How did that happen? :P

8 years ago
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Right? This thing is like endless. :P Invited.

8 years ago
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I know how you feel. Bundles and sales are the culprit, I think.

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I would like to try to get my backlog out of the way. Thing like this motivate me to play new games (well, not new, but games that i haven't played yet).

8 years ago
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Invite sent. :)

8 years ago
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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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oh sorry! I've had a very busy period (I'm a very busy person).
I'm filling in the website in my spare time, will try to post a thread on the forums this evening if I remember (I've set an alarm)

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It's fine if you just want to use the website, the forum post requirement is just a leftover from before we had the website and now mainly serves as an alternative for those who don't like the website (which, I hope, is nobody, because the website is awesome!)

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the website is awesome indeed!

8 years ago
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Sure that sounds like a great idea. :D

8 years ago
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Invited xD

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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Count me in! Apparently if I stop doing stuff like breathing, I can finish everything by next christmas! I'm sure reading other peoples entries will not make me procrastinate...

8 years ago
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Counted in. :)

8 years ago
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That was fast. Thanks!

8 years ago
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thanks for jumping in, I didn't realize there were still so many people who hadn't seen the thread/hadn't decided about the group XD

8 years ago
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Me neither, they're still coming. xD

8 years ago
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yeah, somehow this thread keeps getting bumped, no idea how that happens ...

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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Oh, I thought I could be able to be in the group to read other people's entries. While I'm actually starting to play those old forgotten titles in my backlog, I don't actually want to set goals, so if it's a requirement, then sorry! Feel free to remove me from the group.

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Setting specific goals is not the requirement, it's really just about participating in a way that shows you're there because of the group, not possible group GAs. For example, you could just sort some of your games on the website according to whether you've played and finished them or won't play them anymore etc. Then you can just follow the activity feed, comment there if you like etc.
If that's not for you, you're free to leave of course. Both the Steam forum with the backlog threads and the activity feed on the website are accessible for non-members, so you can still lurk, if you want ;)

8 years ago
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I'd love to be part of this and think it would really help me focus on reducing and hopefully one day eliminating the backlog. Could I please get an invite?

8 years ago
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Invite sent. :)

8 years ago
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Me too, me too! Cannot stop buying games while having very little time to play them :( Accomplishing this will require a lifetime but I'm definitely willing to try.

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Done :)

8 years ago
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My backlog is way too long, especially since i'm trying to get 100% achievements in every game i start XD Totally need help with it.

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Invited. That's quite ambitious, good luck! I've given up on always getting 100 % already, too many story games I'd have to replay just for that ^^

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Oh jeez... I've gotten to 2,000 games. This'll take forever, but I WANT to do it. I'd love an invite, and maybe seeing your progress will help motivate me :)

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Invited :)
ITtwill be quite an undertaking, but I see from your group that you play quite regularly, so it's not impossible ;)

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I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to play everything in my library. Sales and bundles are just too frequent, but I can try to tame the monster that is the backlog.

Thanks for the invite!

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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Oh my, Sorry it's taken me so long! I'm going to be completely honest and say that I forgot. My computer broke recently, and I was so busy fighting to get it working for weeks after so many technical issues that I forgot about this initiative completely.

I will work on organizing my insanely huge backlog on the website asap, and try to work through it :)

Thanks for the reminder!

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sorry to hear about your computer, I'm expecting mine to give up any day now (been waiting for years, somehow it soldiers on)
Take your time with the sorting, I know it takes a while for bigger backlogs ^^

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Well I hope your computer keeps on going! (Unless you're secretly hoping it breaks for an excuse to upgrade).
And wow, about 1 hour of sorting and I only got to "C" lettered games. This'll be a while :)

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count me in.

8 years ago
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sent you an invite :)

8 years ago
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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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Working on the backlog as well. If anyone has any tips regarding Outlander Shotgunner for Torchlight 2, please leave them here. I'll even take spoilera

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Hum, that sounds specific, but right now there is this going on. Someone who tries to beat the game on hardcore/high difficulty with an outlander; maybe you can find some pro-tips there? :D

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Was deciding btw T2 and Dmc, was due to this thread that I decided to go T2

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like sappy said, that's oddly specific for such a broad thread ^^
So, not interested in the group then?

8 years ago
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I'm interested! Just that Torchlight 2 doesn't have and end, you kinda drop it when you've had enough

8 years ago
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alright, sent you an invite :)

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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I'm working on my backlog as well, but too lazy to write about the progress :D

8 years ago
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so, not interested in the group then? ^^

8 years ago
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I think I'm interested, have to be part of some support group. It's either this or anonymous alcoholics, but I think this problem is more real

8 years ago
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Over 300 games here and I always play the same ones! But occasionally I pick one from the list and finish it.

8 years ago
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sent you an invite :)

8 years ago
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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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QQ sowwy! Please enjoy my whitelist gls as an apology :P

8 years ago
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haha, thanks, but that's not necessary - just come and be part of the group :D

8 years ago
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Been using the site, it's neat af! The drag&drop interface is really really handy, I'll be able to categorise everything in the next couple of days ^^

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I'd like to join up if you're still adding - I've picked up lots of free and cheap games lately, and need the motivation to sort out which ones I'd like to play, and which older games I'd like to explore further.

8 years ago
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invited :)

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So, how would this help me with my backlog exactly?

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For me personally, it provides motivation and ideas for organizing/prioritizing what to play. You can have a look at everyone's threads to see what they're doing (e. g. only wins from this site first, 100% achievements before moving on, skipping multiplayer etc.) and how well they're doing, as well as get recommendations on what to play next.
In the end, it's up to you how much it actually helps. Let me know if you'd like to join :)

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I was going to make a thread like this earlier in the year. I would like to join. :3

My current status is
Week 1) Naruto UNS 3
Week 2) The Stanley Parable
Week 3) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - Jetstream DLC, Portal 2 co-op (ps3)
Week 4) Call of Duty: Black Ops II story
Week 5) "The Division beta"
Week 6) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - Blade Wolf DLC
Week 7) Infamous Festival of Blood (PS3)
Week 8) NARUTO UNS 3 full burst (the dlc thing)

Just started DMC1, it's a lot different than I thought it would be.

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sent you an invite :) are you trying to get at least one game per week done?

8 years ago
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Thank yee.

Yep! Or at least a DLC story thing. :p

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I think that's a new strategy as far as the group goes, cool if it works for you :D (I think I only get one done every 2-3 weeks, if that, so I'll just stick to my "whenever" plan :P)

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Hey, I have a gigantic backlog - I think I've reached a portal to ancient aliens!

I have many illnesses, thanks to ticks, and lots of doctors, or I feel too bad to work on games a lot of the time, but when I can dedicate playtime in, that's what I've started to do. I actually got 2 finished this week that I won on sg (well... I didn't 100% one, because the achievements were too tedious and I didn't like the game a whole lot...). I guess if just finishing counts, then I'd like to join up! I'm working on Mad Max now though, and it's a bit brutal to 100% - not as bad as some I've played, like for instance, Torchlight... but still will take a long while to get the final few achievements! I'm working here and there on other stuff too, but I'm going to go back in time, and start working on some of my games I've won.

I'm focusing on ones I can use with a controller, since I don't have much space yet, and haven't gotten my new computer in the right spot - It's humongous so it will require much effort, and I'm using an even heavier TV as my monitor, which ended up waay beyond my expectations. I was reading some negative things about HDTVs as monitors, but mine is crystal clear, and it's bigger than any monitor I could buy that I'm aware of! Would like an invite! I cannot promise much, but it might motivate me to work on some when I can!

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yup, that is quite the backlog you have there, invited you :)
It's up to you if you want to get 100% achievements, I count everything as completed when the story is done, but usually leave it installed in case I want to get the rest of the achievements (replaying a HOG/point&click right now for the last achievement, but it's boring once you already know the story).

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Thank you very much! I know what you mean about some achievements... It's almost not really worth it, and on Steam there is nothing really rewarding beyond your own feeling of accomplishment for completing something 100%... On PS3, I would go for a lot of platinum trophies (100%) and some of the achievements for games were pretty ridiculous and more of annoyance than they were worth. Games should be fun, and sometimes going for a few small achievements takes the fun out of it when it's very tough or you have to put a whole lot of time into it just for 1 or 2 things...

On the other side of the coin, I do like when games have legitimate replay value. Some of my favorites have been RPGs with the New Game+ feature! Chrono Trigger was amazing, and that was the first one I ever played with the feature... Had maybe 21 endings I think? Very cool game though - still one of my favorites ever!

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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Okay cool - I will check it out, and make a start. Sorry, but I have been a bit busy. Did 100% a few games though! I'll make notes. Have to ask if it has to be related to games in my backlog, or a focus on sg? Maybe it's covered, so let me check the site out first! Sorry for my procrastination, but that's why I joined in the first place ^_^

8 years ago
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no problem - and yes, you can play any backlog games (the site only supports your Steam backlog though), most of us just prioritize SG wins

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Yeah, it should be a priority. Finished a couple, but I cannot find a way to start my progress on the site... Discussions takes me back to forum on steam, so I am a bit confused right now...

I have stuff to add, however.

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I have only 50 games but I already have a pretty big backlog and I don't want it to be any bigger, so I'd love to get invited :)

8 years ago
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How did you manage to keep your that small? I bought so many bundles since I got here, and you've been here longer than me ^^"
also, invited of course

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Well, I guess it's because I only enter giveaways for games I have on my wishlist. As far as bundles go, I bought a couple, but I tend to only activate the game/s I like, and trading/giving away the ones I don't.
Thanks for the invite :)

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But are you fancy enough to join since you're table-less, Fox?

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It doesn't need to be fancy, I just love playing with tables. :P And you actually don't even need tables, a simple sign that you're working on your backlog is enough, like for example, a bulleted list or a simple list. :)

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That would work too, whatever you prefer. :P

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I've got "some" games in my backlog, and by "some" I mean a lot. Even though there are enormous backlogs compared to mine, this is pretty much for me. Count me in! :)

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A little bit bigger than mine, invited. :)

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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Done, made my profile and organized my backlog on the website. I'm sure it will help a lot, because actually I don't really organize my games on Steam. Thanks a lot for the website! :)

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Awesome, I'll tell mandrill that you like his site ;)

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Count me in.

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Invited :)

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Hi there! I'm here to remind you that you've been in BLAEO for over 4 weeks now and haven't posted your thread yet. We also have a shiny new website now, where you can organize your Steam backlog and post about your progress. (Click here for a neat guide to get started.)
If you haven't shown any interest in being part of and participating in the group by at least

  • organizing your backlog on the website and/or
  • posting your backlog strategy in your website profile and/or
  • posting a thread on our Steam forum

by next week (30. March), we will have to let you go from the group.

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