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Happy Weekend Everyone!

With the first hints of snow in the forecast, I am excited and admittedly a little snow-crazy! (What else would make me don a pair of antlers for myself…and the cat?) I hope all is well with each and every one of you this weekend.

Our friend Pat wrote in earlier this week to suggest this weekend’s topic and I am just tickled to be able to bring it to you! Since the year is coming to an end, Pat has kindly been helping friends who passed over some of the 2009 weekly badges so they’ll be able to earn the coveted 2009 album completion badge in a few weeks. I think this is a great idea and what better way to spend some time this season than helping out your fellow Pogo fans?

What badges from 2009 did you skip over? Will it help if we can offer hints or tips or a new friend to play with? Maybe we can match some folks up in the coming weeks and help everyone get their 2009 album completed.

There are a total of 4 Pogo-weeks left in the year and we’ll have at least 4 personals available to us to finish (unless there’s a personal challenge marathon, but let’s not hold our breath for that). Whether you’re asking for help or offering it, use this thread to get help and, if you need to, schedule time in the next few weeks to get ‘em done and close out 2009 with a bangbadge!

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

I hope those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday had a great day and didn’t eat too much like my poor little mini over there!

This weekend, let’s re-visit Pogo’s customer service! Please share your experiences with Pogo’s Customer Support. We want to hear both the good and the bad stories from you guys, so if you’ve got one please share it with us. Hopefully we can get a collective consensus on the positives and negatives and maybe get Pogo’s attention. Has Pogo’s customer service resolved and problem you had quickly and efficiently? Have they surprised you by going out of their way to help you out with a problem? We’re really hoping to read some positive stories along with the negative ones we hear so often.

Also, I probably won’t be as available as usual this weekend, so if you see someone ask a question that you can help answer, by all means dive in and help a fellow fan out! The usual rules apply: you can ask anything, offer help or ask for it, or talk about anything that didn’t fit in to any other open thread on the site. Just keep it Pogo-related, and keep the conversation civil and polite.

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

This past week was pretty interesting in Pogo-land. After much outrage and anger over the Tri-Peaks Stone Idol badge, Pogo changed the badge to a Special Edition (though it’s still not actually been changed…yet). It’s pretty rare that Pogo changes a live badge, and usually when they do it’s to change the badge requirements, not change the type of the badge. This week, their change affected the availability of the badge and the response has been mixed.

It was a hot hot hot discussion topic and as much as I personally would like to shove it off the table, I’m sure people will still want to talk about it. Instead we can talk perhaps about other badges in the past that were changed? There’s always the infamous Quackadoodle badge. Earlier this week, Rick brought up the “Hiiiiyaaaaahhhhh!!!” badge for Pop Fu, from Dec. 14, 2005 which originally required you to complete the bonus round 75 times but now it’s 40. What other badges have been changed that you remember? Maybe we can compile a list together.

Do you US folk have any big plans for the upcoming holiday week? Who’s traveling the longest distance to celebrate? I hope you all have a great upcoming week and Happy Thanksgiving!

The usual rules apply: you can talk about or ask anything you want about Pogo-related things in the Weekend Open Thread — just be nice to each other and to me, last week really stretched out my moderating muscles and they need the rest.

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

I hope you’re not too busy working on your challenges this week to take a little time out to come chat with us this weekend! There’s lots to talk about from this week: Monopoly’s getting more ranks, Pogo’s working on a new PBA, more mini awards are on their way, and of course there’s always non-Pogo things to talk about! I only ask that if you want to weigh in on the weekly challenges that you do so in the challenge thread itself, let’s try to keep this weekend thread a negativity-free zone! You know: peace, love, and badges and all of that good stuff. *hugs a tree*

I was saddened to have to make this post about Pogo laying off one of their amazingly talented graphic artists, but it was bittersweet because we now get to see some of Pogo’s recent concept art. It just goes to show that as much information as we bring to you about the goings-on at Pogo, there’s always so much more going on behind-the-scenes that we don’t know about, some of which seems so foreign to us now and some of which will never see the light of day.

If you could direct the Pogo team to create any fantasy project at all, what would it be? Don’t feel limited by Pogo’s web site (it could be a whole new web site or web concept) or any previous projects or ideas they may have worked on. Let the creativity flow! Sky’s the limit!

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

November’s started off with quite a bang — lots going on as usual in Pogoland! How many of you out there have completed all of the new stuff, mix-n-matches, premium album, jigsaw case, weekly badges, and the Thanksgiving limited edition badge?

This weekend, feel free to ask any burning questions, ask for help, or offer help or tips or hints for anything Pogo-related. We’ll try to get your problems solved and help everyone out. Also, if there’s a badge you’ve been putting off, maybe someone here can help — feel free to bring it up.

See you in the comments!

Please note: We know Pogo has crashed a couple times so far this weekend (tokens unavailable, service unavailable, et cetera). There is no need to panic — they’re surely working behind the scenes to fix whatever is causing this. If the site goes down again, your tokens and minis and badges will be restored when the site comes back up.

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

I can’t believe Pogo gave us so much to do this week! On top of a personal challenge marathon, we’ve got the special weekend challenge. Phew! Aren’t we supposed to be putting the finishing touches on our Halloween costumes and getting ready to go trick-or-treattweeting? How are you doing with getting it all done?

Speaking of putting on costumes, let’s talk about our Minis and earning Mini Awards! Do you have all the Mini Awards available? Do you play a game just to get a Mini Award item? Do you go after the Mini Awards like you do badges? Do you use them in your Mini after you have won them?

I hope you have a great, safe Halloween weekend and I hope we’ll see you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

This has been a ridiculously busy week for Pogo, it seems like every time I blinked they were adding something new to the site! (Battleship, forums, Facebook, oh my!) There were a ton of new posts added this week, so if you haven’t been keeping up with the site, make sure to scroll all the way down the page and check out previous entries for anything you may have missed. As usual there are some lively and fantastic discussions going on down there.

Mike wrote in this morning to ask if I knew of a policy for Pogo adding new ranks and badges to pre-existing games. After all, it’d be a great way to get players back into playing some of the great older games that Pogo built its reputation on (and it seems to have worked for Canasta, Tri-Peaks Solitaire, and that got more ranks and badges before). At this point, I’d assume Pogo is really focused on their Hasbro partnership and producing new games, but there’s always a possibility they’d revisit an older game with new badges and ranks.

What current Pogo games would you like to see have more ranks and badges?

As usual, if you don’t feel like answering the question, or if you just feel like talking about something else — go ahead. The weekend open thread is the place where you can leave comments, questions, or anything that didn’t fit elsewhere this week.

See you in the comments!

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Hi everyone, Happy Weekend!

It was pretty busy around here this week, don’t forget to scroll down the page (and maybe view a page or two of previous posts if needed) to get caught up on the latest news! You may want to check out the following category archives for the latest news on Puck’s Peak and Battleship too.

Also, if you’re on Twitter, I urge you to follow @bagdehungry or if you’re not on Twitter, keep an eye on my feed in the right sidebar — sometimes I often post little bits of information there that don’t necessarily warrant a full blog post.

For this weekend’s open thread, there isn’t a topic. Because of giveaways and wildly popular discussion topics, the threads for the past few weeks have been full of newcomers and regulars chatting away happily. The only drawback is when the threads get over 100-200 comments, sometimes questions and requests start to get lost in the mix. I wanted to make sure that everyone’s questions get answered this weekend, so if you have a burning question (whether you asked it before or not), go ahead and ask! If you need help with a badge, go ahead and ask. We’re here to help! If you don’t have a question, please feel free to just say hi! We’d love to hear from each and every one of you.

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

Last weekend during the open thread, we’d started discussing gems so I wanted to bring them back up for this weekend. It seems like we all can agree that Pogo should increase the frequency of gems in the jackpot spins and gem giveaways in general, but let’s put the “gimme gimme” mentality aside for a bit.

Do you buy gems? If so, what do you spend them on (Mix-n-Match badges? PBAs? Mini Mall items?) and how quickly are you burning through them? I’d also like to hear from people who have actually won gems in a jackpot spin; I’m wondering exactly how rare it is since I’ve only heard of a handful of winners over the span of the time gems have been available.

Okay, now back to “gimme”! I’m also going to do another giveaway this weekend! (Big thanks to StBernard for donating Club Pogo passes this week!) When I close this weekend open thread on Sunday evening I’ll pick ten commenters at random to each win two 3-month passes to Club Pogo. To enter, just leave a thoughtful comment. The only things that’ll disqualify you are spelling my name wrong and trying to stuff the entry box by posting too many useless comments. If you don’t want to be entered for whatever reason, just say so.

See you in the comments, BadgeHungry Pogo fans!

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