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Pogo Mini: Don't forget your backpack!Happy Weekend Everyone!

Do you have more than one Pogo account, if so: how many and why?

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  1. I have 2 Club Pogo accounts. I opened the 2nd one in April 2010 just so I could gift the token mini items to my main account. That was around the time when I was getting close to 100 million tokens, and I wanted to get there faster…lol

    Pogo has done something differently the past few days, and never mentioned it.

    In the past you could purchase the LE Badge, even if you didn’t finish the quarterly Quest Marathon and win it. Even though it’s only the first week of September, I don’t see Pogo offering a “summer vacation” LE Badge for sale at this time of the year.

    And Pogo never even mentioned that the reward for reaching 75 points in the Birthday Celebration Marathon was going to be a LE Badge that normally sells for 30 gems. To reach 75 points you needed to purchase 4 special M&M Badges to earn the bonus points. All they said was that it was going to be an animated badge. Yes, the picture showed a LE banner on it, but I honestly thought that was a mistake. And there’s no reason for Pogo to release that for sale since it was for the 2019 Pogo Anniversary that occurred on September 1st.

    Good Luck to anyone currently working on the Magic Marathon!

    Suz

    • Bizarre bizarreness about this LE… I have the LE in my M&M album, but when I thought I would earn the badge last night, it said something like this badge was a gift, please go to your gift box to activate it? I don’t recall this ever happening b4… hmmmmm.
      I’m avoiding my gift box to let the GOM badges die there (I’ve got 2 albums of Quinn’s partly done– eventually, I’ll double them up with newer stuff, like this week’s weekly, I figure) I don’t want to clutter my M&M ALBUMS with undone stuff… 😛
      Soooo, I guess at the end of the month I find out if Pogo retrieves their gift back ( Doesn’t SEEM likely), or if I have a gift that I’ll never be able to do, or perhaps I’ll be able to activate it… unlesssss– Is there some other way?
      THANK YOU always and all the others of our BH community for sage advice, Tom

      • I used to have have a second account, a free account, for double browsing, to get badges done faster, but when the new sign in started, it became difficult for my computer/Pogo to keep straight that I wanted to use my main account most days and still be able to type in my username and password for the second account sometimes… I kept having problems with my password being “Expired” or something and continually having to retype the whole thing and my screen name being the username that worked with the password sometimes… in short it was a mess and I don’t feel the need to double browse as much any more anyway, so just one main account now.
        hagd and nice weekend EV1, Tom

      • You have to accept the gift first before you can activate it, but opening one will open them all and means you have accepted them all.

        I usually accept all gifts but there should be a button beside each gift to give everyone a choice if they want to accept or decline it.

  2. I only have one account, that’s all I can afford to manage. But, it’s getting more difficult to manage this account with Pogo’s insistance on releasing games that require us to buy Power-Ups just to complete them. Of course, in the long run it may end up saving me money, since there will be fewer M&M Badges I’ll be inclined to purchase.

    Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. My thoughts and prayers remain with everyone affected by Hurricane Dorian.

  3. I only have one account, but my S/O has one also; and since he only does a few games that he really likes daily, I do most of his games too. And I cannot keep up. I do have a life outside of Pogo! Glad they didn’t have these marathons before I retired a few years ago! But I do enjoy playing Pogo (except for QA)!

  4. I only have one account that I opened in 1999 well really before it was pogo it was called Ten with all the badges and Marathons they are throwing at us I could not keep up with more than one.
    Have a good week-end all.
    Thank you Lura for all you do for us.

  5. Are you kidding me? If I had more than one account it would send me over the edge, what with all the challenges Pogo offers us, have trouble keeping up with just my one account, lol.

  7. Great question!
    Once upon a time I had 38 accounts. (yes it’s true). This was many years ago when Pogo didn’t give us so much to do or spend lots of money on gems.
    I stopped the insanity for the most part a few years ago and knocked it down to 3 accounts. I was actually able to keep up with all the badges offered, however, when Pogo started throwing out all the marathons and many extras (to make sure we didn’t know if we’re coming or going I suppose), I had to say goodbye to another account.

    I still have 2 accounts , but I only keep one completely up to date. I feel it’s an impossible job to do more than that anymore.
    Also, Pogo has made it less fun in the recent years: hard to see chat in rooms (or none),
    the end of tokens, the end of minis, the end of the big jack pots , and now no more jackpot spins or weekly drawings.
    They say Pogo will be changing in the future and there are great things in store. I guess we shall see. But I think what they have in store is just for us to work harder on all the marathons in order to get a few extra special badges, and yes I know I don’t have to do any of that, but I’m a badge ho-arder (lol) so I will do them. Pogo has become a job !

    Why so many names? Because I’m a name-a-holic. Each of my screen names meant something to me (yes I know this is nuts lol ).
    I’m glad I came to my senses.
    The badges are waiting.. Have a good weekend.

    StarAngel513O / MoonDazed

  8. I have one account and between being a caregiver for my 93 year old Mom and a little bit for my 90 year old Aunt, cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc. that’s enough for me.

    Pogo is my escape from all this and I just hope I can finish this marathon, so many games (many very boring at that!).

  9. I only have one account. had it since 2004. would not be able to keep current on more than one. I am not even current on the one I have. I am trying to work on all the flash badges that are not done. I see that they added more levels to ME. Isn’t that a flash game? I am way behind on levels, and why are they adding levels if they aren’t converting it to HD or whatever>? I did not participate in the magic marathon, but good luck to those who do.

    • In ME they add a new city, with 60 levels, on the 1st of each month. The same with Solitaire Gardens, they add a new garden, with 60 levels, on the 15th of each month. I expect that to happen until a date is announced that the game will be retired or converted.

      Suz

  10. I started on Pogo before there was a Club (Had my 16th year Club anniversary this year) and had one account. I didn’t understand why people would have more until I discovered Badge Hungry and learned about double browsing. Not being a very good card player I opened a second club account 9 yrs ago in my new puppies name, Murphy the Aussie. Murphy was a worse card player than me so I could win badges in card games.

    I kept both accounts current with everything for a few years but slowly stopped buying badges for Murphy but continued to double browse. I realized I was spending entirely to much time playing Pogo so gave it up over a year ago. Giving it up and coming to the realization that I didn’t need to have every badge was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. With all that Pogo now throws at us I am more than happy it’s gone. It was my choice to play two accounts and my choice to free myself 🙂 I shudder at the thought of doing the marathons on two accounts and am in awe of those that do so. For the first time I only accepted the first group of free badges and didn’t try for more. Doubt I’ll finish them in time and that’s OK too. Enjoy the marathon however you choose to play and an early Congratulations to those that complete it.

  11. I have only one Club Pogo account since April 2000, but I’ve had about 6-10 other free accounts over the years. I used to get badges on 2 of my free accounts when Pogo would offer free memberships for Club Pogo for a month at a time. I have quite a few badges on one of my old accounts, but I can never see them anymore now that they don’t give free memberships anymore. I still get mini items for some of my free accounts, but I really don’t know why, lol. It used to be fun to play Canasta and Jungle Gin with my other accounts in order to get a badge.
    Have a great weekend all!

  13. I have 1 account and have never wanted 2.

    I would like to weigh in on the Limited Edition badge, I feel cheated because I bought the extra badges to get that badge. Pogo has been come not only disorganized, it has become untrustworthy, and that’ s a terrible rut for any business to fall into. You’ve honestly got to wonder what’s next?!

    The Pogo Addiction Solitaire is no fun at all without the interaction we used to have with the players of the game and the fun it generated. It is really impersonal now.

    Have fun, everyone!

    • Didn’t you received the gift yesterday that contained the LE Badge? You should also have received a bunch of emails, 8 in total if you had 75 points at the end of the Marathon. If you had 75 points and didn’t get the gift just send Pogo_Llama an email thru Pogo and she will look into it for you.

      Mistakes happen, but they will correct it.

      Suz

      • Yes, I got those, so, I did receive the badge. Sorry, these events are coming too fast for my brain lately!! Smile! Thanks, Suz.

        • I keep a written list of what completion badges & rewards I should get. It’s not detailed, takes seconds to update, and just cross them off when received.

          And I’ll add the Magic Marathon to the list once I’m done . I already have GOTM listed under September as I finished that before the Magic started.

          Suz

    • They were 2 Limited Edition Badges.

      – The “2019 Summer Vacation LE badge” that we got for completing the “Challenge Quest: Summer Vacation” which consistend on completing the “Boss Badge” plus each one of the free Quest weekly badges or their alternate Mix n Match badges.

      – The “2019 Pogo Anniversary LE Badge” for participating in the Birthday Challenge Quest where we have to earn 75 points completing all the 20 B-day Mix n Match badges, some were free some cost gems.

      Which one are you missing?

  14. At one time I had 6 accounts. My husband and 2 of my children have passed and I dropped those accounts.

    My sister has been playing some on my main account now. She is not well and generally falls asleep in the middle of the game or just forgets she is playing and since I used a second account to play in Multi player games ( most of which have been dropped) and to gift token items, or buy gems when they went on sale , I will probably not renew the second account which has 6 years of incomplete badges and albums to earn.

  15. I have very many accounts, most of them non-club. I opened the majority of them when Pogo released No Limit Texas Hold’em, accompanied by a huge amount of free tokens (I think 400,000 tokens). No Limit has Club and non-Club rooms, so I would set up with a free account and win all their tokens off them, and quickly rank up, and then open another account when the tokens ran out. I still have all these accounts, with very few tokens, and they all have EA identies – don’t ask me why, it just seemed the thing to do. I now actively use one other paid account, for gifting me m&m’s when there is a sale, and helping me with pesky games like Jungle Gin. Fun fun fun.

  16. I have 2 accounts. The 2nd account I opened for double browsing for badges and to gift the token mini items to my main account so I could build up my token total on my main account. Pogo also used to occasionally give us free PBAs of our choice and HOG episodes which I would gift to my main account. Also when Pogo had BOGO sales I could get them on my main account and gift from my 2nd account.

    Now there is nothing for tokens to buy. And all the multi-player games are going bye-bye so no more double browsing when they are gone (hopefully Pogo will figure out how to transfer them to HTML5). No more PBAs and BOGO sales.

    Something that occurred to me the other night: The only way I know how to get your Lifetime Token total is going to a flash game that has chat on the side (ex: Vaults of Atlantis Slots), clicking on your name in the list, clicking on See Profile and clicking on Stats. If there is no other way to see your Lifetime Token total, you might want to check it out before the Flash games go.
    💻 💻

  17. I have one account. I used to have my husband’s to do also but he let his expire last (this?) year. Thank goodness! I could never keep up with two what with all these badges Pogo is throwing at us!

    Have a good weekend all, and thoughts and prayers to all who were affected by Dorian.

  19. Several years ago I opened a second account for the sole purpose of not having to deal with that nasty Bot in Gin. It was the only time/game I ever double browsed in. I paid little attention to the second account other than for gifting and for tokens. When I finally discovered you could block that horrible Demon from knocking, I began to take him head on myself. lol Since its reason for being was now gone, I dropped the second account.

    Have a nice weekend,

    Janet

  20. No I’ve never had more than one account, I never really understood how to double browse, I just wanted to play games to help pass the time. At this point I can’t even keep up with the badges Pogo is throwing at us so I finally decided not to participate if I thought it was going to take too long or stress me out. I want Pogo to be relaxing not stressful.

  21. I have multiple free Pogo accounts but only 2 Club accounts.
    The free accounts were created just for fun and I hardly ever use any of them, never did, I login in each once every 2 or 3 months to keep them active (who knows why lol) and now that I think of it it has been more than that since last time I checked them lol Maybe I go after sending this comment 😉

    My second Club account was opened only it 1 or 2 years after I created my main account and the purpose was to transfer tokens to my main account when I was in the “race for more tokens” mood but then I learnt about double browsing so I started using it to quickly finish badges in some game cards.

    Also at the time I was a complete badge nut and there were not enough badges for me to do so having a second account was a good way to earn even more badges, all weeklies but also lots (not all) of Mix n Match badges.

    But then it started to get a bit boring and even if I still was a badge-ho, doing badges for only 1 account was more than enough. But guess I was too “attached to my other me” and I couldn’t let the account go plus I still use it for double-browsing.
    It also came in handy when using coupon codes for discounted and free badges, I would use my second accout to gift my main acc. and get “double” the amount of badges this way.

    Little by little I stopped doing badges for my second account until I reached the point where I was doing any, it was not fun nor interesting anymore plus Pogo became a “full-time job”, a job I not really like and a job I have to pay to do! lololol and doing badges for 2 accounts would have been… I don’t know what…! lol
    I do accept all the freebies, badges and albums, on this account but they sit there waiting to be done (and will sit forever lol).

    I renewed my second account this year and not even sure why! lol but I will not renew again. Come on! I’m not even sure I will renew my main account next year lol why would I renew my second!
    The new and improved (what a joke) Pogo lost not one customer but actually two!

  22. When I first joined Pogo I did have a second account to help me to get badges for rated games in flash and java. The second account also helped me to rank out in multiplayer games like Jungle Gin. It was mostly a free account and from time to time I bought a month’s membership to help with any badges including Wednesday Challenges that required two people to play a rated game.

    With so much going on now I only have one account. If I need help with a multiplayer game my husband and I will play together.

    Enjoy your weekend all.

  23. Years ago when we could only activate one M&M at a time it was so boring. So I opened another account just to have more fun. I bought all available badges and albums too. And when all those were done too I needed another account and another etc. I still have 5 accounts but I surely need to divest some of them. This month’s marathon is doing me in. Would be a lot cheaper too. Since my husband passed away Pogo filled a big void. And it is way cheaper than the casinos.

    Have a super weekend everyone.

  24. I have 1 club pogo account and 1 free account. I used to have a 2nd free account to play the multiple player badges, but that was under my son’s email, ever since they changed it to emails, he uses his email for another game site. I rarely use my 1 free account now. I also help hubby with his club pogo account, so it’s like I have 2 accounts.

    I am not going to try to keep up the magic challenge this time around, too much going on in my life right now, I will just try to finish the 30 free badges. I know hubby will need help, too.

    Stay safe

    jw

  25. Hi ..neat thread . I have one account and joined Pogo before it was even open . User name Silkprint . I have seen so many changes over the past 20 some odd years

  26. Just checked and I have had my account since April 1999 . Like I said , I joined even before they ever officially opened .

  27. 2 accounts for me for double browsing. Come to think of it, it has been so many years since I used the other one that I’m not sure I even remember the screen name or password. I really could use it for those stupid spades badges that I buy every time I’m feeling optimistic! Happy weekend all – stay safe hold your babies tight.

  28. I Have 1 Club Account and 1 Non Club Account i Only play on the Club Account tho because most the Games i like are Club only Games but i double Browse with the other one if im doing doing a badge that need 2 players

  29. I have only ever had one Club Pogo account – just had my 10 year anniversary last month – but I do have two free accounts. Or more like I had two, I couldn’t remember the password to one of them so I have only been using one since before conversion to the new sign-on. I only use the free one to double-browse (Spades and Risk are the only ones nowadays, but I used to double-browse in Euchre and Cribbage too). The reason I have opened two is that the Club Pogo pass can only be given to a free account once, and I needed to have a Club account to help me win either a rated game badge or some other hard to get badge in a club-only game. That was before I discovered Badge Hungry and great people willing to help with stuff like that…

    I would never be able to keep up with more than one account, and I can’t imagine wanting to. If I have time to spend on playing, I would rather have it spent on my main account, on “me” vs. some supporting character.

    • Rereading, I hope that didn’t come out wrong. I don’t judge anyone who chooses to maintain any number of accounts, but that’s not how my brain is wired.

      In fact, even in games where one should develop multiple characters/cities to do best, I prefer to develop just one to super-levels instead of being more even. Singular focus, or maybe tunnel vision.

  30. Interesting. I have had many free accounts over the years.
    But just the one Club. But my other 1/2 I’ll call him had one too.
    He stopped playing his account though so I kept it up over the years.
    End of last year I decided it was too much. Told him I was stopping.
    He decided to take it up again. Which was great we trade off things
    we like or dislike lol. These marathons and magic aren’t fun in our minds.
    Might stop doing them. Pogo used to be fun IDK who there is thinking
    up these badges. Win 50 random puzzles in triv. 70 games of whatever
    is never fun what with all the other things you have us doing.
    Lura thank you for BH. Thank you for the answers to CCove, Trivia the daily lol.
    PSDaily. Plus so much more. Not financially rich lol but I do shout out to all
    I know what a great site this is. Even to peeps IDK at all if I see they’re having problems
    with pogo I send them a message to check you out lol.. I mean like answers for PSD lol.

  31. Off topic. Vol 57 in the Marathon asks for 20 wedges on daily or calendar quizzes but it won’t let me play because I do them every day. I know, we have 3 weeks to get it done but I still think it is not fair that we cannot work on them when we want to. Playing on random does not give credit.

    • That was MORE bad planing on pogo’s part. So you
      have to STOP doing them daily and then do them or
      something like that. Nope random won’t work at all
      for that. Not even sure that’s working right either! Help
      said other 1/2 with his randoms and NO Credit on some.
      Another friend wrote she too wasn’t given credit for all her
      wins. I know it’s confusing no wedges but when it’s all lit
      up think that’s the game won?

    • Yes I agree. I am up-to-date also and doing one a day. I never spent this long on a badge before. Pogo shouldn’t bring out requirements like that. I feel like I am going at a snails space. lol

  32. I have one Club Pogo account and several old free ones from a time when my friends and I would create secret ones and try to guess the identity.

  33. We have 4 accounts in total, however, only 1 is Club Pogo now. I guess my hubby couldn’t compete with me hogging the computer all the time so he eventually let his subscription lapse. LOL

    The other 2 free accounts were primarily for purchasing Mini Mall items. * sigh *

  34. Quick question 😉
    What you got for participating in the 2th Anniversary Mini event?
    I couldn’t get on time and I missed what was probably the last of the last Amazing mInis contest 😥

    So what was it? A mini item, a special badge….. ❓

    • You didn’t get anything if you just attended. You had to win to get anything. It was so special that I couldn’t put it into words, so I copied the information from the Pogo article….

      The whole event will take an hour – please be sure to stay for as long as you can! As a special treat, winners will receive an exclusive version of the Pogo 20th Birthday Mini Collage group photo, featuring Minis from members like you. It may take up to a week for us to distribute this gift to all the winners. Thank you for your patience.

      Suz
      Just let me know if anyone wants mine…lol

      • Oh no! Too bad I missed the opportunity to win such a special gift! lol
        (Is it like one of those wallpapers we could win in jps’?)

        And Moms keep yours in an extra safe place cuz I’m sure many want it and will do whatever to have it, don’t give them a chance to steal it lol
        I’m first on line by the way ! lolol

        • From her comment above: exclusive version of the Pogo 20th Birthday Mini Collage group photo

      • I’m glad I was able to give everyone a good laugh, or at least a smile 🙂

        And I agree Nessa, was probably the last Amazing Mini Event we will ever have.

        I just got my prize on the 5th, and it’s just the mini collage that we all saw, inside a gold frame. I didn’t even enter my mini for the collage. Even if you did enter, it’s very hard to find your mini.

        Suz

  35. I’ve only ever had one as I never saw the need for a second.

    Just my $.02, but I read so often about how Pogo makes or forces you to buy power-ups to complete a badge. I shake my head as Pogo doesn’t force us to do anything – be a member, work on a certain badge, or buy power-ups. It’s our choice. Yes, power-ups make life a lot easier – and, at times, saner, but all games can be won without a purchased power-up.

    I’ve said this before. I know people need to vent – there are days when I’m playing a game I don’t like for a badge and I yell at my computer screen – but then I remember it’s my choice to play because I want the badge, not because Pogo is twisting my arm to play.

    I enjoy Pogo, but when I no longer do, and find myself complaining more than having fun, I’ll know it’s time for me to not be a Club Pogo member anymore (which I’ve been since December 2001).

  36. I’ve had several accounts over the years and even tried to keep two accounts for my sons open. Then I realized they’d never be interested in playing “an old lady game site”, so I got rid of them when pogo switched over and you had to enter emails. Now I only have the one account and I just reached 11,000 badges last night! Have a great rest of the weekend everyone!!