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Pogo Mini: Spoils of the ArcadeHappy Weekend Everyone!

Here we are, about half way through the year and it’s time to check in on our gaming resolutions and goals for 2020! At the end of December we set our gaming goals for this year. If you participated, let us know where you’re at in achieving your goals. If you didn’t participate, choose a few goals for the last half of the year and let us know what they are.

How are you doing with your gaming goals for 2020?

The weekend open thread is a regular feature at BadgeHungry. Every weekend, we answer the discussion question above, and chat about anything game-related. It’s a great place to test the waters of commenting and introduce yourself, ask for help with a game or challenge, or talk about your games and make friends.

See you in the comments!

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  1. December post –
    Goals: catch up on M&Ms and stay caught up, finish HOGs that retire in March
    Resolutions: don’t buy badges that I won’t enjoy (Magic Marathon I’m looking at you lol)
    I should finish my last badge from the previous magic marathon today (bought all of them) and not sure I’ll even take the free 30 from one that starts on the 1st.

    LOL, I’m so behind on my M&M’s- 9 books with badges left in them
    I did finish the HOGs I wanted to.
    I have skipped badges that I wouldn’t enjoy- I skipped one magic marathon & only took free badges in next, skipped a couple of the amazon animals bundles.

  2. I’m doing well – still playing/buying in games I enjoy and leaving the rest on the shelf if I don’t want to do it.
    From the posts in December I noticed that most of us were a bit stressed about all the changes and wary of Pogo’s intentions.
    I’m not as stressed now, but still wary of the number of games designed to be difficult to progress in, and their intentions behind that decision.
    It looks like Early Access Pogo is taking longer than we expected to be the only Pogo.

  3. I’m happy to say I’m doing great with the goal I set. I determined that I should establish the proper mind-set to successfully “float” into the final phase of Early Access. I used the word “plunge” but by using the attributes of patience, humor and , if need be, prayer, it is definitely a smooth gliding and I’m going to proudly land straight up on my feet. Aha!

    Civil unrest is another matter. God bless America and all of us and ours here on Badge Hungry,

    Janet

  4. My only goal has only been to complete the Wednesday badges and now with pogies the two dailies. So far so good. 😀

  5. My goal is to make progress in QA at my own speed. I am doing okay with that. I am half way through the Mangrove Tank and have picked up the M&M badges that we had given to us and completed them. I also have been working on Trizzle to try and get the extra badges there, not sure how much longer we have to attain them but I have 7 left to get, just wish they showed us progress on them.

    I work on the dailies which I never have before to gain Pogis and complete the Wednesday challenges which used to be my only goal. So think I am on target with setting of new goals.

  6. I don’t make goals, I just play. I don’t buy badges or gems. Hence I’ve been stuck on cookie connect for months. level 39 been stuck since last year. Same with jet. I get them when I get them. LOL I really don’t like the new pogo. Not really user friendly. Half of the card games lag or freeze up. You still have to go to classic pogo for gifts. So I’m not impressed. I just play to pass time.

    • Have you tried using a different browser for the cards games?
      Crazy I can’t play canasta in Torch but it plays fine on FF.
      I know it’s not fun when games drag etc. There are things I do
      also in the browsers. Torch history needs clearing out on my puter
      daily and I set it so clears out ALL TIME not just todays. Even though
      supposed to be HTMI it plays better too if I clear out my Flash Player cache
      every now and then too. I just type Flash Player in the search and clean that
      out. Also even though no java I go clear out that too not sure if it helps or
      even needs doing but I do it. Also Pbingo won’t play on my FF so I have to
      use Torch for that. I know crazy have to have multiple browsers but my puter
      is old. BUT I hear from others with newer and some have same issues.

  7. I have already reached my 2020 goals. I wanted to catch up on my badges, and I have. Also, I wanted to reach 11,000 badges, and I am already at 11,783. So I am working towards 12,000 badges.

    Happy weekend all!

    jw

  8. I also don’t set goals as when I am working I really don’t have a lot of time on Pogo. Now that I am home I am playing more but still mostly just the games I enjoy. I have a question. Did anyone else get the Pogo slots challenge without opening the gift. I was waiting to open my gifts until it went away and yet it is in my book to be played while still showing as a gift to be opened.

    • I don’t think that it ever would have disappeared from your gifts. Only gifts that need to be completed by a certain date go away.

      Good Luck!

      Suz

    • Not that one Cindy but it has happened to me. Two different times I got the GOTM badges (Poppit HD and Cookie Connect) without going near the gifts. They showed up in my albums and they still showed as gifts needing to be opened.

      I haven’t tried to avoid gifts since then because I’ve wanted them but I hope it doesn’t happen again. Those 8 challenges are all sitting undone in my albums. 🙁

    • I thought of this after posting earlier. It’s another reason why it won’t go away.

      The Platinum Badges that some of us receive on the 14th of the month are considered a Superstar gift, the key word being gift. It’s the same as a gift sent to you from another member. It will never go away, doesn’t matter how long it sits there unopened.

      Suz

  9. As a goal, I used to purchase every badge and meet every challenge, but once I hit 15,000 badges earlier this year I realized I never look at them and I don’t really care about them anymore. So, now I’m just focused on enjoying the free challenges and playing the new HD games I like. Have ranked out of Poppit HD, Lottso Express, Trizzle, Mahjong Sanctuary, Mahjong Safari, Tri Peaks Solitaire, Poppit Bingo, all of the Soduku games, Word Whomp, Poppit Party, A Way With Words, Bookworm HD, and Scrabble HD. Now that I’m running out of games I really enjoyed, am playing a lot less every day, and enjoying the outdoors and all that Spring and Summer have to offer here in Southern California.

  10. I’m over 15,000 badges now. I think I have an odd goal. i play pogo to help me focus on something positive and accomplish something fun.
    As I become more irritated with the barrage of power ups and never ending events, it may come to a point where i cut back or quit as I don’t like the direction pogo is going in.
    If the positive focus becomes less than the negatives of early access and the new course they have set, then I will change my mind.

  11. Ok. I just looked at my goals from December and I have completed my goal of 9000 badges already so I will have to raise that bar. I also had a goal that I was not going to be crazy buying badges and power ups. I have to eat that one too. I have purchased a lot more of everything. Goodness, I think my life is running about the same way, I am getting more than I had planned. This pandemic and all the rioting has slowed us way down with life activities, but has increased my reading and games more….and yes the waist is growing too.
    Have a fun happy weekend everyone.
    Lizz

  12. Ok on topic I also don’t set goals. I just play. I don’t buy every badge.
    Some I don’t even want to try lol. I don’t even participate in all the
    events anymore either. Magic well last time call sweet event. But sometimes
    even free the badges are just too awful lol.

    Off topic -DOES anyone know how they rank you up in Spades? I’m high in rank
    there and I still haven’t figured it out! Even read the ?’s in game lol., Just says
    oh of course won’t copy & paste GRRRRRR, “When all 13 tricks have been played
    teams are scored on the basis on team play compared to their bid.” So IMO
    do we get for both of us? Not sure rank is like old. Now you get rank after every
    HAND not game. Which is nice cause no spades I stand. Ok sometimes I do the
    NIL bid. But since I don’t think it matters cause again rank pts. show up after every HAND
    not game I don’t always finish a game. TY for any response.

    • Rank is based on the number of tricks YOU win, which is unfortunately bad for my progress, because I play a wickedly good game with Nil bidding & winning :(.

      Wasn’t the prior game based on the number of spades you and your partner played? This version of scoring would help my rank a lot.

      For goals, I was aiming to rank out in Poppit Party and PDS, and I have in the latter. Secondary goal was to achieve 10,000 badges, which I did earlier this week 🙂

      Stay safe, coco

      • Thank you so much for answer for the Spades rank! I’m doing
        great in there because I have noticed it doesn’t seem to matter if I
        stand up a lot not finish the whole game. Yes I like nil too but for rank
        it’s NOT a good thing lol. Well IMO. We all like to play pogo our way.
        Our way might not be the right way or the wrong way lol. It’s our way!

  13. My December post: I do have a goal which is to get to 5000 badges. When I first joined BH I thought it was going to go faster then I originally thought, my mistake. So that’s my goal.

    Today: I have 4,848 so I am slowly getting to 5000. I have many badges that I still have not activated yet and I’m hoping that the Seashell 20 badge marathon will be games that I like.

    I would like to get the rest of the Spring Doll (flower) Badges in Trizzle as I don’t mind playing that game. I think I have 3 more left. I need to read the instructions again for the Warm Season Badge (I was hoping I would get that one just playing but I didn’t so it’s time to read the other members instructions on how to get that one.

    Have a great weekend everyone!

  14. I’m such a slacker — been a member almost since inception and not have reached 5,000 badges. Bought a few on sale over the years and have earned a lot of in-game play badges, special badges, weeklies and now gifted M&M’s, but yikes! That’s a lot of Pogo time!

  15. I have a question. How many badges are there to get if you had gotten all the M & M / weekly, daily, marathons, etc and all the possible badges?. Does anyone know?

  16. I’m doing good with my goals from December. I am up to date with my weekly badges, and also I have done every daily challenge since the Pogis started, even the Quinn’s. I hope to continue being up to date.

    Have a wonderful weekend all!

  17. No Pogo goals for me so I’m never disappointed because I missed one. I buy, participate in and play what I choose, much like other members have expressed. It is very liberating for me to get to this point after years of chasing every badge. Hope you are having a nice weekend and stay safe.

    • I’m with you. There is something very liberating about having changed my Pogo ways and being able to “just say no” to stuff I don’t really like without feeling like I’m missing out on something I “should” be doing.
      Pogo messes with your head sometimes…lol.

  18. My goal was just to have fun and play what I want. I am enjoying climbing the constellations and getting pogis. I am having fun.

  19. is pogo done rewarding completion badges for mix and match albums? i finished one last week and there was no completion badge. I’ve checked on both classic and early access

    • There were a few days when it was possible to complete more albums than available completion badges. There were only 248 completion badges. But that was corrected on Tuesday morning.

      As of right now there can only be 251 completed M&M Albums, and there are 254 completion badges available.

      Suz

  20. Oops, I don’t think I made a post on my gaming goals for 2020. I passed the 7,000 badges earned mark :). I guess a goal for me is to get to 7,500 badges by the end of the year.