Hi everyone,
I’m also a member of the `Club of 40’s and also looking for friends to play with. The good thing being at this age (or above) is that we’ve seen the evolution of games. This makes us exceptional in my opinion.
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Yep, my first game console was an odyssey pong console in 1977 my mom got me to keep me occupied. Been a gamer even since and have seen everything in the Games industry, I lived through the 83 game crash and was a very active gamers when it happened
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I was just checking the discord and I didn’t find the group that was mentioned. Were people using the looking for group portion?
I was thinking of something like a “community play day” like say that Tuesday of every week where people could jump on together and try various game pass titles that work well in online multiplayer.
And if it’s popular enough it can grow to multiple play days for different games.
I’m not much of a discord guy because I’m trying to cut down the various social media networks I’m in to help me focus but for this I’ll definitely make an effort to check it more often.
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So on the discord I created a poll asking which days were best (multiple answers allowed) So feel free to answer if you haven’t already:
It looks like Thursday and Saturday were the clear winners so we can even try something tonight (I apologize for the short notice, that’s on me).
With time zones being the other major consideration I put up a poll just now. From there we can also discuss games to play but I think we start with games that are pretty much on installed on most of our Xboxes that would be good start and then we can decide on particular Game Pass games that may require an installation prior to the session.
Here is the poll for time zones:
I’m trying to make myself available for 8:00 p.m. MST tonight and I can start a party. Add me “nrXic” if you’re interested for tonight but hopefully going forward we can rely on the Xbox Era club.
It looks like the official Xbox Era club on the Xbox is “TheXboxEra” so search for that and send a request. Might be a few days before the request is answered because I didn’t give the powers that be a heads up.
Again, tonight is such short notice that nothing may happen but going forward I think we can get something regular on Thursdays.
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I’ve done a couple polls in the Discord and I figure I should do them here as well. If you have already voted in the discord then don’t vote here. I also realize that I won’t get a lot of responses for this but I thought I’d give it a shot anyways.
What is your preferred day to play? (Can vote more than once)
- Sunday
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
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And what is your time zone?
- -10/-9
- -8/-7
- -6/-5
- -4/-3
- 0/+1
- +2/+3
- +4/+5
- +6/+7
- +8/+9
- +10/+11
- +12
- Other
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I’ll tally the results with the Discord one.
As it stands Thursday is the leading result and the time zone is pretty much split between Eastern North America and Western Europe. So it may have to be a rolling entry and exit for most players starting in the UK and then ending up on the west coast of North America.
So the tentative plan is to have people join “TheXboxEra” Xbox club on the Xbox. Request a join if you haven’t already. From there anyone can start a Club Party Chat. And from there anyone can join the Club Party Chat. So someone in the UK could start and have others join and as a night progresses people from North America will start joining. And some of the earlier players could drop out.
This is all very tentative and I figure we’ll have everything ironed out in a month or so but I figure giving this a shot and seeing how it goes and adapting to learn to mistakes and failures every week.
Initially we’ll start with games that most people have installed. Later on we can explore more gamepass titles and lesser played titles.
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