If you complete the game, and can prove you completed the game, I see no reason not to award a +1, it’'s still a completed game.
Now at the same time, if you use the trade-in to buy another game that’s a -1.
Like say you buy 10 games a year, and maintain no backlog. Every game you buy is a -1, every game you beat is a +1 and trading it in gets you nothing, so you’d beat robbing Peter to pay Paul.
If you have no backlog, all you doing to moving back and forth from -1 to +1
I was thinking about the earlier posts about Trading In a game would be like a Return where the -1 Never Happened so you’re at 0 net for that game. That should have a time limit on it.
Buy a disc based game makes it -1. Completing it puts it at 0. Dropping/trading it in maybe could be 0.5 so instead of -1 or 0, it’s in the middle at -0.5.
Going into 2022, I already have a small backlog of 3 games and an expansion that were purchased in 2021 so how would I be at 0 points? Wouldn’t I already be at +3.5 points once I complete these games and the expansion?
Also, if I end 2022 at 0 points, that means that every game I purchased, I completed and can go into 2023 fresh. I know that’s not the point of the Backlog Challenge so while I will most likely lose in this actual challenge, for my own personal challenge, I would win because unlike 2021 and 2022, I want to go into 2023 without a backlog.
Basically, im using this Backlog Challenge for my own personal challenge in which I will be more selective and whatnot. I don’t want to buy a single game in 2022 that doesn’t have a 100% chance of being completed. By doing this, I will eliminate the games that are 50/50 for various reasons.
This has been a very fun challenge that allowed me to finish some games I never would have gotten around to play if it wasn’t for the fact that it was during a challenge.
The Road Ahead
2022 is gonna be a crazy year, so one hard with lots of big games. Let’s see what happens!
Also including trade-ins and DLC into the mix is gonna make it anyone’s ball game.
Sign ups begin sometime next week and run to December 31st, Contest Begins Jan 1st, 2022.
