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Marchs Games:
Hyper Light Drifter (PC/Switch/XB1/PS4/iOS)
DOOM Eternal (PC/Switch/XSX/PS5/XB1/PS4)
Neon White (PC/Switch/PS5/PS4)

Games of the Month of the Year:
Mass Effect (PC/XB1/PS4/360/PS3)
Mass Effect 2 (PC/XB1/PS4/360/PS3)
Mass Effect 3 (PC/XB1/PS4/360/PS3/Wii U)

What is Game of the Month Club?
Game of the Month is a community project open to all B8ers where users share, discover, play and/or discuss a select few games every month. The games featured each month are chosen by YOU the users (and Lady Luck)

The Basics
- Each month will usually feature three games that were chosen via a random drawing from a pool of games that users nominated
- For each game you beat, you get a cool point on our just-for-fun standings as well as a nomination for next month's randomized drawing
- In order to receive the point and nomination, you must beat said game within the calendar month
- If you beat one of the current month's games in the previous month, you can apply for a "recently beaten waiver," but you will only receive a point and no nomination should you do so
- Drawing for next month's games is usually on the 25th
- If you periodically keep us posted on your progress and/or talk about different aspects of the games, then everyone will obviously think you are super awesome!

Nomination Rules
- You get one nomination automatically each month
- You receive additional nominations each month for every featured game that you beat
- Each game you nominate has to be unique from all other nominations and cannot include a game that has already been selected for GotM
- Each game must be a standalone game that can be acquired and played on its own (aka cannot be DLC/expansion that requires the base game)
- Nominations only carry over if you beat a featured game after the drawing for next month's games but before the end of the month
- You have 9 supports you can use throughout the year. Your only limitations are that you can't support your own nomination, and you can only use one support per game per month

Damn, second match is too cruel

Stardew Valley

noooo

Cincinnati

Columbus

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

All UFA stuff has been sent out. Hopefully I will update the spreadsheet for RFA stuff no later than Sunday.

Cincinnati

Columbus

Okay, I was able to get Bears through Jets done. I will make sure to do the final eight in the next 12-18 hours. The spreadsheet does not reflect RFA stuff, but I wanted to get out as many UFA PMs as I could to ensure users have two weeks to do them as I am planning on making the draft take place April 21st-23rd.

Signing Your UFAs Rules

1. I will PM everyone their UFAs and the slash line (length/total/signing bonus) of their desired deal. I will also include and isolate any players who are either holding out or hate your team to where they will only sign with you if you place the franchise tag on them.

2. You will PM me back with the following format (using two players from my team as an example)

Re-signing:
DT Earl Mitchell - 3 / $10.2 mil / $1.83 mil
or
DT Earl Mitchell 2 year default

Franchise Tag:
Nobody

Not re-signing:
LG Damien Bell

The deadline for signing your UFAs will be Thursday, April 13th at 8 PM ET

Unrestricted Free Agents (AKA Signing Your Remaining Free Agents)

Any player of yours whose contract expired and was not part of the previous event will be included here. This is an extremely straightforward event. You either sign or you do not sign players, Those you do stay on your team, those you don't enter the free agent pool.

When you receive the PM with your slash lines, remember that those are not the deals you have to sign them to. With a few exceptions that I will lay out, you can sign anyone (pending the age/max length rule) to deals 1-7 years in length. If you wish to give a player a custom offer, I might be available to do live signings on Discord or the spreadsheet. Otherwise, we can bounce PMs off of each other for a while (remember that there is a deadline though and delay in response could be a day or longer). If you wish to offer someone a deal of a different length but do not want to bother with the financials, you can merely say you want to give X player the default deal for Y years.

There are only two wrinkles for this event. One is that a few players might hold out for better deals. I can confirm that one user has a pair of holdouts. What happens is that I will isolate them in the PM and tell you their base deal. If you elect not to sign them, they will stay on your team without playing a down for you until you trade them, release them, or give into their contract demands. Keep in mind that any guaranteed money still left on their contract (annual bonus) is transferred over to the new contract.

The second wrinkle is that some players hate your team to where they will only sign via the franchise tag, which is a one year deal that pays them the average of the Top 5 salaries at their position or 120% of what they made last season, whichever is higher. I will isolate those players and also tell you how much money that comes out to as of this moment. The franchise tag has rarely been used, so while I am not expecting anyone will use it, you never know.

For those who don't remember, the age/max length rule is that you can't sign a player to a longer contract if it will take them past their age-34 season. You can however sign a player through their age-34 season if it was already included in their default contract. For example, if a 33-year-old player asks for a 3 year contract, you can sign him to that deal because it was part of the default deal. You cannot sign them to a 4+ year contract though.

Also remember that sign-and-trades are not allowed. Players signed to 1 year contracts are ineligible to be traded (RFAs signed via tenders are exempt from this rule). Players signed to multi-year contracts are ineligible to be traded until Week 9 of the regular season.

San Juan

Cincinnati

Columbus

RFA Phase 3 results

Patriots have signed Vikings RG Neil Bell to a 4 year deal. The Vikings have elected not to match and receive the Pats 4th round pick

Panthers have signed Wildcats ROLB Stephon Patton to a 4 year deal. The Wildcats have elected not to match and receive the Panthers 4th round pick

Browns have signed Orcas CB Brian Poole to a 4 year deal. The Orcas matched the contract

Giants have signed Jags TE Darren Waller to a 3 year deal. The Jaguars elected not to match and receive the Wildcats 1st round pick

Bucs have signed Rams FS Adrian Colbert to a 3 year deal. The Rams elected not to match and receive the Bucs 4th round pick

Ravens have signed Wildcats C Brian Allen to a 3 year deal. The Wildcats elected not to match and receiv the Ravens 4th round pick

Commanders have signed Buccaneers CB Adoree' Jackson to a 4 year deal. The Buccaneers matched the contract.

I don't recall anyone mentioning that they began any of the annual games, but I started Mass Effect awhile back. I had heard that the Legendary Edition brought significant changes to the original. I think I mentally set the bar too high because I was disappointed at what I could perceive as being changed/updated at first, but after about 6-10 hours in, I'm really digging the improved version. I don't think that I will be doing the random planet excursions much, but that has to be the most improved part of the game. I remember being very frustrated and disappointed with planet exploration and the Mako itself, but they seem to have overhauled it to be very much like Andromeda.

I think that I was a soldier and an adept during my first two runs through the trilogy. I'm a vanguard here, and I sort of wish that I tried infiltrator instead as I'm not using my particular adept abilities much. Vanguards also specialize in pistols and shotguns, which is not a great combo for me. I'm not a fan of the shotgun, so I basically just use the pistol and buff myself out in the field. I can use other weapons of course, and I do sometimes bust out a sniper. I originally had it so I micromanaged my squad's ability usage, but I decided to just focus on their placement and let them go wild with all that they are capable of.

Richmond

San Juan

Cincinnati

Columbus

Watch Dogs 2 (XB1)

It had been 6-8 years since I played the first, but I initially was unsure if I was going to continue on with this game. I can't say which game did stealth better (gut feeling is the original), but it otherwise seems like a step up across the board.

South Park
Celeste

RFA Phase 2 has ended. I have notified those who have actions to take for Phase 3. The deadline for the final phase will be 7:30 PM ET on Thursday, March 30th. If I receive everything before the deadline, we could move to the next offseason event sooner.

Denver

I could be wrong, but I think UConn's finals against Georgia Tech, Butler, and Kentucky didn't have good ratings either.

San Juan

Cincinnati

Skyrim

I think you have to add it to your Switch account then have the funds merge into your 3DS account by linking your Nintendo and Nintendo Network ID accounts

If you really want to be rid of Runbow, I can take it since you said someone who claimed a PS3 game can also take an eShop one. I already have it on PC, but I suppose I can add another game to my relatively tiny Wii U library if the reports are true that the system can brick if not used for an extended period of time.

I used to replay both Princess Remedy games every year and successfully beat my previous 100% completion runs each time. I think 2020 was the last year I did that, so I doubt that I will continue that upward trend. Still, I will go through it as I can probably still do it in sub-30 minutes.

I actually got halfway through Hyper Light Drifter back in 2017 or so. For a few years, I mostly played Steam in offline mode and assumed that every game had cloud saving at that point. When I got a new computer in 2018, I just simply mass uploaded the cloud saves and then recycled the old computer. Hyper Light Drifter was one of only a handful of games that I discovered did not support cloud saving that the time, so it will be nice to revisit this after so long.

I haven't played Eternal, but I highly doubt you need to play the 2016 reboot first if you are talking from a story perspective. If you want to play the first to head into Eternal with a better grasp of the gameplay mechanics then I understand, but other than that, I wouldn't let anything stop you from jumping into Eternal.

I have a Steam key for Hyper Light Drifter for anyone who promises to make a concerted effort to beat it in April

DOOM Eternal is on Game Pass for console and PC

DOOM Eternal standard edition is on sale for $13.19 USD for PS4/PS5
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1003-PPSA01981_00-DOOMETERNALBUNDL

And your April Games of the Month are...

Hyper Light Drifter (PC/Switch/XB1/PS4/iOS)
DOOM Eternal (PC/Switch/XSX/PS5/XB1/PS4)
Neon White (PC/Switch/PS5/PS4)

Congrats to Ark and myself for having their games selected!

Everything is now closed. I will draw soonish

The number of snaps also doesn't mean much because this doesn't include any data to establish a correlation between snap count and player performance/impact.

Could I have DMC HD Collection?

Last call for noms, supports, and changes

Columbus

I've become numb to people putting games in ill-fitting categories that I haven't commented on it since maybe 2020

San Juan

Minneapolis

Columbus

Yeah, it started late last year

Oh wait, you are asking something different. Let me see if I can remember and edit this post with what has been done, but hopefully Fake chimes in.

FakeAccount3000 posted...

Games eligible for this topic; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1X8E8oqzES42W4S82j7WTfNnzNa8c3uXdSE1rnqYG7WM

Go to the sheet marked "Previous Games"

Everything is in alphabetical order there

Monthly Progress
Bloodstained - Kenri, VI, JONA
Adios - KCF, JONA, Sean, Ark
Rush - Sean, Abacus, KCF

Nominations
Ark - Hyper Light Drifter, Neon White
JONA - Legend of Tianding, Tchia, Tetris Effect
KCF - Pyre, Lil Gator Game, DOOM Eternal
Kenri - DUSK, Battle Chef
Paul - Dangranronpa: THH
Sean - Spider: Miles, OlliOlli World, Last of Us II
VI - Plague Tale Innocence, Ghostwire

Supports
Abacus - Dangan
Ark - Ghostwire
Kenri - Pyre, DOOM
MZero - Pyre

Drawing on Saturday