Game Marathon for Charity

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by MildShow

One thing you may want to consider is waiting until Mass Effect 3 actually comes out to start playing Mass Effect 1, or maybe even longer. The thing is, plenty of people probably wouldn't be willing to watch a stream of ME 3 until they've had a chance to play through it themselves, and if you wait even just a couple days, you're giving them a chance to get at least some playing time in. This will also let them know which sidequests exist/are a pain to complete to help with your donation plan.

Great idea, though. I'm looking forward to see how it ends up being executed.

This is a good point, I'm on the fence about it myself. I think traffic might be higher because it's happening at the peak of Mass Effect 3 hype/excitement. The reason this point is good, though, is giving us research time to figure out what would be good donation ideas for the third game.

Originally Posted by Krylo

How much do I have to donate to force you to run through ME1 with Kaiden as a permanent squadmate?

Another suggestion we had was not just torturous donations, but coming up with Renegade Donations and Paragon Donations. The players essentially become puppets, and people can inflict hurt or love on us. I imagine there would be many more Renegade than Paragon, but hey, options are fun.

Kaiden as a squadmate is probably the most expensive Renegade action, because fuck.

One issue I foresee with the "viewers paying for X/Y/Z quests/mates/achievements/difficulties" is redundant donations. If two people pay for one of us to play on Insane Difficulty, what do we do? We could refund, or contact them and allow them to re-allocate their funds.

Originally Posted by RO

Also, there's a lot of sidequests, especially in ME1. Whether or not you do them could add many more hours to a continous session and amplify the risk of Insomnia Insanity. Might be an idea to have a rotation of eg. 2 playthroughs (one paragon + one renegade) with 2 players each so one can get some rest at some point.

Yup. That's the whole point really. Suffer for science! But to add many hours to a session, viewers have to donate, and/or reach certain milestones. Otherwise we players can just run through the game nice and quick (a "quick" 20 hours). We are going to be doing research runs, to see how short and long the game can become. And we will work out just how potentially dangerous it would be, if at all, and add failsafes as needed. I think my longest ME1 playthrough with total completion was about 50 hours, which I could probably do, as long as viewers pay out the ass!