I have a backlog of games, so lately I buy only if I plan to play it. I don't use bundles - that's the source of most the unplayed games.
Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
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#12https://www.guitarworld.com/features/gear-acquisition-syndro...
First from "guitar acquisition syndrome" can now become "game acquisition syndrome"
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#13Personally, I have a ton of unplayed games because of Humble Bundle. Like I would buy the bundle for 1 game, and the other 9 came with it. For some of them I would redeem the coupon just in case.
Yeah, that's probably my biggest culprit too. I'm guilty of getting something and then not playing it, but I'd say over half is due to humble bundles.
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#14The title is a misreading of the data. It's not that "most people who buy games on Steam never play them". It's that most games people buy remain unplayed. A tiny, tiny minority of people who buy games of Steam never play games they buy on Steam.
EDIT: Apparently, this error was introduced by the HN submission! The title of the article on the website is: "Most people who buy your game won’t play it". This matches the data presented by the article.
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#15The point is to collect games when they’re at a discount, no? At least that’s the game I play! Got 100+ at this point
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#16I'm buying games I will play when my kids leave home.
I'm buying games that I pirated as a kid.
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#17I have a ton of games that I haven't played. Mostly it's due to wanting to support the devs that pushed linux builds for their games.
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#18The title is a misreading of the data. It's not that "most people who buy games on Steam never play them". It's that most games people buy remain unplayed. A tiny, tiny minority of people who buy games of Steam never play games they buy on Steam. EDIT: Apparently, this error was introduced by the HN submission! The title of the article on the website is: "Most people who buy your game won’t play it". This matches the…
I don't know why but I find language like this incredibly frustrating. Maybe it's because the media tends to do this sort of thing all the time to fit statistics to their narrative.
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#19Dito with books, side projects, courses on udemy, ... It is not a game thing. It is a human thing.
The urge to collect, it’s not our best one.
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#20The point is to collect games when they’re at a discount, no? At least that’s the game I play! Got 100+ at this point
I just checked and I have 300+, yet from checking purchase history I haven't really spent that much on Steam at all. Apart from Cyberpunk I never paid much for anything.
As others have mentioned, for me it's also mostly Humble Bundle promos, paying small amounts that were just donations. Maybe once or twice there was a game I wanted.
I haven't opened it in 5 years though. I always toy with giving it away or deleting it.