Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
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Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
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#2I use a tracker to try and fight this, showing how many games I've started and also achievement progress in them in aggregate.
But I also buy a lot of books I intend to read later, so I almost think it's inherent to digital copies? The less friction in storing them the easier it is to buy aspirationally.
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#3Umberto Eco's game library.
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#4Personally, 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.
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#5So true... out of the 5 games I have bought on steam, I have played 2 (one fully), and installed and just played briefly 1, and two other never even installed.
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#6Surely they could have worded that better. What they mean to say is that most games that get bought don't get played.
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#7Games are just like fashion!
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#8Dito with books, side projects, courses on udemy, ...
It is not a game thing. It is a human thing.
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#9I use a tracker to try and fight this, showing how many games I've started and also achievement progress in them in aggregate. But I also buy a lot of books I intend to read later, so I almost think it's inherent to digital copies? The less friction in storing them the easier it is to buy aspirationally.
What tracker? I need something like this, I've around 1600 games on steam and need a way to keep track.
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#10Nearly all of my "unplayed" Steam games have been played plenty by me, just not through Steam. Sometimes I think about how my Steam account contributes to statistics that are used to drive narratives like this where "not time-tracked by Steam" = "unplayed game bought by an insane collector." But chances are that narrative is overwhelmingly right most of the time, so whatever.