Man, those unopened hobby product photos just look like spending addiction. I still remember someone on r/headphones who had like 30 different AKG headphones.
Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
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Re: Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
#52I wish more game developers adopt the “no sales, period” policy of Factorio. Here’s a relevant quote from the developer. > Not having a sale ever is part of our philosophy. In short term, they are good and bring extra money, but we are targeting long term. I believe that searching for sales is wasted time, and people should decide on the price and value, but putting option of wasting time to search for deals or waiti…
Putting a product on sale is amoral because somebody might buy something they don't need, is weirdest take I have seen in a while. We're not all just whales, some people don't have that much money. Plenty of teenagers, unemployed, etc. are able to get some good experiences because of good sales.
Re: Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
#53https://www.guitarworld.com/features/gear-acquisition-syndro... First from "guitar acquisition syndrome" can now become "game acquisition syndrome"
Very different.
With a physical item you can always sell it or give it away.
Instruments in particular can hold value extremely well.
Also, just having the guitar as a decoration can look nice.
There's a reason most guitar manufacturers put a lot of effort into aesthetics.
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#54Personally, 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.
My Thursday morning habit is to download the free games from Epic and Prime Gaming. I have hundreds of games I paid nothing for and will probably never play, but every once in a while I’ll read about an older game, find I have it in my library from one of these giveaways and can enjoy it. When I had PS+ or GamePass I did the same thing. I’ve had less success with Steam, but used to do the same thing with HB. I’m sure…
Even GoG gifts games from time to time. They're not usually amazing, so I could understand people grabbing them but never actually playing them.
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#55I buy lots of potentially interesting games when they go on sale. Especially single player (or at least with a single player option) so I don't have to worry about servers sitting down for a lack of players.
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#56This is true for all products. How much of your closet is filled with stuff you haven’t worn in at least a year. How much of your freezer is full of stuff you’ll never eat. How many of the books on your bookshelf will you actually read before you die?
Physical books (and games) sit there on a shelf and you're occasionally remind you that you bought them and maybe should read/play them.
Items in a digital library seem much easier to completely and utterly forget about.
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#57Nearly 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.
Just to clarify, I have the same usage and it's because I "pirate" games and only buy the ones that I play more than once/couple hours.
I don't trust and nor like the refund policies/processes and all kinds of fences they implement, and often even after I have bought a game I will keep using the pirated version because it is more convenient (offline play, no need to login and it's already installed... when games are 100-150GB sometimes it's a waste of time to reinstall using Steam). Do you have another kind of usage that leads to these false positive?
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#58Most books I get, I don't read
It’s still worth buying physical books that sound interesting to you even if you don’t read them, because then you can have an impressive shelf of books in your home that you might read someday, or someone else might want to read from.
With these steam games? No physical copy means you’re just throwing money away.
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#59I 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.
There are others but http://completionist.me/ works the best for me. Shows the averages and also has things like "this many games are under 5 percent completion" so I can go find something I booted up once and forgot about.
I also use steams category system to then tag some of those into a backlog category, although that doesn't help as much
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think because the “true” statement is more awkward as a headline, and requires more seconds to parse. Thus they need to dumb it down. The real headline would be “Most games people buy are never played” or something. Which can mean a lot of things like do people often buy games that nobody else has ever played?
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