Here internet speed is so slow that downloading 2 GB data takes 5-7days. It's a bit expensive too. 1 GB data is for 1$ approx.
But good thing is there is a wifi signal of a government office where one of my friend live (and we know it's password as they have written it on wall on which router is kept) and whenever I visit him I download my games. :P

Eh, it depends. Some days I definitely feel more like a collector by getting the special editions, getting early release big boxes, and close to new condition used games, especially if they are a little niche. Others, mostly with regards to here, I am more into just playing the games. I already own Codename Panzers Phase One twice, but I couldn't play it until I got it here.

Collector and gamer at the same time.

I do enjoying collecting but I do play games as well.

I've just beaten Life is Strange and working on Steins Gate at the moment.

Gaming life is too good to pass up. ^^

I'm a collamer...

The answer to the thread's title is "Yes".

I'm pretty sure I'd qualify as a collector, but I'm trying to make an effort to play every single game in my catalog. Out of about 400 games I've played only 60-70, but I'm getting there :D

[Looking and his shelf]

Collector...no doubt about it :-)

I would say that I'm both. I have way to many games and my lifetime will probably not long enough to play them all, but I never buy games that I don't plan to play some day in the future or games that I think I won't enjoy. And when I start a game, I normally also complete it (except for some that are really buggy or that are way too difficult for me).

A bit of both....unless you take it to my standards and consider that digital collections are worth nothing and makes no collector.

I'm not a collector, I'm a hoarder.

Thanks!

Most funny part of this is, i got it at an overcrowded flea market for almost nothing. Now, if i could be lucky just one more time and find that special fitness mat controller needed for playing the game...

^This...

I'd self-identify as a gamer insofar as I enjoy video games and I have a lot of them and play fairly regularly. I've got probably around 1000 games if I include GOG, Steam, as well as direct-download games from GMG, GG, Shinyloot, Desura, various bundle sites, and CD/DVD based games, but I wouldn't really call myself a collector as my goal is not to acquire and collect them for the sake of collection. So I'd have to say I'm a gamer in that regard.

The majority of games I've actually bought or gotten from gifts, giveaways, free promos etc. are all games I'd like to play over time but there are so many it may not be realistic to expect to get to them all. So I wouldn't say it is a goal to play or complete them all as that doesn't really matter to me. I simply play games for entertainment, whether it is one or 20 over a given period of time and as long as I enjoy what I'm doing then they have served me well.

If I were to feel I need to play them all and play them as if they were a queue of work that I'm obligated to complete then that wouldn't exactly be fun or entertaining per se and would be more of a mountainous burden than an enjoyable hobby/interest. I consider my library of games to be like a private version of a public library, where I have a variety of experiences I can opt into, and I simply choose which of them I wish to experience at a given time with no feeling of obligation to complete them all. The list of available games in the library grows faster than my rate of playing them, so attempting to play them all would be a losing battle and possibly miss out on other important things in life ending up being a slave to the games.

In other words - Do you own your games, or do your games own you?

That's a twist on a line from Fight Club pertaining to material possessions, of which games are. I prefer them to be a chosen entertaining distraction rather than a mountain of goals to complete.

Well, I have been a collector for many (25+) years. However I have recently given up on the physical copies of anything. Steam has ruined it totally. Buy a game and all there is on the CD is the steam client and a key.

So I am keeping a few boxed games that are nice, and the PS3/Xb0x360 games I don't have on PC, and a fair few on PC, then rest of my games are going on Ebay at some point.

Will keep anything which is digital copy obviously, but I don't consider that a collection, more of an archive. The days of collectors boxsets, nicely boxed products with manuals and amps and such like is long gone.