Posted July 11, 2017
Do you have an unplayed collection of games?
I certainly do, even amongst my older boxed games from many years ago.
A study of unplayed Steam games was done back in 2014, and the findings reported around 37% of games sold had never been played even once. Many of those of course were free games, but a good number were paid for games, and Half-Life 2 was one of those that topped that list.
You can do a quick search of the web now, just as I did, and there are many posts about this phenomenon or state of affairs.
Here is one, also from 2014 - https://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/were-buying-more-pc-games-than-we-can-play/
The reasons are many I guess, but often it is down to sales, where we pick up bargains while we can, and sometimes that is a group of games, where perhaps we are only really interested in some of those, so the rest remain unplayed. And others no doubt, are get while you can at a good price, and maybe time permitting, check them out later ... which may never occur or not often, because of other life events or just simply because there is a constant stream of new games vying for your time.
Certainly for me, it has always been a case of get while you can at a good price, especially as in years gone by, games often disappeared or became extremely hard to get, even second hand.
I was a late starter with computer games, as I was in my early 30's and it was back in the era of Win 95. I started with an Apple IIE computer, but even though I dabbled a little with games at that point, it wasn't my main interest, and I mainly saw them as an immature thing. It wasn't until a few years later, at the age stated, that I got my first real taste of a decent game (Quake) and got hooked. That was on a Win 95 PC at my work, that we used during down time. Not long after, I bought my first PC, when work was upgrading to Win 98. I bought one of their older PC's that they were getting rid of. It alas was not even Win 95, but Win 3.1. But hey all the great games back then ran on DOS mostly.
While I certainly dabbled with various genres, thanks to the brilliance of Quake and a few others, I mostly fell in love with First Person Shooters, hook line & sinker. I even went back and completed a few earlier games, like Doom and Doom II. But I also fell in love with Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage, Tomb Raider, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D and many others.
I certainly do, even amongst my older boxed games from many years ago.
A study of unplayed Steam games was done back in 2014, and the findings reported around 37% of games sold had never been played even once. Many of those of course were free games, but a good number were paid for games, and Half-Life 2 was one of those that topped that list.
You can do a quick search of the web now, just as I did, and there are many posts about this phenomenon or state of affairs.
Here is one, also from 2014 - https://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/were-buying-more-pc-games-than-we-can-play/
The reasons are many I guess, but often it is down to sales, where we pick up bargains while we can, and sometimes that is a group of games, where perhaps we are only really interested in some of those, so the rest remain unplayed. And others no doubt, are get while you can at a good price, and maybe time permitting, check them out later ... which may never occur or not often, because of other life events or just simply because there is a constant stream of new games vying for your time.
Certainly for me, it has always been a case of get while you can at a good price, especially as in years gone by, games often disappeared or became extremely hard to get, even second hand.
I was a late starter with computer games, as I was in my early 30's and it was back in the era of Win 95. I started with an Apple IIE computer, but even though I dabbled a little with games at that point, it wasn't my main interest, and I mainly saw them as an immature thing. It wasn't until a few years later, at the age stated, that I got my first real taste of a decent game (Quake) and got hooked. That was on a Win 95 PC at my work, that we used during down time. Not long after, I bought my first PC, when work was upgrading to Win 98. I bought one of their older PC's that they were getting rid of. It alas was not even Win 95, but Win 3.1. But hey all the great games back then ran on DOS mostly.
While I certainly dabbled with various genres, thanks to the brilliance of Quake and a few others, I mostly fell in love with First Person Shooters, hook line & sinker. I even went back and completed a few earlier games, like Doom and Doom II. But I also fell in love with Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage, Tomb Raider, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D and many others.
Post edited July 11, 2017 by Timboli
