I have beaten 92 out of 267 games I own on GoG. I just checked. It isn't as bad as I had thought. Still. I really should get through more of them.

I have a lot of games I haven't gotten around to yet. I don't feel bad about that because to me it's about having a big library to choose from, so if I'm in the mood for a particular type of game I can just start playing instead of having to hunt for it. I'm the same way with my books. Some people don't get it because their mindset is something like "Have one thing at a time, then move on to the next thing," but I just like being able to scan my shelf until something catches my eye and then dive into it.

I have fallen into a habit of juggling a few games at once, but I try to keep it manageable, like only playing one game from a certain genre at once. Don't want to get stuck starting like 12 RPGs and not finishing any of them.

Sadly, thousands.

I can only agree.

And I use it as part of my argument for so called Piracy Of Media.
Each of us only has so much time we can spend with media ... so many hours in a day, so many days in a lifetime.
Those like us that have bought many items and have huge collections, have done an immeasurable favor to the Media Industry. We make it possible for many of them to survive. And we do that on two levels, the money we spend and the others we influence.
I have always believed, that what comes around, goes around, and that presumed lost sales are easily equaled by influenced sales.
I am never gonna be able to play, read, watch, use all I have bought. But someones have benefited out of it all the same.
So many concerns about so called piracy, certainly in my instance, if I cared to engage in such, just don't marry with the true facts. One has to look at the impacts realistically, not emotionally or with blind greed.

Yep. All those estimates of the supposed losses caused by "piracy", at the full value of all the copies "pirated". Most who take for free wouldn't buy if they had to, as most of what's taken is just stocked even more easily and carelessly as what those who buy piles of stuff on sale stock stuff they won't actually use, and even most of what is used would have been given up on if it had to be paid. And then, if a small part of it would have been bought, it would have likely been bought on a deep sale, probably at a later time. So losses are a just a small fraction of that estimate, and those aren't net losses, because, if what is "pirated" is good enough, "piracy" becomes free advertising. I mean, when you advertise, you spend money to show off your product in the hopes that people will buy it, but you don't know that they will. If your product is "pirated", it's shown off. It may eventually be purchased, by the "pirate" or by others who learn of it in this manner, or it may not be, but at least the showing off doesn't cost you anything.

To be sure, all true.

To be honest, most of the so called piracy I have done in the past is with friends and family, and involved virtual drive method where necessary and cracked exe, especially as the speed of my connection until recently, has made it too problematical to even really consider doing downloads of pirated games. Even my own games, I gave the same treatment to, where necessary, because I cannot abide risking a disc or having it whirring in the drive, etc.

But you know, getting something for free aside, I have always felt it too draconian and controlling to not be able to legally share with family & friends. Sharing to me is a very important part of life, makes the world a better place, and should be promoted in every quarter.

And you know what, a good chunk of the games I have bought from GOG, I first played by copies from friends & family. I have also bought many games two times over, some even more. And you can say the same for Music and Movies. I used to also buy a lot of secondhand games and books, all a loss to the game or book author (etc) in direct terms, until maybe a later date.

I buy ebooks these days, so they make a profit from every one I buy. They still want to steal you blind though, and gain large selfish profits. Once upon a time there used to be a healthy relationship between seller and buyer, where both realized there was a benefit to being fair. Now many sellers think they are superior and how us buyers should think ourselves lucky. They have forgotten they are nothing without us, and they have manipulated things to make that superiority more true. Steam is the perfect example of that. We no longer have any control and rely totally on their judgment and benevolence.

Me, I prefer a world based on Freedom and Trust and Sharing And Caring.

yes, hundreds on gog and around 30 on steam. Its my dirty little secret and if my spouse knew he would flip when he saw me buy yet another game on sale here. so........................ shhhhhhhhhhh






I wonder if there will be a series soon on online hoarding

this made me spit coffee out my nose lolololololol

I promise not to tell.

I am surprised there isn't a series already. Perhaps the shame is too wide spread ... and no-one likes having their nose rubbed in it.

Has anyone wondered how all those dead (essentially) unused games are impacting the world ... perhaps in a spiritual sense .... or some kind of size displacement? Could they be affecting our lives in ways we just don't know or understand yet? And are they really dead? Or like one or two has suggested already, are they actually sentient .... a living breathing thing, watching and waiting?

Be sure to have them locked away properly .... maybe in a darkened cold room. Don't leave any by your bed while you sleep and dream at night. They could be sneaking into your brain and making changes.

I don't reckon I have ever been the same since playing Quake .... and others.

Do you like me, keep an axe under your bed?

LOL ...... just kidding .... I think???

This thread got me to check my own stats, I was curious because I’ve been making a concerted effort over the past couple of years to play through my backlog (not necessarily to force myself to complete them, but to at least give them a try and to complete them if I enjoy the game).

Total games owned for my computer across all platforms (GOG, Steam, etc., including freebies): 703

Completed: 121 (17%)
Quit, or Can’t play for various technical reasons: 505 (72%)
Unplayed and currently in backlog: 77 (11%)

56 out of 259 here. Not as good as I'd hoped, but not as bad as I'd imagined.

Unfortunately, I also have a couple hundred Steam games, a couple dozen on Origin, and scores of Indie games that I don't have on any other service. So the backlog is big enough to absorb my consciousness and leave me a drooling zombie.

One game at a time though, one game at a time.

At this point I am pretty sure if everybody only bought as many games as they can play, the PC would be pretty much dead as a gaming platform (even more dead... anyway). I'm afraid sales have spoiled us all. On the one hand, many people no longer buy games when they are new, because they know that they will be much cheaper in a sale after only a few months in many cases, on the other hand, many people who buy those games in sales would never have paid full price for them, anyway, and possibly never play them, but at this point, the companies probably don't care any more, because the game is sold.

Well, while I do have quite a backlog both here and on Steam, at this point I am pretty much immune to most sales, because I realize that there will be an equally good, or even better offer in the next sale or the one after that, and I probably would not play the game in question until then, anyway, or just play something else I haven't touched in all the time since I picked it up during some sale. There are exceptions, though, for example I just had to buy Fallout: New Vegas when it was released on GoG a few weeks ago. But other than that, I made it through both summer sales without getting a single game. I also haven't paid full price (as in the original price on release, but also any unreduced price, for that matter, like the games used to cost around 60 bucks when they were originally released, but now their regular price is like $10 or less) in a looooong time.

I know, if everyone was like me, the industry would probably collapse, but why should I buy overpriced new crap when I still have so many great old titles at my disposal?

Does your axe have, perchance, red "color" on the edges?

I always try to download all purchases immediately.
I don't like relying on the benevolence of anyone or like being under anyone's control or trusting to fortune's fate ... not even the wonderful GoG.

And then as soon as I can, within a day or so, I relocate and back them up to a few external HDD ... stored in different rooms.

I see GoG, and for that matter, Steam as just one of my backups ... the online cloud variant.

Certainly in my dreams it does ... some old and dark looking .... like a tool that has been well-used but never cleaned .... except in more blood.