johnnygoging: this group is probably already riddled with gog spies and secret agents to try and dilute it. gog have probably already dispatched their own super-henchman like oddjob but instead of shoes it's CD-ROMS.
edit: oddjob threw a hat, not a shoe. thank you austin powers. I'll leave the mistake here in case anyone thinks it's funny.
Mild paranoia might be one of the withdrawal side effects but that doesn't mean no one is after us.
ET3D: There's research showing that people are less happy with what they buy when there's a great selection because whatever they buy they know there's always something better in at least some respects. In gaming the problem doesn't seem to be with what you buy, because games are just so cheap these days, but with what you play. No matter what you choose play, it's always possible that another game you own would have given you more pleasure.
I remember that one kid who had all the Masters of the Universe toy figures, and by all of them I mean
all of them. Plus the big castle and everything. I had more than enough of toys myself so I never felt disadvantaged but I didn't just get anything everything I wanted but had to make clear choices, and usually only for birthdays and Christmas. This guy had all his toys neatly set up in his room but he hardly even played with them, it was almost tragic to see how spoiled he was. His parents were rich so they could buy him anything, and they did. When I saw how bored that guy was, I couldn't even be jealous, after all I was having 10 times as much fun with just Skeletor and 4-5 other figures and no castle. If I needed a castle, I'd draw one. Nowadays, I'm like that guy with my computer games. So many that you lose appreciation, though I'm not sure if the excitement of ye olden days would ever come back even if I had only 3-4 games. You do change and evolve as you grow up. Even in your 30s, you still grow up and evolve.
totaldepravity: I'm in the same boat as you are, although my addiction primarily for sales.
The vast majority of my purchases were during sales, otherwise I'd have been broke way earlier of course.
iippo: Ill just say ive broken the four digit number quite some time ago. Nvm some buys for kiddy comp etc.
Well, luckily huge amount of those are from various bundles and steep gog & steam deals, so its not really -that- expensive hobby as it might first look like.
Sure, it's peanuts with these prices. But the expenses accumulate, especially if you're like me and don't set a specific budget for games every month, I mean if I monitor my food and supplies expenses why on Earth can't I manage to do the same for games? But I know the reason: It's because I see gaming as escapism and keeping budget is sort of anticlimactic to proper escapism.
But four digits?? That's more than 1000 games! Even if I bought everything on my wishlist including the lowest of the low priority, I'd at best end up with 350 games, no more.
iippo: I mean, i have understood long time ago that
these days buying games is closer to collecting post stamps than actually something you play so intensively like i did in my childhood. Different times i suppose.
Haha! Especially here on GOG where you can marvel at your nice shelf with the nice stamp-like little game cover pictures, it does feel a bit like collecting stamps. I collected stamps as a kid but only very casually, I was more into collecting coins and the aluminum lids of little milk cups that you use for coffee & tea. They always had series going and I tried to complete several series, filled a couple binders worth of milk cup lids. This had real educational value, as I learned the name of many types of birds and plants and other things that way.
Azilut: *raises hand* Not that I object, but isn't running a group like this in the GOG forums a bit like running an AA meeting in the back of a liquor store? :p
You've got to be innovative these days.
fronzelneekburm: I found the perfect way how to get my gaming addiction in check: Buy all the games, then it becomes far less likely for a game you don't own suddenly showing up at a great discount. Of course, then you'll still have to resist the urge to buy giftable copies.
Sounds like a strategy guide for an RTS game:
1.) Quickly defeat all the enemies on the map
2.) Now it's much less likely that anyone will attack you and it should be easier to beat the mission....
Although in all seriousness, I kinda did what you suggest by buying as many games as I could before becoming poor so I wouldn't have to suffer when a game I wanted but didn't have went on sale once I was poor. Unfortunately, they keep adding new ones to the catalog :D
fronzelneekburm: It's like that thing Deng Xiaoping was talking about:
You gotta have capitalism first, then you can establish communism. Think of your game-buying addiction as a transition phase to addiction-free bliss!
Peace be with you, my fellow Goglodytes!
Peace be upon you as well, fellow member and reader of the internet!
Concerning what Deng said, looks like they ended up trying it the other way around after all :D
CrashNBrn: Check out some
Mike MacDonald standup, he's freaking hilarious too :-)
Never heard of the guy before, he's quite funny. Although he's not inventing jokes, just recounting stories and observations from actual everyday life which is the best material for standup anyway.
Magnitus: Dunno how much I spend per game on average, but it's pretty low (definitely under 10$, probably around 5$).
All those crazies buying new AAA games buy the equivalent of 6-10 of my games each time they buy a game.
I'm just spreading the wealth a bit more :P.
$10 is usually my pain limit but I did go up to $14-15 in isolated cases. Average expense is probably around $3 but I don't know for sure as I haven't exactly calculated everything.
ne_zavarj: Thanks to my old bank i'm clean and became a beggar since 2014. 05. 05 . :(
Well, if you keep begging after stopping to buy games then you're still an addict so in order to get rid of the actual addiction you probably still need the group therapy. Keep us up to date about improvements or relapses, maybe people can help and if not then it's still nice to be able to talk about the problem.
toxicTom: I continue to enjoy my daughter's drawings even though she's only 7 years old and they certainly can't be called "high art". But I see the love, intentions and effort she put into them and it's quite fascinating.
Kid drawings are the best, seriously! Most kids draw but they sadly stop when they start feeling too self-conscious about it due to comparing their efforts with the efforts of other kids who draw better. Regardless of what a lying-to-be-nice grownup might say, kids can see very well who draws better than them. Some kids get inspired by efforts better than their own, others get discouraged. When I was very little, I spent many hours drawing with my older brother. In the beginning, my style was very much influenced by my brother's drawings but once I surpassed him ad my little spaceships started looking better than his little spaceships, he turned his interests from drawing to other things. Not sure if it was because I caught up and took over or if he just got bored with it, fortunately we had plenty of other common interests and I enjoyed drawing by myself just as much.
Gnostic: Anyone guilty of this Thursday release?
I am because I am a sucker for extremely long games with many features, that Avernum: Escape From The Pit claims it will take months to finish feed my addiction to the moon.
I failed, only being clean for one day only...... haizzzz.......
I resisted succesfully, still clean since December 30, 2014 but it's not easy. I almost caved in for Space Rangers HD, it was super duper hard to resist but I think my laptop is a bit too slow for that game anyway so I convinced myself that the game probably wouldn't even run smoothly.
Don't be discouraged by setbacks or beat yourself up over failing. It doesn't matter how many days you manage to be clean in one unbroken string, ultimately it matters if you're making an attempt at solving the addiction issue and that isn't directly related to how many days you're clean. People can be clean for an entire year and then relapse while someone else might have 5 relapses within the same year and then suddenly be free of the addiction, of course you'll only know that much later.
