GOG never makes it easy for me :/

Indeed, especially when making a weekend promo such as the last one....I was fine for 2 weeks and then BAM, Tales of Monkey Island happened. ]:D

This is what we call a non-problem.

GOG games are cheap, and NOT playing them frees up all the time they would waste if played with "properly." You don't even need to download them, thus saving precious hard drive space and electricity. If you get enjoyment out of the acquisition, and the small amounts of money spent are going to the good people of GOG for preservation of this fine hobby, what's the harm?

I rarely miss a Humble Bundle and sneer at your paltry Steam collection. Surely you can do better.

I see your point jindofox. And as for Ganni1987, I bought Tales, too! But just because it's awesome and I want to support GOG and the devs. Have it retail and in my steam library. And the best part: I've finished it :) So it's not like I'm going to play. It was just out of awesomeness to have it on GOG and give them my support share in money.

Some games naturally lend themselves to finishing without finishing, Anno 1503 is a good example where the campaign isn't particularly interesting and I therefor never finished the campaign but I spent quite many hours playing open scenarios. Technically, I count it among my abandoned games from last year but I don't feel like I have to go back and finish the campaign, got my enjoyment's worth out of the game already. And then there are sandbox games that can't really be finished to begin with, Open Transport Tycoon being my favorite example. I don't even bother uninstalling that game because it magically finds its way back on my HD all by itself by the ways of sorcery.



Yep, my tablet is a supremely crap el cheapo one and even though my fingers are not at all thick sausage fingers, I still find it quite impossible to accurately hit stuff, not only because of resolution but the hit boxes are all out of whack especially in the browser (Firefox for Android)


Both my parents strongly disapproved of computer games, only stuff like Sim City was seen as halfway but barely tolerable, in very limited quantities. When they weren't looking, we happily played Doom & Co, mowing down many monsters just like everyone else. When the parents were at home, we tried to make gaming look more "respectable". Until I had saved enough money to buy my own computer at which point I didn't care about good PR.


Mm-hm. You need group therapy, yes. A nice welcome to you, Austrobogulator.

But under the current conditions with all the Lucas games, your behavior is entirely understandable. The only thing that's holding me back is the self-imposed rule that I'd have to punish any misstep with an instantaneous giveaway. If it wasn't for that rule, I'd have relapsed every day in these last couple days. Which would be quite bad considering my finances.



Such resolve, I can only dream of!


If by any chance you see me secretly buying stuff and not making an according giveaway for the same game as I promised, I wish to be instantaneously ratted out to the community, without mercy. I shall not get away with such heinous crimes.


I understand you well, however I must point out that it's almost offensive to name Jedi Knight and S.P.A.Z in the same sentence. Jedi Knight is imho an absolute must have FPS and it's that one Star Wars game everyone needs to have played, right up there with TIE Fighter. It's a quintessential gaming experience and if I hadn't played it already, I would have broken my purchasing abstinence right now with no power in the Galaxy to hold me back, even if far away. Although...if I hadn't already played Jedi Knight I wouldn't know how awesome it is. Even people who don't care about Star Wars should check out Jedi Knight and relish in its grand level design and atmosphere. I wonder if the imbecile AI was ever updated but it doesn't detract too much from the overall fun. Still gets full marks.


Perhaps you and your imaginary army have erred in the room? Therapy for overly smug people is down at the end of the hall.

Lots of compulsive small purchases amount to big total expenses, and some can't afford that so it can absolutely be a problem. No one said it's their number one problem in life, but even a small problem is a real problem.
Also, addictions should be addressed, regardless of which seemingly harmless forms they assume. Unless someone doesn't want to self-improve. But most people want to become better as a person and going at it from all angles is sensible, This is but one angle.


Perhaps you have not only erred in the room but in the universe, as well? Unless there somehow is a known universe in which having a larger Steam collection than someone else and pointing that out on a GOG forum thread is considered any kind of achievement.
But if you buy Humble Bundles, you do need therapy and you are welcome. A bit of initial defiance and repulsiveness is only natural, it's the inner addiction within you that's trying to polarize and thus sabotage any possibility of you entering the path of healing.

So I'd say: don't judge tablets based on a crappy one. It won't be that good for either general use or games. That doesn't mean that a better 7" tablet won't be.

Also, last I tried (which was a while ago), Firefox for Android wasn't that good. I used Chrome, Opera, Slepnir, Dolphin and others, Firefox was way down the list.

Damn, building my Android backlog is fun, but I shouldn't be doing that if there's a low chance I'll play the games. Sure, both Jedi Academy and Dark Forces can be played on Android, and I did like Jedi Knight when I played it many years ago, but realistically I'm not going to play either because I gravitate towards RPG/adventures. Still couldn't resist that Humble Bundle.

See here for Jedi Academy. Highly configurable touchscreen controls and full controller support. (Costs $2.25, but that's no too bad.)

Dark Forces should be playable via DOSBox. DOSBox Turbo (which I own) has configurable touch UI and some controller support, but I haven't played with its controls so can't comment about it.

I just checked my Humble and Groupees accounts. Humble has 174 unredeemed keys on various services, Groupees has 241 games.

I think I'm buying way too much.

I think I have the opposite problem, and I'm not sure how good a thing that is for me :D.
It seems incredibly difficult to convince myself to buy a game, my mind is constantly looking for excuses not to do it, "You have other games you can play" "It's on sale, but it'll probably be in a bigger sale later", and the most insidious "Do you really need to play this game?". On both Steam and gog it seems I've spent more on giveaways than on buying for myself (although I enter giveaways for both as well).

Looks like a good thing to me. It's often true that there will be better sales later, and if you do already have enough games to play, and you want to play them, then putting off buying is a good thing.

I also use these to try to put myself off buying games, but I often end up with "but it's supposed to be a good adventure game" or "but it would give me a DRM-free copy" or other such nonsensical excuses to buy.

This thread is surely helping me a lot!
Recommend it!

Anything in particular which helped you in that thread? I skimmed the first page and it looks kind of like this one here on GOG.

My main excuses for buying games are:
- It's DRM-free! (mostly for Humble bundle games).
- The money goes directly to the devs, plus charity (for Humble bundle games).
- Android version is good because I'm more likely to play it.
- The kids might like it.

The first excuse is the stupidest, but I still fall for it sometimes. The second is just a way to make me feel better. The last two have some merit, but they're often applied unrealistically (e.g., I know that I'm unlikely to get to that game even on Android, and I buy it anyway).

Still, a lot of it is down to me enjoying the buying itself as an alternative to playing. The question is what are the downsides to giving into that temptation.

If I can make it 4 more days, I'll have been clean for one entire month. This is unprecedented, maybe my strategy actually works. I still feel the strong need to get Galactic Battlegrounds but yesterday I almost caved in for another game, Hitman Blood Money over on Steam. I was this close to making the purchase but then I realized I haven't even played Hitman 2 and 3 yet and if I really ended up finishing all those and absolutely needed Blood Money, I can always get it later but there is no point in hoarding an entire series so many parts in advance if I only played the first one so far. It's highly unlikely I'll run out of games and regret skipping a sale.
Anyway, I successfully survived another wishlisted item sale, so far so good. Just wanted to share this with the group to say that yes, it's possible to resist even under great pressure. Fortunately, the recent GOG sales featured a lot of stuff I already have so I wasn't too much in a terrible bind but I have to say that big strategy game 70% off sale was quite formidable.

One of my friends says he can even play FPS games on his ipad without any problems, I can't really believe there's an even remotely adequate substitute for keyboard & mouse but for a more casual playstyle or games that require simple controls it seems tablets are just fine.
I haven't downloaded a single app yet for my android tablet, I mostly bought it to have an emergency mobile internet device (my ancient cell phone has no internet) and also so I can load technique videos onto it with moves that I can practice with training partners but so far we haven't used it as we have plenty of regular things to practice from memory. In terms of games, I've only played the pre-installed Angry Birds for a bit but I couldn't take it for very long as I felt the intelligence draining out of me like a water from a bath tub. The theme song is catchy though, must admit.

How dare you go to other threads than this one to get help, you're undermining my cult.

Except this one is better because this is where you can find your salvation. You people can't desert me here because this is group therapy and without people there's no group and without group therapy I can't do it and will never be healed.

The joy that comes from purchasing a game is -very- short lived, it's like a sugar rush followed by a sugar crash and then you need more sugar. Or in the case of buying games, you'll have to keep buying and buying to stimulate the reward centers of your brain.
A good strategy can be to reward yourself for not buying, for example if I manage to not buy anything for an entire month (hopefully achieved this Saturday) then I'll reward myself, maybe by buying a game...uhm I mean I can buy some chocolate or something, anything really. Maybe I can even pat myself on the shoulder, something I usually never do.

PS: I only advocate not buying games in the case of out-of-control purchasing addiction, as a drastic measure to regain control of oneself. Ultima ratio, so to speak.