There's 80 Vietnamese Dong to 1 Hungarian Forint. On the other hand, they also no longer have a lower denomination for coin or bills than 1000 (they don't have coin at all, if I remember correctly) and price tags frequently simply cut off the last three zeroes.

Count me in. Over 800 games in the collec... uh I mean the library now, have pirated and played many of them before (fellow goggers from this God-forsaken corner of Europe know what I'm talking about). It was maybe the guilt two years ago and the bundles (THQ humble bundle) that made me buy every game I'd have even a remote interest in or have played before and wanted to support the devs...
In my case the addiction will be over in a month when I'll probably be unemployed haha :(

edit: great post by CrashNBrn regarding buying bundles for only one game.

I do that all the time. Stop blabbering! :P

Now, now, don't cry, it will be okay. Would you like a hug? The important thing is that you are acknowledging the problem. :-)

A nice idea, awalterj, although it's a shame you didn't use the Dante's Inferno 9 circles of hell programme. That could have been very interesting. :-)

Do you feel dirty all the time? I suspected it! ;-)

Oh yes mommy, hug me! Keep me tight!
Send the bad tinyE away! 3:-)

Hi, I am blotunga and I'm an addict. I have 239 games on GOG, 435 on steam and I want to stop buying. Sometimes... and then some sale comes along...

Hmmm. Severe case of shopaholism. Had this too, once upon a time, especially during the time period i was into the Yugi Oh trading card game. Sit was pretty expensive too, especially if you were into the booster packs. Not a pure video game, but game, still.

You stop it, as ANY other addiction, by providing a big shock to your own shelf. Now, what kind of shock would that be, and of what magnitude and caliber, i honestly cannot say, for different people, different methods and treatments must be employed.

In my case, outside factors helped. Like noticing that some of the official tournaments had been set up, and/or the judges did not know all rules correctly, as well as each card's effect completely; which, combined with their intervention, made people loose matches that they should have won.

You get rid of an addiction, by growing yourself SICK OF IT. There is no other way. Much like food... You like strawberries for example? Eat a kilo straight at once until you vomit, and i assure you, you are never going to touch the damn stuff ever again. This, and gifting. I ended up gifting my entire collection to 3 kids (imagine how large it had been). This way, even if i wanted to, it would have been impossible to gather all these cards again, even IF i had that much money to waste AGAIN.

Ahh, the good old days of buying and buying and buying. I got over it through the "no choice plan" - eg, no money. Nothing like quitting cold turkey!

Sure, I buy something now and then, but nothing like the old days when I'd waltz into Best Buy and load up an armful of pc and console games all the time. Sigh.

I read the Divine Comedy several times and I must say it's a shame people who can't read italian are unable to get how wonderful it is. Sorry for the off-topic.

*looks around for awalterj, the coast is clear*

Have you read the English version? If so, are there many differences between them? I have read it a few times (in English), but I know that sometimes a book can get ruined during translation.

*runs away before I get caught derailing the thread* :-)

Answering via PM, to keep the thread clean. :-)

I don't. Not yet anyway. When the other copy is DRM'd, I buy it on GOG for less future hassle, and when the other copy is on disc, I buy it on GOG for simplicity. Also, I am fairly likely to buy a copy on disc of a game I already have as a download (unless the disc/package is useless and simply acts as a code to access the game at a download service).

Hi, I've been clean since... hold on gog is running a promo...

Ok, I'm back, I bought all the games in the promo. 80% discount! Sweet deal!! I AM THE KING!!!
What were talking about again?

At the beginning I only bought a few games, then played them and after finishing them I bought some more and the cycle started new. In that time I usually bought the games at full price here on GOG because I needed new games to sink my teeth into it. But a couple of years ago I started to buy more games than I could play. Mostly during sales. It seems to me that I try to lift my mood with getting new games. But it does not work which kind of starts to help withstand the temptation to buy more games.