I very rarely actually actually buy individual games, most of mine come from bundles, most of the rest from trading bundled games or steam inventory items for other bundled games. I've been trying to limit myself when it comes to paying real money for bundles (as opposed to Steam credit/gems for Indie Gala group buys), but I still have a Humble Annual subscription which I pause for a month whenever I don't like the unlocks.

The most recent individual game that I actually purchased was Unavowed on release day (and that was using Steam credit too) and I actually played and beat it. Prior to that was 6 cheap games I liked the look of during the Steam summer sale which cost me a total of $5.15 Steam Credit, and of which I've played just 1 so far.

I have about $23 Steam credit left from selling cards and such, but cards are so cheap now and I can't sell more than 200 a year since no way I'm giving Valve my SSN# to disable that restriction, so once this runs out I'll probably be even more stingy with my buys.

It helps that I have an old system which can't play any non-retry type modern games, lets me focus on the older games of the backlog and ignore newer titles which show up on sale and even in bundles. I've been progressing fine this year at least, 51 games beaten so far (you can look me up in the Games Finished thread). Ofc my library has grown far more than that amount in that time...

I pretty much agree.

But I think Kickstarter RPGs and re-bakes show that I myself am part of a sucker demographic that not only will buy games too long to ever play, but I will actually give money up front to developers working on new imitations of older games that I couldn't play then and cannot possibly play now.

I am a sucker. And until I stop being a sucker, there's no way the market will correct. [sadface.gif]

EDIT: Specifically I think the bad calculation is this: This game is so cheap right now it is not going to be this cheap again before I am ready to play it.

This is the temptation good me right now with the Kingdom Deliverance bundle.

But it is a lie. Game prices only go down on the long run. And I will not play that game any time soon.

Pretty much describes how it was for me back in the box-and-disk days. Nowadays: too cheap, too easy to buy, too easy to store...

...too easy to forget.




That said, I hear there's a sale going on!

Well, if you can afford to, personally I'm okay with folks supporting devs who seem to be making quality games. But it can be a gamble as we've seen with Kickstarter.

Also for me some of it is a genre thing and maybe even addiction - personally I don't like longass RPGs and RTSes, and sometimes I have a hard time tearing myself away from a game so shorter games - or at least shorter levels - would let me have an easier time moving on.

feels reassuring that I can play some old classics, though I just don't have time to revisit sid meiers colonization, I remember that break between the 90s and early 2000s when I was wondering whether I could find it again. Never did ebay at the time.

Spend most of my time on warband on steam, and I'm convinced I'll finish other games like fallout 4 and skyrim. I think I install total war games and never play them.

i hug my huge library. whatever game falls from my arms is the game i play next!

Yep. Too much child baking going on, both from devs' end and consumer end. Don't try to play/develop everything plus the kitchen sink. You like shooters? Play shooters. You like slow paced TBS games? Play TBS games. There's simply too many games and genres now for someone to dig into even half of it. Play what you like... and enjoy it while you can. 'Cause when you grow up and have to take care of your family and work at a job, playing anything during free time will become a rare, precious thing.

That's why so much of what's wrong with the gaming world doesn't bother me any more. Loot crates? Don't give a shit. I don't play games that offer them. Hackers taking down servers and ruining online games? Don't give a shit. I don't do MP games any more. There's only so much time we have in life. So much of it wasted on things we can't control and shouldn't worry about.

Bullshit. SoF is a fun, over the top shooter and what's wrong with shooting muslims? That's always a good thing.

Except that SoF2 is a real game, while Far Cry is nothing more than a tech-demo, shat out to make money and advertise the engine. Everything in Far Cry is bad, from the retarded AI to the bad vehicle controls, to the "We just make an island, fuck level design, that's so 80's" approach.
While i think that SoF2 was a step back from the fun of the first game, i would easily play that one then ever touch Far Cry 1 again.

Mix of genres existed since the 80s, nothing new.

I have 377 games here on GOG and I don't think I've played more than 50. I have over 10,000 on Steam (game count only says 9,600+ due to removed games and etc) but have only "played" like 1,300 of them. I also have like roughly 1,150 or so physical games across all platforms and I've MAYBE played half of them. Tons of digital games on console and mobile but haven't played but maybe 30% of any of them. I need help! :D

This.

Too much time wasting at work...

Ouch. At this point, I wouldn't worry about it. You are too far gone.

My combined backlog (mostly steam, gog and some old CDs) is about 500 titles at the moment. Couple of months ago I decided to manage it in efficient way with the end goal to beat all these games.
First thing I did is backlog file with separate sheets for backlog, games on hold (what I don't want to play now or if some games won't run on my OS at the moment but will do with future updates or hardware upgrades) and sheet for completed games.
Having a list of all games helps to pick next game to play. Having list of completed games helps to feel an accomplishment. I'm an impulse buyer, it is hard for me to see big sale without buying at least 1-2 games. I tried to stop buying games but it resulted only in reduced volume of purchases. during the 1 year time frame I finished (or discarded as non-playable) 80 games but purchased roughly the same so I'm still at 500 games mark :)

If you want to deal with your backlog start with file, determination to cut purchases and work your way one by one. More likely you won't be able to clear your backlog completely, but at least you'll reduce it.
every time you're about to buy something ask yourself "when I will get to this game considering my backlog? will I be alive at that time or will I die from old age because my backlog is huge?" it helps to resist impulse

I don't. I play them when I play them. At the moment, I have Deus Ex Invisible War and Homeworld Classic installed and playing them.

It irritates me though that sometimes I read someone here writing about some game in GOG that is so good that everyone must play it, and it does sound great to me. So there I think "Yeah, I have that game on GOG, I must remember to play it at some point.".

Then later I don't recall the title of the game anymore, I just know I have it. Oh well, install and play something else then, it is not like I don't have options.

In that sense I understand that guy who always kept repeating how everyone should play Sacrifice. Now I at least remember the title, through repetition. I haven't installed (nor played) it yet, though. But I bet it kicks ass!