This website doesn't seem quick to use, it looks like it'll take a day or more to get your stuff into it. Also, I don't know how looking at reams of games listed on a webpage is going to help me pick what I want to play any better than just looking at my shelf of games or my Downloads directory.
I guess, wouldn't a text document on your desktop do about the same thing?

No, it doesn't really take that long. An hour or two at most. It's a decent cataloguing tool, that's all there is to it. I find that keeping track of digital purchases spread across many services is very hard to do from memory; not to mention all those indie bundles which mean that there are some games I literally don't remember I own. Steam helps there a lot, but for things that aren't on Steam, this is a good enough solution.

Yes, but Backloggery has a forum signature thingy that I can use on another forum that I frequently visits, that reminds me. Thus it saves me the hassle of opening a text document ;)
The other advantages still stands, overall it did not take all that long to put all the games I own on Backloggery, and now I just continuously put every new purchase of free title that I think looks interesting in there, so it is a few seconds of extra work for each title, which helps me remember that I own/want to play it.

Can someone explain to me why I'd pick this over a word-document?



EDIT:

I must be stupid. I see no advantages.

Backloggery has a few nice features. You can let it randomly pick a game for you, for those times when you know you want to play something, but don't know what to play. It allows you to keep track of all the games that you own (when they get scattered over several digital distribution sites, plus my gaming shelf and my closet, it is easy to forget if I actually own a game), it also allows you to write notes under each game, like for an example "finished the Soviet and German campaign" when you need to remember which parts of a game that you have left to play.
And for us scatterbrains, it helps us remember which games we actually play at the moment.

And the reason why it is better than a word document (other than the reasons stated above) is because it won't get lost (unless the site goes down). I've many word documents throguh clumsy re-formating, where I've forgot to copy certain folders.

So huh?
It reminds what games do you have or give some server space to games that you have downloaded but doesn't that mean that you'd had to download it from them later and probably slower?
I have plenty of games in here but virtual shelf is enough for me now.

This seems to be the only thing that distinguishes Backloggery from a regular text document, but meh, it's not a good enough reason for me to sign up to yet another online service. Thanks for answering, though. :)

Have a look at raptr. It accomplishes this by reading playtime etc from your steam account, and there's an optional tray application that monitors what you play. I signed up with them about a year ago, didn't like it, but logged in today and they've fixed lots of issues.

I personally use my Backloggery to make a list of the games I've beaten.

http://backloggery.com/Foxhack

There are six "unfinished" games there because they're uh, remnants of when I was trying to use it as a forum signature. These days, my attention span is divided between six or eight games at one time so I just add a game after I finish it.

If I want to show off my collection I just link to VGCollect (This page is not even close to being complete... and a disclaimer: I work there as an approver and editor.) Darkadia doesn't seem to have changed very much since the last time I went there. It's still slow as hell for me, probably due to all the scripting it uses.

Agreed. I played with it for about 20 minutes and noticed their roadmap page is exactly the same as 6 months ago.

More multitaps for those interested:
http://backloggery.com/kalmis

It is just a convenient way to keep track of things. If you just have a single game shelf, then sure backloggery won't be of much use at all for you, but if you have games scattered all over the place, then it is. GOG, Gamer's Gate, Steam, Desura, Humble store, physical media (that don't fit in your game shelf, so you have some stashed in the closet), it gets hard to remember if I own a specific item. And looking up at my game shelf, some of the DVD cases have very descriptive names on them "Medieval trilogy", for an example. What does it contain? (Knights of Honor, Patrician 3 & Tortuga, well that was easy to figure out by just looking at the name ;) )

Well I do have a bit scattered some games.. usually I don't remember so much what I had in gamersgate. So it makes some sense.
And you are a bit like some answer machine, not always right but you make an effort. =P

Frankly, I have no idea why this site is recommended by anyone. As it stands, it has very limited use and adding/editing games is a chore. Not to mention the fact that such a service should have its own database. Goodreads, despite its flaws, is an example how to do it better.