Hi!

After speaking with lots of my friends, lots of gamers have a problem with deciding what to play once their library reaches certain size. We start jumping from game to game without finishing one. And we keep buying new ones as well.

I am well aware this is a self-discipline problem. But why not add tool to help us with changing our gaming habits?

Idea for this feature is simple. If you choose to activate it, you will be able to select X number of games (maybe you can define X number yourself withing certain range, say 5-10 game tops) to be your Active Games. Your other games will be locked from playing until you finish one of these games.

Then add your "Guardian" - this will be either one of your Galaxy friends, or girlfriend / boyfriend who will lock the game library with password, very similar to parent lock. :)

To change your active game or mark one as finished, you would have to ask your Guardian to unlock library for you (and ofcourse there would be backup solition for you to turn it off).

You would still be able to buy games etc. but only play selected titles.


This is just a rough idea coming from me spending two evenings listing through my library in search of title to play.

Just buy a little harddisk, then install ALL your games only in it.

When you'll have no more space to install new games, that's it, you'll have to choose if to uninstall something not completed, or finish to play it first !!

Your GOG library has a feature called "tags" (game icon -> "Assign tags..."). I use it to assign "backlog", "next to play", "installed", "completed" and "favorite". You can then filter your library according to these (TAGS menu). The tags are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Your suggestion corresponds to my tag "next to play".

Why would you want to lock yourself out of a game? My aim here is to have fun. On this platform alone, I have 50+ games in my library, but have completed only a handful. Six, according to the "completed" tag. Does it bother me? Nope. :-)

There are simply more games that I consider worth playing than I have time for. All the games I bought were worth buying. Even if I never play a game, in giving the developers my money at least I said "Yes, please make 'em like this!"

PS: I just noticed that my own status message is "TooManyGoodGames". So yes, I do somewhat feel your pain. :D