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This completely ignores people that pirated games and then bought them once life let them contribute to the authors/devs they liked.
I’d think these people probably make up a single number digit of the amount of games bought and never played.
It would be interesting to have a breakdown of which games werr bought and never played. How many of them were gifts ? What’s the share by rating ? Even better : When were the copies the most bought but never played ? This could bring up some interesting partterns.
Nothing fucks you harder than time. -Ser Davos
Here is the source article. It’s light on methodology. Are they going off of price of the game at launch? I maybe pay full price for a game once or twice per year. 50-70% of my unplayed games are probably from Humble Bundle/Humble Choice.
every time this gets brought up, it rarely mentions humble bundle even though it’s probably a major contributing factor.
how many of us have bought bundles for 1 or 2 games we were interested in and ended up with 10 more that you never even had an intention of booting up in the first place?
Probably the same price used my SteamDB to calculate library value, which seems to be some version of “current price” or “most recent non-sale price”.
I really only buy video games from indie devs.
If I never play a game by an indie dev that I bought, oh noooo what a catastrophe I gave an indie artist money without confirming they deserved it!
Sometimes during a sale, I’ll ask myself: if I never get around to playing this 4.99 Indy game, will I still be glad to have given the dev some money to have made such a game? The answer is often yes.
What kind of shithole country can you buy for 19 billion? I’d rather have games.
The USA, Trump will do anything for a buck, he’s President Whore.
That’s disrespectful to whores, sex work is real work
What word did you use after “President”? I see it as “removed” and I’m wondering if my Lemmy instance censors it
Change instances immediately. That’s insane.
Instance doesn’t matter when you join Lemmy.
The instance:
You can buy a whole lot of politicians with that kind of money.
Probably 3/4 of my stream library are games that remain unplayed, and that I purchased with no intention to ever play.
…but that $5 was WELL worth the one game in the bundle that I actually cared about.
- Decide you want game
- Add it to wish list
- Seam tells you it’s for sale 80% off
- Buy game
- Wait till you feel like playing that genre and no other games you want to play even more are sitting unplayed in your backlog
- Play “unplayed” game
Why is this a problem?
Bought two tonight and haven’t even plugged in the Steam Deck to get enough charge to download them, much less play them.
(Complete TellTale Walking Dead for $5? Damn right I’ll remember that…)
It shows the amount of faith people have in the platform. You’re spending money on something that requires steam to continue to exist (as well as your user account), or else the purchase was wasted.
I wouldn’t advance-buy a game I wasn’t sure I’d play soon on a Google or Microsoft platform. I’d lose the ability to play the take within a year!
Oh, and also I guess it speaks to the quality of the discounts available on steam.
And yet they’ll grip that game right out of your library whenever they want to. The world that people complain about is the world they go wrong with. Once the fuckery started, that’s when I stopped giving these companies money. I haven’t bought a video game for probably decades.
That’s how Gaben manages to own a yacht collection while most of us can barely afford both housing and food!
Spent 4 hours in RDR2. Realized I hate westerns. It seemed like an ok game though
Spending real life money on a game you don’t actually own that you will never play is fucking genius ngl
Edit: then proceeding to make a habit out of it and developing some sort of e-hoarding disorder
Hopefully I’ll get to those games after finishing these games and before I get new games.
