My wife has came at me like that before. She has over 500 books that she's never read so I just flip it around on her
The Cold War of queued media.
This is me.
I have a 600 PC game library. I also own nearly every mainstream console and handheld released since 1980, and quite a few lesser known ones. My house is pretty much a gaming museum.
And I've only played a sliver of the total amount of games available to me.
The important thing is that they're there when you want them
Narrator: He never wanted to play them.
I remember being 11 and playing Super Mario World and a couple Zelda games about a hundred times each. I came back to them over and over, I remember the maps and layout of Ocarina of Time better than I remember some of my childhood homes.
Now I have a steam library with 750 games in it and I can barely finish with the game I'm currently playing before I'm back on the store pages looking for more novelty. I think the average play time of items in my library is something like 2 hours.
I hate what I've become but I've lost what I had in the past. When I only had like five games I had no problem coming back to them over and over and over, but now that I've got my own income and no oversight I've flooded myself with options to the point that I don't even want to play any of them. It sucks. I take solace in the fact that I pretty exclusively buy things on sale, so the total money pile is roughly half the size it would have been otherwise, but even so I don't really want to know how much money I've spent on steam over my career. That's cursed knowledge.
Someday there will be time... someday...
We’re not buying the game, we’re buying the fantasy that we have the free time to play the game. I heard someone say that about books they bought and didn’t read. You can apply this reasoning to explain a lot of similar spending people do.
"Of course I'm going to play it! For a few minutes to make sure it works, then into the backlog it will go, forever,"
Glad I'm not like this
How dare you. I've been busy, damn it.
Well now that I know I'm not alone I can feel more confident when the next great buy comes out.
Periodically I do a "spending freeze" on games and force myself to look at my backlog. I'm in one right now, Monster Hunter World is rocking my socks off
It doesn't help that I go back and replay games that I've already beaten instead of trying out the new ones in my backlog.
Nothing wrong with just enjoying yourself.
I guy was looking through my installed games and was outraged that I had never played a few of them. I was glad he didn't look at the full library.
The way my life's been going lately I haven't been able to play any games in a long time and thankfully for my wallet I've also stopped buying them. I do however open up Epic every Thursday to pick up the free games. Some of them have been pretty decent and one of these days I'll get around to playing some of them. Not to long ago was Fallout 1, 2, and tactics which I have always wanted to try. Just have to find a free minute and some motivation and brain power, hopefully all at the same time.
My policy is I only buy something if I'm going to play it that day. No more rapidly expanding backlog.
So glad I got the indecisive spending guilt disfunction instead of the insecure hoarding disfunction. /s
I also feel bad knowing I've got games I don't love in my "library." I need it to be as tight a list as possible, so I anguish over each and every one.
I know I can "hide" the games, but God still sees them.
i only need minecraft and factorio in my life. Nothing else is required.
What's the purpose of buying a game you're not gonna play? Come on, if it's on Steam where you bought it, spoiler alert, It's not yours, they sell licenses, not the games.
