I knew I’d get called out some day. Bastards.
Why do they have to personally attack me like that?
I have over a thousand games in my library (almost all from sales) and yeah… I’ve probably played less than 5% of them. I’m a collector? 😅
1700 games
I don’t have anything to play!
This number is likely very inflated though and doesn’t match what people actually spent on unplayed games.
It couldn’t have accounted for key sales or bundle purchases. I have at least a hundred unplayed games that were included in some random Humble Bundle I bought just because of one game that was in that bundle. If you were to divide bundle pricing by amount of unplayed games, it’d be like 1 or 2 bucks per game.
If you were to divide bundle pricing by amount of unplayed games, it’d be like 1 or 2 bucks per game.
And even that number isn’t really representative, because when I buy a bundle for one game, it’s because the bundle price is at or at least pretty near the historic low for that game. So the “extra” games aren’t really costing me anything.
I have a large collection of unplayed games, and most of them came from Humble Bundle.
Same, but also add Fanatical and game giveaways.
I used to buy games that devs talked about on reddit’s game dev subs. No intent to play them. I’d just pick 'em up to help the dev if I liked them or their style.
This is true for me as well. I’m going to guess 95% or more of my steam games come from bundles. I have only bought a few games on steam itself. Similar situation with GOG, where a large majority of my games have been bought on 80-95% off sales. Just in case the itch strikes…
So does that compensate for all those pirated games that people actually do play?
Many of my unplayed games are PC remasters of old console games I played at a younger age. I played the games, I just haven’t played them on steam.
I think about 18 billion of that was me
The problem is that you pay $20-30 for a game that ends up sucking when you finally get to play it 2 months later which is past Steam’s refund date. If you never play it, it may still be a fun game and not a bad decision. Schrodinger’s game.
Wondering how much the budle deals effect this number. I’ve got a lot of games from bundles and a lot of them I didn’t really want but they came with the bundle, so they’re added to my library.
This is it. I have a ton from humble bundle and free keys. Very few I’ve paid for and never played.
Yeah, and?
Humble Bundle is a big contributor to my unplayed games. There’s usually only a few games in a bundle that I’m interested in at a good price, and the test I’ll eventually get to… Maybe when I retire… If I get to retire…
Same. My unplayed list of games is what I plan on doing when I retire. When I can sit down and concentrate on something without someone pinging me on teams…
Gaben be like “Sounds like a seventh yacht to me!”
Finally, a customer base for my games
