• andybytes@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    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.

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    23 hours ago

    This completely ignores people that pirated games and then bought them once life let them contribute to the authors/devs they liked.

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      23 hours ago

      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.

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        23 hours ago

        Which ones were ever present in humble bundles or other key bundles, what is the age of the purchase vs the age of the game, etc. I agree, a deeper understanding of the data would be great.

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    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.

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      22 hours ago

      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?

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        In addition to that there’s also a few games in my library that I intend to play later but bought it while it’s on sale as it might be more expensive when I have time to play it later…

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      Probably the same price used by SteamDB to calculate library value, which seems to be some version of “current price” or “most recent non-sale price”.

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    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.

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      22 hours ago

      Sometimes the bundle is even less expensive than just getting the one game, specially if you already own part of the bundle

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    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…)

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    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.

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    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!

    This meme should only make you feel slimey if you are dropping lots of money on AAA games where the artists who made the game don’t get even remotely a fair share of profits.

    Otherwise, giving independent artists to make more art benefits everyone even if you don’t “use” / “need” the art.

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    That’s nothing, I have like 100 games on the Epic Store and only played like a dozen. Haven’t paid for any of them, though.

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    22 hours ago

    That’s how Gaben manages to own a yacht collection while most of us can barely afford both housing and food!