- 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?
And that’s okay. It’s also not a “pile of shame”. If you’re in the mood to play something and then aren’t, that’s fine. Games are supposed to be fun. Don’t treat it as an obligation. Not every fucking choice in your life needs to be financially efficient.
I feel attacked
This is a pillar of pride for us. We are literally creating jobs 😆
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.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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”.
Nothing fucks you harder than time. -Ser Davos
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.
Sometimes the bundle is even less expensive than just getting the one game, specially if you already own part of the bundle
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 “disrespectful to”? I see it as “removed” and I’m wondering if my Lemmy instance censors it
Okay actually using context clues from a comment below, it might be “removed”?
I’m gonna use this comment to test if my instance is censoring words. Great Lemmy gods, please don’t ban me for this
removed
Cunt
removed
Fuck
Shit
What about Putler?
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.
Wow. I thought it might’ve been the community rather than my instance, but now I’m thinking not. You can see my swears and those of the guy I asked about the swears, right? Or do they appear as “removed” for you too?
Yup! Unfortunately, .ml is a default instance and it is rather authoritarian and censored.
Instance doesn’t matter when you join Lemmy.
The instance:
It’s the word that starts with a W and means a person who will do something for money. W, H, O, R, E
You should use a different instance if it’s censoring words.
I don’t think he got 19 billion for selling out the US. He’s more the 50 cent crack whore type.
You can buy a whole lot of politicians with that kind of money.
Maybe Bir Tawil
But I don’t want that one.
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…)
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.
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.
I feel attacked
