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Anonymous No.714880624 [Report] >>714881091 >>714881579 >>714882024 >>714882705 >>714883593 >>714883959 >>714884150 >>714884787 >>714886395 >>714889062 >>714894324 >>714896428 >>714897306 >>714898607 >>714900880 >>714902735 >>714902958 >>714903163 >>714903743 >>714904748 >>714907286 >>714907845 >>714909108
why are you buying games you're never gonna play?
Anonymous No.714881091 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
>240 games and counting in my backlog
...fuck you.
Anonymous No.714881517 [Report] >>714881847 >>714883249 >>714883503
I'm glad I don't have a mental disorder that requires me to play something just because I have it. I guess it's the same mental disorder Americans have where if it's on their plate, they have to eat it.
Anonymous No.714881579 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I'll get around to them. Or, sometimes I'm drunk or retarded and decide to try a genre I know I hate again. Mostly RTSs
Anonymous No.714881742 [Report]
I bought FNV 10 years ago and just a week ago started my first run ever. Problem?
Anonymous No.714881847 [Report] >>714882202 >>714890942
>>714881517
I'm glad I don't have a mental disorder that requires me to buy something even if I won't even use it.
Anonymous No.714882024 [Report] >>714882565
>>714880624 (OP)
This article is just consolefag jealousy
>YOU DONT NEED 1000 CHEAP GAMES YOULL NEVER PLAY THEM
meanwhile you have 4 and will never play 2 of them
Anonymous No.714882085 [Report] >>714883030
For a lot of people digital removes a lot of psychological barriers.
Even if you gave them the exact same amount of money, people using a credit card or debit card were more likely to spend the money vs someone with cash.
The digital revolution basically perfected this. Outside of someone going to a store and buying Steam cards with cash you can only buy the games through credit cards. The other half of it is there's no physical box taking up space that would tell you to maybe cool it a bit.

So yeah you just get an environment that profits off people with poor impulse control.
Anonymous No.714882202 [Report] >>714883663
>>714881847
I have never bought a game I didn't play though.
Anonymous No.714882387 [Report]
mfw 300+ games in my backlog
Anonymous No.714882565 [Report] >>714882768 >>714883924 >>714884935
>>714882024
Why the fuck do you retards keep thinking the exact same shit doesn't happen on consoles? Do you think publishers just arbitrarily only do sales on Steam and not the much larger console ecosystems?
Anonymous No.714882592 [Report]
I stopped doing this like a decade ago. It's really not that hard.
Anonymous No.714882705 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I will ok...I just need my shitcoin to moon and retire a millionaire and then I'll have time to play all the vidya I want...
Anonymous No.714882768 [Report]
>>714882565
>w-w-we get sales too!
Anonymous No.714882860 [Report]
I play every steam game I buy for about an hour then refund it if it's even slightly unappealing to me.
Anonymous No.714883030 [Report]
>>714882085
>Even if you gave them the exact same amount of money, people using a credit card or debit card were more likely to spend the money vs someone with cash.
yeah, i found that when I went to London and nobody would take cash
used my card and ended spending more than I planned because it was so easy to lose track of what you are spending when you can just tap for everything
Anonymous No.714883249 [Report]
>>714881517
>thirdie seething about Americans is the literal second post
Anonymous No.714883321 [Report]
You're talking about games you grab for five bucks on sales?
Odds are everyone in this thread tosses out that much in food on a regular basis without thinking about it
Anonymous No.714883503 [Report] >>714909959
>>714881517
>not wanting to waste food/money is a mental disorder
Don't pay for meals your stomach can't handle.
Anonymous No.714883593 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
>Steam expert
Anonymous No.714883663 [Report] >>714888193
>>714882202
then what the fuck was the food analogy you just contradicted?
Anonymous No.714883773 [Report] >>714901043
I buy a lot of physical copies, but i just cant imagine spending actual money on a digital copy. Atleast with a hard copy you have some ability to be detached from the online infrastructure, plus resell and collectible value, but if im going digital anyway, why would i pay for it and not just get it for free elsewhere?
Anonymous No.714883924 [Report]
>>714882565
PC has better deals in the form of key sites, bundles and giveaways like on EGS.
Anonymous No.714883959 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
Valve also innoculated us against subscription service gaming. Because of that backlog game pass can never dominate
Anonymous No.714884119 [Report]
I just counted, and I have 90 games in my Steam library that I haven't launched even a single time. Granted, that does include free games, as well as alternate versions like Half Life Source, but yeah.

It gets way worse if I include games that have less than one hour of play time.
Anonymous No.714884150 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
>Steam expert says
Anonymous No.714884282 [Report] >>714884415
Gamers who are genuinely interested in playing vidya and not trying to satisfy their girly shopping desires will just pirate or buy depending on whichever they think is more convenient. Consoomers (your average anon) will just wait for sales and buy a bunch of shitty games which they'll play maybe one or two of for 25 minutes and never touch again.
Anonymous No.714884415 [Report]
>>714884282
I only buy games (on sale of course) I already pirated and liked. Naturally I won't even launch them once in most cases.
Anonymous No.714884507 [Report]
This article sounds like it was written by AI.
Netflix's problem is all the hollywood studios realized they allowed Netflix to become their middleman when they could do it themselves. So now they are all pulling their content out and moving it in-house. But all these steaming services run through the browser, users don't mind using multiple.
Valve holds near monopoly status since they already have the largest installed userbase of customers, so any dev not publishing on Steam is knee-capping themselves. Publishers like EA can open their own Steam-like, but they struggle to get anywhere close to Steam's numbers. Valve doesn't need to worry about publishers taking their content and leaving.
Not to mention you pay for games individually through Steam and you pay a monthly fee for the entire Netflix library, they really aren't the same system. They don't share the same problems, so there's no logic behind Valve 'cracking' any problem Netflix has.
Anonymous No.714884787 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DRUNKEN TENDIE
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DRUNKEN TENDIE
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DRUNKEN TENDIE, EARLAI IN THE MORNING?
Anonymous No.714884935 [Report] >>714896997
>>714882565
For the simple fact attachment rates on consoles are known to be abysmal.
Anonymous No.714885652 [Report]
I'll p-play them next week h-haha
Anonymous No.714886395 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
>collecting
>digital keys
>digital only
Steam users are fucking retarded. No need to reply to me, you know I'm right
Anonymous No.714888193 [Report] >>714894615
>>714883663
>buy a slice of cake
>eat 30% of it
>feel full
>don't eat the rest
Anonymous No.714889062 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
Indie arcade games mostly, and even then it's usually during a sale. I don't know if that statement will still apply to AAA games as they increase in price, though.
Anonymous No.714890942 [Report]
>>714881847
That's just it though. For the best of the part I don't A lot of the time such games you just got because they were in a bundle or some giveaway. And sometimes (but not really that often) I simply made a mistake, maybe I just bought it because it was dirt cheap on sale but overestimated my desire to actually play it.

It's still better than insisting on playing them on some sunken cost fallacy. Then I'd be wasting time AND money.
Anonymous No.714892962 [Report]
How is buying games for dollars irresponsibly spending?
Anonymous No.714894324 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I'll plead guilty of...
SUPPORTING GAMES I WANT MORE OFF!!!!!!

But I still don't spend that much.
It's just that if no-one spend money into rare niches, developers can only do so much without money.

Like I knew Rimworld or KSP when they weren't on steam and far less than what it is now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/Kerbal_Space_Program/

So I did collect a lot of oddities, even played most of them
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069190/Flight_Of_Nova/ I wish could become a Mudrunner of space
https://store.steampowered.com/app/675010/MudRunner/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/608800/Guns_of_Icarus_Alliance/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2168680/Nuclear_Option/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/476530/Children_of_a_Dead_Earth/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280190/Falling_Frontier/ not out yet
https://store.steampowered.com/app/673210/Frontier_Pilot_Simulator/ dead but could have been great
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079620/Infinity_Battlescape/ I recognized that one from a project that looked completely unrealistic at the time
https://store.steampowered.com/app/392080/Wayward_Terran_Frontier_Zero_Falls/
You'll guess what I like

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/376210/The_Isle/ for my realistic reptile needs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1088090/Day_of_Dragons/ for my fictional reptile needs

Anyway, that's why I feel good about buying games I don't have the time to play.
Anonymous No.714894615 [Report]
>>714888193
sorry i misinterpreted your other analogy, that makes much more sense. based
Anonymous No.714895463 [Report]
There's a bunch of games in my library I haven't played because I wanted access to the files exceedingly easy when I travel around. These are games like UFO Defense, Medieval II Total War, Doom (I bought Doom before id got bought out), Quake 2, Unreal Tournament, all that shit. There's no playtime because I use the files for mods or wads or whatever and put the base files in other folders. Not all games on steam have DRM, just move them out of their folders.
Anonymous No.714896105 [Report]
Palworld is the first game I've bought for less than 50% of in a decade and I play it alot. It really is better than pokemon in every way, zombie game series only kept alive by trannies and autists.
Anonymous No.714896428 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I'm not. I was ever only buying games that i wanted to play right that moment. But i stopped playing games that are just not finished. So i'm not buying a lot of games but since i'm only playing finished games i pretty much stopped playing games in general.
Anonymous No.714896997 [Report]
>>714884935
Yes, but, it makes sense that the people who game on a 2k+ gaming pc have more money to throw around then little Jimmy on the bing bing wahoo.
Also, alot of this debate is being done by people who left consoles at gen 6/7 and dont know that they have catched up.
Sometimes games are cheaper on the eshop then on a steam sale and almost everything outside the bottom of the barrel indie's are also on console.

This debate is always started by people who are not up to date.
Anonymous No.714897306 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
Well yeah, I'm part of that problem.
At 36, I dont need new AAA, I can easily enjoy a 20 year old game thats on sale for 3 bucks and never play it.
My backlog on pc(incl steam,epic and gog) are nearing 500 games and at an average of lets say a week per game, its going to take me roughly 10 years to beat and thats not including my consoles games(I'll be dead before I beat everything)
So now I havent bought anything the past 2 years on steam.

Its almost shocking to see how many games I play for a few hours and uninstall and file them under "shit"
Anonymous No.714898247 [Report] >>714899320
Maybe 100 games were bought at full price, the rest were free or on sale for pocket change
Anonymous No.714898493 [Report]
I refuse to spend money on new videogames or during these fake ass "sales".
Anonymous No.714898607 [Report] >>714899020
>>714880624 (OP)
because I may play it someday
and it's so cheap that the price is irrelevant
Anonymous No.714899020 [Report]
>>714898607
Might as well buy every <$5 game on Steam since you may play it someday, right?
Anonymous No.714899320 [Report] >>714904427
>>714898247
Since when are forest guards allowed to check phones?
Anonymous No.714900880 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
>only about 3 games in my owned games back log
feels good to be jewish and to never spend money
Anonymous No.714901043 [Report]
>>714883773
because you're not poor or a nigger, I suppose
Anonymous No.714901136 [Report]
Sometimes the dev says something really based, like not wanting to have same sex marriage in his game or calling a journalist gay, so I'll buy it just to show support
Anonymous No.714902735 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I have a steam and gog backlog because I buy games on sale long after I have finished them on a pirated copy
Anonymous No.714902958 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
What an embarrassing 'article', the entire thing is literally just a regurgitation of a dumb blog post from some rando trying to shill himself as a steam expert/marketing guru.
Anonymous No.714903163 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
buying things has nothing to do with a subscription service
Anonymous No.714903743 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
Wait until they find out the entire american economy is propped up by people leasing cars, renting housing and signing up for monthly subscriptions they forget about or are too lazy to cancel.
Anonymous No.714903815 [Report]
>collecting stuff you don't own
Do SaaS clowns really?
Anonymous No.714904427 [Report]
>>714899320
I'm guessing it started when jeets started raping various protected animals within their national parks
Anonymous No.714904748 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
To have.
Anonymous No.714906940 [Report] >>714907261
im constantly playing shit from my backlog on my deck
im good
Anonymous No.714907261 [Report] >>714907665 >>714908359
>>714906940
>backlog
>deck
kys faggot
Anonymous No.714907286 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I don't know honestly
I have been subbed to humble for years, I own over 1000 games and I just keep playing formsoft games and f2p over and over...
Anonymous No.714907665 [Report]
>>714907261
mad af tendie
shouldn’t you be off crying about mario kart tracks somewhere?
Anonymous No.714907845 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
>why are you buying games you're never gonna play?
No. I fully intend to play all of them. I haven't bought anything in this recent sale. Shit goes on sale all the time. I don't need to buy something just because it's cheap now. It'll be cheap some other day too. Or failing that, free.
Anonymous No.714908215 [Report]
1. Because it's really not that much money. I spent maybe 40-50 a month on new games outside of the few times a year there's something I really need to have at launch. I wait for sales, use key sites, look for bundles etc. Anything old I just emulate

2. I like having a nice library to choose from, and even if I don't play something right away I will go hard on it when the time is right. Right now I'm playing a game I got in a batch of sale games 2 years ago and having a blast
Anonymous No.714908359 [Report] >>714908804 >>714908993
>>714907261
dont care
still having fun with my eck
Anonymous No.714908804 [Report]
>>714908359
You can post lust provoking pictures all you want
I am still not buying a deck
Anonymous No.714908993 [Report]
>>714908359
HNNNNNGGGH need to fill her up with my massive backlog right now!!!!!
Anonymous No.714909108 [Report]
>>714880624 (OP)
I buy things because one day I intend to play it even if it's in the future and it's available at a discount now.
Would it be smarter to only buy games I'm going to play the day I buy it rather than hoard things for a rainy day that may never come? Yes
Will I change my behavior? No
Anonymous No.714909264 [Report]
I donate a lot to charity through Humble Bundle since like, 2017 and they give you a lot of games.
Give me time, I'll eventually get to your AAA FOMO game. Relax.
Oops there's another 10 games in my backlog now.
Anonymous No.714909959 [Report]
>>714883503
Sometimes you gamble on the wrong place and their smallest size could still fill an average fatlus gut