Thread 714880624

why are you buying games you're never gonna play?

>>714880624 (OP)
>240 games and counting in my backlog
...fuck you.

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.

>>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

I bought FNV 10 years ago and just a week ago started my first run ever. Problem?

>>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.

>>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

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.

>>714881847
I have never bought a game I didn't play though.

mfw 300+ games in my backlog

>>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?

I stopped doing this like a decade ago. It's really not that hard.

>>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...

>>714882565
>w-w-we get sales too!

I play every steam game I buy for about an hour then refund it if it's even slightly unappealing to me.

>>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

>>714881517
>thirdie seething about Americans is the literal second post

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

>>714881517
>not wanting to waste food/money is a mental disorder
Don't pay for meals your stomach can't handle.

>>714880624 (OP)
>Steam expert

>>714882202
then what the fuck was the food analogy you just contradicted?

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?

>>714882565
PC has better deals in the form of key sites, bundles and giveaways like on EGS.

>>714880624 (OP)
Valve also innoculated us against subscription service gaming. Because of that backlog game pass can never dominate

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.

>>714880624 (OP)
>Steam expert says

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.

>>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.

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.

>>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?

>>714882565
For the simple fact attachment rates on consoles are known to be abysmal.

I'll p-play them next week h-haha

>>714880624 (OP)
>collecting
>digital keys
>digital only
Steam users are fucking retarded. No need to reply to me, you know I'm right

>>714883663
>buy a slice of cake
>eat 30% of it
>feel full
>don't eat the rest

>>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.

>>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.

How is buying games for dollars irresponsibly spending?

>>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.

>>714888193
sorry i misinterpreted your other analogy, that makes much more sense. based

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.

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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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"

Maybe 100 games were bought at full price, the rest were free or on sale for pocket change

I refuse to spend money on new videogames or during these fake ass "sales".

>>714880624 (OP)
because I may play it someday
and it's so cheap that the price is irrelevant

>>714898607
Might as well buy every <$5 game on Steam since you may play it someday, right?

>>714898247
Since when are forest guards allowed to check phones?

>>714880624 (OP)
>only about 3 games in my owned games back log
feels good to be jewish and to never spend money

>>714883773
because you're not poor or a nigger, I suppose

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

>>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

>>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.

>>714880624 (OP)
buying things has nothing to do with a subscription service

>>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.

>collecting stuff you don't own
Do SaaS clowns really?

>>714899320
I'm guessing it started when jeets started raping various protected animals within their national parks

>>714880624 (OP)
To have.

im constantly playing shit from my backlog on my deck
im good

>>714906940
>backlog
>deck
kys faggot

>>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...

>>714907261
mad af tendie
shouldn’t you be off crying about mario kart tracks somewhere?

>>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.

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

>>714907261
dont care
still having fun with my eck

>>714908359
You can post lust provoking pictures all you want
I am still not buying a deck

>>714908359
HNNNNNGGGH need to fill her up with my massive backlog right now!!!!!

>>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

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.

>>714883503
Sometimes you gamble on the wrong place and their smallest size could still fill an average fatlus gut