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.
Why the fuck did I buy PUBG and Rainbow 6.
Cuz my friends played it? And I guess I assumed I would like them. But I never really bothered actually playing them. What a waste.
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.
That’s how Gaben manages to own a yacht collection while most of us can barely afford both housing and food!
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.
unpopular(?) opinion: RDR2 is a boring graphic novel deceptively advertised as an open world FPS. The pacing is slow, the gunplay is garbage, and the core ‘gameplay’ loop is just a chain of unskippable CGI. I bought it based on the reviews, played for about an hour while experiencing an increasing sensation of buyers remorse. Never again. It’s the last game I bought without pirating it first to see if its any good.
If you play on PC you can mitigate a lot of the slow/survival aspects with mods
I quite like it. Once you get used to the timings of actions you can be quite fast and fluid in combat and it’s good enough to carry the game by itself, much better gunplay than gta. And the story is not the worst, though it is a slog occasionaly. Graphics do a lot of heavy lifting
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.
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
I bought rdr2 and had trouble with the constant horse riding so I put a pin in it until later… Much later
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”.
Spending real life money on a game you don’t actually own that you will never play is fucking genius ngl
Edit: then proceeding to make a habit out of it and developing some sort of e-hoarding disorder
