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I have a large collection of unplayed games, and most of them came from Humble Bundle.
This is true for me as well. I’m going to guess 95% or more of my steam games come from bundles. I have only bought a few games on steam itself. Similar situation with GOG, where a large majority of my games have been bought on 80-95% off sales. Just in case the itch strikes…
I used to buy games that devs talked about on reddit’s game dev subs. No intent to play them. I’d just pick 'em up to help the dev if I liked them or their style.
Haha whaaattt… Nobody actually does that…haha, that would be like, just kinda silly right…
glances nervously at Steam library
Don’t look at my Epic collection. Between it and Steam have a few thousand dollars in games. (If you’re counting retail prices)
I played a bunch of older games i got cheap on steam deck and i’ll do the same when the deckard will come out. 10/10 games that are 10+ years old are great to play on the go!
what’s a deckard?
It’s valve’s next VR headset. Code name deckard. It should be ready to announce this year or next year hopefully.
I don’t want to talk about it
I’ll play them eventually. I will. Stop harassing me!
Saving them for my retirement. (I will probably only retire when my health is so poor that it is clear that I won’t outlive my retirement resources.)
Yeah, guilty as charged and I don’t even mind.
I buy the games on sale if I play them then good for me, if I don’t then I supported developers. I see no problem here.
This is bullshit analysis. People can buy their steam keys from endless sources and sales. Some games that would have been $20+ some people can get for as little as $0.50 depending on circumstances.
It’d be impossible to calculate how much has been spent. They also just straight multiplied the amount of public ones instead of better estimating that using data they had.
All you can do is say how much they are currently or were worth. Considering how steep the price drops can be for many games, it’s a pretty wide range of possibilities and makes estimating this fairly worthless.
Just a deliberately bullshit headline made by idiots wielding “data science” hype.
Steam Summer Sale starts in 2 days. You know what to do!
This number is likely very inflated though and doesn’t match what people actually spent on unplayed games.
It couldn’t have accounted for key sales or bundle purchases. I have at least a hundred unplayed games that were included in some random Humble Bundle I bought just because of one game that was in that bundle. If you were to divide bundle pricing by amount of unplayed games, it’d be like 1 or 2 bucks per game.
If you were to divide bundle pricing by amount of unplayed games, it’d be like 1 or 2 bucks per game.
And even that number isn’t really representative, because when I buy a bundle for one game, it’s because the bundle price is at or at least pretty near the historic low for that game. So the “extra” games aren’t really costing me anything.
I’m part of the problem.
I knew I’d get called out some day. Bastards.
It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me!
I have stopped buying games that aren’t on 90% off sales, and even then mostly stopped. I only buy a game that I want to play immediately. I have way too much to do and play and it’s not worth building a backlog since I’ll just forget it anyways.
Long gone are the days of super sales where 75-95% off were common.
Edit: clarification: I buy very cheap games for my backlog and buy games full price as long as I want to play them right now.
Steam just had a 90% off sale from an entire publisher. Right now, looking at the stores front page there is
86% off a call of the wild
70% off hell pie.
90% off dragon age.
85% off a worms game.
75% off blasphemous.
90% off another dragon age game.
80% off kingdom Come.
75% off riders Republic.
90% off team17 games.You’re yelling at clouds, old man.
There are a few games that you might miss out on with this method. Some devs (it’s not many) list their games at what they think is a fair forever price and will not ever offer the game at a reduced price. Again, this isn’t a lot of devs, but one notable one is Wube, makers of Factorio.
I generally agree with your method, mostly because I have a large enough backlog to be able to wait for sales, but it is also worth doing research on some devs to see if a sale will ever happen.
Corrected my first post. I don’t just but deep sales. I only buy games at full price of marginal sales if I want to play them immediately.
The key thing indeed is to only buy what you need right now. This philosophy is also very helpful in other areas of lives to avoid wasting money on discounts (elg buying clothes you’ll never wear).
I’d rather pay full price for a game I start laying immediately, than to put something 90% off in my backlg, with no guarante I’ll ever play it.
Gaben has now got 19 Billion dollars he’ll never spend.
Humble Bundle is a big contributor to my unplayed games. There’s usually only a few games in a bundle that I’m interested in at a good price, and the test I’ll eventually get to… Maybe when I retire… If I get to retire…
Same. My unplayed list of games is what I plan on doing when I retire. When I can sit down and concentrate on something without someone pinging me on teams…
Why do they have to personally attack me like that?
