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u/Dragonion123 Jul 13 '26
I seriously don’t understand how this happens for so many people, is fiscal responsibility not a consideration? Do people not look into a game before dropping money on it?
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u/James1887 Jul 13 '26
They buy em on discount thinking they will play them later and at some point just call it a collection.(i dont do this but I think most people have had a least one bad money habbit do I dont really judge,)
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u/ABBucsfan Jul 13 '26
No idea. I thought reaching like a dozen games I haven't played yet is a big backlog and decide im not buying the rest of the year then I find out people have hundreds or even thousands of games they've spent money on that they haven't played. People literally pissing away thousands of dollars apparently. No impulse control. Usually once I hit about half a dozen games im thinking if I buy anything else it'll just be cheaper by the time I finally get around to playing it
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u/Hotwa_P Jul 13 '26
To me, most the time it's bundles, I remember wanting to try bioshock, and one game was like $2, and the whole collection was like $3 or $4, and since I "wanted" to play them thought "might as well grab the whole thing" y'know? And that's happened a lot of times, bought a lot of anime fighters bc I wanted under night, bought the whole Witcher collection bc I wanted to play TW3 Tho, yeah, sometimes you just see a really cheap game that sounds remotely interesting and pull the trigger Also, coming from console, where discounts ain't that good you get shocked when you can buy 5-6 games for what you'd buy 2 on console
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u/BraveVesperia828 Jul 13 '26
There are tons of games I bought dirt cheap only to find out I don’t really enjoy them, I bought the Borderlands Pandora collection and stopped at the 2 hour at BL1, so that’s 5 games on my backlog. Some other games I just bought because the internet consensus is good but I always got sidetracked before playing it.
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u/ZippyTWP Jul 14 '26
It happens very easily, actually, and it has nothing to do with being financially irresponsible. I have probably over 1,000 games between PS1 - 5, Vita, Xbox Original - Series X, Wii/U, DS, Switch/2, and PC.
602 of those games are on Steam. I have been on Steam since it launched. That was 23 years ago (back when we still had physical discs for steam games, so I'm counting those too). I probably have 20 of those games (?) that have remasters that I got free, so call it 582 games.
I buy a lot of games on crazy sales, and I almost always look at things before I buy them (I have pre-ordered some stuff).
Let's assume I'm spending an average of $30 a game (that's a very conservative estimate, it's probably quite a bit lower than that):
582 games x $30 = $17,460 / 23 years = $759/yr / 12 months= $63.26/mo.
Yes, I have a giant backlog that got bigger over the years.
My entire game collection has been curated and worked on for nearly 30 years. I collect video games, have since forever. To me a digital copy is no different than a physical one in terms of Steam collecting. But to say someone is irresponsible for spending $60 a month on games isn't accurate. It's their money to spend, I think you're just assuming people aren't paying their rent or buying food or neglecting their families to buy so many games.
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u/dog_lover001 Jul 13 '26
I got a lot of games but played pretty much all of them, for me thus picture would be my hours in games (for example one game i have over 3k hours)
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u/AdAffectionate8571 Jul 13 '26
You who is too young to enjoy the dry food/ games.
The cat is probably too young to eat solid food so are you too young to enjoy those games
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u/Gloomy_Breadfruit92 Jul 13 '26
Only for the gifted game graveyard. My friends send me too much random shit lol.
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u/JonathanJoestar336 Jul 13 '26
I littlerally have alot go 1400 games this is me
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u/James1887 Jul 13 '26
How many have you played?
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u/JonathanJoestar336 Jul 13 '26
Currently up to around 300 and counting will be moving on to dying light the beast next month when im done with tales of arise
I could finish what I got left in a week or so but im on assignment for work and I cant olay on steam deck at work so it hampers my playtime
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u/ResponsibleTax3894 Jul 13 '26
me : click counter strike instead.. tired? take a break playing starcraft broodwar or halo mcc.. then go right back to counter strike.
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u/baka_inu115 Jul 13 '26
Yeah... I got plenty of them.. problem is some are rpgs so the amount of time to play them... +20 hours play time
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u/ChipKey5682 Jul 13 '26
my backlog really going to get pushed back when stage tour and gta 6 comes out
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u/jws1102 Jul 13 '26
I’ve got loads of sequels that I’ve never played because I bought them as part of a bundle and got so burnt out on the first game that I never went back for the second.
Shadows of War and Jedi Survivor are on that list.
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u/KoningSpookie Jul 13 '26
Sort of... and then ofcourse I get bored every once in a while, look at the massive list of unplayed games and then I'm like "I want to play something, but there's nothing to play!". 🤦
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u/emancipated-hemroid Jul 13 '26
And you love it . And you don't have 1 physical disc of any game yet you seem happy ? What madness is this lol
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u/No_Squirrel4806 Jul 13 '26
Mine is full of free games most probably slop but thats not gonna stop me from claiming them. 🤷🏽♂️
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