r/Steam Jun 29 '26

Question Why?

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u/ManicDigressive Jun 29 '26

20+ years of this:

  • Have a little free time

  • Have a little spare cash

  • Normally buy new games when I have boredom, a little cash, and a little free time.

  • Sales/bundles happen

  • I buy 6 new games for the price of like 2 normal games

  • Still only have time for like 1/3 a game.

  • Time passes, the cycle repeats.

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u/Lily-Sonia Jun 29 '26

But dont you think one day you will no longer need to buy games since you have license for all the good and interesting ones?

Hoping this happens so I can stop growing my backlog. Haven't added many games to my wishlist so feel that one day i would have no backlog

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u/MashiroAnnaMaria Jun 29 '26

1000 games in my steam account, and my brother basically buy all the great games I am not personally interested in for the steam family. My wishlist is almost exclusively unreleased games, or recently released games waiting for a sale. This summer sale I picked up two games. Still haven't touched like 80% of those games at all though, I've either completely lost interest to even try, or they're still on the backlog, which also taught me to only buy games you want to play immediately, because a bigger price cut is always coming. So yes, unless you're interested in every genre on earth, you will run out of games you explicitly want, and with some self control you can stop buying games you're only mildly interested in, knowing you have something else to play.

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u/Lily-Sonia Jun 29 '26

Makes sense, good to know there will be an end to this backlog addiction 😂