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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.
Nothing fucks you harder than time. -Ser Davos
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, speacially if you already own part of the bundle
That is actually crazy
- Decide you want game
- Add it to wish list
- Seam tells you it’s for sale 80% off
- Buy game
- Wait till you feel like playing that genre and no other games you want to play even more are sitting unplayed in your backlog
- Play “unplayed” game
Why is this a problem?
I feel attacked
…yet.
It’s my retirement plan. Buy the games now when they’re on sale with the intention that one day, perhaps when I retire at 80, I’ll have a plethora of time on my hands to finally play all the games in my backlog except I’m certain that I’ll be so senile by then that I’ll probably end up playing the same one over and over for what seems like the very first time each time I fire it up.
This is a pillar of pride for us. We are literally creating jobs 😆
I feel attacked
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
Humble bundle made me do it!
Most of my unplayed games have at least funded wikipedia or some charity.
What kind of shithole country can you buy for 19 billion? I’d rather have games.
The USA, Trump will do anything for a buck, he’s President Whore.
That’s disrespectful to whores, sex work is real work
What word did you use after “President”? I see it as “removed” and I’m wondering if my Lemmy instance censors it
You can buy a whole lot of politicians with that kind of money.
I really only buy video games from indie devs.
If I never play a game by an indie dev that I bought, oh noooo what a catastrophe I gave an indie artist money without confirming they deserved it!
This meme should only make you feel slimey if you are dropping lots of money on AAA games where the artists who made the game don’t get even remotely a fair share of profits.
Otherwise, giving independent artists to make more art benefits everyone even if you don’t “use” / “need” the art.
