• Almacca@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    I bought a Steam Deck ostensibly to help me get through my backlog. What happened was that I bought more games specifically to play on it.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Bought two tonight and haven’t even plugged in the Steam Deck to get enough charge to download them, much less play them.

    (Complete TellTale Walking Dead for $5? Damn right I’ll remember that…)

  • pepperjohnson@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Hopefully I’ll get to those games after finishing these games and before I get new games.

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      11 days ago

      But new game comes out Friday and looks a lot more fun then those games and is launching with a Day 1 sale

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    11 days ago

    Humble bundle made me do it!

    Most of my unplayed games have at least funded wikipedia or some charity.

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    11 days ago

    I started to only buy games that run natively on my Mac. This has helped on cutting down this number a lot.

  • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Spending real life money on a game you don’t actually own that you will never play is fucking genius ngl

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    11 days ago

    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!

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    11 days ago

    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.

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      11 days ago

      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?

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        11 days ago

        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…

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      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”.

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    11 days ago

    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.

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      11 days ago

      Sometimes the bundle is even less expensive than just getting the one game, specially if you already own part of the bundle