This month, I bought 226 PC games for C$185.82 ($134.58)

Now are those a lot of games? Yes, it’s a silly amount of games. Perhaps I’m addicted to good deals that deliver fun.

We all have a vice, and this is mine. I don’t drink, or smoke, or gamble – but I buy lots and lots of video games.

Though back when I was a console gamer, I’d might get eight games for that price – if I were lucky.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Good deals that deliver fun.

    If that’s what you’re buying in a single month, I’d hate to know how much you’re buying in a year.

    The sad truth is that you’re spending this money but you’re never going to have the time to enjoy more than the upper crust of what all these games have to offer. You might dive deep on a handful of them, but you’re just lighting the rest of that money on fire and likely condemning a lot of good games to the digital equivalent of rotting on a shelf.

    Unless this is some roundabout way of supporting dev teams this screams unfettered consumerism to me.

    I’m not trying to offend you I promise. This is just very odd to me. I don’t even think I’ve played 200 games in my life and I’ve spent a fuckload of time immersed in games of all kinds for ~30 years.

    • atomicpoet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’ve played 22% of my Steam library and 25% of my GOG library.

      Most of the time, I don’t finish the games. But I’ve got maybe 1 hour of enjoyment out of most of them—sometimes more. And I typically pay less than C$1.00 per game.

      Meanwhile, at my local arcade, I sometimes pay $1.00 for a mere minutes of play.

      Is it unfettered consumerism? Maybe it’s consumerism. If so, it’s certainly fettered.

      I place hard limits on what I spend, and each game must be regarded as worth playing.

      If there’s one regret I have it’s that I don’t talk about the many hidden gems I experience as much as I wish I did.

      • shoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Maybe it’s consumerism. If so, it’s certainly fettered.

        Statements of the utterly deranged lol. You admit to buying stuff knowing there’s an 80% chance you never touch it. That’s indulgent no matter what budget you set.

        I’m not one to shame steam libraries, mine is certainly lopsided in playtime, but if you’re in it for collecting and preserving hidden gems just pirate. You’ll no longer be locked in to Steam and if you like a game you can still buy it at full price and give the devs more than pennies.

        • atomicpoet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          4 months ago

          You admit to buying stuff knowing there’s an 80% chance you never touch it.

          Nope, you failed to read what I wrote.

          I said I’ve played 22% of my Steam library and 25% of my GOG library.

          I also said, at various points, that I’m deliberately pacing myself through my backlog. I have already played around 2,000 titles, and I will be playing more.

          Will I be playing all titles I own? Yes, at my own pace, with my own methodology.

          I’m not one to shame steam libraries, mine is certainly lopsided in playtime, but if you’re in it for collecting and preserving hidden gems just pirate.

          Nope, I’m in it for the collecting and the playing.

          You’ll no longer be locked in to Steam and if you like a game you can still buy it at full price and give the devs more than pennies.

          I’ve never had a Steam game removed from my account due to DRM. And should that ever happen, I have games on GOG that are DRM-free.

          But also, I have downloaded and installed several abandonware titles in the past. I find piracy an inconvenient hassle. Both Steam and GOG give me the convenience of cloud storage, which I’m happy to pay less than a dollar for.

          Basically, your entire comment boils down to you disapproving of how I enjoy games.

          I paid an average price of $0.58 for 226 games—which is the price of a dinner at a restaurant.