Game hoarding, just a general thought

[Maverick]

Been playing games since the first of tetris, atari, sega, gameboy, ps, ps2, pc, psp, ps vita and nintendo switch. But what changed is my life style. Now being father of kids, i couldnt play anymore. And was missing that excitement on my life. Switch ports wasnt enough. So i got some divine intervention(i guess) regarding handheld gaming pc. The forces wanted me to play.😀 and i bought steamdeck oled 1 tb after months of research on youtube. The deciding factor was that while i was playing i could just sleep button instantly amd go back to my kids. If my station arrived i cam just sleep button and get off and resume again. This feature was godsend. Every couple of hour a day i could live my life as i used to do.
But because of steam lucrative sales policy, i have been buying games a lot. More than i have time to play. Its so irresitible. I finish about 1 game per 2 months but because of steam sales i have hoarded many games for upcoming few years, amd many more in my wish list. I m not saying it is a bad thing. I m just saying that there isnt enough time for me to play all those great games😄 at least i jabe satisfaction that i habe now power to play amy of those games if ever i wish.

[@R+5]

Originally posted by Maverick:

Its so irresitible.

at least try to not buy games using your credit or debit card. pay only games in cash, so you have to think twice or more before actually spending in something new.

also, if you already have many unplayed games, maybe stop checking the store until you have checked a few hours each, so you can be sure which one you will play next, rather than buying a new one.

Originally posted by Maverick:

I finish about 1 game per 2 months but because of steam sales i have hoarded many games for upcoming few years, amd many more in my wish list. I m not saying it is a bad thing.

its abit of a "bad thing", because we cannot own any of the games we buy in steam: each is actually a "license to play"; we dont get the installers to install them offline, and start them without steam checking if we "own them". its also not good to keep buying more than what you can play, because in the end, its still money you could have used in something more important or useful for your family (imagine buying food for an event with a hundred persons, and then only 10 or less end present: even if that food could be preserved and used later, the cost of the services and the people hired for the event are lost resources).

if we actually owned copies of anything from steam, it wouldnt matter if steam somehow suffered a massive attack, goes bankrupt or another company takes over their business. but thats not the case. its convenient to have access to many games specially after big discounts, but we dont own anything from here.

if steam operated like gog games, relative to offering offline installers, it would be a better platform.

but, the bright side, is that the deck works like a minipc and you can install and run games from anywhere, as long as the os supports them.

i get hoarding, but if you can hoard stuff you can actually own, sometimes those things increase in value. with games from steam, than will never happen.

[Haruspex]

Welcome to the club.

I just tell myself I'm saving the bulk of those games for retirement, I once did the math and discovered that even if I were to quit my job today and do nothing but play games for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, considering average life expectancy, I likely don't have enough hours left in my life to finish them all.

Humble Bundles are the worst for massively growing your library. You get like, 20 games for $15, half of which you might not even play, but it's just such a good deal, so you convince yourself you'll play them eventually.