How many of you have a 'buyer's regret' category? :)

[Adidas]

I half-joke... these sales with titles priced at 2 pounds are so tempting then you load up 'generic FPS #9382" and turn it off lol

On the other hand, it helped me find some real gems. But they are the diamond in the rough.

Anyways, thought it was a funny category idea ;)

[failsafe]

"never played" games category - typically around 70 items

"wtf did I buy this game" category - I had it long time ago, but erased it... I thought that it is better not to see constantly growing figures there.

I guess I have easily around 50-70 games that I should have never purchased. And yes, most of them had very low cost... I've spent way too much money on cheap games ;-P. Buying games on sales is a drug for me... But I've managed to get few gems. Quite recently I've purchased Othercide for like 2 EUR or something like this. Played few minutes, loved it, made few friends to buy it... those friends have spent around 50-60 hours and they love it, I still didnt had time to take better attempt, but still, game is a great find.

[Anxiety]

I tend to have the strongest buyers remorse with the highest critically appraised games in my favorite genres. If everyone loves them and they are considered to be a genre staple, there is a high chance I'll passionately hate them on personal level. Oh well.
Prey, Journey, Inside, Antichamber, I'm looking at you

Right into my .NOPE. category they go.

Funnily enough, I rarely have such problems with games from deep dark indie pits of doom. Maybe that's because it's easier to see them for what they are and manage expectations accordingly.

["DCM" REAPER WOLF]

galactic civilizations,thought it would have had way better graphics but the game plays alright not to hateful.

[𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫]

There's just a few games that I regret to bought them in the first place... mostly I spend some time on research if a game fit my needs but sometimes even then you can get a real sour lemon. ¯\__/¯

[CRCGamer]

I have also have a dead game category personally. There is a double handful of games in the account that had online requirements that really are just dead. Usually you can do some form of executable replacement or dll spoofing for things that merely have compatibility issues with newer hardware. But if it requires a master server that doesn't exist anymore and nobody say fit to attempt emulating?

Then there is another handful of games that just are in a permanent ignore state that is equivalent to the category you are asking about. And they tend to have earned the hidden status by having crap like save eating bugs that didn't get fixed and the devs up and ran off.

[The Presence]

Fortunately only one game and it wasn't even on Steam but on console.

[Darkslayer16]

I don't have any categories, would take way too long. I've never regretted buying anything tho.

[captainwiseass]

No, I generally just remove those from the account.

[Crazy Tiger]

I don't have such a category. Never regretted a game purchase either.

[0Spaace]

Vážně?

[Heraclius Caesar]

Definitely have buyers regret on the VR games I've purchased and the VR device itself. Bought like 6 or 7 VR games on a whim when I got an Oculus, they all suck and since I waited too long to refund them I'm stuck with them forever, and The Oculus is an uncomfortable, janky, nauseating contraption.

[Lystent]

I more often had regrets from mandatory game updates than the initial purchase. Often enough, games evolve into something else, and/or have a spanner or two chucked into them.

[ReBoot]

I hide those.

[Paratech2008]

I regret supporting Greenlight which had much more junk than Early Access but was much cheaper as most of the games were jarate.

But I learned a lesson.

[peppermint hollows]

𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫님이 먼저 게시:

There's just a few games that I regret to bought them in the first place... mostly I spend some time on research if a game fit my needs but sometimes even then you can get a real sour lemon. ¯\_:Cat_face:_/¯

This is how I do it too. I spend a lot of time looking into a game, looking at reviews and gameplay, etc. as much as possible unless for some reason I really trust I'm going to like the game and don't want to be spoiled anything about it and want to go in completely blind. But that is really rare and usually only with franchises or dev studios that I really really love and have been consistent with game quality.

I don't buy games as often nowadays and when I do they're usually on a deep discount or the normal price is low because the game is older or an indie game, so even if I don't end up liking the game that much at least I haven't spent that much money on it.

So not too many things I have buyer's remorse on.