• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Probably 3/4 of my steam 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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      16 days ago

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

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    17 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…)

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    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.

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      I’ve got a Steam family going with my siblings and it makes me feel significantly better about my backlog, because even if I don’t get to it there’s probably something for everyone in the mix somewhere. Plus every now and again it’s nice to break out a random indy game that nobody’s played and just collectively suck together.

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    1. Decide you want game
    2. Add it to wish list
    3. Seam tells you it’s for sale 80% off
    4. Buy game
    5. Wait till you feel like playing that genre and no other games you want to play even more are sitting unplayed in your backlog
    6. Play “unplayed” game

    Why is this a problem?

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    17 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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    And yet they’ll grip that game right out of your library whenever they want to. The world that people complain about is the world they go wrong with. Once the fuckery started, that’s when I stopped giving these companies money. I haven’t bought a video game for probably decades.

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    17 days ago

    I bought rdr2 and had trouble with the constant horse riding so I put a pin in it until later… Much later

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

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      17 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