"More than likely the person buying your game is not going to play it."
  • mang0@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    He doesn’t consider game bundles like e.g. humble bundle. There you can get loads of steam games which you might activate but only play a few from.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      My steam library is full of humble bundles that I only bought for 2 games because it would be like $5, cheaper than buying regularly, and still getting like 7 other games with them.

      And that’s even with me giving away keys from games I know I won’t ever play.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Hey if I could sell a million copies of a game for just a dollar each as my cut of a bundle, well I’d be a millionaire!

        • misk@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          13·
          10 months ago

          It is very common for people to joke about how big their backlog is. I’m not sure we can call buying things you’re never going to play as frugal. I’m on autism spectrum and do both regular and digital hoarding occasionally but I’m a bit more mindful about it ever since I admitted it. Many people seem to be in denial.

      • slackassassin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Buying an indie platformer that you might not play is not anywhere close to actual IRL hording. And it’s not even what is being described as digital hording in that article from UCLA.

        It’s straight up irresponsible to compare it to an actual hording mental disorder. Like, you must not have ever experienced that in any capacity to think that.

        Although, surely digital horders have some cross over. But the prevalence of people not playing a game they bought on discount ain’t it fam.

        • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Completely agree. I think maybe digital hoarding can be real when it gets to the point where people are buying excessively to the point that they cannot afford it, but hoarding disorder would typically be associated with physical goods that are cluttering your space to dysfunctional levels.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Expanding on that, and explaining why this is not Digital hoarding, I have a HUGE catalog of games, lots of which came from bundles and such, if I was able to sell back games to steam, even if for a few cents, I would delete a big chunk of that. But as is I have no reason to do it, I can put them in a “never played” category and forget about them until I randomly find a game in the store that mildly interests me and notice it’s already in my library.

  • Nikls94@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Funny enough, the link to Rich Shanton, the one who wrote this, throws a 404 error.

  • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    So basically “Valve discovered a gold mine by selling you so many games” and “it’s your fault for spendijg money on games”. Yeah wait wut? As if it’s someone’s fault that so many games are getting released. Also ending with “beware, not every customer is a die-hard fan”. Wow.

    Go crack the F2P business model next, Sherlock.