• @[email protected]
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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.

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months 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…)

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

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

    • defunct_punk
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      53 months ago

      But new game comes out Friday and looks a lot more fun then those games and is launching with a Day 1 sale

  • Destide
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    23 months ago

    Dynamic filter mark games not yet played I call mine wall of shame

  • @[email protected]
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    53 months ago

    Humble bundle made me do it!

    Most of my unplayed games have at least funded wikipedia or some charity.

  • Diplomjodler
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    163 months ago

    What kind of shithole country can you buy for 19 billion? I’d rather have games.

  • nocturne
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    33 months ago

    I started to only buy games that run natively on my Mac. This has helped on cutting down this number a lot.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      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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    Spending real life money on a game you don’t actually own that you will never play is fucking genius ngl

    Edit: then proceeding to make a habit out of it and developing some sort of e-hoarding disorder

  • scops
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    423 months ago

    Here is the source article. It’s light on methodology. Are they going off of price of the game at launch? I maybe pay full price for a game once or twice per year. 50-70% of my unplayed games are probably from Humble Bundle/Humble Choice.

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      Probably the same price used by SteamDB to calculate library value, which seems to be some version of “current price” or “most recent non-sale price”.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      every time this gets brought up, it rarely mentions humble bundle even though it’s probably a major contributing factor.

      how many of us have bought bundles for 1 or 2 games we were interested in and ended up with 10 more that you never even had an intention of booting up in the first place?

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        23 months ago

        In addition to that there’s also a few games in my library that I intend to play later but bought it while it’s on sale as it might be more expensive when I have time to play it later…

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

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