kungfuian
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I think there's some truth to this because the urgency to run out and buy the newest thing is reduced if you own a pile of other games you want to play still. Especially if it's at full price or your very price conscious and want to get the most for your dollar.
I have a massive backlog and an equally large wish list. I could literally stop buying new games and just play my backlog for years. I often joke it's my retirement plan.
Because I have so many games to play already in my library I, like most, keep an eye on discounts and wait for sales to add moregames to my horde.
The whole thing's kind of silly to be honest, I think at this point I'm more of a collector than I am a gamer. I suspect part of this is that going back to the early 90s there were only a handful of really good games coming out each year and so you could theoretically play most of them and not miss out. Now there are so many good games that come out each year you would have to just play games full time to play them all and you probably still couldn't.
Someone should write an article about the impact of backlogs on game subscription services. I don't know about others but for me subscribing to a game service just doesn't make sense when I have hundreds of games I actually want to play that I can't even make it to.
Plus, and this is probably just a me thing, but it is really annoying to have the games you want to play surrounded by a bunch of stuff you don't. Like my steam library is 100% games I love or want to play and anything that turns out subpar I hide so I don't have to see it in my library. The discovery problem of finding the next game I want to play becomes very tiring when the good stuff is surrounded by crap. It's one of the things I hate about discovering new shows on Netflix and those services, handful of good stuff surrounded by mountains of filler garbage and no real way to make that filler garbage go away.
I have a massive backlog and an equally large wish list. I could literally stop buying new games and just play my backlog for years. I often joke it's my retirement plan.
Because I have so many games to play already in my library I, like most, keep an eye on discounts and wait for sales to add moregames to my horde.
The whole thing's kind of silly to be honest, I think at this point I'm more of a collector than I am a gamer. I suspect part of this is that going back to the early 90s there were only a handful of really good games coming out each year and so you could theoretically play most of them and not miss out. Now there are so many good games that come out each year you would have to just play games full time to play them all and you probably still couldn't.
Someone should write an article about the impact of backlogs on game subscription services. I don't know about others but for me subscribing to a game service just doesn't make sense when I have hundreds of games I actually want to play that I can't even make it to.
Plus, and this is probably just a me thing, but it is really annoying to have the games you want to play surrounded by a bunch of stuff you don't. Like my steam library is 100% games I love or want to play and anything that turns out subpar I hide so I don't have to see it in my library. The discovery problem of finding the next game I want to play becomes very tiring when the good stuff is surrounded by crap. It's one of the things I hate about discovering new shows on Netflix and those services, handful of good stuff surrounded by mountains of filler garbage and no real way to make that filler garbage go away.
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", to wanting to collapse on a couch, too tired to move, crying "please god let me have one hour of gaming go uninterrupted".