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I have 516 games and I've probably played less than 40 of them. A big chunk of them are games I played on consoles and bought PC versions just because they were cheap so I'll probably never get around to playing them again. So money well spent.
I have over 600 steam games in my collection plus DLC for each one of those games I'm not proud that I've probably spent well over $20,000 on games that I don't even have time to play
@derganove: I think that's actually a pretty decent percentage, certainly far better than mine! Especially considering most of us with this many games got a lot of them in bundles and we just aren't interested in a lot of the filler.
@devil240z The Summer Sale starts in less than two weeks! Ready for that hype thread!? >:)
418 games. This includes some Free-2-Play titles. I've been on Steam since the original HL2 beta phase, so if you break it down that's only 40-ish games a year. Just trying to justify my crippling habits over here.
@mb: I really started trying a couple years ago to complete a game before I'm allowed to purchase a new one. It's helped me trudge through some of the lesser known ones. Games that I don't tend to beat are games that I tried, but just can't get myself interested in them.
167 as of right now with 77 installed to the tune of around 635GB of space on the HDD, 4 games on the SSD for another 100GB. I have around 20 games on origin as well (all ea exclusives). I have finished (see credits roll) over half.
72, including a few of those demos that get inserted into your list without you asking for them. I'd be more interested to know if anyone uses the categories system to organize them in a meaningful way. I've thought about trying it, but I can't quite figure out what would be most useful. Genre is the obvious way to go, I think, but I'm not sure how helpful that would actually be.
420 bro! I jumped hard from console to PC gaming ~3 years ago replacing lots of my physical games with digital versions. I also knew I had a huge blind-spot in PC gaming so I've been going through and padding out that massive backlog.
@travisrex: Yup. All evidence points to a steam sale starting tonight / tomorrow morning. Apparently Paypal outed the dates, it runs from the 11th-21st.
@moonshadow101: I started putting my library into categories by genre but that basically stopped. Now it's games that I play mainly for single player and multiplayer. Then I have a category I use for when I beat a game and don't want it installed anymore. Then there is is another category I use for games I know I'm never going to play due to lack of controller support or I've beaten them on console and I know I never want to play them again.
I have 23 games in my library, but only 9 are purchased; the others are free. From those 9 that I purchased, 4 of them were part of a LucasArts classics pack that was like $5.
My rule is that a game should be $5 and less for a purchase on Steam. Though once I did spend $10 for Killing Floor because I thought it seemed good, boy was I wrong. It's a dumb grinding game where the developers have just abandoned it. Out of my few purchases, the Killing Floor purchase was the worst; a pathetic game and purchase, I remind myself of it so I don't make the same mistake again.
Why? Because with Steam you can't sell the game, you can't get rid of it for some money back. That's the worst part about Steam.
It's stupid... game companies have DRM that says you can install it on up to 3 computers (or some other number) ... but how can you do it with Steam? It's tied to your account? So it's stupid. You're going to share your password? Steam locks games to single users, you can't share or trade or even sell....... Steam is very restrictive in this way and I can't support them with higher priced purchases. I might as well walk down the street in search of a poor man selling bootleg games than to purchase an extremely restrictive product from Steam.
This argument is really really one-sided. Especially today, the first day of the Steam Summer Sale. I don't see Gamestop offering 90% off of their titles.
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