I look at it like tipping a street musician.

The point isn’t to purchase access to the experience. You can get that for free if you want.

The point is to keep their creative outlet going, so I (and everyone around me) get to experience the next cool thing they do.

0% off: I sleep

10% off: eye-crack

25% off: gentle stirring

33% off: lean up on elbow

50% off: tentatively reaching for wallet

70% off: Urgh to purchase… rising.

80% off: Real Shit

90% off: STFU, and Take My Money

It gets me every time.

I feel like I do gaming right:

• Find a single blockbuster game from last year that looks good, download it
• Play it for 3-4 days straight over a long weekend without sleep, using a trainer to skip the grindey parts
• Finish it, get sick of gaming, sleep
• Don’t feel the need to touch another game for at least another 9 months

HEY! I can stop whenever I want!

Old dude has a bad case of Sigmoid Lip.

I’ve adopted a policy of only buying if I am playing it instantly.

I don’t care if it’s on sale or not, if I’m not playing it in the next hour I’m not buying it.

I’ve never had a backlog since then, and never bought any games I’ve never played.

Most of the time, the biggest hurdle to a backlog is playing the first 10% of the game. Once I do, the other 90% comes much easier.

What causes that dimming effect at the bottom of the images you post? I know it’s some kind of overlay, I just don’t get what kind exactly.

Time to find a new teacher.

Lots of games can come in bundles, if you buy a bundle because it has 1 game you want in it, I don’t know if it really matters if you don’t play the other 8 in the bundle. Especially when the entire bundle is cheaper than the game you wanted.

I made a point to play every game in my library a few years ago. Every game got 2 hours at a minimum (unless they didn’t work). Played some real gems like Torment: Tides of Numenera, Tyranny, and World of Goo.

I’ve played around 60% of my library an still have to remember this to myself all the time.

Why buy games when Star Wars Galaxies Restoration exists and you can be a bounty hunter droid engineer or a heckin politician?

Yeah looking at my backlog of games I haven’t played yet, I now ignore all sales and only buy the games I plan to play immediately and not someday. And I get the free game of the week from Epic but I don’t mind never playing any of those

I have over 1300 games across various libraries (digital and physical)

If I have cash to spend and it fits into all of the following categories I basically always buy:

-80% off or more, or under $5, or its part of a “complete your collection” bundle that compounds its discount with an existing one.

-Its 8.5/10 or better (or is part of a series of games that I want to play through that has a 8.5+/10 within it.)

-in a genre/series I really really personally like.

But this actually eliminates a lot of temptations.

The only other alternative situation is if I want to play the game immediately but that never happens because I’m always playing through a series of games already it seems like. Right now I’m playing through my Tom Clancy collection. Its the last bit of Ubisoft games I intend to play before uninstalling uplay/ubi-connect (probably forever).