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One stat in here supports a third, slightly different statement. The median player has not played 51% of their games, so: "most people who buy games on steam have not played most of the games they own."

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Correlates with my experience. Sometimes sales are so attractive you buy several games for cheap, or even an entire franchise, but playing them all can take enough time that another sale comes again. Red Dead Redemption 2 has been collecting digital dust in my library because I'm still playing Fallout 76. I stopped buying more because it feels wrong.

You should play RDR2, it's absolutely phenomenal. That and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 are the best role playing games I've played in the past decade.

Full agreement. Rdr2, Witcher 3, and mass effect trilogy for me.

You should try KCD2, can not recommend it enough

I know, but I can't deal with two massive RPGs right now. It doesn't help that a multiplayer RPG like Fallout 76 multiplies the role playing opportunities.

Ditto. I have several games in my backlog that I got on deep discount, but need serious time commitment to play. It's going to take me a little bit to play Witcher 3, Disco Elysium, or the entire Mass Effect trilogy. Also there is a certain time horizon on steam that play time wasn't tracked. I am pretty sure I played Half Life 2, since that's why I have a steam account in the first place.

Edit: You may not want to know if your steam account is old enough to drink...

Bundles contribute a lot too. Hey you can get these three games for dirt cheap because you own another game in this bundle! One of them’s interesting to you, maybe even already on your wishlist, the others are not, and the bundle is less than the full price of the one you think might be neat. The others just sink to the bottom of your collection, uninstalled, unplayed, unloved.

bingo. big sales and GoG deals, etc. mean I can get 5+ games for the same price as one moderately priced AAA game.

but usually I'm buying the bundle for one or two things, and the rest is just window dressing. maybe I'll get to em, maybe not...

I uses to collect almost everything, now having over 2000 games. Now i select them for Steam Deck playability. I still hoard a lot, but i also try to at least start them once and play a little before moving on to the next one :)

I have considerably less time than money, at least when it comes to $5 games that take 50+ hours to beat.

(I'll get to you someday, Mass Effect)

I've bought entire publisher catalogs on summer/winter sales years ago. Tons of games, while I might primarily be interested in a handful. It was just cheaper to buy the whole catalog.

That's just because we aren't retired yet. :)

My steam library is just an extension of my retirement portfolio. Diversification if you will.

There are also weird effects with family sharing. I have things in my account that my kids have played but that I haven’t.

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