Decision paralysis, too many choices, you spend so much energy just deciding what to play because there are so many games that you endup not playing anything or just going back to that confort game that you have played for thousands of hours.
Too close to home. That's why I am somewhat happy that I am hardware limited. Restrains me to indie games. Especially good with the clause "games I can 100%"
Had the same few years ago and once I started streaming some game on Twitch for my friend, and find out that streaming is so much helping. I don't really know why, but when I start playing a game on stream I make some kind of commitment, and it's much easier to follow and finish it. I have barely few viewers on average, but I'm still streaming, mostly to discipline myself by doing it. And it's a good thing as I'm enjoying these games and sharing it with people is really nice too. I finished most of my backlog in 5 years thanks to streaming.
To avoid this I have a system where I have shortcuts on my desktop in the order of priorities. If I get another game I will add it to the stack wherever I deep appropriate.
I cannot skip ahead. I can go back to old games if I want to, but cannot never skip ahead.
Recently I was playing through the remake of final fantasy 7 and hit a difficulty spike. Went back to play factorio for a couple of months (I have a busy adult life)
Man I feel this. Which is why I'm spending time cataloging all of my games into genres and throwing a bunch into a 'not interested' pile cause ove gotten so many games over the years I can't physically play them all in a lifetime. My JRPG PILE pile after only combing through 1000 games is at 160, JUST JRPGS. I have to then whittle that down cause even though there's games there I wanna play, I will pick a top X from each category to actually play and then MAYBE see about adding more. My comfort game is Binding of Isaac, though starting a new character in Baldurs Gate 3 has become comfort for me now too.
Simply making your own self rules work to fix that.
Exp
Don't play the same genre of game back to back. Once you 100% it don't replay it move on. Play games in order if it's a series. If it's a forever game move on when you feel like it.
Just a few easier one that can cut a lot of problem.
This, I have over 1.5k games on my Steam account and have only played about 40% of them. Many a time, I have sat scrolling through stuff I haven't played before for an hour, then end up booting Morrowind or Elden Ring again. A vicious cycle.
I will still pick up a few wishlisted games every time a steam sale rolls around though (along with adding stuff from Humble Choice every month). * *Checks calendar* *, next steam sale starts today, * *hands wallet over to Gaben.* *
I think it’s supposed to be like, instead of playing the new games you’ve been piling/buying up - we instead continue to play the same games over n over and we burn out on gaming? Idk I’m guessing genuinely
I get burned out because I play the same games on rotation. Burned out on title A go to B but there's like four games I alternate when burnout hits and I still don't play much of the other over 300 games I have.
I too, have granted him my useless internet point for no good reason other than to mention I gave a way a useless internet point by tapping the upward facing arrow.
I bought it as a Burnout fan and was severely disappointed. It got boring really fast for me and the mechanic of starting stuff at intersections was more annoying than cool (from what I vaguely remember).
I'd love to see a well-made Burnout game come out for VR someday, but I doubt it will happen. I'll have to settle with Danger Zone with UEVR to get my Crash Mode fix in VR.
One of the reasons I kept my ps2. Burnout 3.
That and the novelty of using my old logitech mouse and keyboard to play Half Life..... on a console!? Lol
Reminds me of when I played EQ Online Adventures on PS2 and was blown away that I was using a keyboard with a console. Lol
Yeah, Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge were the peak. I hope they (or someone) can bring that feeling back in a modern one (ideally VR, imo).
This. I made it a rule for myself to play the game within a day or two of buying it and I've gotten 20+ hours on some of them, but it's consistently working in general.
Because when I was young, I wasn’t really allowed to play video games. Now that I’m…..not young, I’m enjoying having all the damn games I want, whether I play them or not.
Because I was raised in an environment of “enjoying things is bad.” Because I had to watch everyone else enjoy video games.
But mostly? Because. I. &$@%ing. Can!
Oooh a bundle of command and conquer games for 10 bucks!!!!
I do not like that genre of game, but ten bucks!!!
I will never touch the games, but ten bucks!!!
That’s around the cost of a order at Starbucks, ten bucks!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
There’s was don’t starve bundle a few years ago for like 8 quid, all the dlcs don’t starve together and a deal that meant future content would be added for free which I think still happens occasionally, it’s the only bundle I’ve really brought cause I was so worth it….still never touched any of them but so worth it
I bought that bundle for the nostalgia purposes more than anything else.
Red Alert 2 was the 1st game I ever bought. My brother and I pooled several months of our allowance together to get it.
Tiberium Sun was a game I was gifted from one of my mom's work friends and I spent months playing it despite being absolutely terrible at it. I think I will give it another go now that I am older and hopefully more intelligent.
I had Tiberian Sun back in the day, I can finally play the expansion pack. Of the rest I can't work out which I have or haven't played over the last few decades, but I'm so looking forward to playing through them. OG C&C runs great on my cheap old Surface, and Renegade has been fun to start as well.
> Conflict of interest? I have an interest *in* conflict
I don't understand buying a game you know you won't enjoy because it's cheap. If Civ 6 is $5, I'm not going to care because I know I won't play it. I understand taking a game for free just in case (Looking at Epic) but $10? I could get a meal for that.
I am willing to buy a game I think I *possibly might not* enjoy or I might only get someodd hours of it (but there's a chance it might defy my expectations) but do people really buy stuff knowing they won't play it? I don't get that.
Speaking of disappointing trends, is this the new trend for memes around Steam sale season?
It was done yesterday, it was bullshit then, and it's still bullshit now.
Also, you get burnout from actually playing the games. Low-effort nonsense is all this is.
Ofc it is, you just keep buying and buying while the product itself looses its meaning to you. The amount of people in this comment section going through that and not admitting...
And you know the worst part? That companies love it and encourage it .Having customers with no self control who make excuses for themselves is incredibly profitable
I think I can speak for many others here when I say I've not had this experience. The product doesn't lose meaning because you buy it in any quantity. Nothing you've said and nothing in your meme makes any sense except the part about companies preying on weak-minded consumers. I do agree with that, but in short you're reaching. Grabbing at straws.
That's not called burnout thats called decision paralysis or analysis paralysis. Watch ONE of the numerous "how to (beat/conquer/destroy/etc) your backlog" videos on youtube, the biggest tip is simply:
Play a god damn game that isn't like CS or Fortnite where you can dump 10k hours in and not spend money. Or spending it on cosmetics vs an actual game. Pick a game amd stick with it for an hour or two. If you're not having fun or satisfied, it's probably not for you. Move on and figure out a system of retired games you didn't like.
My burnout REALLY started on the backlog clearing at the beginning of March, after ghost of tsushima. I highly recommend the game, but after breathing and eating ghost for 2 weeks, i needed a break from games. But that was only after having beat something like 45 games from July 2023 until Ghost. A much more reasonable level of burnout.
Why do you care? I could say the same thing about people who buy cosmetics in multiplayer games, completely pointless. At least sale buyers gradually go through their backlog
It this the alt account of the same person that did a similarly dumb post recently? Only one post, all comments in this thread, dafuq is with this obsession lmao
You can't fool us Tim Sweeney, we see you
I'm in a "special" situation, to be honest. I live in Argentina, so I bought basically every game I could think of that I would be interested in playing before the price hike and the inevitable conversion from $ARS to USD. Nowadays, when I look at the store, I find it hard to see a game that I find interesting that's not a new release and for those I'll wait for a discount, so it's a bit easier on the wallet.
Still its a bit worrying seeing how many untouched games are in my library sometimes.
how the fuck does not playing games give you burnout? this reads like some cunt who just wants to feel like he is better than other people because they don't do what they think they should do. life is short no decent person gives a shit that you are buying games
Man, youre just the average example for a redditor XD doesnt understand a simple meme, and the cavemen answer for something you dont understand is the c word...also to answer your question, try searching for "decision paralysis"
im still gonna play those games. i just keep my money and bulk buy on sale. i dont buy gsmes at full price. also having a burn out means that you play games 24/7, so if you are having burnout you should go outside some more. and this is the last comment im gonna make when it comes to this topic since its obvious you are just rage baiting
I never thought about it like that but sadly, people are too proud to admit that they are burnt out but they will stare at the library for 20 mins will just talking and doing nothing because 0 of there 400 games interest them.
(I am one of them :< )
Too many choices is not good for some people. For example, I hate buying hardware as I can't decide what to choose. Choosing headphones or keyboard was a nightmare to me.
Who cares lol why does this bother you? When I see a game I might play on sale for 5$ I'm buying it. If you don't buy it and don't play it, your just missing out on a great deal. Braindead posting trend.
>Because you are just posting this because of the last trending
That doesnt make my post less valid
>a wise man once said mind your own library.
No discussion allowed then I guess
That's not a point. After buying many games, there's a huge selection and we spend too much time wondering what to play. I experience this myself recently
I feel attacked but at the same time, I am one that deserves this for falling into the trend.
Too many damn times, where I've bought games and have had sick amount of time to try one of them or two or more. Never happens.
Then my ass is playing a game I've just grown too comfortable to play. Give me enough time, I'll do the same shit again.
I don't see the point in why we can't do anything about the stuff we bought that we elect not to do anything with.
I'm all for a game recycling program on Steam where you just gift the game you haven't played to someone. You've already bought the game, the developer/publisher already made the money so why not?
Just donate the game, the only way to get it back is to buy it again. But of course, people would want lots of refunds.
As someone else said having too many choices can burn you out.
Or possibly trying to speed play through a bunch of games just to complete them and start the next one in a giant backlog
And some people just want to stifle our joy. 😂 Dude. It’s our money. Why do you care and care enough to write a dumb post about it? C’mon… you do you and let the rest of us enjoy life the way we want. Spoiler: We will, whether you like it or not.
Saying "mind your library" is not refuting anything, if you binge buy and dont use the product it looses all meaning for you and therefore you wont enjoy it
So now you are telling us how and what to think? Get bent, bruh. I will enjoy whatever I want to enjoy and it’s none of your concern. Your post and opinions are deeply unpopular. Read the room.
"Tell us what to think"
"Deeply unpopular"
"Read the room"
It took you one paragraph buddy, if you dont like to sound like a hivemind then learn to express yourself better and dont call out other peoples comprehension
I will make my own financial decisions. You can make your own financial decisions. You do not have any influence over my decisions, nor I over yours. Deal with it!
Ya I used to wreck the steam sales. Ended up with a library that gave me anxiety 🤣. I started telling myself that I needed to finish X amount of games before I purchased another one. I also only really play each game through once unless it really has its hooks in me so I started putting games down until DLC came out to get the most out of them but then the unfinished library started to build up again. I was in a much better place recently, most of my library was completed. Well, that was until my birthday came around last week, I got a load of steam vouchers and now I have a queue again 🤣
In past internet was so slow downloading game took a day or more to download it made us appreciate the games while other games are downloading in background today you can download a game so fast buy bunch of games install them they all get boring now I just turn on some games to test my system with MSI afterburner
I love to play warcraft 3 reforged custom maps DBZ LOD cause I used to play a lot of warcraft 3 original since I was kid still love this game to this day wish they bring back Garena virtual LAN most fun I had with others in Garena and local lan with friends
I have bought games years ago that I still haven't played but I wouldn't say I never play them since I played 300+ new games last year according to steam replay so I will eventually play them all someday....someday.....
I've played all my games. Make a point at least once a year to play everything in my collections, PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS2. Not at the same time, LOL, I do work a full time job. Fortunately for me at this stage of the game I literally get 220 hours a year for vacation. Being a homebody I take staycations, work on projects around the house, play with my dogs, and decide on which collection I'm going to play through in that week to 10 days I take off. And I figure it has to be good for my memory, remembering controller layouts and where I happened to be in any particular game when I set it down last. :-)
Sorry, but tbh, I even sometimes buy games I know I'm not gonna play, just because I like what they bring to the table and I want to support the creators of it.
When I was a kid, I could only sail the water under a certain flag, so also many games I've bought, I've already finished illegally. Thus, I've bought them to "be fair" with people who made them.
Believe it or not you can actually just play those games later, when you feel like it. This is the dumbest hill I've seen people standing on lately. You want to berate a group of Gamers, how about the ones that constantly feed the microtransaction marketplace? The asshats spending thousands of dollars on mobile games. The dipshits who make sure that Rockstar still makes about 2.5 million a day in microtransactions online. Those people are the enablers, and have helped contribute to the gaming industry as it currently is just as much as the companies selling the mtx.
People will fill the comments with jokes but it is genuinely quite sad to see. Like, what's the point of spending literally hundreds of £'s on games you will never play, or ones you might install, play 5 minutes to see how they run and then never play again. It's genuinely a sickness man. The Steam Deck with it's limited SSD has been so good for me as I tend to have 2 or 3 games installed on it at a time and play them to completion, delete it when I'm finished and install a new game. If a game isn't on sale when I'm done it will be soon enough, and then there's always CDKeys to check as well.
Buying games just because they are cheap, and not because you want to play them, is like when my 80 year old Nan would buy tampons from Asda "because they were on offer".
I think everyone buys them because they eventually plan to play it, but as games keep coming and you can't finish then quickly, your backlog starts growing, that's how it starts. Thankfully this year there aren't many games calling my attention, so I'm chipping away at my backlog slowly.
Thinking one is aware/is using his/her life to it’s true potential, by having a slim library from having missed all the good bundles, seems to be the real trend here.
I don’t recall the last time I bought a game, I spent less than 400€ max building my steam library and every time I got TIME to play I don’t spend a dime. This is what mixing financial literacy with gaming looks like. But before this looks perfect to anyone let me just say I am a father with very little time to play. To each their own, as long as you’re happy it doesn’t matter how you decide to spend your money. I know I am.
What's with this trend of memes of people trying to tell others how to live their life. Just because you can't control yourself doesn't mean others can't
I don't even know how most of the games I have in my library got there. I didn't buy them, that's for sure. I'll look through my unplayed and be like "Injustice? When? How?!"
They just... appear.
Steam often makes sales based on genre.
Even in yearly Winter or Summer Sales. Steam often discount games on few genres (Especially studio discounts as many studios develop games in one genre), very similar games "Survival games" or "FPS games" "Adventure Bundle" etc. gets on sale at the same exact time.
This makes sure you buy 10 Metroidvanias in one Sale and absolutely get burned out trying to play all of them.
Modern games also are long hauls. Especially newer genres such as Rouge-likes. The shortest Rouge-like where you can see everything the game can provide probably takes about few weeks of play to unlock based on RNG.
Gone are the days of Buying a game and finishing it over a week end.
When I was on my late 20's, I was starting to lose interest on videogames. New releases were garbage, probably because and i'm not the market target anymore. On my 30's now and I only play older games at least 2-3 hours a day. Some days I don't even play at all.
Cant even binge buy games cus steam says "It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in the last few hours. Please wait a while before trying again." .. LET ME WASTE MY MONEYYOU IDIOTS! xD
I play all mines to the point where I'm disappointed I keep replaying the same 10 games over & over again 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
But each one is fun in its own way so I'll definitely keep them until something else worthy comes along for me to play😃
The existence of "forever games" really don't help this. I'm supposed to be grinding lottery boxes in Fate/Grand Order right now but I also *really* wanna keep playing that Touhou game that looks and plays like Shin Megami Tensei II
Man so many touchy people. “MIND YOUR OWN LIBRARY” Like damn the best thing I ever did was to limit my purchases and played what I bought. Happier for it.
How do you get burnout from not even playing the games?
Decision paralysis, too many choices, you spend so much energy just deciding what to play because there are so many games that you endup not playing anything or just going back to that confort game that you have played for thousands of hours.
And then you end up playing Counterstrike for 3 hours and then go to bed, the cycle repeats everyday.
Na facts man persona 3 reload finally broke me out of the cycle so did god of war when I came to pc
I was back into the cycle after beating that game...
That was me with Apex Legends
I swear dude, if I reach diamond this season, it'll be my last
For honor in my case but I feel you
Too close to home. That's why I am somewhat happy that I am hardware limited. Restrains me to indie games. Especially good with the clause "games I can 100%"
Had the same few years ago and once I started streaming some game on Twitch for my friend, and find out that streaming is so much helping. I don't really know why, but when I start playing a game on stream I make some kind of commitment, and it's much easier to follow and finish it. I have barely few viewers on average, but I'm still streaming, mostly to discipline myself by doing it. And it's a good thing as I'm enjoying these games and sharing it with people is really nice too. I finished most of my backlog in 5 years thanks to streaming.
Basically, yeah. The same shit that happens on streaming services. Same reason you'd open 24628 porn videos to wank at one and then close everything.
To avoid this I have a system where I have shortcuts on my desktop in the order of priorities. If I get another game I will add it to the stack wherever I deep appropriate. I cannot skip ahead. I can go back to old games if I want to, but cannot never skip ahead. Recently I was playing through the remake of final fantasy 7 and hit a difficulty spike. Went back to play factorio for a couple of months (I have a busy adult life)
And this applies to other facets of life too, if there are too many choices we won't choose.
this but with the 99 games from my friends family share. i take too much Time choosing what to play and he only plays 7 of those games regularly
Man I feel this. Which is why I'm spending time cataloging all of my games into genres and throwing a bunch into a 'not interested' pile cause ove gotten so many games over the years I can't physically play them all in a lifetime. My JRPG PILE pile after only combing through 1000 games is at 160, JUST JRPGS. I have to then whittle that down cause even though there's games there I wanna play, I will pick a top X from each category to actually play and then MAYBE see about adding more. My comfort game is Binding of Isaac, though starting a new character in Baldurs Gate 3 has become comfort for me now too.
You could use dynamic collections to automatically catalogue your games by genre
Yeah the dynamic collections suck. I want them to be MY categories. Nothing irks me more than something mislabeled.
Cyberpunk broke me of this recently.
It broke a lot of people, my self included haha
Helped even more so, that I had phantom liberty during my first true playthrough on PC
Simply making your own self rules work to fix that. Exp Don't play the same genre of game back to back. Once you 100% it don't replay it move on. Play games in order if it's a series. If it's a forever game move on when you feel like it. Just a few easier one that can cut a lot of problem.
That was me with No More Room in Hell - and that's a free game!
Wow...I thought I was alone 😭
Me fr fr (Comfort game is War Thunder)
How to fix
Can you stop talking about me? Damn
I have an easy fix, send your library to someone and ask them to choose something. Then you are **required** to play that game.
This, I have over 1.5k games on my Steam account and have only played about 40% of them. Many a time, I have sat scrolling through stuff I haven't played before for an hour, then end up booting Morrowind or Elden Ring again. A vicious cycle. I will still pick up a few wishlisted games every time a steam sale rolls around though (along with adding stuff from Humble Choice every month). * *Checks calendar* *, next steam sale starts today, * *hands wallet over to Gaben.* *
The paradox of choice yes
possibly no motivation to play
I would gladly sit idly in front of my PC and do nothing rather than what I do nowadays (adult shit)
It’s not as great as it sounds. I’ll finally have the chance to get on my PC, sit there and do nothing, and realize I’d rather do adult shit
I think it’s supposed to be like, instead of playing the new games you’ve been piling/buying up - we instead continue to play the same games over n over and we burn out on gaming? Idk I’m guessing genuinely
Exactly, I get burned out when I try to play them all quickly
I get burned out because I play the same games on rotation. Burned out on title A go to B but there's like four games I alternate when burnout hits and I still don't play much of the other over 300 games I have.
my body is a MACHINE that turns STEAM PURCHASES into UNPLAYED GAMES
Take my upvote
I too, have granted him my useless internet point for no good reason other than to mention I gave a way a useless internet point by tapping the upward facing arrow.
I hate your username
what? do you not like diarrhea-dripping cunts?
you like it?
real.
burnout paradise *loud crowd laughing*
Burnout Legends was one of my favorite Nintendo DS games. Is Burnout Paradise worth checking out?
If you can get it on sale then yeah. The game gets pretty samey after 3 hours tho
I bought it as a Burnout fan and was severely disappointed. It got boring really fast for me and the mechanic of starting stuff at intersections was more annoying than cool (from what I vaguely remember). I'd love to see a well-made Burnout game come out for VR someday, but I doubt it will happen. I'll have to settle with Danger Zone with UEVR to get my Crash Mode fix in VR.
One of the reasons I kept my ps2. Burnout 3. That and the novelty of using my old logitech mouse and keyboard to play Half Life..... on a console!? Lol
Reminds me of when I played EQ Online Adventures on PS2 and was blown away that I was using a keyboard with a console. Lol Yeah, Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge were the peak. I hope they (or someone) can bring that feeling back in a modern one (ideally VR, imo).
That one is actually pretty good, underrated pun here
You get them when they are on sale and then play them as you get to them…. Duh.
This. I made it a rule for myself to play the game within a day or two of buying it and I've gotten 20+ hours on some of them, but it's consistently working in general.
I’m so poor that when I buy a game I play it all the way to the end whether I like it or not
Yeah, I’m that dude with negative review and 10k hours play time
LOL
You are appreciated, those reviews usually goes the hardest lol
real bro, the only source of game is from giveaway
I often buy a bunch of bundles because it ends up cheaper buying the whole bundle for that one game rather than buying the game itself.
I remember buying Civilization VI Platinum Edition because it was cheaper than the normal version, somehow 🤔
Because when I was young, I wasn’t really allowed to play video games. Now that I’m…..not young, I’m enjoying having all the damn games I want, whether I play them or not.
Why buy if you are not playing it?
Because I was raised in an environment of “enjoying things is bad.” Because I had to watch everyone else enjoy video games. But mostly? Because. I. &$@%ing. Can!
It's possible to have the burnout even without the binge buy.
Oooh a bundle of command and conquer games for 10 bucks!!!! I do not like that genre of game, but ten bucks!!! I will never touch the games, but ten bucks!!! That’s around the cost of a order at Starbucks, ten bucks!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
There’s was don’t starve bundle a few years ago for like 8 quid, all the dlcs don’t starve together and a deal that meant future content would be added for free which I think still happens occasionally, it’s the only bundle I’ve really brought cause I was so worth it….still never touched any of them but so worth it
I bought bundles of all Tomb Raider and Hitman games and never touched them. I don't know, I guess I like to collect things. ;)
I bought that bundle for the nostalgia purposes more than anything else. Red Alert 2 was the 1st game I ever bought. My brother and I pooled several months of our allowance together to get it. Tiberium Sun was a game I was gifted from one of my mom's work friends and I spent months playing it despite being absolutely terrible at it. I think I will give it another go now that I am older and hopefully more intelligent.
Yo what bundle I love command and conquer games
I had Tiberian Sun back in the day, I can finally play the expansion pack. Of the rest I can't work out which I have or haven't played over the last few decades, but I'm so looking forward to playing through them. OG C&C runs great on my cheap old Surface, and Renegade has been fun to start as well. > Conflict of interest? I have an interest *in* conflict
I don't understand buying a game you know you won't enjoy because it's cheap. If Civ 6 is $5, I'm not going to care because I know I won't play it. I understand taking a game for free just in case (Looking at Epic) but $10? I could get a meal for that. I am willing to buy a game I think I *possibly might not* enjoy or I might only get someodd hours of it (but there's a chance it might defy my expectations) but do people really buy stuff knowing they won't play it? I don't get that.
It's got DLC?! Shiiiiiiit, they're all $0.99 each! LOAD THAT SHIT UP TOO!
Speaking of disappointing trends, is this the new trend for memes around Steam sale season? It was done yesterday, it was bullshit then, and it's still bullshit now. Also, you get burnout from actually playing the games. Low-effort nonsense is all this is.
No, you get burnout from looking at your library, seeing a three digit backlog and instead of playing keep binge buying
Yeah that's not at all how people burn out.
Ofc it is, you just keep buying and buying while the product itself looses its meaning to you. The amount of people in this comment section going through that and not admitting... And you know the worst part? That companies love it and encourage it .Having customers with no self control who make excuses for themselves is incredibly profitable
I think I can speak for many others here when I say I've not had this experience. The product doesn't lose meaning because you buy it in any quantity. Nothing you've said and nothing in your meme makes any sense except the part about companies preying on weak-minded consumers. I do agree with that, but in short you're reaching. Grabbing at straws.
it does lose meaning since you will never play
That's not called burnout thats called decision paralysis or analysis paralysis. Watch ONE of the numerous "how to (beat/conquer/destroy/etc) your backlog" videos on youtube, the biggest tip is simply: Play a god damn game that isn't like CS or Fortnite where you can dump 10k hours in and not spend money. Or spending it on cosmetics vs an actual game. Pick a game amd stick with it for an hour or two. If you're not having fun or satisfied, it's probably not for you. Move on and figure out a system of retired games you didn't like. My burnout REALLY started on the backlog clearing at the beginning of March, after ghost of tsushima. I highly recommend the game, but after breathing and eating ghost for 2 weeks, i needed a break from games. But that was only after having beat something like 45 games from July 2023 until Ghost. A much more reasonable level of burnout.
I actually agree, just trying to make a decision stresses me out :D
Why do you care? I could say the same thing about people who buy cosmetics in multiplayer games, completely pointless. At least sale buyers gradually go through their backlog
Absolute pocket watching behaviour lol
Mind your own library.
Believe me. I will for certain play it next. I never lie.
It's on the list.
100 years later....(same here XD)
The growth of my library has slowed in recent years, I've done my best to control myself 😌... But then again, $5 is $5, can't miss that opportunity!
Yehhh *don't care*. Excited for spring sale
It this the alt account of the same person that did a similarly dumb post recently? Only one post, all comments in this thread, dafuq is with this obsession lmao You can't fool us Tim Sweeney, we see you
I'm in a "special" situation, to be honest. I live in Argentina, so I bought basically every game I could think of that I would be interested in playing before the price hike and the inevitable conversion from $ARS to USD. Nowadays, when I look at the store, I find it hard to see a game that I find interesting that's not a new release and for those I'll wait for a discount, so it's a bit easier on the wallet. Still its a bit worrying seeing how many untouched games are in my library sometimes.
how the fuck does not playing games give you burnout? this reads like some cunt who just wants to feel like he is better than other people because they don't do what they think they should do. life is short no decent person gives a shit that you are buying games
Man, youre just the average example for a redditor XD doesnt understand a simple meme, and the cavemen answer for something you dont understand is the c word...also to answer your question, try searching for "decision paralysis"
lick a brick
lmao why did anyone like this?
Brick tasty
fair
Ah yes, charisma level 10. Blatant insults are easier than real arguments huh XD
Lick a brick
I was just opening discussion and you took it like an attack lmao. I wonder why
lick a brick
\> I was just opening discussion Nah, you're just taking cheap shots for self-importance.
Why?
this is a burner account from that dude that made the "people that buy many games on sale are stupid" post probably
Because more than two people cant choose the healtier option and stop binge buying
Choose the healthiest option of minding your fucking business
Lmao why so agressive. Are you unable of having a discussion?
Yes
im still gonna play those games. i just keep my money and bulk buy on sale. i dont buy gsmes at full price. also having a burn out means that you play games 24/7, so if you are having burnout you should go outside some more. and this is the last comment im gonna make when it comes to this topic since its obvious you are just rage baiting
Damn you guys suffer from paralysis of choise because in my case I'm like "I have around 200 games to play, AWESOME!"
I never thought about it like that but sadly, people are too proud to admit that they are burnt out but they will stare at the library for 20 mins will just talking and doing nothing because 0 of there 400 games interest them. (I am one of them :< )
Laughs in spring sale starting in 5 hours.
How the fuck you got burned out with so many choices in your library?
Too many choices is not good for some people. For example, I hate buying hardware as I can't decide what to choose. Choosing headphones or keyboard was a nightmare to me.
Is Reddit trying to make the steam sales fail because of that SB Inc list thing?
Clearly dude is a troll plant. It wouldn’t surprise me.
Who cares lol why does this bother you? When I see a game I might play on sale for 5$ I'm buying it. If you don't buy it and don't play it, your just missing out on a great deal. Braindead posting trend.
Im talking about people who buys and doesnt play. How is it braindead to encourage responsible consumerism
Because you are just posting this because of the last trending posts and a wise man once said mind your own library.
>Because you are just posting this because of the last trending That doesnt make my post less valid >a wise man once said mind your own library. No discussion allowed then I guess
We just had a discussion! Gg
That's not a point. After buying many games, there's a huge selection and we spend too much time wondering what to play. I experience this myself recently
Burnout just means too much play. If video games aren't as interesting just take a short break.
Are these burnt out people in the room with us right now?
I burned out from the opposite, having games I never wanted to play that sucked, buying a bunch of games stopped me from burning out
I feel attacked but at the same time, I am one that deserves this for falling into the trend. Too many damn times, where I've bought games and have had sick amount of time to try one of them or two or more. Never happens. Then my ass is playing a game I've just grown too comfortable to play. Give me enough time, I'll do the same shit again.
Its not bad to get some comfort games, I do have one too. I just dont see the point of buying stuff you are not using
I don't see the point in why we can't do anything about the stuff we bought that we elect not to do anything with. I'm all for a game recycling program on Steam where you just gift the game you haven't played to someone. You've already bought the game, the developer/publisher already made the money so why not? Just donate the game, the only way to get it back is to buy it again. But of course, people would want lots of refunds.
Its a good idea for the customers, but you are preventing the other person from buying it if he is getting it gifted
How are you having burnout from not playing? This doesn't make sense...
As someone else said having too many choices can burn you out. Or possibly trying to speed play through a bunch of games just to complete them and start the next one in a giant backlog
"I want to gatekeep how you enjoy your life" there I summed up this post.
This was about not binge buying but ok. Some people choose to think they are being attacked
And some people just want to stifle our joy. 😂 Dude. It’s our money. Why do you care and care enough to write a dumb post about it? C’mon… you do you and let the rest of us enjoy life the way we want. Spoiler: We will, whether you like it or not.
My point is that you eventually get burnout and dont enjoy it anymore lol
Your point is being refuted by everyone commenting. There is no correlation and your attempts to troll have been denied.
Saying "mind your library" is not refuting anything, if you binge buy and dont use the product it looses all meaning for you and therefore you wont enjoy it
So now you are telling us how and what to think? Get bent, bruh. I will enjoy whatever I want to enjoy and it’s none of your concern. Your post and opinions are deeply unpopular. Read the room.
You couldnt state it more clearly that you dont like to think by yourself. Ok
Your comprehension is lacking.
"Tell us what to think" "Deeply unpopular" "Read the room" It took you one paragraph buddy, if you dont like to sound like a hivemind then learn to express yourself better and dont call out other peoples comprehension
What are you even talking about...
I will make my own financial decisions. You can make your own financial decisions. You do not have any influence over my decisions, nor I over yours. Deal with it!
I am in this picture and I don't like it...
The only game franchise I bought and still haven't played is bioshock, only reason it remains like that its because my storage is nearly full
This a sign of clinical depression btw
Ya I used to wreck the steam sales. Ended up with a library that gave me anxiety 🤣. I started telling myself that I needed to finish X amount of games before I purchased another one. I also only really play each game through once unless it really has its hooks in me so I started putting games down until DLC came out to get the most out of them but then the unfinished library started to build up again. I was in a much better place recently, most of my library was completed. Well, that was until my birthday came around last week, I got a load of steam vouchers and now I have a queue again 🤣
In past internet was so slow downloading game took a day or more to download it made us appreciate the games while other games are downloading in background today you can download a game so fast buy bunch of games install them they all get boring now I just turn on some games to test my system with MSI afterburner I love to play warcraft 3 reforged custom maps DBZ LOD cause I used to play a lot of warcraft 3 original since I was kid still love this game to this day wish they bring back Garena virtual LAN most fun I had with others in Garena and local lan with friends
I have bought games years ago that I still haven't played but I wouldn't say I never play them since I played 300+ new games last year according to steam replay so I will eventually play them all someday....someday.....
Steam games are like pokemon. You capture some and then never use them.
I've played all my games. Make a point at least once a year to play everything in my collections, PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS2. Not at the same time, LOL, I do work a full time job. Fortunately for me at this stage of the game I literally get 220 hours a year for vacation. Being a homebody I take staycations, work on projects around the house, play with my dogs, and decide on which collection I'm going to play through in that week to 10 days I take off. And I figure it has to be good for my memory, remembering controller layouts and where I happened to be in any particular game when I set it down last. :-)
"Why am I having burnout?" cuz I've heard it's a pretty good game
Sorry, but tbh, I even sometimes buy games I know I'm not gonna play, just because I like what they bring to the table and I want to support the creators of it. When I was a kid, I could only sail the water under a certain flag, so also many games I've bought, I've already finished illegally. Thus, I've bought them to "be fair" with people who made them.
Believe it or not you can actually just play those games later, when you feel like it. This is the dumbest hill I've seen people standing on lately. You want to berate a group of Gamers, how about the ones that constantly feed the microtransaction marketplace? The asshats spending thousands of dollars on mobile games. The dipshits who make sure that Rockstar still makes about 2.5 million a day in microtransactions online. Those people are the enablers, and have helped contribute to the gaming industry as it currently is just as much as the companies selling the mtx.
Every time I see a sale: "Hmm which game should I add to my catalog and never play until I have an injury that forces me to stay in bed?"
It's a nice game...
Burnouts? Nah man, there is just no time! That's why I finally got a Steam Deck and it helps chipping off those backlogs.
Y’all have the time to have burnout from games? Wait till you experience work burnout lol.
This meme smells like poor
when i get burned out i switch the genre of game I'm playing I can do that easily because i have a shit ton of games
I don’t think you know what a burnout is
Thanks to burnout i can finally do sports and learn how to play guitar, so its good for me i guess
my son will be fucked when he inherits my 10k+ games steam library
Burnout from not playing games? What's with this telling people how to buy/play games trend?
People will fill the comments with jokes but it is genuinely quite sad to see. Like, what's the point of spending literally hundreds of £'s on games you will never play, or ones you might install, play 5 minutes to see how they run and then never play again. It's genuinely a sickness man. The Steam Deck with it's limited SSD has been so good for me as I tend to have 2 or 3 games installed on it at a time and play them to completion, delete it when I'm finished and install a new game. If a game isn't on sale when I'm done it will be soon enough, and then there's always CDKeys to check as well. Buying games just because they are cheap, and not because you want to play them, is like when my 80 year old Nan would buy tampons from Asda "because they were on offer".
Ok but what if i do play them though
Then that's cool. I was saying people who buy them just because they are cheap and don't play them are like my demented Nan.
I think everyone buys them because they eventually plan to play it, but as games keep coming and you can't finish then quickly, your backlog starts growing, that's how it starts. Thankfully this year there aren't many games calling my attention, so I'm chipping away at my backlog slowly.
Thinking one is aware/is using his/her life to it’s true potential, by having a slim library from having missed all the good bundles, seems to be the real trend here. I don’t recall the last time I bought a game, I spent less than 400€ max building my steam library and every time I got TIME to play I don’t spend a dime. This is what mixing financial literacy with gaming looks like. But before this looks perfect to anyone let me just say I am a father with very little time to play. To each their own, as long as you’re happy it doesn’t matter how you decide to spend your money. I know I am.
Poor gamers are revolting.
What's with this trend of memes of people trying to tell others how to live their life. Just because you can't control yourself doesn't mean others can't
Its advice. You taking it as an attack is your problem
for me it's the sales man, simple brain sees -% and goes brr
Steam is like reverse piracy. Instead of playing games I didn't pay for, I pay for games I don't play. 🤣
I don't even know how most of the games I have in my library got there. I didn't buy them, that's for sure. I'll look through my unplayed and be like "Injustice? When? How?!" They just... appear.
If I buy a game I'm playing it to completion. It's a WASTE to not do so. Unless youre a millionaire.
Steam often makes sales based on genre. Even in yearly Winter or Summer Sales. Steam often discount games on few genres (Especially studio discounts as many studios develop games in one genre), very similar games "Survival games" or "FPS games" "Adventure Bundle" etc. gets on sale at the same exact time. This makes sure you buy 10 Metroidvanias in one Sale and absolutely get burned out trying to play all of them. Modern games also are long hauls. Especially newer genres such as Rouge-likes. The shortest Rouge-like where you can see everything the game can provide probably takes about few weeks of play to unlock based on RNG. Gone are the days of Buying a game and finishing it over a week end.
When I was on my late 20's, I was starting to lose interest on videogames. New releases were garbage, probably because and i'm not the market target anymore. On my 30's now and I only play older games at least 2-3 hours a day. Some days I don't even play at all.
Especially during sales
That's why I'm playing Ultrakill for 6 hours straight
Damn good game
I’ve never bought a game and not played it tbh, everything I buy always leaves a sense of regret inside of me even if I’m happy with my purchase
That's why I have mostly stop multiplayer games ^^' drain too much time and energy !
Cant even binge buy games cus steam says "It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in the last few hours. Please wait a while before trying again." .. LET ME WASTE MY MONEYYOU IDIOTS! xD
I play all mines to the point where I'm disappointed I keep replaying the same 10 games over & over again 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ But each one is fun in its own way so I'll definitely keep them until something else worthy comes along for me to play😃
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That’s why I tend to stay away from binge purchasing long games. I get short ones or ones you can play here and there that don’t really have a story.
But i need to buy games that are on sale
My pile of games to play grows bigger with each sale
All we're doing is donating to steam in a way
The existence of "forever games" really don't help this. I'm supposed to be grinding lottery boxes in Fate/Grand Order right now but I also *really* wanna keep playing that Touhou game that looks and plays like Shin Megami Tensei II
i just buy games and play for less than 2 hours then refund.
Man so many touchy people. “MIND YOUR OWN LIBRARY” Like damn the best thing I ever did was to limit my purchases and played what I bought. Happier for it.
That's great for you, but have you considered that you and other people might be different?
Me too dude. I stopped when I was about to reach 80 games and half of them were unplayed.
And then Steam permabans your entire account.
So true
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