You’ve got a lot of nerve being right
A bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly?
So… pirates?
Hey…
Fuck you
Are non-Steam gamers not also hoarders? Because if they are, that whole argument falls apart.
I don’t think I’ve spent a dime on Epic but have a nice little collection going there. I have spent a reasonable amount at GoG and have a nice collection there, too.
I know plenty of console gamers who buy physical copies of newest releases, complete them and sell them on local Craigslist equivalent. They hold a handful of games at most. Not really possible on PC anymore.
I have a friend who buys every single console game released and never plays any of them. Physical copies georg is an outlier and should not be counted
Not to the same degree.
My wall of shelves loaded with board games says otherwise…
When I say to the same degree I’m not saying there aren’t people with thousands of games elsewhere. I’m saying there are more of them on Steam and they tend to collect higher amounts of games on average.
Board game enthusiasts don’t always have thousands of board games, most console gaming enthusiasts don’t have giant walls of games lining their house, etc.
That said, I don’t have sources to cite here other than my personal interactions with other steam users on social media and my steam friends list number of games. I could be wrong as this isn’t hard data but I’d bet money I’m correct though if there was a way to verify the comparison.
Could that just be due to the fact that things like humble bundle would give 10+ games a month for like 20$? Or the amount of sales that steam has allowing you to get another another 10 - 20 games for 50$, or the price of a board game?
If Nintendo, still epic, or Xbox had sales of this magnitude I’m certain you would see significantly more “hoarding” there as well
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t really compare to other collectors. My wife’s bookshelves are full of a much higher cost library than my Steam library could ever hope to achieve, and many of them are still on her “TBR” list. She’ll also never read those physical copies, so she’s buying them twice so she can read them on her Kindle or listen on Audible.
He doesn’t consider game bundles like e.g. humble bundle. There you can get loads of steam games which you might activate but only play a few from.
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Digital hoarding is a mental disorder same as any other form of hoarding.
Buying an indie platformer that you might not play is not anywhere close to actual IRL hording. And it’s not even what is being described as digital hording in that article from UCLA.
It’s straight up irresponsible to compare it to an actual hording mental disorder. Like, you must not have ever experienced that in any capacity to think that.
Although, surely digital horders have some cross over. But the prevalence of people not playing a game they bought on discount ain’t it fam.
Completely agree. I think maybe digital hoarding can be real when it gets to the point where people are buying excessively to the point that they cannot afford it, but hoarding disorder would typically be associated with physical goods that are cluttering your space to dysfunctional levels.
