topic Re: The Steam Pile of Shame in Gaming

The Steam Pile of Shame

jaread83 — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:07:45 GMT

This doesn't apply to just steam but more of the way that gaming has gone by providing online shops to buy bundles of games or take advantage of those tasty 90% off games you see these days. I buy games from Steam, Bundlestars and Humble Bundle and my digital collection has become very bloated.

Over the years I have bought hundreds of games on PC and have probably played about a quarter of them for more than a few hours. I got a lot of games that I would buy but then never play or I would play for 10 minutes and simply say 'meh' and never return.

Do you have a pile of shame? Are there any games in your pile that you'd like to give more time but simply have better things to play? These games are the ones I own and really want to play but know I don't have time:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pritviat
Project Zomboid
Dying Light
Sleeping Dogs
Saints Row 4
Bastion
Pokemon Yellow (3DS)

The list goes on and on but those are a handful of the games I really want to get into but can't find the time or just go back to my default (BF4 or Trackmania 2).

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

tokey — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:13:47 GMT

This is a terrible terrible subject!!! Steam calculator really shines a light on how bad it is:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

Most shameful for me is that I currently have 34% unplayed and only about 15% higher than 12 hours play time...

Most notable games on the list that I have bought and not got to:

Fallout 3+4

Skyrim

The Walking Dead

Hitman Blood Money

Bioshock

Mass Effect

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

jaread83 — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:39:57 GMT

Fallout 4 is the same for me too. I think I played about 4 hours then decided to spend 8 hours modding it before I got bored. I think the boredom came as soon as the town creation stuff kicked in and I just lost the will to play anymore.

Skyrim on the other hand... i have put about 300 hours into that but haven't even touched the DLC stuff yet.

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

tokey — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:57:58 GMT

On the other side of the coin I have over 900 hours in Crusader Kings 2?

Oh wait, that might be shame too....

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

HarryB — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:15:31 GMT

@tokey wrote:

This is a terrible terrible subject!!! Steam calculator really shines a light on how bad it is:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

Most shameful for me is that I currently have 34% unplayed and only about 15% higher than 12 hours play time...

I have 64% unplayed games

I blame all the tempting humble bundles that I've bought just because it works out cheaper to get the bundle than it would to buy 1 or 2 of the games I wanted from it

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

jaread83 — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:30:15 GMT

@tokey wrote:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

Bit of an eye opener. Out of my 341 games owned I have 114 games that I have never ever played (34%).

Now I feel sad.

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

twocvbloke — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:05:00 GMT

Games I've bought through steam:

American Truck Simulator

Euro Truck Simulator 2

GTA 4

GTA Episodes from Liberty City (TLAD & TBOGT)

Kerbal Space Program

Prison Architect

Unturned

The least played is actually Kerbal, followed by EFLC, the rest (excluding ATS as it's fairly new) all have at least 70+ hours since buying...

I just don't buy tonnes of games in the hopes of finding something decent, I let others do that and I pick the best of the bunch...

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

tokey — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:12:39 GMT

Steam sales, key site and humble bundles are all too tempting though....

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

Chris — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:04:00 GMT

213 Games owned

105 Games not played

49% Games not played

10 games with more than 100 hours played, with 3 having more than 500 hours put in.

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

MattyC — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:34:18 GMT

I've played 100% of my games!

My library might be a bit underwhelming to some though:

Looks like I'm slacking this year

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

HairyMcbiker — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:42:31 GMT

@tokey
Fallout 3+4 & Skyrim are some of my most played games!
Played Bioshock & ME to the end, not played the rest

But yes I to have a load of never played games, but I bought them as free for the game I wanted on Bundlestars or Humble bundles.

My most played game is Civilisation V, knocked up many 1000's of hours there ;-(

But my "played" stats are skewed since I use idlemaster to get key drops from the free games. So a lot show upto 4 hours "playing" when I have never touched them, I hate sideways scrolling and platform games, preferring rpg & action ones.

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

tokey — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:39:07 GMT

They are all games I know I will enjoy @HairyMcbiker but never get the time to sit down and play

I have used idlemaster in the past too

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

bobpullen — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:24:11 GMT

210 owned, 59% unplayed

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

St3 — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:20:08 GMT

ive got about 15 games ive never got round to playing, most of them from steam sales

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

tokey — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:48:01 GMT

There is quite a trend of people with large amounts of unplayed games... I wonder how sustainable in the long term this will be for the gaming market...

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

dlloyd — Thu, 12 May 2016 06:14:23 GMT

Hello friends,

I'm a very bad example of this situation I'm afraid.

828.1 Hours on record

3,507 Games owned

3,348 Games not played

95% Games not played

I have a serious Steam Shame Pile.

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

tokey — Thu, 12 May 2016 07:31:34 GMT

Good god!

How have you ended up with so many games and played so few?

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

jaread83 — Thu, 12 May 2016 07:56:03 GMT

Wow @dlloyd, that is impressive!

Makes me feel better about my pile of shame haha.

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

beejh — Thu, 12 May 2016 09:06:00 GMT

I kinda feel like I may be a bad person:

388 Games owned

249 Games not played

64% Games not played

Re: The Steam Pile of Shame

dlloyd — Thu, 12 May 2016 09:23:50 GMT

I like a good deal, lots of bundles and not really having any other hobbies.

In terms of not playing them? Poor time management in regards to just sitting down and playing something.