Why do I play all these games? Because it’s important that they’re played.

Because every game is a story, a world, a moment in time crafted by someone who cared enough to create it.

Because each one teaches me something new—about design, about culture, about myself.

Because in a sea of pixels, there’s magic waiting to be found.

And because, honestly? Sometimes I just want to escape, explore, and lose myself in different worlds.

So yeah. I own thousands of games, and I’ll keep playing them.

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    The comments of this thread give off major Reddit energy. Sure the post is a little fedora-lordish but why not add meaningful input by discussing the value of games and their stories like the post suggests, rather than bashing a stranger for no reason other than hypercriticalism?

    It’s not a crime to enjoy something. Just because someone has a differing view does not make it a wrong view. And honestly if I get downvoted, it kinda proves that lemmings just critisize others and hate when someone is critical of them. Hypocrisy at its finest.

    I too have chosen to spend a good chunk of my money on games, and came to, you know the “games” lemmy instance, to talk about them. That’s not hyper-consumerism, its me finding happiness in a world where there’s not much to be happy about. Like op said, it’s a way to escape, explore, and lose yourself.

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    Why do I play all these games? Because it’s important that they’re played.

    Well, evidently not since you’re actively ignoring about 77% of them 😂 And who boasts about their hyperconsumerism on fucking Lemmy of all platforms 😂

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        Come on, none of us will ever play all their games. I’d bet around 2000 of my games on steam are some free keys or other incredibly cheap shit I wouldn’t touch with a 10m-pole. If I’d ever find them again in the library, that is.

        But I admire your positivity and optimism 😁

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            Playing for an hour to see how shitty it is? Or actually bought to enjoy for manymany hours, as intended? Thought so 😁 For us peeps with way more than a few k games, 20% actually been played would be already the big numbers I’d guess.

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            Hmm sounds suspiciously like one of those sane people who buy a game and then have thousands of hours of fun with it. Get outta here 😁

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    I actually own

    The funny thing is, you don’t own them.

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      But the vast majority can be played without steam. Mostly by force coughcough but still. I know, still no legal ownership.

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      Say what you will, every game I’ve bought—I can still play. And I’ve been buying Steam games for over a decade.

      Meanwhile, none of my GameCube discs work on my Switch.

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        You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin

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          While you’re not wrong, but by that logic, it’s actually fairly trivial to take my Steam downloads drive and run it on any computer even without my Steam account.

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        You can still play it but increasingly games are becoming very different from what you bought.

        I’ve started noticing a disturbing trend. More and more games that are older being sold at steep discounts or “free to play” and simultaneously jampacked with invasive telemetry and/or ads/microtransactions. And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.

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          That is what firewalls and sinkholes are for. Stupid telemetry.

          Yet I never noticed such a “trend” in direct combination with steam. The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.

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          Out of the thousands of games I have, not once have I noticed anything like you describe.

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            Oh well if you haven’t experienced it, it must not exist then 🤷

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                The most recent ones I’ve noticed are Riders Republic and Borderlands 2. Helldivers also introduced a bunch of new microtransactions years after it’s launch.

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                  And what there is steam’s doing? Borderland’s a greedy IP from a greedy company. What do you expect?

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                  I have to say I never played those. Do these microtransactions lock content that was previously available out of the box?

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      Unapologetically, I’m a non-completionist.

      Only complete the games you’re compelled to complete.

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      A few thousand dollars.

      Never bought a single game at full price. Almost all the time, it’s at least 90% off. Lots of game bundles abound. And free games are given away all the time.

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    Did you finish all of them? Or at least play them for an hour? If you’re using steam for 20 years, that’s a game a day.

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      I definitely don’t complete all of them. My goal is to at least play an hour each, but not every game is worth an hour.

      The most time I’ve ever spent on a game is around 100 hours.

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    Oh sorry sir you are not playing these games on a phone or tablet platform therefore you are not really playing true games, you are only consuming mindless entertainment.

    You’re really busy posting on the internet for someone that has 7.000+ games to play with 77% of them in backlog, and a family to spend time with.