Why do you collect?

Why not?

All I collect are world conquests in strategy games and god-like status in RPGs.

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I only get (and try to win) games that I intended to play sooner or later. But all the $1 bundles with cards that can actually give you profit then why not hey :3

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i love to collect because in the end steam is like pokemon, you try to catch them all but end up using the same 6, so if i did so in pokemon why not here =p?

Because I'm an attention whore who likes to see peoples reactions (who do not know anything about steam) seeing the amount of junk games I own. I also used to buy bundles just to fullfill my attention whorish disease but money started to get tight.

I wouldn't call that net loss. 90% of my games are bundle trash I'm buying via group buys on IG and alike, every game costs around 0.10$ if not less, it just adds up. My first alt has over 238 games by now, all free, so there is also many games that simply popped up in the meantime.

I like to collect games, I never had enough when I was a child, so I'm filling my childhood dreams of having big library of games to play. When you add to all of that steam cards and other goodies, you will soon find out that while you're not "gaining" anything on those games, you're definitely not losing much, as bundle addiction is much cheaper than smoking or drinking, at least in my case of spending maybe 10$ per month max.

I'm very rarily buying games that are not 0.10$ though, and 90% of those buys are for giveaways. This is also what is a bit misleading - you see 4500 games, but you don't really know that 4000 is bundle trash I got on -99% discount. Big number, I know, but when you divide that by actual money I spent on that, you get 400$ across 3-4 years. That's not much.

I've collected video games throughout my life. Just makes sense I'd do it digitally.

I don't. I just activate/enter gibs/accept gifts on my account of games that I'm really interested to play... even remotely.
I only have one exception: free games or very cheap games that have cards. the rest surely goes for gibs.

To see if I could handle any game genre no matter how bad or good by completing them.

Bump and meow. I think I'm addicted.

I kind of mix the things.
Generally I "collect" games that I enjoyed playing, looks like I'll like or, or I'm really interested in them. So far sounds like every normal player, but I'm interested in a little too many genres, so the pile started. :)
At some times I just go "omg cards" and I buy a shitty bundle, or one of those Steam bundles that costs 9 cents because it will make a profit, so why not, right? Another time I just despise that I activated a free, similarly bad game from IG (because it doesn't give cards)
I try to play my games, at least quite the majority of it, but mood swings and attention disorder makes any kind of organization really hard, as some free to play games (LoL, paladins) are too accessible and easy to play - I try to spend more time on proper games and less on playing just the same out of repetition.

I like video games. I enjoy playing a variety of games and I normally don't care about quality. I enjoy playing shitty games because then when I play average or games that aren't really good, but aren't bad, they feel like really good games. I put myself through some absolutely garbage games, but at this point the main thing that bothers me are poor controls.

To have games for when I can't buy them anymore, probably.

Or maybe because I like wasting money.

Straight off the bat, I want to say, there is nothing wrong with this at all I'm just curious.

Personally, I find it wrong if they also join giveaways for just +1s.

I don't really know, i begun to collect Games since i am on SG. Its so addicted. but i have my goal to 1000 Games now and stopped that :)

Edit : ok i don't stop, but its not like it was in the beginning.
And like MaxThunder said, maybe for the Time when i have no more money, then i have much games to play haha :)

As many already said, this is a cheap hobby. Also I'm fulfilling my childhood dream of having a bunch of games. I probably won't be able to play them all, but knowing that I own more games that I can play is not something necesarilly bad in my mind, just kinda impractical.
I spend between $10 to $15 per month so it's actually less that what I spend on hardware each year. Hear me rationalize my addiction like a proper addict does. At least my addiction can't kill me... I think.

I intend to play the games I collect. Unfortunately, we've seen too many games get pulled from sale due to licensing, etc. Therefore, I buy now and play much, much later. Also, it's fun hunting sales

I try not to buy junk junk games that I'll never play just for +1 unless I can break even or profit from the cards. It's true collecting these games are a cheap hobby, especially if you only buy bundle games that are worth it or cheap. Collecting is addictive... it's like bargain shopping.

It's the games that I "think" I'll play but not have enough time to play all of them while collecting more games that I end up staring at in my library!

I like playing games, so I grab the games I'd want to play... even if I don't have enough time to play them
I'm also a completionist, so if I have, say, 3 games of a series that has 4, I want the 4th game too. Or if a game has DLC, me want!

I also grab free games so I can farm them for Profitz, but those are hidden in my library and I pretend I don't have them.

While I may or may not play every game in my library, I only add games to my library that I would like to play, with the exception being a couple of odd ones from unnamed key dumps. I like the option to play games that interest me. At some point, I may be more interested in a certain title than another and it is nice to have the option to play a game I like when I am in the mood to play it. That being said, the main reason I haven't played through more of my backlog is time.

I'm just tired of playing games, now I collect them

I do not collect games/cards or anything of that sort..in general. Thou in past few years my steam library grew exponentially ( still very small compared to some of the people here ) . Two main reasons i guess was discovering bundles ( yes before like year or two ago i didint know about them and was only buying on steam sales ) and joining SG. At first i had bad habit of just entering everything and that filled my library with some trash games. Now i'm more aware of what i'm entering thou from time to time i still enter some trash games and then regret even clicking on that 'enter giveaway' button :D

I used to collect Steam profile backgrounds, but I am still looking for something else.