What is your view about steam game collectors?

Games are a form of art and with art comes collectors.

Well, Who really gives a fuck? XD as long as they buy it right?

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Sorry, I may be a little pissed right now. Merry Christmas. Edited for formatting.

If we're talking here on SG it kinda bothers me.
I don't see what's the point in entering for a game you'd never play, but then again lots of people enter for games they'll never play and some even trade/re-gift them away. If you're saving up for a PC that's understandable.

In general? Don't really have a problem with it since it's their money. Collecting games on Steam will never be cool as collecting physical games though.

I have no right to judge; I own 750 games, and I've probably only even downloaded half of them. Fortunately, I have a brother who plays a ton of stuff from my library using Steam Family Sharing, so I don't feel too terrible. If I win a game, I put it at (or near) the top of my "to play" list.

Let them collect if they want to, none of my business.

I'm in the same boat!!

The thing is, you tell yourself that it's for "one day"
One day, I have all the games I want + the pc I want so problem solved.
Think again, the numbers of games around is increasing very fast, and now with that greenlight thingy it's not even hard to publish one.
"One day, imma play those games soooo bad!!" but chances are that you won't even touch half of the games in your library.
Time is not on your side either. You will have less and less time to play them due to family and work.
I'm sure many of the games in your library are well playable on your current pc. Face it, you like collecting games more than playing them. Alot of us do... Like me.

Does it bother you if someone collects Barbie dolls and keeps them in the original packaging?

Myself, I first used steam back when Counter-strike made the jump from 1.5 to 1.6 on the steam platform; back then there was not even a thought about what steam has now become. When it was being beta'd, I absolutely hated it because it was different and it was just so buggy. I got used to CS on the steam platform but never batted an eye at anything else and uninstalled the software around 2005.

I came back to steam a little more than 3 months ago and I was completely amazed as to how big and robust it had grown; the friends, steam store, community, everything was so overwhelming.

Now, I find myself stockpiling games because my computer is too outdated to play a lot of the newer titles. Rather than spending money on cheap games, I should be saving said money for new parts.

Steam is convenient, and that's what I think a lot of people like about it; you don't need to fuss around with discs or go looking for them when you want to install a game. I'm sure everybody has there reasons to like or dislike it. I don't care for cloud stuff because my internet is pretty slow compared to the rest of the world, but it's convenient having everything in one place without having to worry about where to keep it.

Long story back on topic and shortened, I personally like to collect games, because I know I will eventually get around to play them. Still haven't touched MGS4 and I bought it on launch.

I'm pretty sure most of us do this to some extent. I know my library is full of unplayed (or barely played, or idled for cards) titles that I bought for "some day". My rational is always the same - I may not want to play it now, but someday I surely will and it's really cheap now! Hell I've never even run half the games I own, although a lot of those are bundle games I didn't really want in the first place.

I'm getting better though. I feel like there's a natural progression for the steam junkie where for awhile you buy pretty much anything if it's cheap enough, but as the backlog grows it's only natural to get pickier. Now I rarely buy a game that won't be going straight to the front of the queue, and I've skipped a lot of bundles.

As long as I have the money, I have the right to buy whatever I want.

And actually the true price of a game = the retail price + hours spent on it x your hourly wage

Instead of spending 200 hours on a game, you could have earned 1000 ~ 2000 dollars at least (depending on your region and profession). Many people play over 30 hours of video games a week, which translates into 1500 hours annually. We are talking about $7500 to $15000 of potential income lost.

The whole Steam collection, if bought during sales and bundles, costs less than $15,000. So basically I just need to working fxxking hard for a year to be a collector. Playing or not is a personal choice. I myself would prefer to work and earn more.

In fact, I strongly believe that people from developing countries (no offense, my country China is also a developing country) should not play as much game as those from the West. The difference between developed and developing means they have done their work and we have yet to do ours. So when I see some South Americans, South-east Asians and Eastern Europeans play 30 hours of video games a week, I can't help but feel sorry for them and their countries.

don't hate me D:

It's quite stupid, since it's a subscription, not physical.

You bought a game? Play it. How you can. When you can. Else, it's a disrespect to the developers and publishers.

I still need to play tons of games and considering I love to 100% games, I don't have enough time in my lifetime to play them all. But I try my best.

I'm not a collector by choice. I have a lot of games that I've bought simply because they were very cheap and I just haven't gotten around to playing them yet. Add into that bundles and its insane how quickly (Ive been a regular Steam user for about a year) my collection has grown. I decided to switch over to PC exclusively around this time last year and have also picked up games that I really enjoyed on console to have their PC cousins available. Its almost entirely due to these bastard sales, altho I havent really had a lot of luck this sale yet. I spent about $300 during summer sale, and haven't even spent 10% of that yet.

I wonder when steam (or valve) go bankrupt, will the service be unavaliable and some people kill themselves?

Of course, most of us will live longer than steam :3

What can I say? Games pile up faster than you can play them, especially when you have a shitty computer.

I never buy games just because 'they are on sale', but when I buy a game I want from a bundle, it usually comes with 3 or more games, which remain on my library without being touched (and I buy it from a bundle because, well, it's cheaper). Now (some months ago) I started activating just the game I want and keep the others for trading, I dont need more games I wont play on my library.

I play a ton of games but I just have more than an human being can handle.

I know I am somewhat that way, though I only buy a game or enter a giveaway for a game I am genuinely interested in playing, it's just that I don't have time to play them all. It's definitely a habit that came from playing console games for so long because eventually those games go out of print and become hard to obtain (especially if you like the more obscure or niche games that got limited print runs), so I feel a need to buy a game I'm interested in while the price is right and it can be bought. It's just difficult to get out of that mindset entirely and because of that my backlog keeps on growing faster than I can play games.

But truly, the number of games I've won is nothing compared to what I've bought and I've given more games than won. I'd not think poorly of someone who hasn't played a lot of their games as long as they are interested in playing the games and are giving back to the community as well. That and not whining about not winning giveaways.

People collect all sort of things, so it comes with no surprise that people also collect games, but at the same time, I think it's pretty dumb to collect games on Steam purly for collecting, I collect games on Steam because I also plan to play them, and as a product I'm gonna use and not just collect, I prefer it to be on Steam purly for the comfort of use, but for someone who doesn't play games, Steam has only disadvantages and absolutly no advatages. Unless the person wnats to collect games specificlly as a Steam library collection.

Well, i don't really care what you do with your games, but just collecting them to show off is a waste. Games are meant to be played, and not collected.

lol @ anyone giving a fuck about what others think.

whether you collect, play, or rub steam games on your titties, it truly does not matter.

I'm waiting on playing a lot of games until I upgrade to a better computer; many of my games play badly or won't run at all on my current box. A lot of games also got backlogged because I didn't have a controller, too, and I didn't like playing them on keyboard. I also tend to be cyclical on types of games I want to play at any given time, but I know I will really like them in the future, so I will shop for them in advance.

I ended up with some games I didn't want to play from bundle sites -- earlier on I didn't realize that it was okay on some bundles to give away unwanted keys, so I activated all of them, and there are some bundles which disallow giveaways even if you have duplicates. I'm glad Humble changed it so you can gift duplicates.

Not only i sometimes buy games that my computer can't play, I even buy games i KNOW i won't be play (Like old games GTA 1/Duke nukem 1/Doom 1) for just the sake of having the complete collections.

So i think it's normal, or we both need professional help.