How obligated do you feel to play your games?

Very, at least for the games I got intentionally; incidentals like crap bundle games or random keys I was sent not so much. For all the games I actually wanted and at one point had the intention of playing, it nags at me that I've left so many untouched. I do plan to get to them eventually--like those growing lists of books, movies, TV, etc.--but at present my painfully short attention span is something of a deterrent.

"One day," I keep telling myself.

I'm almost obsessive about playing and finishing everything I buy, but multiplayer games (enormous time sink) often get in the way.

I don't feel guilty if I don't play them right away.

I don't really feel guilty at all if I don't play a game. I frequently play a game for a few minutes and then toss it aside. I think most games looks interesting enough to try but I'm very quick to decide that they suck. There's so many great games available that there's no sense in playing a game for several hours waiting for it to get good. If it's not good in the beginning I see no reason to extend my suffering.

I feel so guilty and even anxious sometimes, however I keep buying things. Also I keep wasting time in things like DOTA. CS:GO, TF2 and such.

Not at all. If I don't like a game I'll just drop it, even if I payed full price. But then again, I carefully consider what games I buy.

I can't let games go to waste...unless it's Bad Rats.

I'm pretty laid back about it, probably since I've collected games since I was a kid and got used to having more games than I could possibly play. Doesn't bother me at all to see all those games waiting, and actually, I like having that many; with so much at my fingertips, I can jump from game to game based on my mood.

If I win a game or someone gives me one as a gift, however, I do feel like I have HAVE to play it and dump aside whatever I'm playing to give it a shot.

i play only what i like to play, other way it's a wasting of time. if i get bored in long term, i will delete that game

I never start too many games at once because I like to finish games.
Though now my backlog is so big if I don't like a game I decide to drop it and move on. (Though I've only dropped one game really.)

I sometimes get overwhelmed at what I wanna play, so I play nothing or I play Garry's Mod(not sure why.)

I feel obligated to start a game, if i do not like it i will most likely not play it again unless certain circumstances come up.

I only feel obligated to play a game i don't enjoy that much for 1 hour , after that , uninstall and never play it again.

I don't play games.

"I've always had this unrealistic ideology that for how much I spent on a game, I'd like to get an hour per $1"

Same here. Main reason I dont want console games - overpriced ($70-100) with no discounts even if its already years after release = standart situation in Russia. Plus this is why I dont want 3-4 hours singleplayer campaign games for $60.

I'm terrible for this too. I tend to either play games a lot, or play them for half an hour and forget them. And then there's the pile of games I've bought but haven't even tried. I tend to want games a lot, then when I get them I never feel in the mood to play them.. I feel especially terrible about this after Steam has seasonal sales. Every time I get holidays I tell myself I'll play all those games, but I never do.. lately I'm too poor to be spending the little money I have on entertainment so I'm taking the opportunity to get stuck into them. The amount of times I've neglected a game and then played it ages later, loved it and thought 'Why the hell didn't I play this sooner?!' is too high to count.

If i buy them myself i dont really care whether i like them or not, if i win it i try to play it asap.

o_O ...are you me?! Seriously sounds like something that would come from my fingertips especially the $1 per hour expectation of entertainment value. I really try to show restraint when buying games for myself nowadays but for some reason I cannot pass up what I believe to be a smokin' deal regardless of my ever growing limited time to play this or that.

I usually try to find the time when I can to play. I try to work through one at a time usually. Sometimes during a steam sale ill grab a game and just wont have time to play it for months.

and I never feel obligated once I stop having fun.

Well, I´m pretty much the same as you.. I feel very obligated to play all my games, but still the backlog keeps growing and growing.. for me it would be okay if there where just NO new game-releases for about 5 years or so xD

Pro: I have a huge libary and play whatever I feel like.. and I dont have to pay much money for my games anymore. Because I don´t have to rush anything, I can get most of the games in nice trades with TF2-Items etc, I buy some of them for "almost nothing" on the sales at steam and I win a few from the nice people at SG (I try to prioritize the games I´ve won, because I´d feel like a leecher otherwise).

Con: I really have to give up on my long sustained goal of "having played everything worth remembering"..

I dont feel obligated to play my games, but i feel bad that im not that interested on the most of the games that i bought. And the thing is that when i bought them i was pretty sure that i wanted to play them.

And ofcourse ive spent more time on my free to play games rather than the ones i payed for.Especially Dota 2, even though after almost every game i m one click away from deleting that damn game, but i never do.
I have some serious issues.

I've never been obsessed with finished games, even when I played them. These days I play very little, but I still buy games occasionally.

I try to at least play the games I buy, but I don't beat myself up over it if I take a long time to finish them. There's no rush; I'll get to them when I get to them.

...which probably won't be for a while since I have ADHD when it comes to games. Unless it's a game I absolutely love, I'll get distracted by another game within the week. Which explains why I'm currently playing a game that's 5 years old, and another that's 8. Ah well!

Several years ago I was kinda proud of the fact, that I finished every game that I had. Then Steam came along. And then Indie Bundles ...

So yeah, I started buying games I liked, but somehow didn't start playing them . One day I realized it had to stop, so I assembled a list with every game I owned, that I didn't finish yet (or even started, for that matter). Then I saw that the list was way too long and I removed games I knew I would never play (mostly bundle games). This left me with still about 20 games on the list.

Although I've only worked myself through some of these games, just the very existance of that list has hold me back from getting some new games, that were on sales at that time. I think it was a good idea.

I try to play every game atleast a few minutes.... some I play for hours, some never make it past the first 15 minutes.
Some I play for hours and keep going back too....
I won't buy games at full price anymore, was too many letdowns in the past year or two.

I don't have a backlog. Yay.