Am I a game collector?
You are doomed. Sorry mate, it's all downhill from now on.
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Good thing you haven't discovered Indiegala, Groupees, DIG, etc. yet.
Oops.
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Actually, shortly after joining SG I did learn about indie gala. And I just remembered I I knew about flying bundle too.....
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................. Groupees you say?
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Evil as in actually bad business practices? Or just evil as in "10 games for $3?! I can't NOT buy!"
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As the later one. Lot of games, rather affordable bundle prices.
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Unfortunatly it has a lot of great deals. I've fallen for it many times. And it is not just bundled games. They also have sales / bundles from more expensive games for a very good price...
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Nah, you're fine, when you cross 1000, then you can start worrying ;-)
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yep. you touch yourself at night and that's why we are all gonna die!
(being a lil hazy on cause effect n relations)
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It is possible to stop. I went to over 200 relatively fast, then I decided to stop buying stuff. Simple as that. Then I started to play the games I didn't touch until then. Since then my unplayed ratio went under 15%.
Although I did re-evaluate my library and ask Steam support to remove about 25 titles I knew I will never actually play to the end, just got them in the heat of the moment.
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Thanks for the support :) I have been trying to play a bit more recently but I've also been spending a lot of time caught up in the thrill of acquisition via trade. I just want to get rid of the keys I don't want, then I'll focus more on playing. I've also been thinking a lot more critically about buying bundles. Last one I bought was "Worlds Apart" on the 4th. But the current indie gala hump day bundle has been increasingly hard to resist.
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Start managing your keys. Don't add them to your account, collect them to a "For myself" list, then add them after you have played what you wanted from your current backlog.
As for bundles, separate them to "for myself", "for trade", and "to give away" lists. If you want only 1-2 games, give away or trade with the rest. Trade for cards, money, gems, or– if you dare to go into this deep into Steam trading– CS:GO/TF2 keys to store them as currency. I'm a card collector for no other reasons than collecting them, but only for those game that I played through entirely. I have acquired quite a few cards by trading for them from leftover bundle key stock, but I also have managed to sell expired bundles for money. (It is super rare though, mostly HB tier 3 packs can reach this demand.)
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actually, I do have a "for myself" list that I'm waiting to activate until I've played more games. Great idea! (also keeps my husband from getting on my case too much about the have vs played ratio.) I've slowed down on buying bundles, as I said, I haven't bought any in 10 days. But I like you're organization idea and I'll definitely keep it in mind. You are totally whitelisted, my friend.
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Hate to tell you, but sounds like you are doomed. You = me ~ 9 months ago. I'm at almost 1300 games right now...
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There is barter.vg for easier trading for games you like
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I'll call your parents...
I'm sorry we failed you.
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I still regret the day I decided to get a Paypal account so I could buy a Humble Bundle. Since then (about two months ago or something) my library has grown with about 100 games and I've given away some keys as well (also still have a pretty big list I still need to give away).
TL:DR you're doomed.
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I have a good news and bad news.
Good news- you are not collector like me
Bad news- you are doomed. Sorry for truth :P
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Well I started buying Steam games a bit over a year ago, I now have 720 games and 615 wishlisted. I still don't consider myself a collector since there are a lot of games I don't want in my library ever. There are several users here who have 4000+ games ^^
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there aren't 10K games on Steam?
I am disappoint, Lord Gaben
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If your games came only from bundles then you are not really a game collector, just addicted to bundles :)
When you start to buy 200-400 games from steam sales, then you'll be a game collector and I tell you, STAHP NAO!
(sadly I stopped because trading died so I had no money to keep buying =/)
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I wouldn't count myself as a game collector even at my current standing or 1230ish. (JESUS) - besides keydrops, and early, foolish wins ( Dived into Bundle Quest, gave a lot, took a lot that was intresting at any level) they are games I wanted to have, so ... I'm just a busy player? :P As long as you're not hoarding unwanted games only because they are cheap, I think you're fine. Or if you'd be a collector - nothing wrong in it.
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What are you talking about?!
Look at this http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198095881443/badges/13
I'm a hero, you want to be a hero, too. Do you?
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The first 300 are the easiest, then you'll start micromanaging which bundles to buy, which sales to take, and before you know it you have 2000 games and no time to play them.
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You will never dig out of the mighty backlog.
You are done for.
Rest in peace, my friend.
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At some point you actually stop playing games, and start playing steam, just like me
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What the actual fuck. O_O
Can I be one of your groupies now?
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You really got almost half thousand achievements in Train Sim under 5 hours?
That seems… rather unbelievable. o_O
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I didn't farm them (all) myself, rather when I was reverse engineering steam protocol for my bot I reverse engineered the part responsible for unlocking achievements too.
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Er, wouldn't have it been easier to just ask the guy who made SAM to do that?
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No, because I'd learn nothing then, and ArchiBoT wouldn't have any function apart from already reverse-engineered by someone else. The whole steam fun is for my own purpose of learning stuff and doing something productive while I'm at it.
For instance, yesterday I spent around 30 minutes sniffing steam network traffic to learn how exactly steam creates temporary chats - http://i.imgur.com/bylG5Gx.png
When I mimiced 1:1 the packet that is being sent, and it did work from inside my bot, I had only one reaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkrF43SZEU
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You know, sometimes I feel you'd be in trouble with this dissection of Steam if Valve had any actual staff to notice it.
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If you didn't notice yet, 99% of stuff that is currently integrating with steam is using hacks or reverse engineered methods because it's not possible to do it otherwise. Whole SteamDB works on the same shit I'm using (I know the creator), as well as every bot, trade bot, chat bot, and shitload of services. If they were about to do something, they'd start from things that are heavy loading their servers, such as SteamDB, rather than my bot who answers to commands and uses steam the same way steam client would.
Plus, it's impossible to provide evidence that the code they're interacting with is my own bot instead of their proprietary steam client.
Except as otherwise permitted under this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use), or under applicable law notwithstanding these restrictions, you may not, in whole or in part, copy, photocopy, reproduce, publish, distribute, translate, reverse engineer, derive source code from, modify, disassemble, decompile, create derivative works based on, or remove any proprietary notices or labels from the Content and Services or any software accessed via Steam without the prior consent, in writing, of Valve.
You are entitled to use the Content and Services for your own personal use
The thing is, I'm not reverse-engineering steam client, content or services, but sniffing network traffic and creating my own thing that would interact with steam network in the similar way. As I'm able to use the content and services for my personal use, which is - steam network, I'm also able to code my own bot that will interact and use such content and services, as long as I'm not doing anything illegal (pointed above) with steam client.
Sure, if somebody wanted, and valve has many lawyers, they'd most likely win in a court, but it's simply not worth their time and money to even start a sue, not even mentioning that it'd be very hard for them to provide required evidence that I broke their ToS, because I can provide evidence that I did not.
In short, not worth it.
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I've said the same thing, now I have 500+ games xD
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Everybody missed a point: You joined Steam on April. That means you have not lived a Christmas Sale yet!!!
Believe me as I know guys that bought 200+ games on a single Christmas sale. Collector Bundles help too..
I bought these on Christmas Sale '14. And I've been on Steam for 9 years! So... you'll be doomed when Christmas arrives. (:
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So, I innocently joined Steam back in April. I got a little caught up in the summer sale and then discovered Humble Bundle. Shortly thereafter I also found BundleStars. When the dust finally settled I had about 170 games but still had keys for games I definitely didn't want. Then, lo and behold, I found Steam Gifts. So I thought to myself: "well, I'm close enough I might as well go for the 250 badge by trading the games I don't want for the one's I do want." A week later and I'm at 190. "But I'm not a game collector," I say to myself. I only add games I have an interest in probably eventually playing. I can stop at 250, right? RIGHT? I'm totally not a game collector!
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