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My ex-roommate once said that he didn't know anybody who deleted their Steam games from their library than I did.
I'm just one of those people who is able to discard something (and at times, someone) when they just aren't a benefit to me. I'm very anti-hoarder.
this sounds like just throwing your money away. I think it definitely takes the cake for weird/interesting habits.
I agree, it costs nothing to not delete them, and if they ever added a framework later on for reselling or trading, you're just out money.
Not to mention if you wrote a review for any of the games, I'm expect deleting the game from your library unmarks the game as you owning it, which means that your review no longer contributes to the game's rating.
We all throw money away, everyday. It is a matter of how much money we throw away and whether or not it served a positive purpose or gives us buyer's remorse. I think it is twice as wasteful to not only throw your money away but never even once use the thing you've thrown money away for. I don't force myself to play games or I'm never enjoying it as it was meant to be.
I just simply do not want them in my library as listed. Is that really too much to ask for? People are allowed to have preferences. The whole point isn't to negate the loss of money, it is simply accepting it as a loss and doing what personally feels right in how to go about dealing with that acceptance.
I don't think we'll ever see such a system without publishers and even developers crying about lost profits, least in the US.
To date, out of the 622 games in my library, 400 of them have had reviews written for them.
I fully understand not wanting them in the library. How I go about it is I have a category that's called finished, and when I finish a game, I remove them from all categories, except for finished, and then I hide/collapse that category. Alternatively, you can also filter by installed games.
I have a review for most of the games that I've played, but almost none of them actually count towards the game score because Steam has a really stupid way of deciding if a review actually counts or not. basically, for a review to count, you have to own the game or have refunded the game(I'm nit sure if deleting the game counts as refunding). And it must have been purchased directly through Steam. and it has to meet whatever Automated metrics they have in the background to decide whether or not it's a bot review or not.
I've had fully valid games that I purchased through Steam just not get included in the review system because something I sent in the review triggered some form of abuse system.
Can you remove paid games from your library? I have removed a few f2p ones, most notably Apex Legends after removal of linux support. Turns out you can add them back and your hours, achievements will be right back.
What? I completely get discarding things and living a life without the burden of clutter, but having a game in your Steam library is essentially zero cost/burden right?
Especially since you can hide them if you want to maintain a clean interface. That way you can bring them back later if you decide to replay the game, or share it with your family. There's so few reasons to ever delete a game.
Um, no.
I don't like this normalization where people buy so many games and complain about the backlog of their library. I was one of those people for a while and I hated it. Games are meant to be played, not collected.
If Valve ever got the balls to, they'd have a system where you can recycle/resell games to people in the community. They allow people in the EU to resell their games but not in the US. Because reasons.
I'm not a gamer myself (the only game I ever purchased are a few chessboards ;) but as a book reader I know many people do buy books they will never ever read. They just collect dust on their bookshelves. It may be sad they don't get to enjoy the content, but it's their choice and there is nothing wrong with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
Seems to be quite universal phenomenonemon. I wonder if theres a word for someone who spends a year or two buying books, letting them pile up and then has a few month period where they read for hours and hours every day. If there is, that would be me.
There's Patient Gamer, so we'll call you Patient Reader. Where, you don't let the tide of FOMO dictate what you should read and when.
That sounds good to me. I actually have some major JOMO these days, with pretty much everything. I think the most recent film I've watched is from 2019, the most recent music I listen to is ~2011-12, I enjoy listening to people tell me about that party/event/whatever they went to and I didn't etc. So your description fits better than you knew lol
I hope it's the loud minority that buys that many games. I think most people don't have the luxury to think that way.
I have over 200 games (not the largest library I know but still sizable) and most of them are unplayed and never will be. A majority of them come from the monthly Humble Bundle subscription that gives me like 7-12 games a month. I haven't redeemed any in a while, I mainly keep the sub for the store discount, and the mild feeling of goodwill I receive for having donated to "charity" (since Humble's acquisition by EA I question how much of this goes to charity).
Clutters the interface, harms discoverability in the backlog, and may point to a game that doesn't even work anymore.
I envy anti-hoarders.