if i hardly play a game its because its bad. some of the games i havent finished either because its either boring or just bad.
36% of All Games Owned on Steam Are Never Played
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I have it, never played it. The biggest issue is that it's a really big game and my free time is rather limited right now. Someday, when I get a big chunk of free time to play with. In the meantime, I've been working through the pile of shorter games on my list.snekadid said:
I got untouched games like Left 4 Dead 2 Beta, DOTA2 Test lying around and a few Steam duplicates of non-Steam games I already installed and played a lot (like TES III and IV). So there goes the statistics.
Guilty of this. I'm making progress, mostly by playing the shorter games so I can actually finish them and move onto the next. If I had more free time(more then 1 hour per work day to play), I'd play some of the longer games or get more done.
Maybe I'll get lucky and be unemployed for a year and then can do nothing but look for a new job, go to school and clear out my games backlog.
Maybe I'll get lucky and be unemployed for a year and then can do nothing but look for a new job, go to school and clear out my games backlog.
Guilty of this.
I rarely buy games and never play them.
But, frequently, I'll get bundles which include games I've no desire to entertain.
I rarely buy games and never play them.
But, frequently, I'll get bundles which include games I've no desire to entertain.
Ditto on that. Most of my games came from humble bundle and I probably haven't played 50% of them. Probably because a lot of them I wanted a decent controller for and just got a ps3 plus i had a crappy laptop that couldnt really handle the decent ones. Now that I have both a gaming pc and ps3 that number might drop to around the average 30%.....eventuallysoftclocks said:
I imagine the Hundle Bundle has influenced that list a LOT.
Far too often, when I pick up a Bundle on the cheap, it comes with 1-3 other games I didn't really have much interest in at the time. (I try to gift the spares to friends and family)
Far too often, when I pick up a Bundle on the cheap, it comes with 1-3 other games I didn't really have much interest in at the time. (I try to gift the spares to friends and family)
They're not your enemy either.AntiChri5 said:
I agree with there might be areas that the automated process of this could be considered getting false information. I also wonder how many of those could be DLC or expansions.softclocks said:
For me my non-played category for Steam is very low if you don't count the games that were part of bundles, I think out of almost two hundred games I have less then ten I have never played and most of those are recent purchases that I have to make sure there is data left on my monthly bandwidth allotment.
the problem with this is announcement is that it doesnt take into account game:
-i bought and didnt like after a few minutes of game play
-games i bought because they were objectives in steam sales to get a badge or achievement
-games i had no intention of playing but bought to support a designer that i liked(the witcher, witcher 2, ect)
-games i had no intention of playing but bought to entice foreign publisher to release game i do want(ys 1, ys2, ect)
-that were part of bundles
-series games i havent played yet because i havent beat the first game yet
-i bought and didnt like after a few minutes of game play
-games i bought because they were objectives in steam sales to get a badge or achievement
-games i had no intention of playing but bought to support a designer that i liked(the witcher, witcher 2, ect)
-games i had no intention of playing but bought to entice foreign publisher to release game i do want(ys 1, ys2, ect)
-that were part of bundles
-series games i havent played yet because i havent beat the first game yet
I'll just add this to my list of books I don't get around to reading, miniatures I don't get around to painting and tabletop games I don't get around to running. Seems to just be a symptom of collecting stuff, whether it's computer games or other bits of leisure time.
I'm willing to bet all my life savings that quite a good number of these games that are never played are from "pirate before you buy" people. Basically the people who pirate games and buy said games if they find it to be worth their money. These people usually end up never playing their retail copy (or playing it years in the future when they get a craving).
Skyrim would be one of those. Definitely.
There's also the Humble/whatever Bundle games. I'm certain that quite a number of people buy these bundles for one or two specific games in them. They end up playing that one or two and forgetting the rest.
Skyrim would be one of those. Definitely.
There's also the Humble/whatever Bundle games. I'm certain that quite a number of people buy these bundles for one or two specific games in them. They end up playing that one or two and forgetting the rest.
I have a few games that show as unplayed due to my playing them in offline mode but all in all I have around 150 games and have played all but about 7 or 8 of them. I'm pretty sure that's better than average so I'm fine with that and I'm sure I'll get to them at some point.
It's interesting how all of the top 5 most played there are multiplayer games, including Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead 2. Also the top 10 are well-known and acclaimed games that can run on computers that are either powerful for being few years old or just not very powerful.Steven Bogos said:
Exactly. And Ars Technica even admits in the article some of their statistics are likely skewed because of factors like the ones you mentioned.BraveSirRobin said:
'Course, this won't stop the oncoming *****-fest about how "Steam Sales damage the industry!" or some such nonsense.
Regardless, I saw this article last night. It has some pretty surprising (and some not so surprising) insights.
One such surprise (and non-surprise) was the list of top/most played games on Steam. I would have thought Borderlands 2 and Planetside 2 would have been much higher, whereas I would have expected Terraria and Alien Swarm to have been much lower.
Though, the biggest surprise was the breakdown of total hours played across all titles. The combined total playtime of Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike, Civilization V, and Skyrim is almost equal to the combined playtime of all other titles.
That just....blows my mind.
Lets play a fun game everyone. Look at your steam library and state the % of games you haven't played yet. Mine is siting at 58%.
Damn real life responsibilities I still need to play the original half life.
Damn real life responsibilities I still need to play the original half life.
19/57 for me (33.3_%)
- "I might play [GAME] sometime in the future. I'll just buy it now." killed it.
- "I might play [GAME] sometime in the future. I'll just buy it now." killed it.
Honestly that's one of the things in the article I have no trouble believing. Unlike most games designed to be played once or twice. Each of those six have the benefit of immense replayability and extensive brand presence regardless of personal opinion. Each of those also has the backing of an incredibly old and popular franchise. When you couple that with the fact that Dota 2 and TF2 are literally free, and that probably ~10% of people DON'T own one of the counter strikes by now, and that they routinely just have more players than other games most of the time, it's pretty easy to see that gametime builds up quickly.Vigormortis said:
That's very admirable.Sanunes said:
I'm hoping to cut down on my backlog during the easter holidays, but it's so easy to go back to the games I already know and love.
A couple of other exceptions would be games that I've cleared in offline mode (like Dead Space 1 and 2)and still show up as not-played because offline mode doesn't register gametime.