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Here is the source article. It’s light on methodology. Are they going off of price of the game at launch? I maybe pay full price for a game once or twice per year. 50-70% of my unplayed games are probably from Humble Bundle/Humble Choice.

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Probably the same price used by SteamDB to calculate library value, which seems to be some version of “current price” or “most recent non-sale price”.

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every time this gets brought up, it rarely mentions humble bundle even though it’s probably a major contributing factor.

how many of us have bought bundles for 1 or 2 games we were interested in and ended up with 10 more that you never even had an intention of booting up in the first place?

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In addition to that there’s also a few games in my library that I intend to play later but bought it while it’s on sale as it might be more expensive when I have time to play it later…

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This completely ignores people that pirated games and then bought them once life let them contribute to the authors/devs they liked.

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I’d think these people probably make up a single number digit of the amount of games bought and never played.

It would be interesting to have a breakdown of which games werr bought and never played. How many of them were gifts ? What’s the share by rating ? Even better : When were the copies the most bought but never played ? This could bring up some interesting partterns.

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Which ones were ever present in humble bundles or other key bundles, what is the age of the purchase vs the age of the game, etc. I agree, a deeper understanding of the data would be great.

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Nothing fucks you harder than time. -Ser Davos

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Probably 3/4 of my steam library are games that remain unplayed, and that I purchased with no intention to ever play.

…but that $5 was WELL worth the one game in the bundle that I actually cared about.

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Sometimes the bundle is even less expensive than just getting the one game, specially if you already own part of the bundle

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What kind of shithole country can you buy for 19 billion? I’d rather have games.

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The USA, Trump will do anything for a buck, he’s President Whore.

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That’s disrespectful to whores, sex work is real work

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What word did you use after “disrespectful to”? I see it as “removed” and I’m wondering if my Lemmy instance censors it

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What word did you use after “President”? I see it as “removed” and I’m wondering if my Lemmy instance censors it

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It’s the word that starts with a W and means a person who will do something for money. W, H, O, R, E

You should use a different instance if it’s censoring words.

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I don’t think he got 19 billion for selling out the US. He’s more the 50 cent crack whore type.

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You can buy a whole lot of politicians with that kind of money.

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Maybe Bir Tawil

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