The nice thing about AAA-GA is that it costs close to 50 points but the best thing is that it never wins :)
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After joining PaGyWoSG and PoP I also changed my approach with entering GAs. Before entering GA I ask myselft one question: if I win this am I going to actually play it? After this my GAs entered graphs instead being contant, now heads down:
with current average of about 750. SG wins backlog also contantly reducing thanks to that, recently hit 53% backlog rate, aiming for 50% next year.
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Though I was picky on what GAs I join beforehand, PAGYW has helped so much to actually play my wins sometime this century >.> I also have a tendency of playing games right up to the end, and then just losing interest, so it pushes me to actually finish the games, too. Now if only I could be that productive in other areas of life :D
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But there are still games I see and I think "I want to play that, I want to try that seemingly original gameplay".
Although I loathe the concept of "cloud gaming" because I absolutely know why publishers want this to be the future for us gamers, this might still be the way for you to try those games while still reducing your spending habits. Microsoft Gamepass for PC maybe delivers everything you need.
My thumbs are pressed that you will find a new job soon and regarding your mental health, I wish you all the best. Stay strong and never give up!
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Oh i just see the thread now from the bump above.
About your library, what i wish you is to maybe discover something in your library who intrigues you or makes you smile, and rediscover the pleasure of playing, including maybe a tiny indie which has gathered a little dust who knows. I'm also digging into my backlog at the moment, and it's bringing me a lot of surprises. So wish you the same.
Yes, sometimes when you run out of money, you find yourself looking at things differently. I hope you're not lacking for anything essential though, and hope for you to get back in the future maybe a job you would lilke.
Ah and i forgot, i love what you get us back in the positive thread regularly and thanks to be often a big tecnical help for many users here.
And still happy new year in advance, even if it's just a +1 year in your mind.
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I've gotten really picky with GAs I'll enter here. I can enjoy pretty much any game, so it makes it harder. I just look at it as, I'm not immortal, so I can't play all the games in existence. Then I just look at each GA as "is this one of the limited games I would want to play?" I also use the method of "If I woke up to a won GA, and saw it was this one instead of any of the others, would I be disappointed?" Though sometimes I'll still enter a ton of GAs for a game for a week, and then suddenly go "actually, I don't want this." Usually when I'm low on points lol but it helps.
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For 2 years I've tried to enter less and less giveaways. My target was entering below 1000 giveaways per month. But for all these months, I've always been between 1000 and 1500. Even if now I see less and less giveaways open for me.
I don't look at stats all the time, in fact only once in a while, but actually both in October and November I finally entered less than 1000 each month. Little thing, it seems, as 1000 per month is still a lot. It's still 33 per day. But well, start with reachable goals and one by one you'll eventually get there.
Another important thing is how I choose which games I enter for, or get in my wishlist. I used to think "it's good enough to enter my library". Now I look at it from another perspective: "will my library be better with this game?" - "do I really want to play this game if I only had 10 games in my library or leave it to the end?"
It sounds silly, but it's important for me. I've been 10 months without buying bundles (except for charity in Fanatical once) but I failed last month and this one. I was also dragging an accidental Choice renewal from Dec 2023, which I decided to not refund so I would still get a few games each month. But today I cancelled it. I also hope to not buy any bundle for a long time after new year. I need to find something else to do when feeling that emptiness than buying more games. I have way more than I can play in 10 years. But there are still games I see and I think "I want to play that, I want to try that seemingly original gameplay".
Which leads me to my wishlist. I was about one year fiddling with it so it wouldn't surpass 2700 games. When bored, I actively searched for games to add to it; then one day I decided I was tired to add and delete and be always on the edge of going over 2700. So I started with that previous thought "will my library be better with this game?" and I deleted almost 200 games in a few days. But apparently I've reached a point, about 2450 games in my wishlist, where it's harder and harder to delete games. I wish it would be like 1000 at most, but right now I think I'll struggle to just go below 2000.
And all this is ludicrous. I had quite a lot of games; suddenly I get a job and my library size skyrocketed. After years of frustration and calculating how much money I could spent, if one buck per game was too expensive for a bundle, etc. I had enough money to buy all I wanted. Problem was that there was too much that I wanted. That emptiness is like a black hole. Throw things in and it will still eat more, ask for more. It's neithersane nor healthy, but I can't control it, and I have worse things to worry about. Then the year ended without job, I looked at how much I spent and I was really horrified how I lost control. So my already big enough library now it's too much, yet the emptiness... Well, no cheap excuse for that. It happens.
At least SG has been "good" (depending on the perspective) to me this year, giving me way less games than expected by statistics. And even with breaking my commitment to not buy bundles this year on November, I've acquired less games than any other year. Still I would slap myself. I don't "need" more games. No one needs more games. We want, not need. And each one for different reasons, in different amounts, with different choices. I know people who buys, plays, repeat. I've had a problem with playing (or actively doing pretty much anything) since 2020. But this year I've finished more games than in the previous 4 years together. I'm stuck again, my only constant is being inconstant, mood is unstable and probably many of you can relate. Society today is crazy and we pay the price.
So well, after all that wall of text that most of you haven't read, for that little achievement here you have four giveaways from Tiltify. They'll run until 18th and need level 3+. I recently emptied my blacklist so except 4 people you all can access them.
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https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/fqfrostpunkzlt/frostpunk
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/cnastickyzd/sticky-business
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rRcampus7iE/two-point-campus
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/8dscornIkX/scorn
You all have a great time during the end of this year. It's an order. For me nothing will change with adding 1 to the year, but I hope you all have at least a better 2025 than this (horribly horrible for me) year.
Now off to repair the pedals of my PC wheel... 2 years waiting to properly fix it, and suddenly them are selling replacement cable. Serendipity.
Edit: thanks everyone for your congrats, good wishes and sharing your similar experiences. Yes I'm depressed and medicated, but depression is not the major problem.
And for those interested, I fixed the pedals, tested with its control panel. I ran lots of laps at Magione to check things were really ok, but I couldn't get to 1.26, only 1.28 and no matter what I did, tyres were cold. And then a 10 lap event on Spa Francorchamps as reward for me. I won it, of course, with 36 seconds advantage over the 2nd place (on easy, I'm a bad pilot). Assetto Corsa is a bad game but a great simulator. Wheel is still thrilling to use.
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