Main reasons for hoarding games are...

Main reason I hoard games is I'm a cheap bastard. When ever I see good deals, and have money, I buy games that I will probably not ever play.

I just enter random giveaways because free games.

I have problems

Because I WILL play it one day...

Because we love games.

Look at my steam library, and I only started buying games (before, I was a pirate) only a bit over half a year ago, I'm a maniac.

Because we like to show off.

Why I 'hoard' games? On Steam, often because they are in very cheap bundles and maybe I want 1-2 games from it but feel like trying the rest. Generally I have a lot of games because I want to play a lot of games - I just tend to lack the time to do so or do stupid things like buy amazing new games and then end up replaying something old that takes ages to finish.

Why people enter giveaways when they don't even know what it's for? Because they just want to win and get free stuff regardless of what it is.

Don't touch my stuff, don't even look at it ! ¬ ¬

Hey, when we are 60+ and retired, we'll have all the time in the world to relax and play retro games on our old computers. Maybe even to share the fun with grandchildren.

Because i've gotta buy 'em all!

And complete my SteamDex!

because they were in scorpius' chair

It makes me feel superior to my inferior friends having 1 Steam Game :O

Because this says that I'm still far from my Complete collection achievement.

The reason I'm asking is because I see people entering giveaways without them even knowing which game is to be given to them if they should win.

Please explain how you came to that conclusion.

Soon. SOON! I shall have the time and hardware to actually play the damn things. University almost over. Wallowing in unemployment, here I come!

I hoard games because part of me is still deluding myself that I'll play them one of these days. That said, I stopped entering giveaways for this reason. I've won a few games and I haven't played them or played them very little, and I feel uncomfortable entering for more. I still buy some games occasionally. Can't break the habit completely. And of course I spend a lot more money on Kickstarter games.

If I win any game, I download and install it to try it out. Then I generally tend to leave it for awhile before finally coming back to it and playing it properly (assuming I enjoyed my first play of it) again months later.

I think its low blood sugar, not sure though

It's hard to tell the difference whether you'll play a game vs wanting to play a game.

I hoard games but here I enter only those GA's of games I really want to play. I still haven't played some of the games I won though cause I have a huge backlog :(

What happens to most is that "Oh look! X game is cheap I want to play that but dont have time. Might as well buy it to play it later" and the games just pile up!

Happens to me since PS2 games went cheap and now with steam too.

Currently I'm hoarding some games because firstly I've got to finish up school and secondly I've only got a laptop, therefore not many modern games run. I do play some that run, but only <20 hours every 2 weeks. May not seem like an "only" but I've seen people clock up 80 - 120 hours, and that's without idling. I guess what encourages me to hoard them is that I will eventually play them all, probably quite soon.