What's up with collecting games?

Just collecting. What u need to know more? If u want, just give a question to that guys.

it's fun

Maybe something like internetpenis

well...

why do people collect books/modell things/whatever?

easy: you want to HAVE them :)

i usually play my games, but have 50+ indie games from bundles that i did not play

bought be mine just for worms and two worlds, THQ just for metro, indiegala...well, it was cheap and so on and so on...

things like that just happens. I am one to have such collecting habbit.... but I do play my games, and I intend on finishing those that are worthy.

But left 4 dead and tf2 kinda drained my game time for aeons!

Bundles.

they have to work long hours to get money to buy lots of games but since they have to work hard they don't have time to play them :)

Gotta collect em all, pokeurmom!

Gotta catch them all!!

Edit: damn, I was one minute late, RagersReplacement managed to make this joke before me :/

If you collect all of the games on Steam, you lose your virginity.

Because we feel like it. Problem?

Speaking as someone with 500 odd games at about a 50% play rate, quite a lot are unwanted extras in a bundle purchase.
It's often cheaper to buy a steam sale publisher bundle for the 4 games you actually want, than it is to just buy the 4 separately.

Having said that, I am steadily installing and trying the games I acquire, just to see if I've missed a gem somewhere.

(There's also the fact that to save on space in my pokey house, I'm replacing my disc copies with steam copies whenever they're on sale - and yet haven't had the urge to install and replay them yet)

1 word, sales. That's what gets to me. Whenever I see a game I'm interested in, and it's crazy cheap, I get it without thinking about it.

Because sometimes people get bored in life and decide to take up gaming as a hobby. Steam allows everyone to permanently buy games quickly and easily without the hassle of going to shops or making space for cases. So people who are new to games and have jobs can find plenty of games to spend their money on and "collect" on their profile without having to search through shops. Who doesn't like collecting things?

Because we can.

I have 800+ but I have played like 80 of them. Tops.

I just love collecting games. I have tons of retail ones too.

Because if I have all the games that means someone else probably has one less game therefore making me the superior being. Joking aside is there any point to collecting aside from it makes someone happy?

It has a lot do with Click this.
It's like a passion.
I collect games since PS1, the time before doesn't count for me, because at that time my parents bought the games (Gameboy, SNES...)
But i play computergames since the SNES

What's up with collecting stamps? I am seeing people with over 800 stamps, and they're not gonna use any of them :/

crappy pc...can't run half my games....also bought games i used to play just cause they were good

i love to collect games... i know i have not enough time to play them all.. but when a game hits my nerve i play more like an hour - steam shows 883

I'm a bit of a game collector.

Partly because the PC I have not can't run newer games very well and partly because I know I'll eventually play them.

It awesome to see my wall of games in Steam. I haven't played them all but I will someday. At least I plan on it. I buy or try to win almost everything just cause I love gaming. Only stuff I really won't mess with is sports and some racing.

Shitty PC and lack of time.

Because we want to.