What's up with collecting games?

I will leave my account for my son. o_o

It's just something to keep me away from killing myself

People just want to collect them. I dont know why but sometimes do that.

I'm collecting entries in my backlog.

Well I enter on giveaways of games I can play. I may not be in love with them but if I'm bored some day, I will have those games to play.

Sales and bundles get me everytime. My mutiplayer games tend to take up the majority of my playing time. I'll get around to my backlog eventually.

I collected many games, some i havent played over steam because i have played the physical copy before got them over steam. i like have everything in same place. some i got in bundles i only plan play half of them from those. the other ones that i will play them when i got time since i only can play one game at once i just have 2 hands...

I like the feeling of being able to play any type of game whenever i feel like it. "ooh, feel like playing an action RTS? Well, here ya go, tons to choose from". <-- kinda like that.

This bugs me every time I see someone's profile with hundreds of untouched games. Even seen people win a giveaway, shove the game in their library and never look at it again. It annoys me.

I like to spend money on things I don't need an probably won't use. Just like everyone else, except that in my case those things are games.

I have 74 games, and played around 10. I have to collect money for a better machine to play all of them. For me, POrtal 2 is the distant future of gaming :D

I have OCD.

I had someone use that as a barter tactic last night, "Why do you care how much you get for the game, you don't even play them!".

If you had over 300 games, would you play all of them at the same time?

I like collecting games. That's all.

I buy a lot of games that I had played before(I also play offline in my laptop and those doesn't show on steam as played). Even with all the reviews available online you can't be 100% sure that you are going to like/really enjoy certain game so in cases where I have doubts, I download them and if I like them I buy, if not I just stop playing and move on to the next thing.

Now, "piracy is bad blah blah blah" I completely agree that if you like something you should pay for it, but giving the lack of decent demos to evaluate if you are going to like it it's kind of unfair to ask me to pay 50/30/20€ for the chance that I might like the result. Easy example, I loved CoD4, last game I ever bought boxed, but really hated MW2/3, had I not downloaded them before buying I would had ended with 2 expensive games that not only I don't like, I would had not played, ever.

Some day when something like gakai(http://www.gaikai.com/) really takes off I might be able to play the actual first half hour(or hour) of a game and decide if I want to buy without having to download it beforehand, but for now I don't really see any alternative other than buy blind and hope for the best.

Because when guys see steam sales they react just like the girls react when they see clothes sale. You just must have them. No matter if you intend to play or not, its 75% off, its a deal.

Well, there are many reasons for collecting instead of using Steam; first and foremost is the fact that physical copies are more often DRM free than copies purchased online. Secondly, there's resale value, and the ability to loan out or trade games.

In my case, because I'm gonna buy a super cool pc in january, so I'm buying those delicious games first <3

My queue is quite long now. The answer for you question is that they have life. They need to go to work that takes 8-12 hours per day. Then they need to eat something meet with friends or be with family also few hours to sleep. So the only time they can play is weekend or like 2 hours. Still if they are no lifes then shame on them.

I have a lot on my backlog, I have like 20 games on origin also that I haven't even played yet. I'll get to them eventually :)

They lose the point of games, they dont play them, they just collect them on the library... They are trading the whole day instead of having fun by playing, and if you look at their profile, they are always in TF2...

Bundles + sales + having a life.