Bundles, buying games on sale. I'm only at 1250 but I think I got around 1000 in the past year alone.
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^this
I went from almost 30 games to more than 150 ones in a couple of months because of bundles. And trading.
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XD same here. Which bundle site do you use? I got bundles from humble bunble, flying bundle; groupees, indiegala, galaroyal, bundlestars and green man gaming
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Pretty much the same ones, mostly groupees, bundlestars, gala, and royale since they have bundles with games I dont have (or a majority of games I dont have).
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Buying games on sale, giveaways and trading, that's where you get many games.
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Humble bundle & Indie bundle are easy ways of getting multiple games on the cheap every week.
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well, its quite simple: for every game you buy you have +1 to the overall number of games, repeat until done ;)
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Bundles are quite helpful. I don't purchase much in Steam itself, but I tend to buy most released bundles. got over 1000 games last year.
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Sales, bundles, lucrative occupations, bank heists, etc.
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After looking through a lot of the games owned with 2000+ titles in their library, I can safely say it is down to lack of taste.
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Bundles and sites like this one ;) Also various sales ;) I'm sitting at 1625 games myself atm ;)
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Time. I've been on Steam for going on 11 years. 11 Years of Steam Sales is a lot of games. Plus, bundles!
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Time can help but is by no means a nessecity. My accounts a little over three years old. The first year I only really used it for sales on the few games for windows live titles that were available. The second year I added 1k+ games and the same again the third year.
Bundles, sales, giveaways, trades. Then you have extra money from steam market items. I managed to scrape together about £50 selling cards for the winter sale, with the discounts that can be easily 100+ games.
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Why do they even get games that they won't ever play? D:
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Well lets put it this way...have you ever collected something just to collect?
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Yeah yeah, I know. Just joking around. I had almost 200 scale model kits of various tanks/planes/whatever and even when I stopped building them I was still buying new kits, I think I still have some boxes hidden in the shelf.
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I was going to use pokemon cards as an example but I think that was a bad one :P. When they came out back in like 1990s or something, everyone in my elementary had them, but no one knew how to play the game. We just had them to "catch em all".
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It was a thing when I was in grade school, but it's kinda different since we were competing against each other and naturally had to collect more. I have 30 or 40 caps remaining somewhere. Crazy times, lol.
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Why do some people [ahem] enter giveaways for games they don't ever play and, in some cases, don't even bother activating? Those sort of people really shouldn't be questioning the motivations of others until they have their own shit sorted out...
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I have probably 20-30, not thousands. I'll probably get to them eventually. They only one I won't touch is Ravensword, I activated that key by accident ;(
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what I meant is that you called yourself on not activating the game you won on SG :D:
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dude, learn to read. let me repeat, maybe with easier language that you will be able to understand:
ME, ZELGHADIS, NO MEAN YOU, SENAYA, NO PLAY GAMES YOU BUY
ME, ZELGHADIS' MEAN YOU, SENAYA, NO ACTIVATE Sins of a Dark Age YOU WIN ON SG.
YOU, SENAYA, BREAK SG RULES AND NOONE NOTICE BEFORE YOU, SENAYA, POST HERE.
NOW MANY PPL NOTICE. NOW YOU ON MANY BLACKLIST AND YOU HAVE BAD TIME.
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+1 Haha!
I swear that someone somewhere is doing a roaring trade removing people's brains and replacing them with ziplock bags of dandelion seeds...
I scoured the net, but there was not a single suitable facepalm gif which could do this exchange justice.
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There, I activated it. It wasn't regifted or sold, you can calm your butthurt and stay on topic now.
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You have to admit though, the whole episode does make your attack on people who buy games and don't play them a tad weak...
It's pretty clear that the biggest butthurt on the thread is yours, from the spanking zelghadis just gave you...
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I still don't see how me breaking the rules with not activating a game that I got for free is comparable to thousands of games that people actually spend money on and they won't ever be played. Even though my post was on topic AND it was a joke (because I know a word 'collectionner' is) it sparked so much offtopic it's not even funny. I even tried to return it back to topic but no one cares =\
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Well, I guess not activating your won games is one of the most unpopular moves you can make for some Steamgifters, so you shouldn't really have been too surprised at the flak you got.
Seriously though - why would you enter to win a game you didn't even want to activate, let alone ever play it?
Anyway, it's sorted now, so move on and move up :)
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I would do that eventually, I have more keys that aren't activated, actually (not from steamgifts, don't hit me bro :D). I got too many games I have to finish first (yes, I actually have a list in which order I'm going to play games)
I understand why he attacked me, considering how big his contributions and blacklist are, he probably gets frustrated on a daily basis, but his behaviour imo is overdramatic with all that caps. You, on the other hand, seem to be a nice guy, have a good day.
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You too :)
My backlog is also a constant source of embarrassment. I have a heap of games I'm really looking forward to playing, but the list is getting longer, not shorter.
Damn you, Gaben, and your detestable sales!
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I can only speak for my case. There are 3 reasons why i have so many games unplayed:
1)let's say theres a bundle with 1 game that interest me. That game costs 20 euro. the bundle costs 5 USD and has 8 steam games. 5USD is around 4,5 euro so i'm getting the game for a -75% discount and more 8 steam games. This leads to a huge "fake" backlog where i have 7 games to try which i might like or not.
2) When i went to university on an island i didn't have internet nor a alaptop with a dedicated GPU as such i have many retro games i played during that time but have no time on steam.
3) "social life". sometimes i buy games to play with friends but our free time never "synchronizes" for a while. For example imagine you want to play a LAN of battlefront 2, our 2-3 friends buy the star wars bundle for that. Until summer holidays or winter holidays or free time on weekend might not be enough for all of us to play together. Sometimes I have to help my parents/GF/close friend doing something. sometimes i go to the cinema instead of using those 2-3 hours to tackle on my backlog.
Those are the main reasons on why i have so many games unplayed.
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That post was a joke mainly so you don't have to think much of it :D
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I have more extra steam keys than most people have games in their library. My spreadsheet has over 700 games on it. When I figure out why I do what I do, I'll let you know.
The saddest part is probably that there are still quite a few games I legitimately want.
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Bundles, trading bundle games, selling trading cards for steam wallet, buy more games from steam or for TF2 keys, and etc....
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Bundles, freebies, giveaways, sales... and that collector fiber that will make you add pretty much anything to your library for that +1 count.
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Through an unholy combination of giveaways, sales, and humble bundles.
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Bundled games are the fastest and cheapest way of adding 10-15 games to your library every week. Also, lots of people hunt for the free Steam keys that some sites give out every week or so.
Also, keep in mind that most people who have 1,000+ games are only farming for trading cards/badges and not actually interested in the game itself. Hell, I finally got 109 games and I haven't played about 20 of them in my library. :/
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I've been giving it away for free all this time :(
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I've seen some people I trade with have 2000+ steam games. I myself have been trying to get steam badges, and am currently closing at the 250 one. I was wondering if there's a way people are getting so many. For instance I had someone tell me that dlc counts as a game.
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