Well, I'm one of those people that buys a game, and may take a LONG time to play it. Why do I buy it? Cause it is a great deal (I generally get some pretty sick Black Friday deals, for instance). I have some games I have bought a couple years ago and still haven't touched. I have, however, gotten considerably better, and as such, have considerably lowered the number of games.
Some of them that I bought I wound up playing and realized not long after that they simply weren't for me (For instance, I was only able to get through about half of LA Noire before I realized I couldn't stand it).
In all reality though, I do the exact same thing with books. I have enough books to last me a considerable amount of time (despite the fact that lately I really haven't even read that much). Despite that, I will still go out and buy other books. So why would I do that? Well, an example would be with the new Dan Brown book. If I were to go out and buy that today, I would probably finish it in 3 days. It is simply a temporary break from the other books I'm reading.
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
