I really don't understand game collectors I know a few of them, and they hardly play any of the games they own.
They are always playing 5 + year old games every now and again simply to justify their purchase. It really doesn't make sense to me and must be quite miserable not being able to fully commit to the latest releases.
But to play along with the thread;
1. Only buy a console when it has a minimum of five games you want out for it on the day of purchase, that you can't play on a platform you already own.
Nope. I coudn't even think of 3 games when I wanted to buy a console. I brought an Xbox because of Halo and Splinter Cell. Xbox 360 to play more Halo and Gears of War. PS3 for Last of Us and Beyond, and Xbox One for Titanfall and even more Halo.
2. I may not buy a new game unless I beat a game I already own from my backlog.
Non issue for me. I rarely ever play more than 3 different games at a time. If this is the case, I make sure one of the is an MP game, one for story and one casual / arcade game.
This often is the case towards the end of the year when loads of games come out. I make sure one is a racing game for casual fun and the other two are hardcore mp or sp games.
3. Never buy a game on release, wait at least a year and buy the complete edition/"game of the year" edition for less money, that way you get all the DLC free and on the disc and you save money.
I dont think I have ever done this. If I like the game a lot, I will wait to buy the DLC in a GOTY set, but I have only ever done this with Dishonored.
4. A game that requires a Day One Patch or features required Day One DLC (ie. not something incidental like character skins), to be playable is not worthy of purchase. If you can't play it from the disc, without an internet connection, it is worthless.
Non issue, but in a day and age where patches are fucking huge, its just not worth waiting to download a 13GB patch to play games like Dead Rising 3.
5. Any game I own for 2 years straight without playing, and without the intention of playing it within the next year; should be put up on eBay for sale so someone who actually wants it can enjoy it.
Again, non issue. The only game to take more a long time to beat was Borderlands 2 because it was so freaking tedious at times. Took about two months to beat.
