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PixelPerfect on 11 September 2015

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Rafie on 11 September 2015

Some games I've purchased on sale on PSN. Forgot I even had them there.



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DonFerrari on 14 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:

Ever since digital games became a thing, it's totally devalued and over saturated the hobby imo. We now have too many cheap little games, free games... it's just... too many.

Back when I was a kid in the 80's, when you got a game? Unless you were a rich kid or a spoiled brat, it was a fucking EVENT. You would jump around for joy, pop that thing in and play for days, weeks and even months mastering every little nook and cranny until you either beat it, or realized your skills weren't good enough.

Today that just doesn't happen and it's mostly due to getting free games or cheap indie games. You know that saying you always heard growing up about how even Christmas would get old if it were every day? 

That's what ios/android and Games With Gold/PS Plus have done. It's the same with streaming music and Netflix. The product is devalued and not appreciated like it use to be. There's nothing special about it anymore.


When I was a child I would get 1 or 2 genesis game a year (like my christmas and aniversary money, I was born january 6th) and I could buy 1 or 2 old games (games that were selling for less than equivalent 10 dollars)... so I treasured all the games I had and when I rented games were so Happy... now I buy like 10-20 games a year so I get a little lost, and most of the free games on PS+ I end up not playing.



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AlfredoTurkey on 16 September 2015
DonFerrari said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

Ever since digital games became a thing, it's totally devalued and over saturated the hobby imo. We now have too many cheap little games, free games... it's just... too many.

Back when I was a kid in the 80's, when you got a game? Unless you were a rich kid or a spoiled brat, it was a fucking EVENT. You would jump around for joy, pop that thing in and play for days, weeks and even months mastering every little nook and cranny until you either beat it, or realized your skills weren't good enough.

Today that just doesn't happen and it's mostly due to getting free games or cheap indie games. You know that saying you always heard growing up about how even Christmas would get old if it were every day? 

That's what ios/android and Games With Gold/PS Plus have done. It's the same with streaming music and Netflix. The product is devalued and not appreciated like it use to be. There's nothing special about it anymore.


When I was a child I would get 1 or 2 genesis game a year (like my christmas and aniversary money, I was born january 6th) and I could buy 1 or 2 old games (games that were selling for less than equivalent 10 dollars)... so I treasured all the games I had and when I rented games were so Happy... now I buy like 10-20 games a year so I get a little lost, and most of the free games on PS+ I end up not playing.

Exactly. lol. 

I think it's a great example of having something too much=not always a good thing.



d21lewis on 16 September 2015

I forgot I had Super Luigi U until I listed all of the games I own (earlier today). That game and Final Fantasy Lightning Returns are still in their original cellophane.



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PxlStorm on 16 September 2015

Steam sale. Nothing more has to be said.



Alby_da_Wolf on 21 September 2015
AllThosePixels said:
Sometimes I buy games, play them for a bit, but then switch to other games again. However, I play them later again, and I don't forget them, I just feel like playing something else.

It happens to me too, but I also tend to forget some unimpressing games added as filler to collections, that I buy despite such waste if the collection price is lower than the sum of the included games that I'm interested in if purchased separately. Sometimes in Win 95/ME era I forgot some bundled games because they were old DOS ones that were eccessively difficult to run in Win9x DOS mode, while back then DOS emulation wasn't good enough yet or PC power wasn't high enough yet to make emulation speed reach recommended specs of the last DOS games, or, in some cases, my audio HW couldn't correctly emulate the supported sound cards of some games, so they were mute. If my backlog were smaller and I had more time, I could try them again.



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StarOcean on 21 September 2015

Actually I had bought Gravity Rush many months ago but didn't have any room on my Vita so I never downloaded it. A few days ago I rediscovered the game and am happy I did because I almost spent $17 getting a new copy XD



Augen on 21 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:

Ever since digital games became a thing, it's totally devalued and over saturated the hobby imo. We now have too many cheap little games, free games... it's just... too many.

Back when I was a kid in the 80's, when you got a game? Unless you were a rich kid or a spoiled brat, it was a fucking EVENT. You would jump around for joy, pop that thing in and play for days, weeks and even months mastering every little nook and cranny until you either beat it, or realized your skills weren't good enough.

Today that just doesn't happen and it's mostly due to getting free games or cheap indie games. You know that saying you always heard growing up about how even Christmas would get old if it were every day? 

That's what ios/android and Games With Gold/PS Plus have done. It's the same with streaming music and Netflix. The product is devalued and not appreciated like it use to be. There's nothing special about it anymore.

Agreed. Getting 1-2 games a year and playing at friends houses I put in tons of time on each title. Now getting a dozen a year I burn through them and if I get one on a download sale it can be months before I can get around to it.



Dgc1808 on 21 September 2015

I don't know what more than half the games I own are.



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