I’m myself someone who ends up with this “failure mode”, but I do like the empowerment from having a bunch of unplayed games at my disposal to choose from according to whatever mood or wants I have at that particular time. Not to mention the ability to instantly play any of these with friends if some of them have one of them and the game has coop/multiplayer, though with my current internet bandwidth that’s much less of an issue than it used to be.
However, this doesn’t seem like it’s nearly on the same scale. Steam probably has a much larger userbase than GoG, and based on the stats I’ve seen fairly recently it would seem that less than 3% of Steam’s 8 million “active” users actually own more than 500$ worth of steam games, which I consider a pretty decent guesstimate as for how much one would usually have to spend before we can consider them more likely to fall into this failure mode.
Those est.-250 000 people seem somewhat of a very minor problem compared to the tens-if-not-hundreds of millions of women falling into the failure mode of “shopping”.
I’m myself someone who ends up with this “failure mode”, but I do like the empowerment from having a bunch of unplayed games at my disposal to choose from according to whatever mood or wants I have at that particular time. Not to mention the ability to instantly play any of these with friends if some of them have one of them and the game has coop/multiplayer, though with my current internet bandwidth that’s much less of an issue than it used to be.
However, this doesn’t seem like it’s nearly on the same scale. Steam probably has a much larger userbase than GoG, and based on the stats I’ve seen fairly recently it would seem that less than 3% of Steam’s 8 million “active” users actually own more than 500$ worth of steam games, which I consider a pretty decent guesstimate as for how much one would usually have to spend before we can consider them more likely to fall into this failure mode.
Those est.-250 000 people seem somewhat of a very minor problem compared to the tens-if-not-hundreds of millions of women falling into the failure mode of “shopping”.