Are You a Game Collector? [Feb 18, 2020, 10:03 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post on Fanatical
discusses a survey of over 6,000 users on how many games constitute a games
"collection." In a technical sense this should probably be two or more, but they
were looking for the threshold of considering yourself a "games collector," a
hobby they call a "growing trend." You may be concerned (or perhaps relieved) by
their conclusion that respondents who considered themselves collectors own an
average of 931 games. This seems pretty extreme, but serves their agenda well.
since their online games store sells the kind of game bundles that put
such a lofty total within reach. Perhaps more surprising was that their survey
reported the respondents owned an average of 770 games. Here's more of the data
they report:
71% of the people asked considered themselves to be collectors, each owning a whopping 931 games on average. Considering that the average amount of games owned per person works out at 770 each, most gamers are only 161 games shy of earning the ‘Game Collector’ status.
Men are closer to earning the title than women, with men on average owning 179 more. However, that’s not to say that women aren’t serious about their gaming either, 70 of them said they own over 1,000 games with a few having up to 7,000 in their collection.
In fact, 23% of the overall audience claims to have more than 1,000 games, with some boasting an incredible 20,000 Steam and console games to choose from, which takes a portion of gamers past collector status and into the elite category!
Gaming is not just reserved for the young either. The age group which boasts some of the biggest collection sizes is the 35-44s who were kids when popular mainstream gaming found its way into many households in the 1970s and 1980s.
Teenagers own the least amount of games when compared with other age groups - under 18s have on average around 525 in their collection, compared with 907 in the 35-44 age group. Respondents were also asked for their views on the hobby and the industry itself.
Darks said
"Steam has an option built into the new client where you go to the support tab of the game and can have the game removed from your library permanently"
This is the stuff of nightmares.
Imagine a bug or malicious exploit that went inadvertently erasing your library, and you none the wiser, till too late my friend, too late ...
Anyway, hope to play everything, very selective and get what interest me (prospectively).
I will replay some games every few years, also incredible mods (Nehrim, Enderal, etc), emulated games.
Have a lot of boxes with DVDs from 1995 to 2000s, etc.
Taken much from sites for old, strange, goofy or unusual games like,
The hunt aka "cernaja metka" 2008 east european FPS horror, half-life like game but unique.
They're Alive
Revolution - loved this, so strange
Pariah
Breed
Powerslave-exhumed DOS game, used DOSBOX-X, a **dosbox 3D Accelerated version with savegame anywhere**, some ten slots using the function keys, not documented but it is there and works ok.
etc.
- - www.oldpcgaming.net (many "unknown" but good games, provides a virtual winxp, etc)
- - https://archive.org/ community software game
Have doom, heretic, duke nukem 3D fan maps collections to play with new engines and 3D models.
Oddities like Raven´s Shadowcaster, etc.
- - https://www.myabandonware.com/ (beware, don´t think it´s safe anymore)
- - etc.
Yep, crazy all-out but selective collector.
This comment was edited on Feb 18, 2020, 19:07.
"Steam has an option built into the new client where you go to the support tab of the game and can have the game removed from your library permanently"
This is the stuff of nightmares.
Imagine a bug or malicious exploit that went inadvertently erasing your library, and you none the wiser, till too late my friend, too late ...
Anyway, hope to play everything, very selective and get what interest me (prospectively).
I will replay some games every few years, also incredible mods (Nehrim, Enderal, etc), emulated games.
Have a lot of boxes with DVDs from 1995 to 2000s, etc.
Taken much from sites for old, strange, goofy or unusual games like,
The hunt aka "cernaja metka" 2008 east european FPS horror, half-life like game but unique.
They're Alive
Revolution - loved this, so strange
Pariah
Breed
Powerslave-exhumed DOS game, used DOSBOX-X, a **dosbox 3D Accelerated version with savegame anywhere**, some ten slots using the function keys, not documented but it is there and works ok.
etc.
- - www.oldpcgaming.net (many "unknown" but good games, provides a virtual winxp, etc)
- - https://archive.org/ community software game
Have doom, heretic, duke nukem 3D fan maps collections to play with new engines and 3D models.
Oddities like Raven´s Shadowcaster, etc.
- - https://www.myabandonware.com/ (beware, don´t think it´s safe anymore)
- - etc.
Yep, crazy all-out but selective collector.
This comment was edited on Feb 18, 2020, 19:07.
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