Check Your Backlog! Steam Analysis

Cool. Unfortunately Steam only started counting hours relatively recently compared to how long I've had Steam.

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Username: HG | Piscian
Games Owned: 302
Games Played: 155
Games Never Played: 147
Percentage Played: 51.32%
Total Hours: 2111.90
 
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Games Owned: 77
Games Played: 39
Games Never Played: 38
Percentage Played: 50.65%
 
Yeah, 51% unplayed...and some of those only played to get holiday achievements :p
 
Username: Cael
Games Owned: 187
Games Played: 104
Games Never Played: 83
Percentage Played: 55.61%
Total Hours: 2272.30

My #1 game, apparently, bad company 2 time is almost double the next games time lol. 400 hours in it, and 200 in skyrim lol. I guess it doesnt subtract time when its paused or in escape menu lol. I have nowhere near that much play time in Skyrim
 
The idea of buying a game before you're ready to play it is fucking retarded, especially on Steam which is known to have massive discounts. Plus it's DD so you can have it as soon as you’re ready to play it.

For you guys who have a big list of un-played Steam games, go back and look at how much you paid for them and compare that to what they are selling for today, then add up the difference. If stupid was quantifiable, the figure you come up with would be the dollar amount of your idiocy.
 
What is the point of sites like that or discussions similar to them? So you have a million different games you never played, how is that funny or impressive? Is Steam basically Pokemon now, and the games "gotta catch em all"? Never understood that. I have a handful of games on Steam that I played alot of, not ton of games I only played a little of, call me old fashioned but it seems to me my way makes more sense
 
bigdogchris said:
The idea of buying a game before you're ready to play it is fucking retarded, especially on Steam which is known to have massive discounts. Plus it's DD so you can have it as soon as you’re ready to play it.

For you guys who have a big list of un-played Steam games, go back and look at how much you paid for them and compare that to what they are selling for today, then add up the difference. If stupid was quantifiable, the figure you come up with would be the dollar amount of your idiocy.
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Stop talking out of your ass.
 
bigdogchris said:
The idea of buying a game before you're ready to play it is fucking retarded, especially on Steam which is known to have massive discounts. Plus it's DD so you can have it as soon as you’re ready to play it.

For you guys who have a big list of un-played Steam games, go back and look at how much you paid for them and compare that to what they are selling for today, then add up the difference. If stupid was quantifiable, the figure you come up with would be the dollar amount of your idiocy.
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So what if my figure shows I saved money?

It is because of those massive sales that most of us have large backlogs. When the game is on sale for $5 you might as well buy it whether you are ready to play it or not, since they aren't going to get much cheaper than that. The only games I pay full price for are the ones I'm actually going to play right away.
 
bigdogchris said:
The idea of buying a game before you're ready to play it is fucking retarded, especially on Steam which is known to have massive discounts. Plus it's DD so you can have it as soon as you’re ready to play it.

For you guys who have a big list of un-played Steam games, go back and look at how much you paid for them and compare that to what they are selling for today, then add up the difference. If stupid was quantifiable, the figure you come up with would be the dollar amount of your idiocy.
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Holy high-horse, Batman. How about you hop off it before you start shitting on threads.


Koolthulu said:
The only games I pay full price for are the ones I'm actually going to play right away.
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Pretty much this.

But anyway, back on topic!
 
Koolthulu said:
The only games I pay full price for are the ones I'm actually going to play right away.
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The only games I pay full price for are Developers I wish to support. There's far too many 9-5 Devs working for EA and Activision I couldn't give a shit about and wouldn't $3 to play.

EA response to Syndicate being complete crap was basically "HAHA gotcha bitches!" so these days I don't blow full price on anything unless I know they actually cared about and worked hard on the game.
 
44.25%. It probably helps that I just bought 12 games today from some indie deals.
 
47.1%, although that's not really accurate since a lot of older titles didn't report numbers. I'm showing 0's on all my half-life games, and only 5.9 hrs on Team Fortress 2 (which should be at least 200).

I've also picked up a couple bundles only intending to play a couple of the games within, but did end up playing a few others during the x-mas sale for unlocks.
 
DarkSaturn said:
47.1%, although that's not really accurate since a lot of older titles didn't report numbers. I'm showing 0's on all my half-life games, and only 5.9 hrs on Team Fortress 2 (which should be at least 200).

I've also picked up a couple bundles only intending to play a couple of the games within, but did end up playing a few others during the x-mas sale for unlocks.
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I noticed at some point Valve reset my Counter-source play time. I suspect it was when they released all the updates and achievements. I should have a play time up in the 10s of thousands. I've been playing regularly since 2004. It's not something I'm particularly proud of but I don't know it annoys me for no logical reason.
 
bigdogchris said:
The idea of buying a game before you're ready to play it is fucking retarded, especially on Steam which is known to have massive discounts. Plus it's DD so you can have it as soon as you’re ready to play it.

For you guys who have a big list of un-played Steam games, go back and look at how much you paid for them and compare that to what they are selling for today, then add up the difference. If stupid was quantifiable, the figure you come up with would be the dollar amount of your idiocy.
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1) Not all of the "games" listed are actual games, some are not (i.e. Source SDK)

2) Steam didn't start keeping track of play time until relatively recently. I know there are a ton of my older Steam games that I've never reinstalled that have 0 time played.

3) I'd wager the majority of unplayed games are from those "massive discounts". Sales don't care if you're "ready to play" or not.

Did I just get trolled?
 
Username: magnetik
Games Owned: 271
Games Played: 61
Games Never Played: 210
Percentage Played: 22.51%
Total Hours: 172.20

I guess I'm more of a game collector nowadays.
 
Username:[H]|G CrimsonKnight13
Games Owned:153
Games Played:56
Games Never Played:97
Percentage Played:36.60%
Total Hours:406.00

Other than a few beta games, my game count is quite accurate despite the warnings.
 
Games Owned: 96
Games Played: 40
Games Never Played: 56
Percentage Played: 41.67%
Total Hours: 823.60

In reality that's being pretty generous. Of the "games played" most of them I played for less than an hour, and about 300 hours of my play time is when I gave my log in info to a friend and he played around 100 hours of BFBC2, 100 hours of Dawn of War 2 and 100 hours of Civ5.

If you consider "games played" to be ones I've actually spent more than an hour playing, that percentage should only be 24%.
 
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My profile is too old for this to work :(

It shows me I have 185 games, but I have 343.
 
Games Owned: 56
Games Played: 21
Games Never Played: 35
Percentage Played: 37.50%
Total Hours: 873.30

I actually have 79 games owned..
 
bigdogchris said:
The idea of buying a game before you're ready to play it is fucking retarded, especially on Steam which is known to have massive discounts. Plus it's DD so you can have it as soon as you’re ready to play it.

For you guys who have a big list of un-played Steam games, go back and look at how much you paid for them and compare that to what they are selling for today, then add up the difference. If stupid was quantifiable, the figure you come up with would be the dollar amount of your idiocy.
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I'm sorry your having a rough day. Can I have the diamond you made from the lump of coal stuck up your ass? I could really use it to buy more games from Steam.
 
It must be just a difference in mentality or something, but I've played every game in my library, and have finished almost all of them (usually defined as finishing the campaign mode). The ones I haven't finished are games that are simply too bad for me to play them anymore (there are only 6 of those).

So basically right now I have zero backlog and I'm ready for the Steam Summer Sale to begin, assuming that it's not cancelled or anything...
 
See, this right here is proof that the steam sales don't "hurt" the IP of games. How many of you would have even bought half of these games had they not been on sale? lol.
 
tzhu07 said:
It must be just a difference in mentality or something, but I've played every game in my library, and have finished almost all of them (usually defined as finishing the campaign mode). The ones I haven't finished are games that are simply too bad for me to play them anymore (there are only 6 of those).
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I try to, but real life is a time consuming bitch. I'm trying to catch up on my backlog, but between PC, PS3 and 360, it's going to take a while. I promised myself at the beginning of the year I'd stop buying games. But I did buy Fear 3 (omg terrible), Batman AC for 7 bucks and FF13-2 which was stupid to buy Day 1 considering I haven't played more than 2 hours of.

Games Owned: 86
Games Played: 41
Games Never Played: 45
Percentage Played: 47.67%
Total Hours: 672.60
 
tzhu07 said:
It must be just a difference in mentality or something, but I've played every game in my library, and have finished almost all of them (usually defined as finishing the campaign mode). The ones I haven't finished are games that are simply too bad for me to play them anymore (there are only 6 of those).

So basically right now I have zero backlog and I'm ready for the Steam Summer Sale to begin, assuming that it's not cancelled or anything...
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PC gaming is the cheapest hobby I have by a long shot. As such, I have no problem buying games I MIGHT enjoy without being 100% sure I'm gonna play it. There's plenty of games that have gotten shit reviews and shit user opinions which I've bought on the off chance I'd enjoy it and I in turn really did enjoy it and played it through.

On the flip side there's many games I've bought on the off chance I might like it and either not enjoyed it or not had time to play it. Real life is time consuming! :p

You also have the bundles. Bundles account for a huge number of my unplayed Steam games. I wanted Metro 2033, but the THQ bundle was a better deal and not much more than buying Metro by itself, so I got the bundle instead. So instead of having 1 game I'd definitely play, I have 10 games, 1 of which I'll definitely play and 9 of which I may or may not play or might even already own!

Or take all the racing games. I only really wanted DIRT 2, but there was a package deal with DIRT, DIRT2, GRID, FUEL, Race Driver and I think a couple of others. I really didn't have any intention to play those other games and a couple I already own as retail copies... but they were so cheap and I wanted DIRT2 anyway I just bought the whole bundle.

Once you remove games I got in bundles, there's very few games I've bought and never touched (still a handful, but not nearly as many).
 
272 games and 136 both played and not played exactly 50%

that's not really an honest backlog though, a lot of games have uncounted hour as steam hasn't always tracked hours correctly. Many of the games I have I bought because I wanted a digital copy of games I'd played before and enjoyed and wanted to reward the developers.

Many of the games not played come from packs of games which are ones I've not really wanted but got anyway such as from developer packs and humble bundles and stuff like that. I've slowly worked my way through a lot of my steam backlog over the last 2-3 years because of the lack of really good games these days.
 
Username: Hornet85
Games Owned: 197
Games Played: 80
Games Never Played: 117
Percentage Played: 40.61%
Total Hours: 1023.50

Heh. As someone previously mentioned, that percentage is higher due to some games being played for Steam Sales achievements and I've yet to actually play them.
 
Has anyone ever stopped to think what this says to producers? It screams "We don't need to make a quality game, we just need to make something with neat screen shots or a quirky game play idea and people will buy it off steam if we put it on sale!"

Anyone buying shit on steam 'just because' is hurting the gaming community as a whole. Anyone can come up with some random idea, throw a game together, put it on steam for $30 bucks then on the next big sale discount it to $5 and make tons. Way more then that shit pile would normally merit. Large companies spend tons of money doing research, you think they haven't seen this?
 
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