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Average bought Steam-game remains unplayed by 22%
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Saint Gregory
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I would guestimate that I haven't ever played greater than 75% of my Steam library so I'm probably helping to skew those numbers by a lot.
Lol.. This = me aswell.. I am bored at the beginning of a day off and decide to buy a few new games, become busy for that day and wont have a day off for a long time.. Happens more often than not, I think I have ~100 games in my steam, 40-50 of which I havn't even started yet..
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Given my bad habits i figured it'd be much higher
Wow!!!
You actually played half of your 209 games? I have about that many as well and I've only really touched maybe 30 of those games...
TheSlySoul
Member
86% - I don't know if I should be proud or sadden by how much lack of free time I have.
Imperfected
Member
To be fair, a lot of the games I have on Steam weren't so much "intentionally" purchased as "incidentally" purchased as part of Indie Bundles. The number that I actually bought as stand-alone products and haven't played would be much, much lower by comparison. (Only one or maybe two, really.)
Lasthope106
Member
Seems right. The PSN trophies statistics paint a very similar picture. Most of the games I've completed on PS3 have a completion rate of about 30%.
I would go further and make the following claim. The "hardcore" segment is smaller that what a lot of us realize.
This is obscured because every game has very vocal minority on forums, especially here on neogaf that make it seem like everyone and your grandmother have played a certain game. That couldn't be further from the truth.
I would go further and make the following claim. The "hardcore" segment is smaller that what a lot of us realize.
This is obscured because every game has very vocal minority on forums, especially here on neogaf that make it seem like everyone and your grandmother have played a certain game. That couldn't be further from the truth.
soul creator
Member
lol @ the Survival Instinct note. Big shout out to the 0.8%!
Interesting to see people discuss it here (I assume this is the achievement they're referring to)
Interesting to see people discuss it here (I assume this is the achievement they're referring to)
Fattony12000
Member
Mine's probably somewhere in the 5-10% range, based on my library of 373 Steam games.
Haunted
Member
Games not played 106 (23%)
Guess I'm average.
Guess I'm average.
I don't think the difficulty of 1999 mode is the main factor here. That percentage sounds about right for something that requires you to finish a story-driven singleplayer game twice... or alternatively unlock the secret hardest difficulty setting via a code input on the main menu before your first time through.
It was a New Game + option or required a code, and was poorly designed to begin with.
PedroLumpy
Member
More appropriate question would be 'Was it fun?'
Looking a my own Steam library, the Publisher packs I picked up when I first got on Steam are inflating the backlog a bit.
Uh, no? Why should it be a reflex for people to go the wrong way?
But if they haven't played it, how would they know?
Particularly in that there's no actual info in the graphics.
Sneak preview for a similar infographic in two years' time:
"95% of people haven't completed the new Shadow of the Beast!"
snoopeasystreet
Member
amateurs
I would love to have seen these stats before they launched the trading card system. I have plenty of games that I have "played" by just opening them and sitting on the menu screen until all the cards popped.
I definitely have Steam games I've never or barely played. But many/most of those were from various Humble Bundles, and cost me very little or practically nothing.
Games I've bought outright I've definitely played a lot, or enough to feel it was worth it for me. And most of those were bought on good Steam sales.
Games I've bought outright I've definitely played a lot, or enough to feel it was worth it for me. And most of those were bought on good Steam sales.
SwiftDeath
Member
You're supposed to play the games you buy on steam?
Oh that makes sense
Oh that makes sense
Every Time I Die
Banned
what does completed mean? Is it 100%-ing a game for achievements or is it seeing a single player campaign through to an ending?
NotoriousPUG
Member
Because the gameplay isn't very good so putting more focus on the worst part of the game seemed like a bad idea.
Crash Station
Member
Considering the sales essentially make people hoarders, I'm not surprised.
I've double-dipped on a lot of titles I've completed on other platforms, so those won't get played unless I'm in the mood to revisit them. I also don't feel compelled to chase achievements on PC. With those things in mind, my "finish the campaign" percentage is probably around 85% at the moment.
I've only got a handful of games I won't beat and that's only because I'm not good enough (damn you, Isaac).
I've only got a handful of games I won't beat and that's only because I'm not good enough (damn you, Isaac).
I'd really be interested in time data: how long it takes purchasers to get around to actually playing/finishing a game. Lag vs completion: whose more likely to finish a game, those that start right away vs those that wait after purchase. Etc.
I find I eventually try a lot of the games I buy but it takes years to get around to it.
I find I eventually try a lot of the games I buy but it takes years to get around to it.
CaptainTiptop
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Not enough people have finished Sleepy Dogs. :/
this is the ugliest shit I've ever seen
I'm sad almost 62% haven't finished TWD S1.
Only actually played the first 2 episodes.. I did it with my wife and we had a nice time but just never gotten back to it. Some day I hope.
Portugeezer
Member
Such great value, only to then not play them.
And damn, that was a mess to read.
And damn, that was a mess to read.
But how else are they going to get the r/Gaming upvotes?
I'm sad almost 62% haven't finished TWD S1.
Why? It's a terrible game. Uninspired gameplay with an even worse cast of characters. You would have to pay me money to finish that title.
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This is unsurprising. Not everyone who buys a game is a diehard fan of the IP or genre. Especially if they bought the game at a discount. If the title isn't terribly interesting to a player who is experimenting with new games, it would be easy for them to just drop the title before completion.
I am not helping those numbers. I have 174 games in my library and I've only installed less than half of them.
Some of the games I've installed I've never played. I probably finish less than half of the games I install.
I definitely have an addiction to buying cheap digital copies of games. My PSN account is starting to balloon in the same way.
Some of the games I've installed I've never played. I probably finish less than half of the games I install.
I definitely have an addiction to buying cheap digital copies of games. My PSN account is starting to balloon in the same way.
It's to demonstrate how engrained genre conventions are. That "achievement" requires you, at the very start of the game, to go left for just a few steps instead of going right. 2/3 of players don't even make that tiny move to the left, though, because experience has told them that platformers go from left to right. Just a nifty little social experiment.
Dr. Zoidberg
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Most of the Steam games I've bought have never been downloaded, much less played. Of course, the average price paid per game is around $4 so I'm not too concerned about it.
In many cases they are PC versions of console games I've already completed, and I'm just buying the PC version dirt-cheap for "posterity" since I rarely keep any console games once I'm done with them.
In many cases they are PC versions of console games I've already completed, and I'm just buying the PC version dirt-cheap for "posterity" since I rarely keep any console games once I'm done with them.
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