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Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i will continue buying the games and not playing them, tyvm

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A person of culture, I see.

    I have the time to play games. I own many games. Yet I am not playing them. Why? I used to love games. Why can I not get sucked in anymore?

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    • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depression and anxiety, probably.

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      • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I am anxious about nothing and feel the whole range of human emotions, hope for the future, enjoyment of other things. I feel quite happy most of the time actually.

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    • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i’v heard some people say this sort of thing is likely that your subconscious or whatever just isnt being “fulfilled” by that level of activity, that you got to try something a little “higher” like creating your own game/telling your own story

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      • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not a bad idea. I’m 90% done my erotic Star Trek the next generation fan fiction. One more graphic sex scene and it’s done. I could finish that.

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    • urandom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used to be like that. Had a huge backlog of games and didn’t play any of them. The the steam deck happened …

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s why they add gambling mechanics in games. That way many can not stop playing.

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• CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah I’m a very patient gamer, I’m perfectly happy to just play games on my Steam Deck years after they come out. If there’s something I want, I’ll usually just wishlist it and let it sit there until it goes down to a price that seems reasonable. Much better to get it for $15-20 with all the DLC and bug fixes than paying $80+ for an unfinished buggy mess IMO.

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, especially since I know I likely wouldn’t play it much.
  On the other hand, if it was free (also as in money) and open-source, and I liked it, I could donate. Although I don’t have much money, so probably just smaller amounts, better than the 0 I do right now by not gaming instead.
  For example, I absolutely wouldn’t pay $9.60 for Binary Eye (barcode/2D code scanner app) if it cost that much, but as a donation that was fine.

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