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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: bikingjahuty on December 13, 2021, 05:59:37 pm
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What I mean by this is what percentage are you into or participate in the purely collecting aspect of gaming versus what percentage you actually play the games you own?
For me it's about 20% collector, 80% gamer.
These numbers were reversed about 7 years ago when I was way more into hunting down games in the wild.
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These days, probably 90% gamer, to 10% collector, I don't really have the funding to do both, so I choose the one I'd spend more time enjoying, which is actually playing new games.
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I don't think I could put a percentage but I would say I enjoy collecting a bit more but I spend more time actually playing the games. It would be far too costly and kind of pointless for me to only collect games
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Well... I've always basically just kept the games I enjoyed as I've moved through time. So for a while, it was 50/50 as I generally didn't trade in anything.
Fast forward to today and I rarely buy things day one anymore. I don't preorder unless it's a collector's edition or a new system... and I haven't bought a collectors edition since Uncharted 4 came out. As of this last year, I finished up my Game Gear collection and there's a small handful of games I want for PS1 and PS2 to still get. That's basically where I'm at. So I'm maybe 2-5% collector now? I'm not planning to get rid of my collection by any means, but I'm not buying games I won't play.
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I play video games between 1 to 3 hours a night during the week and a lot more on weekends.I collect mostly for retro systems but I don't play them as much as I would like because I only have my modern consoles at my girl's house.90% my collection is at my house where one day we will all live.but for now while her kids are still in school I live with my new family here because the school system in her town is better suited to help special needs children.
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Probably 50/50 these days. Still collecting a ton but have made a concerted effort to play more games this year. Up to nearly 30 beaten on the year. I'm mostly at this point trying to complete console sets and boxes for nintendo cartridge systems so that's more collecting focused than gaming focused. I'm not currently tracking down Contra Legacy of War on Saturn because i want to play it (i have it on ps1) but because it's the last game outside of daytona netlink that i need to complete the NA set.
With a young baby at home, harder to sneak away to my retro gameroom to play for large chunks of time. Hoping as he gets older, I will be able to play more.
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It's a bit hard to say. For the most part, I do want to play 90+% of the games I own (pretty much everything but the sim sports games), but my overall lack of freetime means that the backlog grows quicker than I can whittle it down. Right now, out of all the physical games I own, I can only say I've finished a little under a fifth of them, and that's just the physical backlog. I think I'd need a few weeks in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to get anywhere.
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I stopped collecting physical I now play games more then obtain them, I have too many I never played my health is not the greatest and I no longer got the energy to play them unfortunately :'(
I lost a ton of gaming enthusiasm ever since I realized how many collectors there are and how expensive the games became, I don't like the idea of retro games becoming few and far between so I am severely depressed these days as a result so depressed I don't have the energy to enjoy the ones I have, since collecting is kind of pointless, when there are no more games to collect for.
I am into music now and always
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Probably 95% gamer and 5% collector.
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I have always considered myself to be both a gamer and a collector. The ratio has changed many times over the years but I think im to the point where I can say I'm 50/50. I dont buy nearly as much as I used to and I attempt to play as often as I can. I expect that in the coming years, my collecting is going to drop a lot however and I'm going to just concentrate on what I have.
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It has changed over time and now I do not think I can easily split it the way others have posted it. The reason being is that while I am playing games more than buying them, I am not playing the games I am buying. It is because I'm mostly playing digital games and not the physical games. The physical games just go on a shelf. They are on my to-play-list but they have less priority for me because I can always play physical but can only play digital as long as the online services they are connected to are in operation.
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As time goes on I actually have less time to game than I did 10 years ago. I'm mostly playing new games on PC or consoles when I can, but collecting comes and goes in spurts. I'll sometimes drop $500 on a bunch of retro games or pre-order a collector's edition of something. Sometimes I'll knock out the cheap common games on my list and buy a dozen or so on eBay. Then I'll stop for a few months and switch between playing new games and playing a retro one here or there to get it off my list. My plan is to eventually play every game I have bought.
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Once the summer ended it became 95% Collecting 5% playing. It's not like I have no time. But I really don't want to keep starting all the games that I am buying then abandoning them. So I'm only allowing myself to play Skyrim and Destiny 1 because I put considerable time into them this summer, and so when I don't feel like playing those, I don't play. Contrast that with collecting, where I can do that anytime and anywhere.
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A few years ago I was more of a collector than a gamer, maybe 70/30... but I completely most of my collection (I had lists of games I wanted for each system) so now I only buy the games I want to play. Does that mean I'm 100% gamer and 0% collector? ???
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Give me some way to calculate this metric and I'll come up with something... otherwise, I don't really know how to answer it myself. I hate considering myself either of those labels as I generally associate those labels as negative things personally.
I buy a lot of games, I play a lot of games, but I generally don't aim for condition or have any goals other than buying what I want...
I don't know 50/50?
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Just a gamer, I am almost completely against the idea of buying stuff I know I won't like, and since the budget is getting tighter, I have made a plan for this following 2022 finally end buying all retro games I needed.
I must admit that I don't tend to gaming so much because once again I have that long to-do list I don't care to shorten.
Any case, I am happy just buying stuff that looks cool enough.
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I am almost completely against the idea of buying stuff I know I won't like
It is interesting about this, since doing the 52 Games Challenge for this year I found many things I bought I didn't like. It is kind of disappointing. Things that looked good, good graphics or promises of certain features that interested me, had some other issue that made things too annoying to bother with. Also it had shown me that my tastes for things have changed over the years as well.
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I am almost completely against the idea of buying stuff I know I won't like
It is interesting about this, since doing the 52 Games Challenge for this year I found many things I bought I didn't like. It is kind of disappointing. Things that looked good, good graphics or promises of certain features that interested me, had some other issue that made things too annoying to bother with. Also it had shown me that my tastes for things have changed over the years as well.
Same. I've bought a lot of games that once I've played them I realized that I really shouldn't have wasted my money.
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I have always been more of a "buy games I'm going to play" person and not a "buy games that I'll stick on the shelf and never look at ever again" kind of person. I do buy impulsively sometimes, but I try to curate what I have the best I can... it can be difficult though when you have a lot of worthless junk that no one wants.
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I have to admit I'm kind of surprised how much more gamers this is leaning. I can't remember exactly why but when I was here last year I had the feel that most people barely had time to play games at all and were just amassing collections for the heck of it.
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I have to admit I'm kind of surprised how much more gamers this is leaning. I can't remember exactly why but when I was here last year I had the feel that most people barely had time to play games at all and were just amassing collections for the heck of it.
These nothing to collect anymore, the supply of the official releaces is just about gone what do you expect? I am still mostly a collector just like I said before on here, but no supply means there is nothing for me to collect anymore and it makes my blood boil when I see people that have 10,000-20,000 games individual games that , and since there is no supply that makes me somewhat jealous those people were just amassing games as I was because I KNEW this supply was going to run out, now? nothing much is left.
I wanted to amass more games I am still a hoarder because I'm currently holding onto some rare things in my collection that most people could never get do to supply, I don't want to use them because I am afraid I'll get too attached and they'll break and I won't be able to sell or replace them in which REALLY makes my blood boil, to the point I stopped playing my games now due to depression
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I have to admit I'm kind of surprised how much more gamers this is leaning. I can't remember exactly why but when I was here last year I had the feel that most people barely had time to play games at all and were just amassing collections for the heck of it.
These nothing to collect anymore, the supply of the official releaces is just about gone what do you expect? I am still mostly a collector just like I said before on here, but no supply means there is nothing for me to collect anymore and it makes my blood boil when I see people that have 10,000-20,000 games individual games that , and since there is no supply that makes me somewhat jealous those people were just amassing games as I was because I KNEW this supply was going to run out, now? nothing much is left.
Must be my imagination every time I go into GameStop and see all those games, then.
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Probably 75% collector and 25% gamer.
Don't get me wrong i still try to play 15-20 hours a week or try to atleast, it's just i buy way more then i can play and when i think about it i bought 300+ games this year so i can hardly say i'm more gamer then collector.
let's say i enjoy having the games as much as i enjoy playing them i always did btw.
Starting hunting down the japanese xbox 360 full set kind off sparked new life into me as a collector, a lot of stuff is still dirt cheap so i may aswell go hard before the prices spike up.
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Probably 99 percent gamer and 0.735 percent collector these days. Only because I chose like 3 games and bought them digitally and those are the ones I play and I play them a lot. 1 percent because just having those games I guess is adding to my collection even if it's not my intent :).
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I have to admit I'm kind of surprised how much more gamers this is leaning. I can't remember exactly why but when I was here last year I had the feel that most people barely had time to play games at all and were just amassing collections for the heck of it.
I know a lot of collectors and I'd say most are 75% collector and 25% gamer at best. Many are probably 90% and 10% and then a few are pretty much just 100% collecting. The people I've known with the biggest, craziest collections ironically almost never played video games since they seemed to dump all their free time in the pursuit of more games. I'm not saying anything is wrong with doing this, but it's just funny being so passionate about collecting video games and yet not playing any of them ever.
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Currently I would say im 90% gamer and 10% collector which wasnt the case in years prior. I feel like this year prior to the recent holiday splurge I did that I didnt buy as much as I did in the last year as I did play more games than I have in some years which is nice. Ultimately, the collecting bug I have specifically for retro games is not there anymore and I am okay with that.
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There's nothing wrong with collecting games, or game collectors. After all, this website and a lot of others out there were created around the idea of game collecting in itself, as it's own hobby, apart from gaming. Ironic how so many regulars here have a retired most of their collecting ambitions and now consider themselves to no longer be game collectors, and even lament collecting as if it's actually a shameful thing, because you're supposed to just play video games and not collect them? This is still "VG Collect", no matter how old hat the idea of collecting games might seem in 2021. There are still people getting into the hobby, or without near as much experience or time sunk into it, and they all deserve the same kind of respect we afforded one another years ago, just as us veterans do as well.
I still collect with the same principles and ideals that I started with in 2008. To me it's not gotten old, or boring, or somehow greedy or immoral to own a bunch of games or to buy more than I can play. I'm an enthusiast, this is what I like to do with my time and money. I like this stuff, and I want to own and archives the physical copies. If I had to place an arbitrary percentage on my habits, I'd say 75% collector 25% "gamer". Although, as I've stated before, I don't identify with the cultural understanding of the word "gamer" in a sense where you need to be someone who wants for nothing but to sit in front of a screen 18 hours a day, empty snack wrappers and beverages strewn about, where I only leave the room for a bathroom break every so many hours. That's not me, and has never been. I'm more of a casual game player. Even when I was a child and played every single game that I owned and quite often, I would not retrospectively call myself a "gamer" in those days. Games were just one of a number of different hobbies and interests that I had, but never to a point of spending all of my time with games.
I game less now than as a kid, but recently I've been playing more than I have in quite some time. If you'd ask me this question several years ago, I'd easily guess a 95% / 5% ratio. However, my collecting has slowed and gaming has picked up some. Collecting still out-paces by a lot, but I've got no problem with that. Collecting games for me ties more into the real world experience, one that becomes enmeshed in the daily travels and going-ons, as where gaming is more of an isolated form of entertainment that's best served when you're bored at home and want an escape. It's a situation that I find myself in, not as often. I don't go out of my way to play games, and certainly don't feel obligated to them. I play when the mood strikes me. I may never get to all of my games, and that's fine.
With all of that said, yes I'm a game collector and a proud one. I used to shy away from that admission, ironically because of the shame often implicated towards the notion from within collecting communities like this one. Now I don't care who likes it, and who doesn't. We all have our toy collections, and we can do with them as we wish. Huck them all and declare yourself free of bondage, hoard them up until there's no more breathing room; doesn't matter. Do what you want. I still enjoy it, and enjoy the company and conversation that builds around those who also still enjoy it.
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I'd probably say like 90% (maybe more) collector and 10% (maybe less) gamer.
I say this because whenever I have a free weekend, I usually find more joy in going out to hunt for games than staying home and playing what I already own.
Besides, the whole "gamer" community tends to be a little too toxic for my taste...
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For long time, i been 70% collector, and 30% gamer. Recently its been changing, in last 2 years, because i am pretty much 85% caught up to all collecting, i want to do for anything before PS4 era. Already gotten main pieces/most important pieces for my collections of games i want to play, and keep forever, till day i die.
So now i am worry about less collecting, keeping eye on some modern games, PS4/PS5/Switch. I feel like as time will go, eventually i find few of those rare pieces off my Want list i hope, for reasonable price. I be able to than just focus more and more on playing vs hunting down good deals.
So i am more like 60% Gaming now and 40% collecting. Its quiet nice, to have library of almost any game i want to play on each system from earlier childhoods/teenage years to young adulthood/adult life.
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I used to be a big gamer. But now that I am 38 with career, a family and 3 kids, I am more a collector at this point. But, once an empty nester I hope to get playing more. Still play now, but just alot more limited to find free time. However, going to garage sales, thrift stores and pawn shops can be a fun family activity so I get more time towards that. New to the forum! Hello all!
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used to be 50 / 50 collector gamer during the times when I was really active collecting wise, but I collect allot less these days since I have pretty much everything that I want and it's harder to find stuff that I still need. So I play allot more during free time.
Nowadays I'd say 20 % collector 80 % gamer also little interest to collect current gen.
Not to mention that the only reason I started to collect old games was because I played allot of games and I was told by friends to be pretty good at them. with certain multiplayer games my friends would only play against me if it could be 2 or 3 vs 1 I would still win though :P That's where tournaments are for if you want to find people who are really good at games to even the playing field. It's also nice that they have side games for variety and less skill games.
With pure nostalgia I would probably just stick with a smaller collection, for me the drive to collect would only work because I played allot of games and was good at them.
Still if where talking 90% collectors, They probably played a ton of games at some point to have such a passion for it most likely during child hood where time was plentyfull . not to mention time is limited as an adult so some people actually don't have time to play the games atm, while collecting and buying can be done while spending little time nothing wrong with that I can easily see how people have big collections while they don't play allot. collecting just takes up allot less time than playing.
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I've been pretty much just buying games whenever I can, with little if any time spent playing, so I guess I'm just a collector, at least at this moment in time. The last game I played in full was Final Fantasy VII Remake, and whatever I know about any other games is because I keep up-to-date, as well as tend to watch gameplay videos and read up on them. I was hoping Metroid Dread would jolt me back into shape, but that wasn't the case, unfortunately, so hopefully I'll return to form sometime this year. In fact, I'm planning on doing a bit of an overhaul to my room within a few weeks from today, so I want to give the new Pokémon game a try once I'm done.
That said, I might slow down on my spending a bit.