If I don't keep track of my gaming habits, I'm always going to feel like I'm not playing my games, or at least have an understanding of the time I do spend on gaming.īy looking at the amount of games I own, and the amount of time I have to play games, and the amount of time I am actually playing them, I can make smarter decisions about my purchases. I know achievements are unnecessary, but it's a goal I can set for myself that feels tangible and is easy to see if I'm working on it or not. I've been writing about what I can do to help me focus and start playing my games, and one of the decisions I made was to focus on games that have achievements, so that I have some visual feedback that is telling me I am playing my games. But I don't want those new games to just sit in my catalog for months, possibly years, unplayed.Ī bulk of the 103 games already in my Steam account are unplayed, and I don't want to keep adding to that number. I've been writing a lot about trying to play my games in my Steam library before the Summer Sale, because I know I'm going to buy something then. It's a pretty good lineup, but now I have ten new games that I'm already worrying about when/how I'm going to play them. What I like about these bundles is they always have a few games that are making their debut on Mac, and several of these do. The games that make the bundle are: Pixel Piracy, UnEpic, Super Splatters, Shadow Warrior Special Edition, Outlast, Torchlight II, La-Mulana, 140, MirrorMoon Ep, and Contraption Maker. Two of which I could probably make the argument I really wanted, but honestly none of these were on my radar as must have or own games.ĭon't get me wrong: they all look like really fun to play, and most if not all has something about it that interests me. What's the downside? Honestly there isn't, unless you think like I do. Recently they've added soundtracks to these deals, and this one in particular had four. All the games are DRM free, and come with Steam unlock codes as well. There's a lot of other upsides too: you can control how your money is split, between the Humble people, charity, or developers.
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To see 10 games that are full length, have hundreds of hours between them, and are critically acclaimed offered for $10?!? It's hard not to click that paypal button. I come from an era where newly released Super Nintendo games went as high as $80 at Toys R Us. For Humble Indie Bundle 14, the most you had to pay was $10 to get all ten games being offered. Three or four games would make the actual bundle, while the rest of the games became available if you paid more than the average or a certain dollar amount.Įven with the added tiers, the savings is still there. You paid one price, and you got all five or six games advertised.Īfter a while they started adding unlocks and bonuses as incentive to pay more. When the bundle first came out, there wasn't specific pricing tiers like how it is now.
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You can literally spend a penny, and get a few games. There's no denying the value of these Humble Bundles. I did what I told myself I wasn't going to do.ĭo I have a problem? Is there something wrong with me? I paid $10, so I could acquire every game offered. Last night, I bought the 14th Humble Indie Bundle. In the future, I said to myself, I won't impulsively buy a Humble Bundle unless I want ALL the games. Chances are, that one game will go on sale another time through their store or on Steam, and I can buy it then.Īll this inner dialogue manifested into blog form, was so I could be aware of impulsively buying Humble Indie Bundle's and how it negatively affects my Steam library by: adding to my never ending backlog, lowering my Steam percentage, and creating an unrealistic view of what my library means to me. I also mentioned that I'm going to be more conscience of this when it comes to future indie bundles, and try not to buy eight games when I only want one. Looking back on it I've come to realize that a few of those games might never, ever, get played.
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I mentioned briefly in my previous posts about the upcoming Steam Summer Sale, that I have a large amount of games in my Steam account from the Humble Bundles.Ī lot of those purchases were impulse buys, and whereas I only wanted two or three of the games I ended up with more than I could handle. As I'm writing this, the 14th Humble Indie Bundle will end in under two hours.