Pretty low. A game may not peak my interest after buying but I don't necessarily consider it a bad game. It's often more than I'm busy with something else and add it to my "to play later" list.
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What percentage of the games in your library do you consider a bad purchase?
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1-2% pretty good at knowing what I like, few games I just barely played and haven't went back to. Also a few games I'd buy that would be "free" almost immediately after.
Less than 1%.
I know my taste very well, so I don't buy things that I know I won't like.
Every once in a while I get duped though, it happens
I know my taste very well, so I don't buy things that I know I won't like.
Every once in a while I get duped though, it happens
Thanks to bundles and impulse, I have about 350 games I have LAUNCHED 1 or fewer times. I regret those.
Probably like 10% of games I actually intentionally buy.
I refuse to include stuff like humble bundles though because there are always games in those that I will literally never play even if I had near infinite time
I refuse to include stuff like humble bundles though because there are always games in those that I will literally never play even if I had near infinite time
0% because I buy all my games on day one and sell them on eBay when I'm done with them at a slim loss.
That said, I had plenty of cases (Sakura Wars was the latest) where I resold a game without playing it for long.
That said, I had plenty of cases (Sakura Wars was the latest) where I resold a game without playing it for long.
Most of it I will never properly play, so in that sense I guess a big portion of it is a bad purchase since essentially it is wasted money. Most of them are great games though so I don't really have that feeling.
1-2%. I'm pretty picky about what I buy but there are always going to be some games you take a chance on and they turn out to be bad. So games like Andromeda, Brink, Crackdown 2, Anthem, etc. It only makes up a very small portion of my games and I don't really trade in games so I just keep them.
If im looking at my PSN, Switch digital purchase library, not much tbh. The big highlight for me is Project Cars on PSN, god i hated it, and bite about it because at release it was cheaper than the CD edition at release. On Switch there was Gear Club Unlimited 2, but luckily was able to get a refund from Nintendo by calling them ( and it was on special at like 12$ lol ). Some regrets i got on Switch is thinking st some point to go digital but back off after and got some game i would prefer having the physical, like Animal Crossing, Diablo 3, Dark Souls, but there are not bad purchases by any mean.
No, because of one bad digital purchase, Project Cars, iv very cautious buying digital games now. I dont feel i have a bad digital library.
No, because of one bad digital purchase, Project Cars, iv very cautious buying digital games now. I dont feel i have a bad digital library.
Take a nice long break from gaming maybe?
games have made my life worse
Hmmm so most of you exclude bundles...then around 15%, and of those about half I really regret. Most I'm just aware I won't be able to play for any length at all.
On Steam, probably 20%, mostly due to random humble bundle stuff that got mixed in.
Xbox and Playstation, I'd say 0%, nothing in there I wouldn't be happy playing on any given day.
Switch... One game I absolutely don't like at all, though I wouldn't call it a bad game.
I don't buy bad games.
Xbox and Playstation, I'd say 0%, nothing in there I wouldn't be happy playing on any given day.
Switch... One game I absolutely don't like at all, though I wouldn't call it a bad game.
I don't buy bad games.
1% I guess? I don't know lol, I'm usually very in tune with my tastes and only pick up things I know I'm into.
Straight up bad? Less than 25%. Prob less than 10 or 5%. I usually sell back games that are bad.
I've gotten much, much better about not buying things until I'm ready to play them. At the moment, I have like 2-3 unopened games but I won't say they were a mistake. One of them is 13 Sentinels which I'm all about trying as soon as I kick my FFXIV addiction. Think the others are the Mario 3D collection (had to buy before they take it away) and Bioshock (Switch). Not sure if I'll ever actually play Bioshock at this point but it's hard to consider it a mistake.
In my early 20's I'd basically buy anything remotely interesting and end up with tons of stuff I never played or games I instantly disliked. Glad I got past that.
In my early 20's I'd basically buy anything remotely interesting and end up with tons of stuff I never played or games I instantly disliked. Glad I got past that.
Probably under 5%. I make sure it's a game I will enjoy playing before I purchase, even if it's just a few bucks.
Honestly, only once or twice that I can remember. Saints row for switch cause when I got it it was unplayable (and I'm far more tolerant what I consider playable than a lot of you it seems). I mean there was noticeable lag in controls, you had to predict what move you'd want to do in advance and bad controls is one of the few ways you can instantly turn me off of a game even if I could tell I'd like it otherwise. They finally fixed it at some point (I don't know when cause I put it down and only when commenting a year later and some one telling me they fixed it did I find out). So not so regretting it now. And I think maybe somewhat recently I bought a game that I lost interest in really quickly. Can't even remember what it was. Oh shoot, the dlc for Pokémon shield. Just was done with that game when they came out and couldn't keep my interest that long.
0%.
I procrastinate over purchases big time. If I wind up not being crazy about a game, I refund it.
I procrastinate over purchases big time. If I wind up not being crazy about a game, I refund it.
Less than 5% I think.
Even if I don't like a game, I don't necessarily see that as a bad purchase since I most likely would've bought that game anyway just to try it for myself. I think I got Doom 2016 a few years back for $35 and after a couple of hours I realized that game wasn't for me, but I wasn't mad that I had bought it, cause I knew I would've at some point.
One of the few examples that I was legit mad at myself for buying a game was getting Street Fighter V day one. But other than that (and CP2077 which thankfully I got a refund), I don't remember that many times when I felt I had made a bad purchase.
Even if I don't like a game, I don't necessarily see that as a bad purchase since I most likely would've bought that game anyway just to try it for myself. I think I got Doom 2016 a few years back for $35 and after a couple of hours I realized that game wasn't for me, but I wasn't mad that I had bought it, cause I knew I would've at some point.
One of the few examples that I was legit mad at myself for buying a game was getting Street Fighter V day one. But other than that (and CP2077 which thankfully I got a refund), I don't remember that many times when I felt I had made a bad purchase.
It's a really hard one for me. IfI only consider games I actually bought, neither I think. I tend to love all the games I put money in. Maybe Homefront Revolution, as I don't feel any urger to go back to finish it.
Then GwG and XGP come and load my free space, and not all of those are able to keep my interest.
Then GwG and XGP come and load my free space, and not all of those are able to keep my interest.
according to my steam compeltionist it is around 14-15% of my library. Do note however that quite a bit of those games are bundles games where I buy the bundle for 1-2 games and decide to add a few other because they look interesting, despite being games i'd never buy.
Like... .005 % of the games I buy are considered bad purchases. I'm constantly doing research on video games just out of curiosity, so I know what I'm going to get.
Very few. Most the games I have are ones I was interested in or knew it was something I would like when I bought it
MEEE being a GAMER OF IMPECCABLE TASTES HAAAARDLY MAKES BAD PURCHASES!?!
lol i buy a lot of crap on sale on xbox live, so probably a lot of my library
lol i buy a lot of crap on sale on xbox live, so probably a lot of my library
Its pretty low. I don't often buy things at launch and will usually wait for review. Of the PS4 stuff I have, I only really regret buying the following:
13 Sentinels
Cyberpunk
Divinity: Original Sin II
Hellblade
Kingdom Hearts 3
Zero Time Dilemma
The Order: 1886
Skyrim
Talos Principle
some of these were bought on hype and/or curiosity- not necessarily bad games just not the kind of things I enjoy playing.
13 Sentinels
Cyberpunk
Divinity: Original Sin II
Hellblade
Kingdom Hearts 3
Zero Time Dilemma
The Order: 1886
Skyrim
Talos Principle
some of these were bought on hype and/or curiosity- not necessarily bad games just not the kind of things I enjoy playing.
I find that I rarely dislike a game that I bought. I feel pretty confident about what kind of games I'll like and how to pick them. The downside is I don't try out new types of games that often since I don't take many chances.
I personally don't count bundle or free games.
I personally don't count bundle or free games.
Physical library contains only the games I didn't resell, which right now is around 120 games spanning GC to WiiU, PS2 to PS5. I must have resold 25% of what I bought in my life. My digital libraries also have maybe 25% I didn't like and/or will never replay, including PC games which are all digital. But none of them were full price AAA, they are mostly bargain prices, or indies which are always low cost.
Biggest mistake was to buy games outside of my favorite genre just because they had great reviews. I will not magically start liking a genre I don't like. I stopped buying multi-player games completely. I don't play RTS games because I really suck at it. I stopped playing the hundreds hours RPGs, or MMOs, or Sandbox games which are designed around grinding, because my free time is more limited today.
Biggest mistake was to buy games outside of my favorite genre just because they had great reviews. I will not magically start liking a genre I don't like. I stopped buying multi-player games completely. I don't play RTS games because I really suck at it. I stopped playing the hundreds hours RPGs, or MMOs, or Sandbox games which are designed around grinding, because my free time is more limited today.
0 to 25%. I used to have a fair bit more, but I stopped buying bundles period and played through my backlog. On PC there was a few I didn't like and dropped, but most were cool.
Switch is what kills me because Nintendo has a stupid refund policy. I have Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen (third buy) and Divinity Original Sin 2 (second buy) that I can't refund because the switch version look and play like crap vs. the PC versions. Banner's Saga 1-3 wasn't fun at all, at least these were bought on sale and mostly with coins. Ashen I wasn't a huge fan of at all. Okami felt outdated as heck gameplay wise, really pretty tho. Tokyo Mirage and Atelier Ryza didn't jive with me because no dub.
Switch is what kills me because Nintendo has a stupid refund policy. I have Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen (third buy) and Divinity Original Sin 2 (second buy) that I can't refund because the switch version look and play like crap vs. the PC versions. Banner's Saga 1-3 wasn't fun at all, at least these were bought on sale and mostly with coins. Ashen I wasn't a huge fan of at all. Okami felt outdated as heck gameplay wise, really pretty tho. Tokyo Mirage and Atelier Ryza didn't jive with me because no dub.
Almost zero, since I'll resell games I don't enjoy, but even that is pretty rare. I do have a few digital games that I wish I didn't buy, but probably less than 10 total.
Somewhere between 10-20%. I don't mind buying games just to have them/show support, and I rarely take buy something that's straight trash, usually my regrets fall in the "man I'm never going to get around to playing that am I?" camp.