Game pirates usually have a lot of games, at least usually way more than a paying customer, but they actually don’t play almost any of them. The reason is “choice overload” or “decision paralysis” which they call it “Pirate’s Curse”.

Solution is, whether you are a pirate or not, to have at least number of games installed so when you pickup the device or computer, you won’t need to choose anything and usually will continue that game instead of browsing, and usually buying a lot of games instead of playing.

Hope this helps.

  • _Miketoasty@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    One of the bigger ones for me, is after finally picking a game to play make sure that you give it a fair shot (I’m talking about playing it for at least 30 minutes to an hour).

    Too many times I would install something, get halfway through the tutorial only to put it down and never play it again. I’m now seven games knocked out this year because I’ve pushed myself to get to at least the point where the game really “starts”.

    Quick example but I just beat RDR2 for the first time this year, although I’ve played the first act probably a half dozen times at this point I made an effort to push past that and the game opens up so much in the next area that I basically spent the next week doing nothing but playing it and 50 hours later I had it knocked out… Finally.

  • flynn78@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had this problem back when chipping ps1 was a thing. A big stack of burned discs that I never played.