My gaming goal: minimize the amount of money I spend on games.
I have 10k+ games in my library on Steam (I'm not even counting the sealed games I have for older consoles), with plenty of games I want to play, but I never do, because I end up playing something I bought in the meantime. It's time I start playing those.
Especially since I find myself with less and less time (and sometimes patience) to play games. And, my financial situation for 2020 will be quite different from 2019, so it makes sense to save my money for other things.
I surely spent a very significant amount of € in games yet again this year, and ended up playing only a very small portion of it.
For 2020, I'll buy DLCs for games I already own, I'll surely buy a handful of games I'm looking forward to (like Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro, ...), but outside of that, I'll probably get a few months of the Humble Monthly (and hopefully I'll manage to sell some of the games, to balance things), and I'll try to buy not much more.
Surely not the dozens of games I bought each month.
I'm the guy that usually buys many indie games on day one (instead of waiting for discounts or bundles), but if this year (and the end of 2018) has taught me anything is that for many of these indie developers, support is a one-way street.
And since I'm turning into an old fart, with not much patience to deal with many of the crap some of these developers have been pulling (like when developers like Supergiant Games, Klei Entertainment, and Julian Gollop's Snapshot Games act like they're doing me a big favour by allowing me to buy their games a year later, or companies like Koei Tecmo can't be bothered to put some effort in their PC ports, but still nickel-and-dime people with a ridiculous amount of DLCs, for example), my willingness to support their "dickery" is non-existent.
Clearly, the games industry has changed, and I'm no longer the target audience.
I don't play F2P games, mobile games, and crap like Fortnite and Dota. I'm not willing to spend the amount of money that a decent VR solution costs, so it seems I'm a non-factor for some companies as well (like Valve).
It seems I'm a dying breed.
I'm mostly a single-player gamer. I like arcade games (like shmups and beat'em ups), and FMV games, and point and click adventure gamers, and dungeon crawlers.
So yeah: not spending so much money on games. That's my main resolution.
Secondary resolution: try to show up more frequently for co-op sessions with
BlindRhythm,
Li Kao,
Echoes,
EdwardTivrusky, and the rest of the Meta co-op gang.
... yeah.
