Infinite Backlog gives you one place for your entire gaming collection and encourages you to play your games and get your backlogs under control. It provides a visual breakdown of your cross-platform collection, tracks gaming achievements and statistics and lets you connect with other gamers with the same games.
They are also in fediverse: @infinitebacklog@mstdn.games
On Steam there are category sales much more often (right now TPS Fest).
I buy at historical lows via Isthereanydeal any time of the year anyway.
And just like weight and fashion changes for shirts, I may change my schedule and interests not to fit games I bought years ago.
I know they exist (the sales by topics) but my emphasis was on “most”.
Where one draws the line on min/maxing is deeply personal. I’m happy to take a risk that my tastes will remain close enough to justify the purchase, evidently you feel otherwise. Neither of us are wrong (other than you, obviously - we’re arguing on the internet so I need to be needlessly confrontational, it’s the law or some old charter or something).
I was mostly replying because I don’t think your way is wrong but I don’t think mine is either. I have at least a thousand games in my collection. Unless something really enticing is released that calls to me (rare) then I always have fresh experiences waiting in my library. It’s probably cost a few thousand pounds over nearly twenty years and I feel that’s a reasonable trade-off to have that facility.
It’s not the result of frivolous spending or poor impulse control. It’s a deliberate choice to min/max in a different direction. I too use IsThereAnyDeal and slowly hoover up titles that I’ve got my eye on. I rarely immediately play things I pick up!
Of course, I am not asserting any superiority. I am just a buy one-play one, indie-loving guy.
What mostly stops me from buying titles I don’t play directly is going through the list of all the other things I may need/want to buy with the same money.
Regarding the most, category/publisher sales are back-to-back in between the seasonal ones, so yes, I think they are most of them.
Fair enough - I’m only aware of the sales where things are discounted enough to trigger my IsThereAnyDeal notifications!
Most of my purchases are when the price is low enough to essentially be a rounding error in my spending. I’m rather stingey like that!