Basicly describes myself. I used to buy allot of games I found very interesting, but not THAT interesting that I would leave everything lying around and play it. Now that I have all of the major classics and games I like a game really has to make me excited for me to buy it. Otherwise I just wait for the Promo. I mean I am still excited for allot of games to come out and also looking forward to picking some games up that came earlier this year like Ori and the Blind Forest. But I wouldn't throw 20€ at it. The only game I bought recently was MGS5, but I already put like 80 hours into that and I still have a long way to go.

The Indie Bundles also went down in quality. I remember that the first Humble Bundle I bought was the third (which also included the previous second bundle). I had allot of fun with these games and I even put like 20 hours into Hammerfight and another 30 into playing and modding Cortex Command. After that came allot of great bundles with many classics. All in all great value for your money. But now the quality seems to go down a bit since all major indie games were already in it and I also own all of them.

I also noticed that I finally play the games I own. I also seem to finish them more often than I used to. All in all a good thing in my book.

I like the idea of bundles, but I dislike Indie shovelware of which I consider most indie games. That doesn't mean I don't like indie games however, but I like bigger-better indie games that could fool you into thinking they were made by a bigger company. The majority of indie games appear to be trying to endlessly rehash old gaming paradigms in particular rogue-likes and endless new platformer games, especially with "retro" barf graphics. I don't doubt there's a market for that stuff as the developers can't seem to make it fast enough, but it is just 100% not for me. The problem though is that the bundles have seemingly turned into endless indie shovelware bundles now, whereas not long ago there would be bigger name titles in bundles much more often. Perhaps the bigger name companies didn't do as well on sales in bundles and decided that that strategy doesn't meet their goals so are not interested anymore, hard to say. Now any of the bundles that contain big name games that show up are just taking advantage of the momentum of the bundle mindset for marketing purposes, but bundling much more expensive games together for like $15-20 or more. I don't consider those to be "bundles" in the original sense of what a bundle was, but rather more like what would have been called a collection or Battlechest Edition a decade ago. When a new bundle does turn up with an interesting A class title now, it is usually only in tier 3 for $15 that comes with a dozen or more crap games in the first two tiers. Not compelling for me, but then I may no longer be the target customer of these things either, which is fine by me. I'll just save my money up and give it to CDPR instead. :)

Sure, and I'm sure she'd love the idea. That won't be for ever since I'm already immortal, anyways.

Then give her a copy of Immortal, the Nes or Mega Drive one :P
To remind her of her daddy :)

Since I have twins (and they'll both LOVE games I'm sure of it :P) I can double my backlog from now on... right?! :P

I agree with you. I mean the bundles still contain good games. But it feels like many of them just get filled up with games that are just not that good. For example, Humble Bundle 5 contained Bastion, Amnesia, Limbo, Psychonauts, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Braid, Super Meat Boy and Lone Survivor. Each one of these games is really good. None of them were just "meh", but you took them because they were in the bundle. For me Humble Bundles always had a certain quality to them compared to other bundles that they kinda lost now. Atleast for me. There are still good bundles now and then, like the current one that has some really good games. But there was a time when a new Humble Bundle was around and I was really excited for it. I expected that every game in there was good or atleast interesting. And for the most part, they were. I am also not really a fan of the tier system. However as you pointed out too. I'm probably just not the target audience anymore.

Agreed. I'm not sure if the quality is lost, or if the target audience has just changed, or some combination of that. For a while I thought perhaps it was because I just had so many games to begin with, but I decided to pretend I don't own any games at all, then look at what bundles I would buy if I owned none and well... I wouldn't buy any of them. So it isn't just because I'm saturated with games, it is because they truly don't offer much of anything that I want anymore, whether they are things I want that I don't own, or even things that I do own. My top 3 bundle sites in order of most purchases to least are Bundlestars, Humble, IndieGala. A couple years ago I bought like 14 bundles from Bundlestars in one single year! Now, I don't remember the last bundle I bought from any of them, nor a bundle I would have bought if I didn't own what I wanted from it already. So rethinking all of this I think I can say that from my own perspective I perceive a definite decline in quality offerings over time in bundleland for my taste.

I must admit though too that even if a bundle had some tempting offerings nowadays, if I have even the slightest gut feeling that they might come to GOG in the future, then I wont buy it unless I want to play one of the games immediately, because many Steam bundle games I've bought before have since come to GOG and I wished that I'd waited it out. :)

I think it's both (although clearly for you the GOG issue is important). When there are months between bundles, as was the case early on, then bundles are special and picked and chosen. When there are tens of bundles a week (altogether on the market), or, even in the case of Humble, "only" 2, it's much harder to pick and choose. Then there's the increased number of games on the market. This means more variety, which in turn means that a lot of games, even if they're considered good by a group of players, won't be a match for another group.

I bought the current entry level Android bundle for Botanicula. Almost 2 weeks since my last game purchase, and that was for the kid. The previous honest to goodness backlog addition was 3 weeks ago. Still, no matter the reason, the backlog monster grows.

I followed this thread for a while, but stopped when it was clear I couldn't actually _stop_.

Still, it was a very difficult summer emotionally and I know I was using a bit of retail therapy ($10-20 a month, and a bit more during the summer sale, but still, that adds up) for self-buys and a few GAs.

I'm having internet connection problems at my new place, so maybe the fact that I'll be off-line more will get me to actually play through the backlog I have rather than spend time (and $$) adding to it! :)

But...I'm under no illusions I'm on any wagon. I think I'm only up to 10 days or something, if that. And I'm still looking forward to both fall and winter sales. Still, I'm trying to shift from $10-20 per month to $3-10.

Nice job going 69 days. I don't think I have over 30 days without a game purchase in years. I now try to limit it to one purchase a month. It's kind of allocated in the budget because it was agreed upon long ago that if I gave up tobacco that I could buy a game a month and still save money.

I think this screenshot should speak for itself

Gratuitous purchase of the week goes to the Humble Capcom Bundle. There goes $1 to games I won't play. Should I buy the BTA?

I'm working on my new budget plan ( Scrooge's piggy bank )

I'm so tempted by the BTA of the Humble Capcom Bundle. It's not that I'm likely to ever play them, but three decent Resident Evil games plus DmC and Remember Me, all for around $6 (what I need to add from the $1 tier) is very tempting. Not exactly my first call when it comes to type of games, but I think I'll still enjoy them if I ever get to them (which is of course the big if).

Games i passed since i stop buying anything from Gog :

Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet

Prehistorik 1+2

Death to Spies: Moment of Truth

Two Worlds 2: Epic Edition
Capitalism Plus
Capitalism 2
Pajama Sam Vol. 1
Pajama Sam Vol. 2
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure - Director's Cut
BloodNet
Challenge of the Five Realms