Steam Stats: 36% of Registered Games Unplayed

[fakhar362]

This is the beauty of the frequent Steam/gamefly/greenmangaming/gog discount sales. M$ (Xbox) should learn from that... People always said console gaming is much cheaper than PC gaming, but it is actually not that true. Yes, PC hardware are more expensive than console. So the initial cost is higher. But the $$ you saved from games will off set the more expensive PC hardware cost very soon. Unless you are stupid enough to only buy PC games at launch. Of course console game also have discounts, but the discount % and frequency are not as high as PC games.

And "Gaming PC need to upgrade every .5/1/2 years are just myth. People said that usually know shit about computers.

Even if you buy everry game day 1, you stll get it cheaper on PC; there was a site that was offering Thief for pre-order for $20; another site(i think gamersgate) is selling Wolfenstein for 27 pounds for PC and 50 pounds for X1/PS4

 

[JeanLuc]

Sorry if this comes across as slightly xenophobic but only an America would be surprised that 'Football Manager' is the most widely played game on Steam. It's a game about tactics and strategy based around the most popular sport in the world so why would this be a surprise?

 

[falchard]

Sounds like good news for artsy indie players. People buy their games and don't even play them.

 

[Christopher1]

Unplayed? Seems strange that people would buy games that they are never going to play. I personally don't buy unless I have been eyeing a game for years or I get it free as part of having bought other games in the past (which happened recently with Grotesque Tactics, I got the latest one under another name free for some reason!).

 

[teh_chem]

Sounds about right to me. I bought a lot of games in bundles, typically just for one or two of the games, and have never even installed a lot of them.

 

[Reaps]

Hang on; a decent chunk of the games in the first chart that rank high in the 'unplayed' category don't even require purchase in the first place!

 

[texasriffy]

I don't believe those statistics of games played percentages. One only has to try to get in a game in MW3 or MW2 to realize that BO II is played much more. Takes 10 times as long to get hooked up in those older games. So it brings into doubt the remainder of the stats.