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Subject: Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #00000000000C
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:09:27 -0800
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On 12/13/2024 7:53 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:43:16 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:41:03 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> 
>>> Like me! ;)
> 
>> :-P
> 
> I don't divide up by platform, but my 'unplayed'* for my total library
> rests comfortably at 56.62%. (I have a spreadsheet!** ;-). That number
> has been going up, however. I'm pretty sure that just two or three
> years ago it was down around 20%.
> 
> I refuse to take the blame, however. There's only so many hours in the
> day and I can't keep up with the sheer influx of of freebies
> (especially on Epic, which I'll happily Numerate*** but stubbornly
> won't play on that platform). Especially since games keep getting
> longer and longer.
> 
> That said, the number of games I get through has definitely declined
> over the years (guess how I know? It involves my catch-phrase!). Back
> in 2007, my average games played per month was 10 titles. In 2023, it
> was 3.75. In fairness, I had a much higher abandonment rate back then
> too (on average, five of the games I played in 2007 were abandoned
> before I finished them; in 2023, that number was 0.6).
> 
I just want to know how you managed to abandon 0.6 of a game....

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.