37 percent of Steam games have never been played -- Report

I'm gonna get around to them, I swear.

I wish you could buy time on steam....at a discount...

The stats for hrs played didn't start getting recorded when steam went live so I have games I've beaten in my steam list that show 0 hours played even though I spent 100 hrs playing them. So results are dumb unless they do not include games released prior to steam changing the way it recorded statistics.

The title makes it sound like 37% of games have never been played by anyone, Gotta get clicks somehow I guess.

This article is a blatant lie.

You can sort every game on the steam store in alphabetical order and 95% of all games you click have at least one review. In order to write a review on steam you have to have played the game for at least half an hour.

And just think about how bold of a statement that is to make, every game on earth takes a lot of work to create. Even indie games usually have at least half a dozen people working on them. So you are saying the people who made the game never even played their own game on steam? This article is just wrong on so many different levels.

From the outside looking in, seems like all that money I'm supposed to be saving by gaming on PC will ultimately be wasted on games I'll never play.

Humble Bundle and Steam sales are to blame. Steam usually has great deals but Humble Bundle has even better deals on a weekly basis. I mean come on, paying $20 for over $200 worth of games to me a is no-brainer.

I have one unplayed game in my library and it's only unplayed because I bought it recently and have yet to finish the prequel.

I have 258 games and counting, I am definitely partially to blame for this statistic.

We're collecting the game Instead playing it

Humble Bundle contributes to a massive amount of my unplayed game section on Steam.

Maybe it's because people buy games, and realize their laptops or desktops can't actually run them? That's the case for me with two games, and after installing a new hard drive, I haven't felt like downloading Dota 2 again, since it's 5 freaking Gigabytes. Half Life 2 doesn't even like my laptop's GPU, so I'll have to wait until I build a desktop to play it.

exactly , like the internet as a whole, steam is just a giant trash.bin ... I would never want to marketing my games through steam or any plattform a like ... only if I am desperate and starving ...

Blame the sales. Can't say no to a good deal.

I'm sure I'll get around to them eventually. I discovered Payday 2 the other day, pretty much got rid of all my backlog clearing plans for the time being :(

I'd say at least 20% of my games I got for free through gifting, preorders, bundles etc.

Humble Bundle plus steam sales are easy culprits. I usually buy stuff when is super-cheap during the sales and play it sometime later. That could easily be a year later, as I just did with Limbo, which I had gotten in some HB a while ago.

I didnt know this, but it doesnt surprise me.

Because steam is stupid and annoying. I really love sitting through steam updates before I get to play my games that I pay top dollar for.

Why is this console maggot fanboy even allowed to comment on anything related to PC gaming?

I still remember his CA interview for Rome 2. The rude little piece of trash should have been fired following that interview.

Oh yeah, and Martin:

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Now get back to covering consoles and leave the PC coverage to actual adults.

Nm, I forgot this is gamespot.

Sometimes I wonder how games on Steam make any money. The Witch 1 & 2 for $6!? Someone is losing money there. How can games sell so cheap?