Post 100. Awesome. A special entry is needed to mark this occasion, so I guess I'll reveal, a few months early, my plan for next year: In 2011, I am not going to buy any games. For the whole year. At all. Even if it's on Steam for ninety-nine cents.
Why am I going to do this? I've figured out 5 reasons:
- to finally get around to playing some of the great free games out there
- to continue to enjoy the games I already own
- to allow some time for the new games I want to grow old and drop in price in 2012
- to save some cash in 2011
- to have something to blog about
- just to see if I can
I'll set myself some rules when I do this. For example, when I say I will play free games, I mean legitimately free. No piracy. Also, I will not ask for games for my birthday, Christmas, or Father's Day. Either I already own it, or it costs no money to play. I haven't enitrely decided if I'm going to cut out peripherals like controllers or 3D TVs as well. I guess I'll wait and see how hardcore I feel in December.
This isn't a protest. I'm not trying to prove that I don't need games or anything. I will be playing plenty of games next year. I just want to see how I handle a year without buying any new ones.
So, yeah. That's my plan. A pointless thing to do, I know, but I seem to thrive on this kind of stuff. So why not?