Indeed. I rate games I play for myself and manage it in an .xls file (as an ex-game journalist it's hard to drop the habit) and when a friend saw my ratings he was like "why have you played so many 5 and 6 games?"

Nowadays 5 is considered to be "bad" and anything lower is just used to humiliate or ridicule a game which is just dumb.

Indeed. Not getting a 10 is some how a bad thing...instead of 10 being only the best.

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Unrelated note, and not trying to turn this into some big trade thread...but ...

I need cards 3 5 and 9. And have extra 2 6 and 10.

I gave away all my extra cards to a friend after I crafted the badge, sorry

So, the Holiday Sale is winding down, what did everyone get? For me, it was Borderlands 2 Season Pass, Borderlands 1 GOTY, Remember Me, Evoland and several other smaller games and several gifts.

~SE++

Oh god finally did Stranger's Dream with 10 idols, now there's only the score attack one left. Pike + Bow is the real deal, even if I miss the musket in the main hand.

Those are my last achievements in Bastion. I still need to farm them...but been working on other games here recently.

I got myself three games: E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy, Dark Souls, Poker Night 2. I am very happy with my purchases although I wish I had bought PN2 when it was 80%/90% off in a flash sale, but still a solid purchase.

I bought my friends Bastion, Hotline Miami and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I ended up getting the last one there as a gift too so woo. On top of that I received Chainsaw Warrior, The Bard's Tale, Another World and L4D2.

I got Antichamber, Bioshock Infinite, Divinity: Dragon Commander, Dragon Age: Origins, The Incredible Adventures of Can Helsing, Just Cause 2, Machinarium, Omerta - City of Gangsters, Papers Please, The Stanley Parable, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Trine 2 and Valdis Story: Abyssal City. I intended to get nothing. Bloody sales...

Oh also I acquired a gift copy of Bad Rats because a mate of mine thinks he is freaking hilarious...

So some guy spent 2500 on holiday cards and got his Winter Badge to lvl 1000...

wot

Some people have more money than sense. Fact of life.

The vast majority of people on Steam are like that. Hell, I own games I don't actually intend on playing, I just wanted to catalog them. Like, I have Darksiders, which I beat of the Xbox 360, so I have no intention of playing it again even though I bought it again (since I gave my old copy to a kid). I just wanted it listed under my games.

Seriously though, most people own more games then they've actually completed on Steam.

~SE++

I think there is a spectrum between "owning more games than they've completed on Steam" and spending that much money to get those card things.

There is, I was just making a point that a lot of people have spent needless amounts of money of Steam just because crap went on sale. I know I did.... well, do.

~SE++

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198012040302/

This is me, I mostly play this Awesomenauts game now because it is made out of cocaine.

I did that with so many games during last year's summer sale.

I mean, I'll eventually get around to paying them, eventually

Riiiiiggght.

~SE++

looking back at some of my games that I bought during the summer sale, there's definitely more than a few I just bought because they were cheap and not because I actually wanted to play them

Like what? Lol

My biggest sin so far is buying a game I already own on Xbox ...because I dont play it anymore, and would prefer it was on Steam. (and it was just soo cheap...so I had to. )

Grid, Thief Deadly Shadows, Sniper Elite-Nazi Zombie Army, Towns, Dawn of Fantasy Kingdom Wars

Pretty sure most of them are good games (didn't really enjoy Dawn of Fantasy) but I mostly just got them because they were on sale

there's probably more that I'm missing

I guess my problem is that I get games and don't really put aside time to play them