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Message: [QUOTE="Fat_Wombat_55, post: 31582, member: 121420"] Clearly it's not just you, and I have alot of questions about this. When we were younger, there were no subscriptions, internet was pretty slow so even downloading demo's was painful. When I wanted a game, I had a build up period where I'm saving up for it and making sure its the game i want to buy. I'd check out magazine reviews, talk with friends and game store employees. Once that part's over, purchasing the game back then meant that it was yours, as long as you keep it in good condition you can keep using it. If it breaks you buy another one, simple. Games were also a mixed bag back then, you had some very interesting and unique titles and some of those ended up being some of the best games ever released. Buying only one or two games at a time means that those purchases meant more, those games that I worked so hard to save for became treasures possessions. I am more likely to finish the game, and even give it one or two more play-throughs to see if i missed anything along the way. Today we have online stores, relentless advertising, subscriptions, sales seemingly year round, well stocked retro repo's and now a plethora of handhelds capable of storing and running thousands of games (Odin 2 or Retroid 5 for example, both amazing - highly recommend having a squiz). So the fact that your brain is responding differently now to back then doesn't surprise me at all, and I have noticed that my friends kids don't seem to appreciate or respect their games/hardware today, the same way we did... and why would they? ...tomorrow there will be a new device with a new game everyone hypes over and they just seem to follow along with the crowd. So, the questions I have are all around the effects of this over-saturation on the mind. We haven't had this kind of thing happen in our history so there's really no universal standard on how people respond to it. Personally I find If I keep a device with like 3 decent games on it, and force myself to delete one before installing another I am more likely to spend time finishing those games, researching secrets and lore etc. instead of spending hours on youtube trying to figure out what to play today or endlessly scrolling through my steam list like a netflix junkie. :) [/QUOTE]

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