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'Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30%,' analyst tells devs: 'You get access to a bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Digital hoarding is a mental disorder same as any other form of hoarding.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Per the article you posted (interesting read BTW!)

With digital hoarding, however, the act of saving the file becomes an uncontrollable urge.

“It means that they’ve lost the choice — they feel they have to save it. If they do not, they may feel uncomfortable and, more often than not, anxious that they may need to have access to the information and it’s not going to be there,” he says.

I'm not sure "picking up some games you might want to play when they are on an extremely good sale" qualifies as Digital Hoarding, per the definition.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is very common for people to joke about how big their backlog is. I’m not sure we can call buying things you’re never going to play as frugal. I’m on autism spectrum and do both regular and digital hoarding occasionally but I’m a bit more mindful about it ever since I admitted it. Many people seem to be in denial.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure there are folks who fall under that umbrella. But I was more responding in the context of this specific comment thread.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Buying an indie platformer that you might not play is not anywhere close to actual IRL hording. And it's not even what is being described as digital hording in that article from UCLA.

It's straight up irresponsible to compare it to an actual hording mental disorder. Like, you must not have ever experienced that in any capacity to think that.

Although, surely digital horders have some cross over. But the prevalence of people not playing a game they bought on discount ain't it fam.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Completely agree. I think maybe digital hoarding can be real when it gets to the point where people are buying excessively to the point that they cannot afford it, but hoarding disorder would typically be associated with physical goods that are cluttering your space to dysfunctional levels.