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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)
submitted 3 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months 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.