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If our Steam libraries were a restaurant visit, a good portion of all dishes would be sent back to the kitchen untouched. Why is this and where is Gordon Ramsay to help us?
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In February 2012, just over ten years ago, the entry for the “Stack of Shame” was added to the Urbandictionary, called “Pile of Shame” in this country. By this we mean a mountain or stack of purchased entertainment titles that we spent exactly zero cumman zero time units on after the purchase process. Depending on the study, this affects around a good third of all games purchased, but according to the comments of some GG user comments, far more.
Geographically right next to this often lamented phenomenon with its accusations – psychology! Digital Sales! Oversupply! Constant discounts and bundles! Merkel’s new territory! – there is another pile mountain: the one on which all the titles are written where we only got up to our knees in water. Started short and after a few hundred polygons asked the bouncer for early exit because something didn’t fit. The graphic style is off-putting, the controls take too much getting used to, the world is too convincing of its immersion power, the interface is too misanthropic.
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| At least the spreadsheet came down from the pile of shame |
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At least the spreadsheet came down from the pile of shame, because I ran some non-representative Steam stats through Excel. If people can still make it through the tutorial, what are the chances of actually beating a title? The median value was 40%. Almost two thirds of all excursions end after WASD and changing the waffle have been explained. Why is that?
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