• nthavoc@lemmy.today
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    21 hours ago

    Or they just like a really good deal which is a known marketing tactic since buying stuff with currency was a thing? “99 cents for this thing I may or may not need? Down from two dollars?! Sold!” Maybe the term hoarders, as in people with an actual mental issue, is not the right term. More like frugal. Let’s face it. Steam sales are when they sell the most copies of any title.

    Now if you are buying games at full price every time with no intention of playing, you’re just a dumbass and need a lesson on the value of a dollar.

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        5 hours ago

        From the article: “Hoarding is a disorder characterized by difficulty in parting with possessions” and this is key, “Digital hoarders often will cite an emotional attachment or a sentimental value to files they collect — including photos or email exchanges — associated with their own life experiences or with people in their lives. In such cases, he says, anticipating difficulty coping with feelings that accompany a permanent loss of these items becomes a barrier to controlling their hoarding behavior.”

        The mental disorder comes from the difficulty of parting with those possessions because the individual is tying emotional response to them. Have you ever tried to remove an object that you consider trash from a person that is hording? It’s going to be a really bad time and a massive emotional roller coaster for everyone. This article made more sense to post than the original one from PC Gamer. I do wish consultants and experts would stop labeling people with disorders because of anecdotal evidence or trying to have some kind of shock value. It starts to associate people of a massive community with a mental disorder too. If someone deleted my steam library, I would be upset, but not on the actual level of an person that hordes. You ever see the show “Hoarders”? It’s extremely sad and painful to watch.

        That’s not to say digital horders don’t exist on steam. The moment they lose a game and start freaking out beyond “i just lost money”, that person needs professional help.

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        7 hours ago

        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.

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          6 hours ago

          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.

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            6 hours 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.