Backlog bankruptcy, has anyone actually declared it?

[David74]

My unplayed games list has passed one hundred and fifty and I have started to feel it looking at me. Every sale adds three more, every free monthly game adds another, and meanwhile I have played the same comfort game for four hundred hours

I keep hearing about backlog bankruptcy, where you formally forgive yourself, delete the list, and only buy games you will play this week. It sounds liberating and also slightly like admitting defeat. There is a version of me that still believes I will one day play that 90 hour epic from 2017

Has anyone actually gone through with it? Did the buying habits change afterwards or did the pile just start growing again immediately? And someone please defend the backlog itself, there must be a case for the pile

[RedWrench]

Declared it two years ago, hid the library, made a list of five games only. The pile started regrowing within a month but slower, call it partial recovery

[Ruby_50]

The pile IS the hobby for some of us, collecting and playing are two different pleasures and both are valid

[Cole75]

That is either profound or the most elaborate cope I have ever read, possibly both

[Faded Owen]

The real fix is refusing to buy anything on sale unless you start it that same weekend. Brutal but it works

[WWEGary20]

Does the free monthly game count against you though? It feels rude not to claim them

[CaptainStatic56]

Claiming free games you will never touch is how the number gets scary, the zero price is doing psychological damage

[MondayMoan]

Honest question, is a big backlog actually a problem, or did we let a number make us feel bad about our own entertainment?

[NatureBoy_Dev]

It is a problem the moment it stops you enjoying what you are actually playing, and not one second before