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Comment by drdaeman | Hacker News Reader

Wonder what's the word for games bought but never played. ;)

It's called "Tsumige" (積みゲー).

It shares the same "Tsun" as Tsundoku in the form of "Tsumi" (積む/積み, stacking up) and means games that keep stacking up and never been played or finished.

I saw so many of those when I lived in Japan. A friend of mine asked a woman if he could have a game system she was throwing away. She said "I don't care" and it was a first-gen Famicom with the gun and a bunch of games. In original box, in perfect shape. But overall it was kind of sickening to realize how the items varied by the culture but the symptoms of overabundance were the same.

Or generically how about a word to describe a customer that buys your stuff, but never opens it?

I have been thinking of kickstarting a board game where there will be 500 boxes, 499 contain blank stuff, 1 contains the stuff with the printing materials etc. As long as you leave your copy shrink wrapped yours might be the really valuable one.

I like it - the metagame is basically a distributed prisoners dilemma around notional future value. You should call the game 'blockchain'

(Actually, I just realized that a far more accurate analogy arises if you were to call the game 'CDO'. Now I'm depressed.)

I see you're ready for post-scarcity economics: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2834

Schrödinger's Board Game?

"It's the most amazing board game ever yet the most useless one at the same time, depends who opens the box and observes it. In one of the infinite universe, there's one where a hot blonde female android will appear out of the box eager to please."

Yes, but as soon as someone opens his to find the content, you'll know that your copy isn't valuable even if you kept it shrink wrapped...

Maybe tsumigomi (gomi means garbage, so that'd imply a strong bias against collecting too many things), or perhaps tsumimono (stuff/things that stacks up)?

Steamdoku?

Gabedesu

Humbunds?

(99% of these games are being acquired via HumbleBundle...).

At least the EFF gets most of my money where possible, so I can say it's not a total waste.

But more importantly this phenomenon is more about the imagined instant access to something, than it is about owning things. A gaming subscription service would be just the logical conclusion to this.

1up Yours called the stack of games they'd purchased but never played their 'pile of shame'.

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