I play a lot of the games I have on gog, but finishing is a different story

I often do this as well. When I finally do get the ambition to learn how to play a new game, once I'm finished I almost always revert to an old familiar favorite for at least one or two runs simply because I don't want to learn a new control scheme/game mechanic/etc.

What do you mean by playing? Sorting the shelf? ;-)

Actually I do play all of them, even though it's a bit hard to keep up with all the excellent sales lately. I usually play gifted games first and then turn to the ones I bought, thus my backlog consists mostly of games I got too excited about on sale.

That's the most frustrating game then...only because my mouse even when the button is pressed, repeats as if you're clicking a bunch of times. Must be a short or something.

I was planning to play some "Battle Isle 3" today, instead I kept checking the forum to see there was a new release today.
So yes I do seem to spend more time doing anything with my games and GOG then playing.

At 364 games purchased since I've joined, the Battle Isle package and "Sword of the stars: The Pit" are the only two games that I've played more than a few hours. Not counting the games I already played in the past.

About the same thing on Steam where I own 40 games and only really played one, Civilization 5.

TBH, the reason I don't play a lot of the games I own is because there's usually one thing wrong with them for me or the other. Several examples are a game being too difficult for me, not knowing where to go in a game's world, or it just not holding my interest. The ones I do play I do enjoy, or I hit a roadblock that stops the flow of enjoyment and I play another game and same thing happens to that one.

Yes.

That's not so bad, I have 257 (huh already? To this point, I've seriously thought that it's "only" around 130-150) games here on GOG and over 470 on STEAM (even though a lot of them are from Humble Bundle and other bundle offers). And I barely play anything right now, but when I see a good deal for a game in which I'm interested, it's sometimes very hard to resist.
Hope I'll have enough time to play all those games in the future eventually :).

I suffer from the same disease: buying is addictive and addiction is a disease.

I created a topic last spring about the discrepancy between buying games and actually playing them:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_many_games_of_your_collection_did_you_actually_play

Since, the situation has worsened, I now own twice the amount: 84, have actually played only 12 longer than just the beginning of the game and still got just 3 games - BG, BG II and IWD - finished.

With all these crazy sales and bundles, it's kinda hard not to hoard stuff. Worse if you've been following "the scene" for more than a year.

From my GOG shelf, I've only played Witcher 1 and Heroes 3 for more than 10 hours after purchasing.
From Steam, I've got something like 380 games that I've either not played or played less than 1 hour. I think there are like 5 games I've played more than 10 hours.
Then there are all those random games from random stores and DRM-Free games from bundles that I don't even remember.

I'm thinking I've got like 500~600 games in total that I've either not played or played less than 1 hour, and probably 10 or so games I've played more than 10 hours. Crazy.

Yes you can. But sadly you cannot play it offline, and an always-on internet connection is required. Damn DRM!

I do spend a lot of time reading reviews and seeing games youtube for example but I do play a lot too :P

That happens all the time here, you´re not alone. It´s that for you, me and about 99% of GOG customers.

Games these days are so easy to buy and so cheap that buying vs. playing has become a serious problem.

I had this problem with physical games too, there are quite a few I bought and never played to any extent (BG, for example). Thing is, when I had to go to a store to buy a game, and when it cost $50+ (or even $15), I was less inclined to hoard. Now that I can get a bunch of games for $1 from the comfort of my chair there's very little stopping me from buying them.

I didn't buy anything from the summer sale, because I was playing ADOM and I felt like I'd be playing ADOM for a while still. I didn't buy anything from the Insomnia sale, because I was playing some old PS2 games and it looked like there'll be many to play still. In winter sale I bought one pack because I owned some of that and the games were the sort I really hadn't tried out that much.

I'd like to think that most customers are actually like me and don't feel any need to buy tons of stuff they'll never have a use for.

On average I've bought about 1-2 games a month in here (and really none elsewhere) and usually put in about 20-40 hours a game. But I agree that nowadays abandoning a game is easier because getting a "replacement" is so much cheaper. I think the minority finishes all the games they buy and the minority buys a lot of games they'll never play. Most people probably play their games a good while, but it really takes a certain kind of game to hold your interest over the 30-50 hour mark.