I’ve been thinking about gaming resolutions for the New Year for a bit now.
I, too, have a problem with the FOMO and with retail therapy. I’ve done this all my live (I still have one of my earliest dopamine buys ever from when I was around 12 years old!) and already count it as an achievement that I’ve been able to push it into 1 single thing this year: games.
Now the next step is to start limiting the game buying. Slowly. I don’t think I can go from 52 to 0. But I’ve started by listing purchase date for my whole collection in BGG and then saw that an average year before I started watching reviews I bought ~10 to 15 games. So my limit is 1 game / month plus 3 bonus for SPIEL if it happens. I am exempting last year’s pre-orders/Kickstarters or I would already be at the limit which is the equivalent of going cold-turkey for the shopping part. Also at least half a dozen have been pushed back from this year… (making my list for this year even longer).
Another goal is to prevent the collection from growing over a certain magical game count 200 if you want to know, expansions excluded and if I cannot get rid of some games my preorders/kickstarters alone will crash that ceiling without me buying a single additional game. So… I need to start selling or donating games as trading alone will not reduce that number. I will likely give away some games to friends who don’t have huge collections and kids who may want some of those.
I am still thinking about a good resolution for what games to play. I am certain I want to get more of my games played–again with the same goal of figuring out which games get to stay. So 10x10 may not be totally feasible. At least not in any pre-planned way. As I will be playing with two or solo for at least the first half of 2021 that will limit my options again (although most of my new acquisitions do have solo-modes).