• The Expert: You buy board games as often and as many as you can. You play them alone or with friends. It‘s your favorite hobby.

  • The Collector: You buy way too many games, but actually play only a handful of them.

  • The Hermit: Your prefered way of playing is playing alone.

  • The Specialist: You own a specific but small collection of games, carefully curated for every opportunity, heavy games included.

  • The Casual: You play from time to time with friends, enjoy it, but you are just getting started.

I want to get to know you better! Have I missed a kind of gamer here?

(English is my 2nd language, sorry for my mistakes.)

  • nachof@feddit.cl
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    1 year ago

    What I don’t like about your categories is that you’re focusing on the buying and owning games part.

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      1 year ago

      THANK YOU.

      I’m sort of peeved that boardgames has gone from a “hey, I get to sit in meat space not staring at a monitor and doing something fun with friends” into a consumerist dog and pony show.

      I was hoping this was going to be “you take the PRR and run it over the B&O” and “you try and get your train company to Chicago” or “you never build, only auction or develop” but yeah, it’s mostly about what you own and what you’re buying.

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        I’m sort of peeved that boardgames has gone from a “hey, I get to sit in meat space not staring at a monitor and doing something fun with friends” into a consumerist dog and pony show.

        I feel like part of the problem is that the people participating in and boosting the consumerist aspect are the ones with the shiniest toys to show. Like, sure, 1830 is an awesome game (even if I still can’t get a regular group to play it), but you won’t get more upvotes for showing off your 100th game of 1830 than your first game of <insert the newest game>.

        An look, I like having new games. I enjoy the feel of new puzzles to try. But in the end, it’s as you say, the best part of the games is getting together with friends and doing soemthing fun for a few hours. Having a collection as a backdrop in my video calls is not the point of buying games.

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    1 year ago

    Apparently I am “Expert” but I don’t feel like one. I just like playing lots of games. I have too many games but very few unplayed. The “as many as you can” is bound by money, space and time to play.

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    I dislike this way of trying to put people into categories.

    I have very few board games (10ish). Occasionally I rent boardgames. But still I’ve played over 200 different ones and know almost all of the games people mention. I know many places with very good collections where I can play board games for free, people often bring many games to events and I have friends who have very big collections as well.

    The reason I don’t like buying more boardgames is I’m a fan of shared products. I’ll only buy small games that I absolutely love. That way I can save a lot of storage space. If there’s a game I want to play that I don’t have then I’ll either rent it or ask a friend to bring it. To ensure I’m not a leech I tend to bring snacks to private events or take care of explaining games to newcommers.

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    I’m a specialist. I played a decent amount of different games, enough to know what I like. My collection is small, around 30 games, ranging from Boonanza to Frosthaven. I have a game for every occasion and I really like them ALL. I buy a new game every year or so and every couple of years I do a ‘clean up’ and sell a few game that I’ve lost interest in.

    I must admit: I keep a few games that I should part with, but I just can’t do it (Catan, Monopoly).

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      Only about one game in a year? You own around 30? That indeed sounds like a refined collection. If you find the time you should post one of those „This is my collection“ pics! I‘d be interested!

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        Well, it’s refined to my taste, but yeah. And it’s not that I started building my collection 30 years ago XD The ‘one game a year’ thing is going on for 5 years or so. There was a period I bought and was given many games a year.

        I’ll do a first time ever collection post on social media per your request when I get home. Should be fun :D