这是电子游戏的黄金时代吗？从消费者的角度来看(consumer perspective)，这可能并不过分。是的，这是发布日(release day) DLC、季票和微交易的时代。但对于游戏玩家来说，这也是一个富足的时代。凭借大量的Steam销售、订阅服务和捆绑包，您很容易得到数百(hundreds )款您甚至还没有安装的游戏，更不用说玩了。
坐在大量的视频游戏积压(video game backlog)中可能会令人沮丧，并且感觉像是一个真正的问题，但是有一些建设性的方法可以解决这个第一世界的问题(first-world problem)，所以你花更多的时间玩游戏，而不是为你还需要玩多少游戏而苦恼。
另外，请查看您的YouTube 频道(YouTube channel)，我们会通过其他一些选项来管理您的游戏积压：
先玩订阅访问游戏(Play Subscription Access Games
First)
如今，您可以通过支付订阅费(subscription fee)来访问大型游戏库。微软(Microsoft)有Game Pass，EA 有Origin Access，你可以打赌还会有更多。
像EA Origin Access这样的东西可能是玩一堆游戏的好方法，而这些游戏需要花费数百美元才能完全购买。通常一整年的订阅费用与图书馆中的一款AAA 游戏(AAA game)一样多。
问题是我们倾向于养成为游戏访问(game access)订阅付费然后不玩任何这些游戏的习惯，就像我们不会(t get)玩我们自己的积压中的任何游戏一样。
因此，列出您真正想玩的订阅中包含哪些游戏是有意义的。先完成它们，然后取消订阅，直到添加了您真正想要玩的新标题。
按兴趣优先考虑您的图书馆(Prioritize Your Library By
Interest)
盯着你选择的游戏启动器中的一大堆游戏可能会令人生畏，但建设性地处理有这么多选择的选择瘫痪(choice paralysis)的唯一方法是稍微减少群体。首先，打开您选择的电子表格。
然后列出所有游戏并从顶部开始。给每场比赛打满分，满分十分，十场是你非常有兴趣玩的游戏，一个是你不感兴趣的游戏。完成整个列表一次。不要花时间苦恼——用你对比赛的直觉来得分。
接下来，按分数从高到低排列您的游戏。然后从列表中删除所有得分低于十分之七的游戏。这应该是一个短得多的游戏列表。将此视为您当前或优先级的积压工作，并(priority backlog and play)首先玩并完成这些游戏。当您从列表中勾选这些被丢弃的游戏时，您可以随时返回到被丢弃的游戏——(list –)如果有的话。
按时间优先处理您的游戏(Prioritize Your Games By Time)
如果您遵循上述提示，您将获得一份您非常有兴趣玩的游戏列表。但是，您应该按什么顺序播放它们？
如果您没有特别的偏好，那么从最短的时间到最长的击败时间是有意义的。玩更快完成的游戏意味着您可以更快地将它们从列表中删除。这也意味着，当您到达列表末尾时，即较长的游戏所在的位置，您分心的优秀游戏就会减少。
(Does)找出玩多长时间的游戏听起来像是一件苦差事吗？幸运的是，我们有HowLongToBeat，这是一个保存玩家完成游戏的平均时间信息的网站。在处理您的积压工作时，它是一个很好的工具和无价的资产。
仅从您的愿望清单中购买特价游戏(Only Buy Games On Sale From
Your Wishlist)
PC 游戏玩家既喜欢又害怕大型在线数字游戏销售的到来。这些销售使用几种强有力的说服技巧来赚钱，这是人们积压如此之多的主要原因之一。
处理此问题的最简单方法是在销售之间花一些时间整理您的愿望清单。您非常渴望玩的游戏当然是您购买的即将以全价发布的游戏。愿望清单游戏通常是您确实想玩但觉得现在不需要玩或不愿意支付全部发布价格(launch price)的游戏。根据您想玩的程度对愿望清单中的游戏进行排名。
现在，当下一次促销开始时，只从您的愿望清单中购买打折游戏(only buy discounted games from your
wishlist)。这样，您最终只会将钱花在您可能玩的游戏上，而不是廉价的冲动购买游戏，这些游戏甚至从未进入您的硬盘驱动器。
不要屈服于沉没成本谬误(Don’t Succumb To The Sunk-Cost
Fallacy)
在心理学中，有一种逻辑谬误被称为“沉没成本”谬误(” fallacy)。基本上(Basically)，这意味着人们在做出未来决定时会考虑他们在某事上投入的时间、金钱和精力。总的来说，这并没有(s nothing)错，但当这些事情实际上并不重要时，这是一个谬误。
在这种情况下，您可能会觉得被迫玩或完成您不喜欢或不再喜欢的游戏，因为您在上面花了很多钱。这是积压焦虑首先存在的原因之一。事实是您已经购买了这些游戏。无论你是否玩它们，你花在它们身上的钱都是沉没成本。(sunk cost)
所以真正的问题是你将来是否会喜欢玩它们，或者你是否会喜欢玩其他东西。你已经花在他们身上的钱与那个决定无关。
使用积压管理工具(Use a Backlog Management Tool)
最后一个技巧是最复杂的，但承认你有问题是重要的一步。要真正掌握游戏积压(game backlog)，您可能需要使用第三方积压管理工具(backlog management tool)。
有很多，但 PC 游戏玩家可能希望从Steam Backlog开始，这是目前最简单、最干净的解决方案之一。如果您想管理Steam以外的东西，那么Backloggery是一个不错的起点。
6 Tips To Manage Your Massive Gaming Backlog
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Sitting with a massive video game backlog can
be frustrating and feel like a real problem, but there are constructive ways to
deal with this first-world problem, so you spend more time playing games than
agonizing over how many games you still have to play.
Also, do check out your YouTube channel where we go through some of other options to manage your gaming backlog:
Play Subscription Access Games
First
These days you can get access to large libraries of games by paying a subscription fee. Microsoft has Game Pass, EA has Origin Access and you can bet there will be many more on the horizon.
Something like EA Origin Access can be a great way to play a bunch of games that would have cost hundreds of dollars to buy outright. Often the entire year’s subscription costs as much as just one AAA game might be in the library.
The problem is that we tend to get into the
habit of paying for game access subscriptions and then not playing any of those
games, the same way we don’t get to play any of the games in our own backlogs.
So it makes sense to list which games are included in the subscription you really want to play. Finish them first and then cancel the subscription until new titles you actually want to play are added.
Prioritize Your Library By
Interest
Staring at a big list of games in your game
launcher of choice can be daunting, but the only way to constructively deal
with the choice paralysis of having so many options is to thin the herd a
little. To start, open up a spreadsheet of your choice.
Then list all your games and start at the top.
Give each game a score out of ten, with ten being a game that you are very
interested in playing and one being a game that you have no interest in. Work
through the whole list once. Don’t spend time agonizing – use your gut feeling
about a game to score it.
Next, arrange your games by score, from
highest to lowest. Then delete all the games that scored less than a seven out
of ten from the list. This should be a much, much shorter list of games. Think
of this as your current or priority backlog and play and complete these games
first. You can always come back to the discarded games when you’ve ticked these
off your list – if ever.
Prioritize Your Games By Time
If you followed the above tip, you’ll have a
list of games you are very motivated to play. Yet, in what order should you
play them?
If you’ve got no particular preference, it
makes sense to play them from the shortest time to the longest time to beat.
Playing games that are quicker to finish means you can cross them off your list
more quickly. It also means that as you reach the end of the list, where the
longer games are, you have fewer outstanding games distracting you.
Does finding out how long games are sound like a chore? Luckily we have HowLongToBeat, a site that keeps information on the average time players take to finish games. It’s a great tool and an invaluable asset when it comes to tackling your backlog.
Only Buy Games On Sale From
Your Wishlist
PC gamers both love and dread the advent of
major online digital game sales. These sales use several strong persuasion
techniques to get your money and it’s one of the main reasons people have such
large backlogs.
The easiest way to deal with this issue is to
spend some time between sales curating your wishlist. Games you are very eager
to play will of course be the ones you buy close to launch at full price.
Wishlist games are generally ones that you really do want to play, but don’t
feel the need to play now or aren’t willing to pay the full launch price. Rank
the games in your wishlist by how much you want to play them as well.
Now when the next sale rolls in, only buy discounted games from your
wishlist. This way you only end up spending money on games you are likely
to play and not cheap impulse buy games that never even make it to your hard
drive.
Don’t Succumb To The Sunk-Cost
Fallacy
In psychology, there’s a logical fallacy known as the “sunk cost” fallacy. Basically, it means that people consider the time, money, and effort they’ve invested in something when it comes to future decisions. There’s nothing wrong with that in general, but it is a fallacy when these things don’t actually matter.
In this case, you might feel compelled to play or finish a game you don’t like or no longer enjoy because you spent a lot of money on it. This is one of the reasons backlog anxiety exists in the first place. The truth is that you’ve already bought those games. The money you spent on them is a sunk cost whether you play them or not.
So the real question is whether you’d enjoy playing them in the future or whether you’d enjoy playing something else instead. The money you’ve already spent on them is irrelevant to that decision.
Use a Backlog Management Tool
The final tip is the most involved one, but
admitting you have a problem is an important step. To really get to grips with
your game backlog, you may want to use a third-party backlog management tool.
There are more than a few, but PC gamers will probably want to start with Steam Backlog, which is one of the simplest and cleanest solutions out there. If you want to manage things beyond Steam, then Backloggery is a neat place to start.
