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Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

Pollyanna posted:

The sunk-cost fallacy is a good explanation of why we buy things without necessarily intending to use it, on account of a perceived "loss" if we don't immediately jump on a discount.

I bought games like Mass Effect and the Quake pack and never touched either. :shobon: I'm guilty of this too. I probably will never get around to actually playing L4D, either.

Playing through your entire Steam Catalogue for no reason other than it's a perceived waste of money not to, is a more apt description of the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

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