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VampireCoyote posted...

To make you want

Which is ironic, because it makes me do the opposite.

I'm a compulsive collector. If I'm playing Skyrim, I'll pick up every single item I see, and I'll store it all in separately sorted containers in my home. When I'm playing Minecraft, I'll pick up every piece of cobble I drop and store them in chests, even if that means I've got like 37 chests worth of cobble that I'm never, ever going to use. If I find a lava pool in my way, I will move it into a place where it can be easily stored a single bucket at a time rather than "waste" any of it by dropping gravel or sand (or pouring water). When I played Kingdom of Loathing, 90% of my planning and play-style was built around building as large a display case as I could, with at least one of every item ever.

I'm playing Stardew Valley right now, and I've already got 11 full chests (color-coded and sorted/separated by function) in Winter of year 1. I barely like selling any of the stuff I'm mining/foraging/farming - I just hoard it all away for possible future use. And I'll eventually be buying/tailoring one of every hat and lots of outfits.

But give me a game with limited storage, and I basically stop caring about everything. Items? Fuck 'em. Who cares? If it isn't better than what I'm already using it's basically trash. Loot explosions in Borderlands? Barely care at all. Destiny? Lack of storage is a large part of why I stopped playing entirely. And even before that, I saw pretty much zero reason to ever play raids - why bother doing missions to earn unique items if you've got no place to keep them?

Grinding for gear that I'll just toss as soon as I find something slightly better? Yeah, not interested. There's plenty of other, better games out there for me to waste my time on.

Give me a game where I can store items for nostalgia sake or just to hoard them, and I'm much more likely to spend time farming for them (or even potentially spending real money on them). But limited storage space pretty much kills my interest in dealing with inventory at all.