When Is It Time To Get Rid Of A Game? 

Completely needless comment, but I think this is a hilarious detail: The Vagrantsong box is cut off in the lower left corner of the screen exactly so that it reads rantsong.

Alex breaking up a relationship: "It's not like I don't like you, It's not like I don't love you, I just enjoy consistency. Like choosing between dogs of war and Moonrakers with expansions"

Appreciate doing a TLDR up front. Being concise, but also providing more context if desired - this is quality content. My least favourite creators tend to ramble without me knowing their "to the point" conclusion. Keep it up.

Hold it and ask "does it bring you joy? " 😬

I feel like I learn more about myself as a gamer through this channel. Once again, thanks for the conversation.

Been a while since you've done a list like this-I miss this type of analysis content! More please!

Thank you for the video, this is really helpful. I have 113 games in my home with reasonable room for about 80. I also have 20 kickstarter games that will (probably!) arrive some day. I clearly have a problem! Your most helpful tip for me was to get rid of mediocre games. You're spot on by saying we'd never choose to play the so-so game over a fabulous game. I should make this into a plaque and hang on the wall over my game shelf! I also have really cooled on kickstarter because I find I'm almost bored with a game's concept by the time it finally arrives. I'm also new enough to the hobby that my tastes are in flux. I had one auction game I strongly disliked and thought "auction" was the problem. Yet I stumbled onto another auction game that's a top 10 for me. My tips: I keep a spreadsheet of game stats, logging each game. My goal is to play every game 3 times a year, minimum. In January I culled 3 games because I was repeatedly asking the family to table them to meet that goal and all I got was groans! Another "tool" I'm just starting to use is a list of my games grouped by their various mechanisms or themes. I'm using BGG to help make my list. By doing this, I realized I have 20 euro games! While I clearly enjoy euro games, it will need to be a stunning game to have me get another - or perhaps an existing one has to leave first. I also realized I have about a dozen abstract games but I wasn't really loving any of them. For me, I think that means I shouldn't buy any more in that category - ever. I also look at some themes and say, I already have a game with that theme and don't need more (zombies, westerns, vikings, trains). Yet I have 25 outer space themed games. With this theme, I think I'll probably be saying one (or even 2) must go before I add another. Thanks again - this is a much needed conversation that I see most gamers needing. 👍

Re: every play requires a rules refresh... I like medium-heavy weight thematic games, which often have this problem. I'm willing to slog through rulebooks - sometimes - but people I play with aren't. But an alternative to getting rid off the games are summaries. The Esoteric Order of Gamers is a lifesaver! And sometimes I make my own.

Really great advice on how to think about what to get rid of. Thanks!

One way our group tackles " When your desire to play an Unplayed game goes down" is on the one game day we set some rules we always follow. #1 no campaign games (we have another day we just play or continue Legacy or Campaign games) #2 always play an unplayed game #3 we have a hat with all the unplayed games on pieces of paper and we have someone pick randomly. This tends to work out really well right now, and doesn't cause conflict were different people want to play different games. We were having problems were people just wanted to play the same games over and over every week, that no New games were ever getting played. Like I got Vast in 2018, and it was never getting played, but we finally got it played by using this system.

Relevant conversation, useful information, Alex! This is a reality that most boardgamers face: the games start to pile up, but your time and space do not. Decisions have to be made, unfortunately. I'll try to apply these criteria to my own collection! Thank you for sharing and for the video, great as always. :)

Some very good ideas on how to think about game collections. Thank you.

Great vid, Alex! I've definitely stopped Kickstarting because in the time it takes for it to be delivered I lose interest in it. Saving a fortune! Difficulty to get to the table (players, setup time, etc) is also the biggest reason for me to ditch games now too.

You keep saying Blood Rage is like Rising Sun but they're completely different. The only similarities are the minis (armies and monsters), the 3 rounds, and the point track. Mechanically and thematically everything else is different. Blood rage has identical clans, drafting, battles that are declared, rage meter than each player uses for different actions, battles determined by secret card played, provinces destroyed each round. Rising Sun has variable player powers, a shop, fortresses you build, alliances, all players take the same actions, God shrines, battles happen at a predetermined time, battles use a coin bidding system, set collection, and negotiating.

Very relavant to my recent activities. Been working on rotating my collection to make some room for games ill actually play not just games that like the idea of lol

I’m with you Alex. I’ve had Captain Sonar and it’s so good but so hard to get played

Holding on to some games from the 90s and 2000s until the kids are old enough to play.

That last one happens to me a bunch when I like something multiplayer, but want a solo expansion because solo is how I mostly play.

Love the content Alex, solid work! Are you able to mention your games you rather play than Maglev Metro?

my backlog is already huge, I'm slow to get games on the table, but I'm not really in a hurry. I'm slowing down on collecting too because I know I have a ton of new content I can play. it happens with all my hobbies.

“You know you won’t get it played.” OOF my weakness! Republic of Rome is really hard to table but is one of those experience games that is really unique. I must have last played it years ago. Can’t let it go though! It’s really hard to get!

Optical illusion: Chai board is stacking on the box in the shelf behind. Can't unseen this.

Play the Godfather, one of my friends got it a couple of years back and we finally got round to playing it a couple of months ago. It is currently the game that has beaten expectations the most, so far this year.

But how am I supposed to get rid of this Haunted Munchkin Set? No one needs another copy of Munchkin, let alone one full of ghosts

Hey Alex, you should play Altar Quest before you decide to sell it or not. There are minis, there are cards and it is a good game where you can have really creazy turns, cleaning rooms like a tornado, playing card after cards, optimizing your 3 actions. Man, it's just 2 hours of play, you can do it ! ^^

#16 You actually don't have enough shelf space. That'd probably be in my top 5 reasons.

Great video

If I got rid of games that needed rules refresh, I'd have no Lacerdas. But I LOVE them :)

If you're willing to share, what is your annual number of plays and rough size of your collection?

The Isle of Cats is getting there in my collection. We'll see if the right game group fixes that.

I must say that I keep games that will get played… maybe in 3-5 years: there are not so many games that I find remarkable that I'm ready to get rid of the ones that I do find exceptional. It's such a marvelous thing to be fully enthused for a game that keeping this sense of wonder is a priority, for me. This is more of an esthetic criterion than a pragmatic one, but it is still some measure of the utility of a game.

I'm leaning more to "collector" than "gamer". I play in bi-weekly gaming session, so things are getting played, but my friends have their games, too, they want to get to the table. I have a lot of games I want to get to the table, just haven't been able to yet.

The West Wing....I love you even more!

When you need money for rent.

If you like power rangers the grid, I am certain rina would support you :P. Just look deeply in her eyes when you start building a new chamber to hold all the boxes :D.

My number one motivator to sell a game is - When I look at a game and I cant immediately say to myself if I had the right group over I would pull this off the shelf immediately. If I run out of shelf space I ask myself -Do I have a game that scratches the same itch that I would rather play -And finally ill consider the weight of the game. I am more prone to sell heavy and Gateway games as I find gateway games don't have enough to them to capture my attention for more then a few plays and heavy games because they are harder to table.

I feel the excitement dwindling point. I backed Endless Winter but tbh I don't really want it any more. Luckily, I think it will be an easy sell. Probably BNIS. I love the art and the theme but I'm beginning to think the criticism that it looks like a bunch of disjointed mechanisms are right. 2020 seems ages ago now and I was very new to the hobby. I've played so many solid games since I backed it that I kinda think I have games already that scratch the same itches it would.

Every Play Requires A Rules Refresh. Oh, boy. Do I get this. For me, this was Gaia Project, All the small rules, and we always forgot how to do Gaia forming. = /

#14 - Might be worth keeping until you make sure the new version is ACTUALLY better (see: Cleopatra and The Society of Architects and Coliseum whose older Days of Woners versions are generally considered better than their latest Kickstarter versions)!

I need to sell my Warhammer underworld, cos i have the core boxes and a lot of expansion all painted and i am not plaing it. I am a bit hold because i made a costum wooden box for it (and is not too good quality [i saw carpenter video after that build]) and i dont have the original boxes anymore wich made me scheptical that anyone wuld want it. If you manage to play it it wuld bee a nice to see a gamplay (non tournament competitive) and a video "Play this not that" with Super Fantasy Brawl and i also think that it wuld convince you that Super fantasy brawl is a direct comparison yu'll probably enjoy more.

How often do you get to play Middara?

I don't feel that Brass is a good example. Lancashire has fantastic 2p variant :D. So I use Lancashire for 2p and Birmingham for 3-4p. What is more you've got this deluxe 10cm of height with Iron Clays. I've got rerail edition which are only 5cm height. Thanks to this putting Brass on Brass you've got 10cm height which = one normal game :D SO it's just one game with 2 maps for different number of players

I'd rather ask the question "When it's time to get rid of your tiny miserable apartment that can't fit all of your favorite games?"

Do you have a cap on how many games you keep in your collection at any one time? Also how many games are in your collection right now?

Question to the community: how do you sell games in Germany or EU?

There is a few that we should get rid of. Quite a few that we should play that we haven’t yet.

I am sure in the minority but Lancashire replaced Birmingham.

When you significant other start to ask how many games are coming?

When you tell me too, I buy what you tell me, I sell what you tell me, I (eventually) play what you tell me. Less time thinking means more time playing 🤪

سلام عليكم

When you stop buying too many games 😂😂😂 people buy and buy and buy and buy,....