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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Yeah, I can see how FOMO is a significant factor for a lot of people.  

My son wound up buying Elden Ring @ full price with his xmas money for this very reason (he's 14).  Once you get to a certain age (i.e. you have kids and shit), the FOMO concerns are basically non-existent.  

Unfortunately, that anxiety has to go somewhere, so you inevitably start worrying about how you're going to find time to play all the games in your backlog.
gpt
&gt;My son wound up buying Elden Ring @ full price with his xmas money for this very reason (he’s 14).  Once you get to a certain age (i.e. you have kids and shit), the FOMO concerns are basically non-existent.

Eh, maybe but that can increase FOMO too. You have less time so you want to see everything people are talking about.

One of my acquaintances with a couple kids is the worst I know about this. Talks about how a game doesn't interest him and blah blah blah, two weeks later he's talking about how good the newest game is  (of course he only "bought it because the kid was interested in it."). Like clockwork, it's actually quite funny. Any major release goes through the same cycle.

Then the people I know without kids are just like "I got all the time in the world I'll get to it whenever."

I totally get how it makes FOMO go away with age though.  Now I just want to play what I find fun, when I want to play it. I don't really care how old or new something is, especially when you have weird tastes in games like I do.