Keeping My Promises

In my last column of 2008, I made a public declaration that I was going to use John Farrels’ excellent stats tracking facility to actually try and make a concrete, measurable effort to play my favourite games more, try out more of my unplayed games and buy less games. Having made this public declaration, it struck me that I could actually make the whole thing a public enterprise - set myself some goals for the year and keep regular updates on my progress, thereby giving myself some real incentive to try and meet them. The final impetus I needed to commit myself to this course of action was a playful jibe from one M. Barnes that it seemed as though “‘buy fewer games, play what I have more’ is the #1 resolution I’m hearing from...everybody”. So I had to demonstrate that I was serious. I point of fact I was amused to learn that Michael has made this exact same resolution himself but nevertheless, doing the whole thing in public seemed like a fun idea, in spite of its obvious anally-retentive qualities so I thought I might as well go ahead with it.