I don't think it's necessarily true that buying a game will make you even appreciate a boring/sucky game. I remember plopping down money on Diablo 2 + LOD expansion (PC), played with it a lot for a month and became completely fed up with the game and it's collecting dust somewhere. I regretted that purchase. I also regretted buying Guild Wars (PC). I gave that game a chance but ultimately I was bored of it after a few days and couldn't be bothered to continue. If you put money on a game, you're more likely to give it a chance I find. But it doesn't make a game that you find crappy/boring any more enjoyable. What makes games more enjoyable is truly taking the time to enjoy them. I find that when I'm playing through good games that I've downloaded, I have a tendency to want to finish up that game so that I could play another good game I downloaded. Or sometimes I'll play through part of a game and then play another one that I downloaded. Having such easy access to more and new games is distracting like that. I guess it's human nature. But it's not really buying games in retail per se that makes it more enjoyable. Back in the late 90s before I had a CD burner and when I had a phone modem , I would buy copied PS1 games on the cheap from friends. And I found myself immersed into these games just the same as I was as a kid playing Nintendo. But when I had the burner and fast internet access, that's when things started to change. When you have such easy access to a large library and you can't wait to move on to the next good game, it makes the current game you're playing less enjoyable. You appreciate what you have less when you have too much. Less is more. Though there have been many games that I downloaded that I've become immersed into and enjoyed thoroughly. But per capita, I probably was more immersed in games prior to the burner and internet downloading than afterwards. Or it could just be age in my circumstance that could play the major factor. I find that in college, I don't have as much free time as in high school to play games so it's more difficult to really be immersed into something, especially long games and rpgs.
