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Non-gamer friends are due to arrive in one hour's time. You sit at your computer desk with a hot beverage. Life is great.

You boot the PC and lean back in your office chair as Steam loads. Instinctively, you move the cursor to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - the only reason you use your "favourites" tab these days. You've recently moved OS to a new SSD, you can't wait to analyse the potential performance boost.

The rest of your games are listed below. They now act as a reminder of your past, though you keep a few installed in-case of unscheduled maintenance from your ISP.

You reminisce about the olden days: a more honest time before you discovered expensive weapon crates and five-player matchmaking. Those days are long gone.

Or are they?