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I‘ve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, it‘s alright. I‘d be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending
$3643.42 USD
I have 1139 games. Had the account for 20+ years. Most of the games are from humblebundle and according to anothet website that goes off of retail prices, total would be over $15k.
Wow, I'm at ~$3800 and have 535 games on a 15-ish year account, you've done good for yourself. I've also brought in some games from humble bundles, but if I have to guess these total 20% of my purchases at most.
Thanks. I rarely buy full price. My first purchase which isnt included was the Half-Life Orange box so i could play Natural Selection, a Half-life mod at the time.
what's that other site? I'm in the same boat and very curious what the retail value of my steam library would be
edit: nvm, it would help if I read the article :)
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount I’ve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.
Devil gamer confirmed 😈
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I don't know why you would use a third Party Tool that estimates your purchases, when it has always been right there in your account, without estimates.
Hahaha this takes me back. My first purchases in 2011 were a few TF2 weapons. I got my account a short time after it went F2P.
You bought weapons?? In the mann co store?
lol yes. I did it a few times before I realized that it’s not a good way to get weapons. Only lost a few bucks.
Edit: Should clarify, my parents bought them.
Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren't included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesn’t know how much you paid for it, though, so it's completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
This isn't a 3rd party tool, it's a separate Steam Support page that lists your total purchases. It basically takes the data from the Purchase History section (assuming that you usually pay directly and not using Steam gift cards) and totals it so that you don't have to do that manually.
It's been known for atleast 7 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/8m9fxm/what_is_difference_between_totalspend_and_oldspend/
edit: no need to point out those are 2 different links, ill leave this up
That path is incorrect and the article tells you exactly how to find it on Steam, as well as the limitations of the third party tool you’re alluding to.
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)
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Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
The official page shows the money you've spent, the estimator shows the current price of the games on your account, adjusted to everything. For me the difference is X4
There's a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can't tell you how precisely much you've actually spent on Valve's wallet-plundering platform, microtransactions and all.
If you bought on sales or Humble Bundles then this number will be so far off its useless. If you only buy new and retail then I feel bad for you sucker.
That's exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find "External funds used" deep in the Steam Help menu...
After many years of selectively evaluating and purchasing bundles as my main source of new games, I've come to wonder if it would've been better to just buy the individual games when I wanted to play them at whatever the available price was - the rate at which I get through games is far lower than the rate at which games are available in "good" bundles. In the end I'm not even sure if I've saved money (because of how many games have been bought but are as-of-yet unplayed) and it does take more time to evaluate whether something's a good deal or not.
The upside is way more potential variety of games to pull from in my library, but if I only play at most like 1-2 dozen new games a year then I'm not sure that counts for much 🫠
A bit tangential, but I also feel a lot of people make the same mistake with GamePass. I buy a lot of gameson release day (mostly indies, but also some AAA), so theoretically I should be the target audience for GamePass, but I did the math once for a three-month period and came out at a loss if I had bought GamePass.
Based on nothing but anecdotal evidence, the type of person to get GamePass also typically enjoys a lesser variety of games on average, making the cost/benefit ratio even worse.
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I don't feel bad. It's a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. I'm sure I'd be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.
$602.41 for 50 games in 18.4 years. Cost at today's prices: $698. I'd say that's a win.
2,095 hours. 72% of games played. Guess I need to get to work.
I wish I could track my pre-steam numbers. Id be interested to see how much time I put into Mechwarrior 3, or Rollercoaster Tycoon, or Unreal Tournament.
$1300 CAD on games over 15+ years with a current value of $8350.
Yeah, I'm cool with that.
My 17-year-old account is at $600. That's an average of $35 per year.
Most of my gaming spending for the last 8 years has been on Nintendo Switch. That number is too embarrassing to post.
1300$ in 17 years. Around 1200 games. I think I probably spent more elsewhere and got steam keys. I still have a physical copy of portal 2, which was cheaper at release than on steam and had a key inside haha. Good times.
I got Steam so I could play Half Life 2 when it was released. May 4, 2006. 153 games. $1,725 spent.
This thing about not owning the games ... um ... Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device I've ever owned. Other than the Ubisoft games that are designed to not be re-usable (never buy Ubi again) I have access to every game I've bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.
Surprised to see I've only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
Well not how much you've spent, how much it values your collection. But what's that number based on? I've only bought one full price game in my entire life on Steam. And it was one of my biggest regrets so I'm not doing that again. So right there all the sale prices I'm paying aren't being calculated right? Then there's the case of free games and humble bundles, back when they were awesome. Hell probably a third to half of the games I have in my Steam account either came from Humble bundles or free giveaways.
SteamDB gives you a valuation based on full price. The article describes an entry on Steam's Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.
Well not how much you’ve spent, how much it values your collection. But what’s that number based on?
Please re-read the article. The values are on Steam itself, based on your interactions with it.
Oh damn. I've spent $30,359.76 on Steam in the 17 years I've had an account. And I just passed 4,000 games in my Steam library within the last month. That checks out.
Nice. Lucky! i would have spend more also if it wasnt for my pesky family /s
What is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
I really like video games. And I'm retired young(ish), so I have all the time in the world to game now.
Plus, I have a (relatively new) blog dedicated to introducing games to people, which encourages me to play through a variety of games in my library. It's basically just archiving my "Random Screenshots of my Games" posts in !games@lemmy.world.
And according to the SteamDB, I've played 26% of my games. The last time I checked, it was at 38%, but that was maybe 2,000 games ago. I need to keep working through my library!
Damn, 26% is not too shabby. Thats just a lot of money for most people, but i guess other people buy figurines that they never do anything with at all, so it could be worse i guess. Well i hope you enjoy playing them :)
If you somehow dont have Metro 2033 yet, you can still add it to your library for free today.
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If your account is less than about 5 years old (and you live in the US) you can also just look at the points shop. Each Steam Point corresponds to one cent spent on Steam.
$7000... not bad for 20 years or whatever its been since steam started. Sure as hell drunk more than 7k's worth of alcohol over that time lol
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€15.77 on a 5 year old account
I own Terraria, Among Us, BTD6, Celeste and Gelatine, all bought on a discount
Outside of steam i own minecraft and the mobile version of BTD6 and have only once pirated a game that i actually played
Why play other games when you have modded minecraft and terraria
$884.31 for 162 games in 10 years. Saw lowest prices value is $583, should probably use isthereanydeal way more often. But hey, it's $2,591 in today's prices, so I'm not doing too bad? Also a patient gamer checking in.
I still feel like I ought to step it back, but hey, my discretionary media spending is very low everywhere else (thank you local library, thank you PDFs and articles online and even the occasional video, I also have a bunch of other quirks that just help end up pushing my demand for a lot of media way down even if money was no object... although clearly not for video games) so I'm probably not doing too bad. I know that video games are my biggest discretionary spend category nowadays and seeing this number, I feel way less bad than I did before checking these numbers.
Dang, everyone else here has 4 or 5 figures while I'm sitting at $101. And I know for a fact 40% of that was Kerbal Space Program.
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Not too bad!
$1118 over 15+ years isn't too bad
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