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For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

I keep a copy of the generic steam crack on my computer. It's very well tested. So as long as I had the files on my computer I would only lost access to the very few games I have that use a different drm.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Apparently $3135 is what I've spent on Steam games, according to Steam themselves. That isn't what the current value is, but what I've actually spent.

[-] GolfFoxtrotLima@ani.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I have spent a similar amount on video games on steam

[-] snerkbleat@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

$0.00.

I never buy games on Steam. If you buy it, and can't keep it, you don't own it.

I have Steam for a handful of free titles. The rest I buy from GOG.

[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I get the sentiment but not owning it does not equal not enjoying it. You never play any games with friends that only come out on steam? For some single player games I can understand waiting until they release on GOG but many (or like, most) never do.

[-] snerkbleat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I only play a few single player games.

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 5 points 12 hours ago

Steam reports my total spend to be $4,077.17 Steam Calculator reports $4,503 when bought at lowest prices and $7,250 in today's prices. The calculator says I have 1,463 games, steam says 1,345 and my steam profile lists 1,349

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

If they take Arc Raiders away from me, I'm going to lose my mind.

[-] huey_m@reddthat.com 17 points 18 hours ago

FYI, you can get total spent by going to Help > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

696 games at $4142 over 22.5 years

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 37 points 23 hours ago

the money is already lost. if that happened i would pirate whatever i want to download again.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago

$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

.....erm

£12,898 according to SteamDB at today's prices

In my defense I've had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Even that won’t be perfectly accurate, as it doesn’t include money spent on secondary stores for steam codes. So things like humble bundles aren’t included.

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[-] B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al 4 points 15 hours ago

£600 in 21 years apparently and most of that is from the first 10 years too. It's not my go-to store anymore.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago

I've had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I've got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.

[-] dangrousperson@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago

according to steamDB 1000€ at lowest prices 1700€ at today's prices over 16 years

kind of expected more

[-] Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 day ago

Nothing I couldn't pirate right back, given time.

[-] BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Every insteresting game I "bought" on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).

[-] radix@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

1,205 games. $6,516 as of today. 19 year account.

The depressing part is that of the 1,205 games, 986 (81.8%) are showing as unplayed.

[-] PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

According to Steam, ive spent $1440 dollars over 13 years.

Thing is, I have 930 games.

And while I pride myself on only buying during sales or other massive discounts, an average of $1.54 per game seems extremely low to me.

Nor does the fact that even when factoring in my supposed savings, i would have spend only 4.76 per game if not on sale especially since I have a fair number of AAA games on the account.

So im not sure steam is tracking me accurately.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

If you went hard on the early humble bundles and also subscribed to humble monthly for a while it's possible

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I'll be alright.

[-] GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

$1320.15 USD or like £988 GBP over the last 7 years damn-

That's like £150 a year-

Bet most are unplayed too because I rack up hundreds of hours on a couple of games then forget about the rest oops. I gotta start going through my backlog.

Edit: according to https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend

[-] huey_m@reddthat.com 5 points 18 hours ago

Less than I thought! About 1,900, can't tell if that's USD or EUR I've used both. Saved over 3,000, supposedly. For over 17 years, 112 bucks a year for a hobby shared nearly the entire time between 2 - later 3 people - that's pretty good I'd say. Not a lot of hobbies come in that cheap.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, that's about what we used to spend on board games

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[-] MayaSin@lemmy.ca 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

SteamDB puts my account at $2400 "at lowest prices", but I've definitely spent way more than that, and I own dark souls prepare to die, which a new key for that is up on cdk4g and g2a for $400-$500 alone.

I've been thinking about buying a bunch of hard drives and downloading my entire library and cracking it all and stashing the drives in long term storage just in case. That's been a thought for a very, very long time though...

[-] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 20 points 1 day ago

Many steam games are DRM free and would work even if Steam shuts down. It's been like this at least since 2011 or so (that's when I discovered this, it could be earlier).

I guess the impact would depend on the types of game which one buys on Steam.

[-] 64bithero@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

If you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?

[-] agentTeiko@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Steam has a back up feature I have my steam games backed up on my NAS

[-] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 28 points 1 day ago

I would just a get pirated copy.

I haven't pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

yep. the game exists somewhere. I've bought it. I have no issues pirating it to get access to it again. nobody has been hurt by this.

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[-] chunes@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
[-] missingno@fedia.io 3 points 10 hours ago

It looks like this list is manually curated, so there's probably more that just aren't documented as such.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Probably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 points 19 hours ago

Your Steam purchase history can be found under: https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/

I think purchases from other shops are not included (such as Humble Bundle), which makes sense. I have no total spent money calculated yet, so don't know.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

About US $3000 over 20 years. Not as much as I thought, to be honest. I wait for sales and try not to buy things unless I'm sure I'll play it.

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