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[–] superkret@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.

[–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Devil gamer confirmed 😈

[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

$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.

[–] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lol, the Orange box was my first purchase that installed Steam too. Technically should've done that with HL2, but I played it way after release, and sadly all I could afford at the time was the pirated version. But having sinked in so much dough through Steam afterwards, I doubt Valve would care.

I play casually and love supporting Indie games. PM me if you want to game sometime.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 :)

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you dig you can find this on Amazon. I've been buying from Amazon since 1995 and the last time I looked my purchases were somewhere around $260,000. And that was before covid.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Do you have a link? I'll start looking, will edit this comment if I find it.

Edit: Link to Steam total spend: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend

Edit: This seems to be how to do it for Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/privacy-central/data-requests/preview.html - My data hasn't come through yet so I don't know how difficult it is to get the sum of all orders/refunds.

[–] Daggity@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

21 years on Steam was terrifying to see.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Yep. I've known about this feature for a while. I always think my numbers are insane and someone always comes along and one ups me so while I'm near the right end of the bell curve, I'm by no means at the end.

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

It's not wasted if you've enjoyed

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 days ago

I did pretty good. So far 530 games for $1867

That's about $3.50 per game

I often leave games in my wishlist until they are 70-80% off

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

6.5k in 15 years. I did spend a lot when I was younger.

[–] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'm at about the same amount. Kinda shocking to see it.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Iβ€˜ve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, itβ€˜s alright. Iβ€˜d be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Humble Monthly is awesome.

530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. There's almost no time recorded in Half-life, Day of defeat or Counterstrike and those are the games I played the most. I also got most games through Humblebundle, where I spent 270 dollars since June 2012. But as I haven't been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I don't even want to know.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

3465 € in 21 years at today's prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 € that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.

3,6 € per game, 49 € per year.

Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, it's well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago

Oh, it's not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

$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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Oh I checked. If was so much

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

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

[–] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

$1300 CAD on games over 15+ years with a current value of $8350.

Yeah, I'm cool with that.

"May" nothing, I don't.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

TotalSpend 1433$ OldSpend 434$

Not sure if I should add the two ? or is the second one included in the first one ? Anyway that's not too bad for a 14yo account

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.

"TotalSpend" is the total amount of external funds applied to your account. This value is used to determine if an account is a "Limited User Account".

"OldSpend" is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC. If your account was linked to Perfect World for CS:GO or Dota 2,

"PWSpend" will be the approximate USD value of funds applied from Perfect World, otherwise that value will be zero. If your account has applied external funds in Steam China,

"ChinaSpend" will report that total, in RMB.

Weirdly I also have a row for "PackageOnlySpend" that doesn't have a definition.

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[–] crabigno@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Surprised to see I've only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I only buy physical so mines like 20$ 🀣

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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