Oh damn. Iāve spent $30,359.76 on Steam in the 17 years Iāve had an account. And I just passed 4,000 games in my Steam library within the last month. That checks out.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Apr 10:14
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What is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
And according to the SteamDB, Iāve 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!
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Apr 11:04
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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.
Video games and collecting Sonic the Hedgehog comics are my two expensive hobbies; I donāt spend money on much else besides essentials (food, shelter), so I can afford to splurge a bit on these hobbies. I am not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but the US military took really good care of me for 20 years and continues to provide for me in retirement, so Iām able to live a pretty relaxed life now.
If you somehow dont have Metro 2033 yet, you can still add it to your library for free today.
I saw that it was free for 48 hours! I already have the whole Metro franchise, but Iāve informed my gaming friends about the deal this morning. Thanks for spreading the news!
One caveat to my Steam library is that I always try to wait for deals before I buy; I rarely buy anything at full price. I donāt want to think about how much money I mightāve spent if I bought everything at full price! š±
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Apr 15:01
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Sounds like fun hobbies :) Money is worthless after you die so might aswell spend it on something you enjoy i guess.
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Apr 05:55
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Nice. Lucky! i would have spend more also if it wasnt for my pesky family /s
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net
on 15 Apr 10:19
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Iām even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I donāt have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.
Flamekebab@piefed.social
on 15 Apr 10:34
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Considering I have 827 games on Steam, the figure of $1620.26 doesn't seem too bad. Now I've probably bought a load more bundles bumping that up, but there's no convenient way to figure out how much that adds (let's round to $2000). I've had the account 18 years, 9 months.
So that's... $8.89 per month.
Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 10:41
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Thereās a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it canāt tell you how precisely much youāve actually spent on Valveās 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.
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 š«
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
on 15 Apr 12:05
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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.
I guess Iām a weird one. Iāve saved so much money using Game Pass itās not even funny. Throw in the pc version, and Iāve saved even more. I can try so many different genres I wouldnāt typically risk my money for. I have also avoided buying games I thought I would love but then ended up hating.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
on 15 Apr 16:07
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Yeah, I donāt think I make that many that wrong purchases, although that doesnāt mean that a lot of games I enjoy end up unfinished due to limited time. When it comes to testing games, one thing thatās neat is that demos got a huge revival in the last few years, particularly due to Steam Next Fest.
Looking at the current line-up, Iāll say that right Iād probably come to a different conclusion, seeing as Blue Prince, South of Midnight and the new DOOM are all included. Then again, I use Linux, so I wouldnāt be able to use Game Pass even if I wanted to.
I let the charity be the deciding factor. Some times I will just get a bundle and move the sliders all the way over for EFF because I would have donated to them anyways. Other times I see that the cause (relief, children, etc) is just worth doing. If I donāt play the games, at least the money was not wasted.
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 11:28
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Not bad, under $9000! I thought for sure it would be over 10k. Iām at 2k games, and I almost always buy on sale.
IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 11:32
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6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments. Todayās price is over $900 tho, patient gamer gang.
This site puts my lowest cost estimate at ~$400 USD. Out of curiosity, I then went through my purchase history and added everything up, which came out to ~$1,000 USD. The average was ~$14 and the median was ~$10.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 13:21
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$1,100 over 15 years. Iām not a gamer, and Iām well aware I donāt own these games, so Iām glad itās low
I donāt 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.
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 arenāt included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesnāt know how much you paid for it, though, so itās completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
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.)
gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
on 15 Apr 16:35
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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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
on 15 Apr 17:24
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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 youāre alluding to.
samuelazers@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 17:30
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I donāt knowā¦ I havenāt played since 2007ā¦ hats ? Iām so out of the loopā¦
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 21:16
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It is now. It wasnāt at first.
It was part of the Valve Orange Box and that was a big deal at the time. There was also a huge deal of whining from people who paid for it when Valve announced they were changing it to a free to play model.
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 ā¦ um ā¦ Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device Iāve 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 Iāve bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 14:05
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This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge canāt harm you.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Apr 14:15
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I just checked and i thought it would be more.
But I do not know and will never check the amount of time spent playing.
Im happy with this, especially since all the games I have bought, I actually really like. So I have all the bethesda game studio games (literally), ESO, Doom, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate, Assassinās Creed: Odyssey, Batman Arkham Night, Injustice2, and No Manās Sky (the one I regret buying).
I think all these games are worth those $187. I have only bought a copy of Skyrim outside of steam (GOG) otherwise itās all on steam.
Im happy with this, especially since all the games I have bought, I actually really like. So I have all the bethesda game studio games (literally), ESO, Doom, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate, Assassinās Creed: Odyssey, Batman Arkham Night, Injustice2, and No Manās Sky (the only one I regret buying).
I think all these games are worth those $187. I have only bought a copy of Skyrim outside of steam (GOG) otherwise itās all on steam.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 18:50
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From the page with the values:
āOldSpendā is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.
From Steam support regarding package only:
This row includes the portion of the accountās total funds spent that could not be transferred. For example, a hardware purchase, gifted game, or in-game item does not count toward Package Only Spend, but a game purchase for your own library would.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 20:34
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From the steam page:
āTotalSpendā is the total amount of external funds applied to your account.
āOldSpendā is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.
RandomVideos@programming.dev
on 15 Apr 17:06
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ā¬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
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
on 15 Apr 17:34
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I donāt feel bad. Itās a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. Iām sure Iād be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 17:54
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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.
Well not how much youāve spent, how much it values your collection. But whatās that number based on? Iāve only bought one full price game in my entire life on Steam. And it was one of my biggest regrets so Iām not doing that again. So right there all the sale prices Iām paying arenāt being calculated right? Then thereās 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
on 15 Apr 18:29
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SteamDB gives you a valuation based on full price. The article describes an entry on Steamās Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz
on 15 Apr 19:14
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Thatās very unlikely, I couldnāt have spent so much money on steam. Iāve bought like 5 games on steam and not even at full price. The rest comes from grey zone shops/HB
Edit: Just added up the numbers in my purchase history, itās about 1/4 of the sum there
Maybe it also counts transactions from the Steam Market? I also found my TotalSpend hard to believe, but itās also not like Iāve traded hundreds of dollars worth of items in the market.
The description of the support page notes that these values are used to determine some sort of limited user account status. It might not be intended to keep an accurate tally. I wouldnāt be surprised if these values are only available due to gdpr and accuracy of the description was not a priority when they set it up. Iām implying that the employee who wrote the description might not have understood the value precisely enough.
But who knows. I could just be huffing copium about my game expenses š
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz
on 16 Apr 19:03
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Iāve maybe sold an item or two for a few cents, nothing more
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 18:45
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Well not how much youāve spent, how much it values your collection. But whatās that number based on?
Please re-read the article. The values are on Steam itself, based on your interactions with it.
The official page shows the money youāve spent, the estimator shows the current price of the games on your account, adjusted to everything. For me the difference is X4
No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
on 16 Apr 21:57
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Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 18:24
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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.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 19:05
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$602.41 for 50 games in 18.4 years.
Cost at todayās prices: $698. Iād say thatās 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.
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount Iāve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
I have used a tool (not this one specifically) that could do this specifically for its other function of calculating the worth of all your steam trading cards/marketable game items, and to batch sell them when I have enough to get something with the cash.
mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Apr 07:50
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I have so much bullshit in my inventory thatās not worth putting up at .02Ā¢ each. Hook a brother up with a link
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Apr 05:53
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$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.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Apr 10:29
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whatās that other site? Iām in the same boat and very curious what the retail value of my steam library would be
Wow, Iām at ~$3800 and have 535 games on a 15-ish year account, youāve done good for yourself. Iāve 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
on 16 Apr 13:46
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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.
Lol, the Orange box was my first purchase that installed Steam too. Technically shouldāve 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.
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Apr 16:55
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I play casually and love supporting Indie games. PM me if you want to game sometime.
Iāve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, itās alright. Iād be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending
Yep. Iāve 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 Iām near the right end of the bell curve, Iām by no means at the end.
Itās formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.
āTotalSpendā is the total amount of external funds applied to your account. This value is used to determine if an account is a āLimited User Accountā.
āOldSpendā 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,
āPWSpendā 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,
āChinaSpendā will report that total, in RMB.
Weirdly I also have a row for āPackageOnlySpendā that doesnāt have a definition.
Yea same, I donāt know what that last one is. So Total is the total, and Old is the part of the total that was applied before april 17th 2015. I think it makes sense. About 100$ a year, or roughly 8$ a month. I was afraid what Iād find tbh
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
on 16 Apr 16:36
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Oh, itās not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee
on 16 Apr 17:44
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6.5k in 15 years. I did spend a lot when I was younger.
glitches_brew@lemmy.world
on 18 Apr 20:01
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Iām at about the same amount. Kinda shocking to see it.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee
on 16 Apr 21:47
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Oh I checked. If was so much
Lemminary@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 22:01
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I literally canāt see this information on mobile. It prompts me to sign in but when I input my info, email code and all, it prompts me to do it again. š
RevolverSly@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 22:45
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3465 ā¬ in 21 years at todayās prices for 287 games.
Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 ā¬ that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.
3,6 ā¬ per game, 49 ā¬ per year.
Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, itās well worth it.
Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!
If you dig you can find this on Amazon. Iāve been buying from Amazon since 1995 and the last time I looked my purchases were somewhere around $260,000. And that was before covid.
Edit: This seems to be how to do it for Amazon: www.amazon.com/hz/privacy-central/ā¦/preview.html - My data hasnāt come through yet so I donāt know how difficult it is to get the sum of all orders/refunds.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
on 17 Apr 06:00
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530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. Thereās 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 havenāt been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I donāt even want to know.
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Oh damn. Iāve spent $30,359.76 on Steam in the 17 years Iāve had an account. And I just passed 4,000 games in my Steam library within the last month. That checks out.
What is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
I really like video games. And Iām 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. Itās basically just archiving my āRandom Screenshots of my Gamesā posts in !games@lemmy.world.
And according to the SteamDB, Iāve 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.
Video games and collecting Sonic the Hedgehog comics are my two expensive hobbies; I donāt spend money on much else besides essentials (food, shelter), so I can afford to splurge a bit on these hobbies. I am not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but the US military took really good care of me for 20 years and continues to provide for me in retirement, so Iām able to live a pretty relaxed life now.
I saw that it was free for 48 hours! I already have the whole Metro franchise, but Iāve informed my gaming friends about the deal this morning. Thanks for spreading the news!
One caveat to my Steam library is that I always try to wait for deals before I buy; I rarely buy anything at full price. I donāt want to think about how much money I mightāve spent if I bought everything at full price! š±
Sounds like fun hobbies :) Money is worthless after you die so might aswell spend it on something you enjoy i guess.
Nice. Lucky! i would have spend more also if it wasnt for my pesky family /s
Iām even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I donāt have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
help.steampowered.com/de/ā¦/AccountSpend
Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.
Considering I have 827 games on Steam, the figure of $1620.26 doesn't seem too bad. Now I've probably bought a load more bundles bumping that up, but there's no convenient way to figure out how much that adds (let's round to $2000). I've had the account 18 years, 9 months.
So that's... $8.89 per month.
Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable.
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.
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 š«
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.
I guess Iām a weird one. Iāve saved so much money using Game Pass itās not even funny. Throw in the pc version, and Iāve saved even more. I can try so many different genres I wouldnāt typically risk my money for. I have also avoided buying games I thought I would love but then ended up hating.
Yeah, I donāt think I make that many that wrong purchases, although that doesnāt mean that a lot of games I enjoy end up unfinished due to limited time. When it comes to testing games, one thing thatās neat is that demos got a huge revival in the last few years, particularly due to Steam Next Fest.
Looking at the current line-up, Iāll say that right Iād probably come to a different conclusion, seeing as Blue Prince, South of Midnight and the new DOOM are all included. Then again, I use Linux, so I wouldnāt be able to use Game Pass even if I wanted to.
I let the charity be the deciding factor. Some times I will just get a bundle and move the sliders all the way over for EFF because I would have donated to them anyways. Other times I see that the cause (relief, children, etc) is just worth doing. If I donāt play the games, at least the money was not wasted.
Thatās exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find āExternal funds usedā deep in the Steam Help menuā¦
Damn, $2487.15 over 5 years. I wonder if it factors in games i got externally by guesstimating the price though
Itās about external funds added to your steam account, so it should only be actual money, and not guessing the price of games.
Thatās good too know, though, now i wish i had an accurate measurement of how much money iāve spent across external sites too
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.
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.
Invest!
Not bad, under $9000! I thought for sure it would be over 10k. Iām at 2k games, and I almost always buy on sale.
6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments. Todayās price is over $900 tho, patient gamer gang.
Less than 1000ā¬ for dozens of games Iāve played, I think the average price I payed is 15ā¬, so I donāt feel robbed
I mostly buy on GOG whenever possible though, even if it means I have to wait a year or two
$130 over 14 years. š“āā ļøš“āā ļøš“āā ļø
21 years, $4000, 1381 games, 29% avg completion rate. Iām not unhappy with that
21 years? a veteran š«”
$7000ā¦ not bad for 20 years or whatever its been since steam started. Sure as hell drunk more than 7kās worth of alcohol over that time lol
Your profile page will say your account birthday. Float your mouse over āYears of Serviceā.
20 years for me. 2004ā¦ Interesting times then and still interesting times now lol.
This site puts my lowest cost estimate at ~$400 USD. Out of curiosity, I then went through my purchase history and added everything up, which came out to ~$1,000 USD. The average was ~$14 and the median was ~$10.
$1,100 over 15 years. Iām not a gamer, and Iām well aware I donāt own these games, so Iām glad itās low
Meh. You were late to the party. Musta got Steam to play Half Life Episode Two or Portal.
Yeah it was portal! Good guess
Home - > Account - > Purchase History
I donāt 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.
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 arenāt included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesnāt know how much you paid for it, though, so itās completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
To judge my friends, of course.
Legit
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.)
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.
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 youāre alluding to.
Itās been known for atleast 7 years: reddit.com/ā¦/what_is_difference_between_totalspenā¦
edit: no need to point out those are 2 different links, ill leave this up
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 itās not a good way to get weapons. Only lost a few bucks.
Edit: Should clarify, my parents bought them.
TF2 is free to play ??
Donāt they make all their money on hats?
I donāt knowā¦ I havenāt played since 2007ā¦ hats ? Iām so out of the loopā¦
It is now. It wasnāt at first.
It was part of the Valve Orange Box and that was a big deal at the time. There was also a huge deal of whining from people who paid for it when Valve announced they were changing it to a free to play model.
Ok I see. yea my memory is of the orange box, on xbox. Or was it the 360 ?
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 ā¦ um ā¦ Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device Iāve 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 Iāve bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.
This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge canāt harm you.
I just checked and i thought it would be more.
But I do not know and will never check the amount of time spent playing.
My 17-year-old account is at $600. Thatās 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.
$1118 over 15+ years isnāt too bad
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Not too bad!
This is not the tally that the article is talking about though
Ā£1,585.73
Not bad for 16 years I guess.
$187 / 2 years
Im happy with this, especially since all the games I have bought, I actually really like. So I have all the bethesda game studio games (literally), ESO, Doom, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate, Assassinās Creed: Odyssey, Batman Arkham Night, Injustice2, and No Manās Sky (the one I regret buying).
I think all these games are worth those $187. I have only bought a copy of Skyrim outside of steam (GOG) otherwise itās all on steam.
$187 / 2 years
Im happy with this, especially since all the games I have bought, I actually really like. So I have all the bethesda game studio games (literally), ESO, Doom, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate, Assassinās Creed: Odyssey, Batman Arkham Night, Injustice2, and No Manās Sky (the only one I regret buying).
I think all these games are worth those $187. I have only bought a copy of Skyrim outside of steam (GOG) otherwise itās all on steam.
Does total include the Old Spend?..and what is Package Only? None of these numbers seem to add up to each other. Or are they also separate.
Also what lazy dev just posted the query column names instead of decoding them for the end user
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From the page with the values:
From Steam support regarding package only:
Yes, I read that. It did not clarify what I was asking.
You asked what package only means, and I found an answer.
Total is total, with old spend being the cutoff of old spending.
None of the numbers are guaranteed to add up to each other.
I donāt know whatās missing from the reply.
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From the steam page:
ā¬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
I donāt feel bad. Itās a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. Iām sure Iād be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.
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.
Yeah but I spent a bunch of them
The shop has a page where it tells you how many youāve spent as well.
Well not how much youāve spent, how much it values your collection. But whatās that number based on? Iāve only bought one full price game in my entire life on Steam. And it was one of my biggest regrets so Iām not doing that again. So right there all the sale prices Iām paying arenāt being calculated right? Then thereās 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 Steamās Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.
Thatās very unlikely, I couldnāt have spent so much money on steam. Iāve bought like 5 games on steam and not even at full price. The rest comes from grey zone shops/HB
Edit: Just added up the numbers in my purchase history, itās about 1/4 of the sum there
Maybe it also counts transactions from the Steam Market? I also found my TotalSpend hard to believe, but itās also not like Iāve traded hundreds of dollars worth of items in the market.
The description of the support page notes that these values are used to determine some sort of limited user account status. It might not be intended to keep an accurate tally. I wouldnāt be surprised if these values are only available due to gdpr and accuracy of the description was not a priority when they set it up. Iām implying that the employee who wrote the description might not have understood the value precisely enough.
But who knows. I could just be huffing copium about my game expenses š
Iāve maybe sold an item or two for a few cents, nothing more
Please re-read the article. The values are on Steam itself, based on your interactions with it.
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: help.steampowered.com/en/ā¦/AccountSpend
The official page shows the money youāve spent, the estimator shows the current price of the games on your account, adjusted to everything. For me the difference is X4
No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.
Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.
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.
Surprised to see Iāve only spent 1200ā¬ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.
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$602.41 for 50 games in 18.4 years. Cost at todayās prices: $698. Iād say thatās 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, Iām cool with that.
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598.34 since Dec 2010
Not bad
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount Iāve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
I have used a tool (not this one specifically) that could do this specifically for its other function of calculating the worth of all your steam trading cards/marketable game items, and to batch sell them when I have enough to get something with the cash.
I have so much bullshit in my inventory thatās not worth putting up at .02Ā¢ each. Hook a brother up with a link
$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.
whatās that other site? Iām 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 :)
Wow, Iām at ~$3800 and have 535 games on a 15-ish year account, youāve done good for yourself. Iāve also brought in some games from humble bundles, but if I have to guess these total 20% of my purchases at most.
Thanks. I rarely buy full price. My first purchase which isnt included was the Half-Life Orange box so i could play Natural Selection, a Half-life mod at the time.
Lol, the Orange box was my first purchase that installed Steam too. Technically shouldāve done that with HL2, but I played it way after release, and sadly all I could afford at the time was the pirated version. But having sinked in so much dough through Steam afterwards, I doubt Valve would care.
I play casually and love supporting Indie games. PM me if you want to game sometime.
Iāve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, itās alright. Iād be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending
Humble Monthly is awesome.
21 years on Steam was terrifying to see.
Yep. Iāve known about this feature for a while. I always think my numbers are insane and someone always comes along and one ups me so while Iām near the right end of the bell curve, Iām by no means at the end.
TotalSpend 1433$ OldSpend 434$
Not sure if I should add the two ? or is the second one included in the first one ? Anyway thatās not too bad for a 14yo account
Itās formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.
Weirdly I also have a row for āPackageOnlySpendā that doesnāt have a definition.
Yea same, I donāt know what that last one is. So Total is the total, and Old is the part of the total that was applied before april 17th 2015. I think it makes sense. About 100$ a year, or roughly 8$ a month. I was afraid what Iād find tbh
Oh, itās not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
āMayā nothing, I donāt.
Woo $6k!
Holy balls
6.5k in 15 years. I did spend a lot when I was younger.
Iām at about the same amount. Kinda shocking to see it.
Oh I checked. If was so much
I literally canāt see this information on mobile. It prompts me to sign in but when I input my info, email code and all, it prompts me to do it again. š
Itās not wasted if youāve enjoyed
3465 ā¬ in 21 years at todayās prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 ā¬ that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.
3,6 ā¬ per game, 49 ā¬ per year.
Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, itās well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!
I did pretty good. So far 530 games for $1867
Thatās about $3.50 per game
I often leave games in my wishlist until they are 70-80% off
I only buy physical so mines like 20$ š¤£
If you dig you can find this on Amazon. Iāve been buying from Amazon since 1995 and the last time I looked my purchases were somewhere around $260,000. And that was before covid.
Do you have a link? Iāll start looking, will edit this comment if I find it.
Edit: Link to Steam total spend: help.steampowered.com/en/ā¦/AccountSpend
Edit: This seems to be how to do it for Amazon: www.amazon.com/hz/privacy-central/ā¦/preview.html - My data hasnāt come through yet so I donāt know how difficult it is to get the sum of all orders/refunds.
530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. Thereās 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 havenāt been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I donāt even want to know.