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 $260,000. And that was before covid.
'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
Submitted 11 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to games@lemmy.world
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/steam-total-account-spend/
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Subverb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Joelk111@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m going to go look for a link to share.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only buy physical so mines like 20$ 🤣
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 11 months 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
biofaust@lemmy.world 11 months 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!
RevolverSly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not wasted if you’ve enjoyed
Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I literally can’t 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. 🙄
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh I checked. If was so much
Jumi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
6.5k in 15 years. I did spend a lot when I was younger.
glitches_brew@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m at about the same amount. Kinda shocking to see it.
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“May” nothing, I don’t.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Oh, it’s not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
TotalSpend 1433$ 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 11 months ago
“OldSpend” is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yea same, I don’t 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 I’d find tbh
Daggity@lemm.ee 11 months ago
21 years on Steam was terrifying to see.
Razzazzika@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
caut_R@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Humble Monthly is awesome.
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
$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 11 months ago
Wow, I’m at ~$3800 and have 535 games, 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 11 months ago
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.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
I have used a tool 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 11 months ago
I have so much bullshit in my inventory that’s not worth putting up at .02¢ each. Hook a brother up with a link
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 11 months 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
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
598.34 since Dec 2010
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not bad
zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 11 months ago
$1300 CAD on games over 15+ years with a current value of $8350.
Yeah, I’m cool with that.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
superkret@feddit.org 11 months ago
$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Devil gamer confirmed 😈
crabigno@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Surprised to see I’ve only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
1300$ 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 haha. Good times.
hark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: help.steampowered.com/en/…/AccountSpend
timestatic@feddit.org 11 months ago
No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 11 months 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
njm1314@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 months ago
That’s very unlikely, I couldn’t have spent so much money on steam. I’ve bought like 5 games on steam and not even at full price. The rest comes from grey zone shops/HB
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah but I spent a bunch of them
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The shop has a page where it tells you how many you’ve spent as well.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
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.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
€15.77 on a 5 year old account
I own Terraria, Among Us, BTD6, Celeste and Gelatine, all bought on a discount
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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.