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I don’t know why you would use a third Party Tool that estimates your purchase when it has always been right there in your account, without estimates.
'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 3 weeks ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to games@lemmy.world
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/steam-total-account-spend/
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vxx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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.
vxx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The tool doesn’t know how much you paid for it, though, so it’s completely ignoring sales and donations and just applies a price to it.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 3 weeks ago
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
samuelazers@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s been known for atleast 7 years: reddit.com/…/what_is_difference_between_totalspen…
Abnorc@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You bought weapons?? In the mann co store?
Jestzer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To judge my friends, of course.
vxx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Legit
superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Devil gamer confirmed 😈
cobysev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
cobysev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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!
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nice. Lucky! i would have spend more also if it wasnt for my pesky family /s
Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
hark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: help.steampowered.com/en/…/AccountSpend
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
timestatic@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks 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.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 3 weeks ago
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.
kipo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
$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
dbtng@eviltoast.org 3 weeks ago
Your profile page will say your account birthday.
MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
20 years. 2004… Interesting times then and still interesting times now lol.
Daggity@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
21 years on Steam was terrifying to see.
Razzazzika@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
caut_R@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Humble Monthly is awesome.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.
CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
$130 over 14 years. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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.
Subverb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
I’m going to go look for a link to share.
RevolverSly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not wasted if you’ve enjoyed
Jumi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
6.5k in 15 years. I did spend a lot when I was younger.
glitches_brew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m at about the same amount. Kinda shocking to see it.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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
zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
$1300 CAD on games over 15+ years with a current value of $8350.
Yeah, I’m cool with that.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1300$ 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.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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.
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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!
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Oh, it’s not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Surprised to see I’ve only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
That’s exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find “External funds used” deep in the Steam Help menu…