Submitted 1 year ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to games@lemmy.world
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/steam-total-account-spend/
$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, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Batman Arkham Night, Injustice2, and No Man’s 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 it’s all on steam.
£1,585.73
Not bad for 16 years I guess.
This is not the tally that the article is talking about though
$1118 over 15+ years isn’t too bad
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.
This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge can’t harm you.
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.
Home - > Account - > Purchase History
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.
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?
It’s been known for atleast 7 years: reddit.com/…/what_is_difference_between_totalspen…
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
To judge my friends, of course.
Legit
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.
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.
$1,100 over 15 years. I’m not a gamer, and I’m well aware I don’t own these games, so I’m glad it’s low
Meh. You were late to the party. Musta got Steam to play Half Life Episode 1 or Portal.
Yeah it was portal! Good guess
This site puts the 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.
$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
Your profile page will say your account birthday.
20 years. 2004… Interesting times then and still interesting times now lol.
21 years, $4000, 1381 games, 29% avg completion rate. I’m not unhappy with that
21 years? a veteran 🫡
$130 over 14 years. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Less than 1000€ for dozens of games I’ve played, I think the average price I payed is 15€, so I don’t feel robbed
I mostly buy on GOG whenever possible though, even if it means I have to wait a year or two
6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments.
Not bad, under $9000! I thought for sure it would be over 10k. I’m at 2k games, and I almost always buy on sale.
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.
Damn, $2487.15 over 5 years. I wonder if it factors in games i got externally by guesstimating the price though
It’s about external funds added to your steam account, so it should only be actual money, and not guessing the price of games.
That’s good too know, though, now i wish i had an accurate measurement of how much money i’ve spent across external sites too
There’s a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can’t tell you how precisely much you’ve actually spent on Valve’s 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.
That’s exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find “External funds used” deep in the Steam Help menu…
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.
Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.
I’m even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don’t have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
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.
Nice. Lucky! i would have spend more also if it wasnt for my pesky family /s
What is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
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!
Nice 👍
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From the page with the values:
From Steam support regarding package only:
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes, I read that. It did not clarify what I was asking.