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Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played (www.pcgamesn.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They don't have access to price paid tho...

So like, where are they getting the price? A game that was $60 on release 5 years ago might have been bought then or for $5 on a sale.

That's not even getting into Humble Bundles from back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They don’t list their methodology, so it’s pretty much a made up number.

And yeah, back when you had to add the entire bundle to your account, you’d get a ton of crap bundle games that you’d never play. These days you can generally list the code for others to use.

Like H3AFF-I28Q2-AF4AV

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Guess I'm playing Rise of the Triad now.

Edit: VMZAL-Q9Q2T-2F53M

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Enjoy :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks for Batman, I’ve never played that one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It's definitely inflated but I'd say the real number has to be at the very least within 10% of that estimate (probably a lot more, but I've seen some AAA games at a 90% discount in the past) which is still in the billions of dollars, which is still kind of nuts