$1118 over 15+ years isn't too bad
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$130 over 14 years. π΄ββ οΈπ΄ββ οΈπ΄ββ οΈ
Not too bad!
This is not the tally that the article is talking about though
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
Edit: Just added up the numbers in my purchase history, it's about 1/4 of the sum there
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Well not how much youβve spent, how much it values your collection. But whatβs that number based on?
Please re-read the article. The values are on Steam itself, based on your interactions with it.
- I have only tf2 on steam
β¬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
Less than 1000β¬ for dozens of games I've played, I think the average price I payed is 15β¬, 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
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 ~$10.
TotalSpend 1433$ 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
It's formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.
"TotalSpend" is the total amount of external funds applied to your account. This value is used to determine if an account is a "Limited User Account".
"OldSpend" 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,
"PWSpend" 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,
"ChinaSpend" will report that total, in RMB.
Weirdly I also have a row for "PackageOnlySpend" that doesn't have a definition.
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"May" nothing, I don't.
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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This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge can't 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.
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 that's not worth putting up at .02Β’ each. Hook a brother up with a link