$0.00.
I never buy games on Steam. If you buy it, and can't keep it, you don't own it.
I have Steam for a handful of free titles. The rest I buy from GOG.
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696 games at $4142 over 22.5 years
according to steamDB 1000€ at lowest prices 1700€ at today's prices over 16 years
kind of expected more
I've had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I've got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.
I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I'll be alright.
£600 in 21 years apparently and most of that is from the first 10 years too. It's not my go-to store anymore.
$1320.15 USD or like £988 GBP over the last 7 years damn-
That's like £150 a year-
Bet most are unplayed too because I rack up hundreds of hours on a couple of games then forget about the rest oops. I gotta start going through my backlog.
Edit: according to https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
FYI, you can get total spent by going to Help > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.
I don't even have a steam account ...
Is this thread really for you then?
I don't see why not.
Because you don't have a Steam account.
Right, so I'd lost $0, which is valid answer to the question being asked.
Wow that's impressive
This has Ken M energy and I love it.
I think we've found one of those mythical people that reply to questions people ask online with "I don't know".
Damn, infinity dollars. You got me beat
Every insteresting game I "bought" on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).
Less than I thought! About 1,900, can't tell if that's USD or EUR I've used both. Saved over 3,000, supposedly. For over 17 years, 112 bucks a year for a hobby shared nearly the entire time between 2 - later 3 people - that's pretty good I'd say. Not a lot of hobbies come in that cheap.
Yeah, that's about what we used to spend on board games
Yeah same, less than I thought : 1445, but I'm pretty sure that includes my OLED steam deck. Savings a little over 2k.
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
1,205 games. $6,516 as of today. 19 year account.
The depressing part is that of the 1,205 games, 986 (81.8%) are showing as unplayed.
the money is already lost. if that happened i would pirate whatever i want to download again.
SteamDB puts my account at $2400 "at lowest prices", but I've definitely spent way more than that, and I own dark souls prepare to die, which a new key for that is up on cdk4g and g2a for $400-$500 alone.
I've been thinking about buying a bunch of hard drives and downloading my entire library and cracking it all and stashing the drives in long term storage just in case. That's been a thought for a very, very long time though...
Over 12 years, apparently only ~$1255.33USD over the past 12 years. Also realized I have a huge gap in my purchase history from 2015 to 2020. And it looks like the majority of my spending has been from 2020 onward.
Gonna have a presume at least a little over a quarter of my spending is due to me buying an officially refurbished LCD model deck when they were in stock a couple years ago. IDK actual price because it's lumped in with like 3-4 games I bought at the same time, roughing out to $403.something-cents before tax.
About US $3000 over 20 years. Not as much as I thought, to be honest. I wait for sales and try not to buy things unless I'm sure I'll play it.
.....erm
£12,898 according to SteamDB at today's prices
In my defense I've had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that
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Zero. I cannot convert these games to money anyway.
Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it's quite old.
I found a purchase history page in the client, so it might be able to tell you how old an account might be by scrolling all the way down. IDK how far back it goes, though, since my account is only a little over 12 years old.
store(.)steampowered(.)om/account/history
10-20$
Nothing I couldn't pirate right back, given time.
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