NinjaZ'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
cyranoNice š
cobysevOh damn. Iāve spent $30,359.76 on Steam in the 17 years Iāve had an account. And I just passed 4,000 games in my Steam library within the last month. That checks out.
unexposedhazardWhat is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
I really like video games. And Iām 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. Itās basically just archiving my āRandom Screenshots of my Gamesā posts in [email protected].
And according to the SteamDB, Iāve 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!
Damn, 26% is not too shabby. Thats just a lot of money for most people, but i guess other people buy figurines that they never do anything with at all, so it could be worse i guess. Well i hope you enjoy playing them :)
If you somehow dont have Metro 2033 yet, you can still add it to your library for free today.
Video games and collecting Sonic the Hedgehog comics are my two expensive hobbies; I donāt spend money on much else besides essentials (food, shelter), so I can afford to splurge a bit on these hobbies. I am not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but the US military took really good care of me for 20 years and continues to provide for me in retirement, so Iām able to live a pretty relaxed life now.
If you somehow dont have Metro 2033 yet, you can still add it to your library for free today.
I saw that it was free for 48 hours! I already have the whole Metro franchise, but Iāve informed my gaming friends about the deal this morning. Thanks for spreading the news!
One caveat to my Steam library is that I always try to wait for deals before I buy; I rarely buy anything at full price. I donāt want to think about how much money I mightāve spent if I bought everything at full price! š±
Sounds like fun hobbies :) Money is worthless after you die so might aswell spend it on something you enjoy i guess.
0^2Nice. Lucky! i would have spend more also if it wasnt for my pesky family /s
Iām even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I donāt have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.
FlamekebabConsidering 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.
Thereās a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it canāt tell you how precisely much youāve actually spent on Valveās 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.
MHLoppyAfter many years of selectively evaluating and purchasing bundles as my main source of new games, I've come to wonder if it would've been better to just buy the individual games when I wanted to play them at whatever the available price was - the rate at which I get through games is far lower than the rate at which games are available in "good" bundles. In the end I'm not even sure if I've saved money (because of how many games have gone bought but unplayed) and it does take more time to evaluate whether something's a good deal or not.
The upside is way more potential variety of games to pull from in my library, but if I only play at most like 1-2 dozen two new games a year then I'm not sure that counts for much š«
NekuSoulA bit tangential, but I also feel a lot of people make the same mistake with GamePass. I buy a lot of gameson release day (mostly indies, but also some AAA), so theoretically I should be the target audience for GamePass, but I did the math once for a three-month period and came out at a loss if I had bought GamePass.
Based on nothing but anecdotal evidence, the type of person to get GamePass also typically enjoys a lesser variety of games on average, making the cost/benefit ratio even worse.
I guess Iām a weird one. Iāve saved so much money using Game Pass itās not even funny. Throw in the pc version, and Iāve saved even more. I can try so many different genres I wouldnāt typically risk my money for. I have also avoided buying games I thought I would love but then ended up hating.
Yeah, I donāt think I make that many that wrong purchases, although that doesnāt mean that a lot of games I enjoy end up unfinished due to limited time. When it comes to testing games, one thing thatās neat is that demos got a huge revival in the last few years, particularly due to Steam Next Fest.
Looking at the current line-up, Iāll say that right Iād probably come to a different conclusion, seeing as Blue Prince, South of Midnight and the new DOOM are all included. Then again, I use Linux, so I wouldnāt be able to use Game Pass even if I wanted to.
I let the charity be the deciding factor. Some times I will just get a bundle and move the sliders all the way over for EFF because I would have donated to them anyways. Other times I see that the cause (relief, children, etc) is just worth doing. If I donāt play the games, at least the money was not wasted.
Thatās exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find āExternal funds usedā deep in the Steam Help menuā¦
MyNameIsAtticusDamn, $2487.15 over 5 years. I wonder if it factors in games i got externally by guesstimating the price though
slimerancherItās about external funds added to your steam account, so it should only be actual money, and not guessing the price of games.
Thatās good too know, though, now i wish i had an accurate measurement of how much money iāve spent across external sites too
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.
Not bad, under $9000! I thought for sure it would be over 10k. Iām at 2k games, and I almost always buy on sale.
6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments.
Less than 1000ā¬ for dozens of games Iāve played, I think the average price I payed is 15ā¬, so I donāt feel robbed
I mostly buy on GOG whenever possible though, even if it means I have to wait a year or two
CumBroth$130 over 14 years. š“āā ļøš“āā ļøš“āā ļø
21 years, $4000, 1381 games, 29% avg completion rate. Iām not unhappy with that
hand21 years? a veteran š«”
$7000ā¦ not bad for 20 years or whatever its been since steam started. Sure as hell drunk more than 7kās worth of alcohol over that time lol
dbtngYour profile page will say your account birthday.
20 years. 2004ā¦ Interesting times then and still interesting times now lol.
Tiger_Man_ćhe/himćThis 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.
$1,100 over 15 years. Iām not a gamer, and Iām well aware I donāt own these games, so Iām glad itās 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
Home - > Account - > Purchase History
I donāt 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.
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 arenāt included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesnāt know how much you paid for it, though, so itās completely ignoring sales and donations and just applies a price to it.
To judge my friends, of course.
Legit
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
That path is incorrect and the article tells you exactly how to find it on Steam
Itās been known for atleast 7 years: reddit.com/ā¦/what_is_difference_between_totalspenā¦
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 You bought weapons??
In the mann co store?
lol yes. I did it a few times before I realized that itās not a good way to get weapons. Only lost a few bucks.
TF2 is free to play ??
Donāt they make all their money on hats?
I donāt knowā¦ I havenāt played since 2007ā¦ hats ? Iām so out of the loopā¦
dual_sport_dork š§š”ļøIt is now. It wasnāt at first.
It was part of the Valve Orange Box and that was a big deal at the time. There was also a huge deal of whining from people who paid for it when Valve announced they were changing it to a free to play model.
Ok I see. yea my memory is of the orange box, on xbox. Or was it the 360 ?
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 ā¦ um ā¦ Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device Iāve 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 Iāve bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.
This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge canāt 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.
My 17-year-old account is at $600. Thatās 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.
$1118 over 15+ years isnāt too bad
0485Not too bad!
GibibitThis is not the tally that the article is talking about though