Comment on Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  20 million divided by 1.7 is about $11 per person, which isnt really that high.

  I also think theres a distinction to be made between microtransactions in f2p titles and microtransactions in AAA premium titles. I logged something like 4000 hours in Mechwarrior online and I bought mech packs because I wanted to support the devs.

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  • Focal@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think that’s entirely fair.

    I do wonder how much of that money has gone to the developers themselves, and not just some executive

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Man, I downloaded my data from steam for the past ten years I’ve been active and the total $ amount made me sad. It’s definitely not $42 a year…

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  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been on steam for over 4 years and I’ve spent a whopping $0.99.

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    • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You monster!

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      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lmao. I mostly play the free games. I also have the heroic launcher and I’m signed into gog, epic and prime on it and so far, they’ve given me 85 free games. I have a lifetime supply of games.

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  • TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I realise i must be an edge case but i think my steam account of 10+ years is positive money wise. Got thousands of hours in the same few games and sold my old €100 CS inventory for about €500 PayPal when the market boomed.

    The amount of money I’ve spent on my system to play those few games at more fps tho, lets not calculate.

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  • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s like 60 / month I bet 😂

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• Contemporarium@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like a lot of the microtransaction revenue is DLC as well. But like someone else said, there are the rare games that are free to play and don’t have super predatory mtx like Path of Exile or The Finals.

  Fuck paying for them in full priced games though

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