For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …
Apparently $3135 is what I’ve spent on Steam games.
If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??
Submitted 23 hours ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
GolfFoxtrotLima@ani.social 3 hours ago
Yeah, I have spent a similar amount on video games on steam
9point6@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
…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
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Even that won’t be perfectly accurate, as it doesn’t include money spent on secondary stores for steam codes. So things like humble bundles aren’t included.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Oh, I didn’t know that was a thing. Only $1,746 for me. Pretty sure my wife’s is much more, but she’s hidden her games.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
the money is already lost. if that happened i would pirate whatever i want to download again.
snerkbleat@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
$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.
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I get the sentiment but not owning it does not equal not enjoying it. You never play any games with friends that only come out on steam? For some single player games I can understand waiting until they release on GOG but many (or like, most) never do.
snerkbleat@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
I only play a few single player games.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
That is wise. I wish they had more than the old games and the handful newer ones. Their moment will come when gaben signs off and steam will enshittify
snerkbleat@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeup, it’s probably an inevitability. I’m big on GOG and pirating, any sort of digital preservation.
Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Nothing I couldn’t pirate right back, given time.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
huey_m@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
FYI, you can get total spent by going to Help > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.
Magnum@infosec.pub 10 hours ago
Steam reports my total spend to be $4,077.17 Steam Calculator reports $4,503 when bought at lowest prices and $7,250 in today’s prices. The calculator says I have 1,463 games, steam says 1,345 and my steam profile lists 1,349
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
100k I guess. I boycotted steam until left4dead2. Then I caved in.
But it Wouldn’t be really lost. At least not the games I already downloaded. Steam’s DRM is trivial, so I would have at least those left.
Also, nothing to worry until gaben signs off. I predict it will then be turned into the usual us-american enshittification-craphole everything else is.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 23 hours ago
Many steam games are DRM free and would work even if Steam shuts down. It’s been like this at least since 2011 or so (that’s when I discovered this, it could be earlier).
I guess the impact would depend on the types of game which one buys on Steam.
64bithero@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
If you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 23 hours ago
I would just a get pirated copy.
I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.
agentTeiko@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Steam has a back up feature I have my steam games backed up on my NAS
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
And, friendly nudge:
It’s not hard to back up games from Steam. Especially those with no DRM. Just keep them on a drive somewhere.
chunes@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Only about 15%. It’s not as many as people think
missingno@fedia.io 8 hours ago
It looks like this list is manually curated, so there's probably more that just aren't documented as such.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Probably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 14 hours ago
Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.
That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.
piskertariot@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Steam Offline mode is your best friend for archiving games forever.
huey_m@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
Yeah, I suspect not only would we see a bunch of cracks released for games that now have no way to update to try to kill the cracks, but we’d probably see something like emulation of steam to get around it.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
$1219.04 since 2011 (I didn’t bother with Steam until Skyrim released and I was living somewhere without a local game store)
boaratio@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If they take Arc Raiders away from me, I’m going to lose my mind.
radix@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
696 games at $4142 over 22.5 years
remon@ani.social 15 hours ago
I don’t even have a steam account …
Flamekebab@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I’ve had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I’ve got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.
MayaSin@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
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.
BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
huey_m@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, that’s about what we used to spend on board games
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah same, less than I thought : 1445, but I’m pretty sure that includes my OLED steam deck. Savings a little over 2k.
KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
@64bithero
4771 € according to SteamDBzikzak025@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
About $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.
dangrousperson@feddit.org 13 hours ago
according to steamDB 1000€ at lowest prices 1700€ at today’s prices over 16 years
kind of expected more
cobysev@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
According to SteamDB, $18,181 over 18.6 years. I’m sure that number will be much higher when the Steam sale is over, since it pulls data from current game prices.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That’s jaw dropping
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Hah, I have you beat by $200. …
cobysev@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Nice! Glad to know I’m not the only person sinking ridiculous money into my gaming habits. 😅
DevDave@piefed.social 22 hours ago
7228.16 USD with 2026 prices but don’t forget inflation over the years.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend this is a high security page so if you know how to open it in the steam client, that will be easier.
007ace@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Great link. I really appreciate the savings too. $3400 total spend $3200 savings Bought my first game in 2017. Tough part is I was on humble choice for 2 years so that’s all savings throwing off my numbers. But not bad for 9 years of fun.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Your Steam purchase history can be found under: store.steampowered.com/account/history/
I think purchases from other shops are not included (such as Humble Bundle), which makes sense. I have no total spent money calculated yet, so don’t know.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Like… 5 bucks or so? For Hollow Knight. The rest of the games are either free, demos or gift.
The vast majority of my library is on GOG
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Apparently about $1000, which feels like a lot until I see some of the bananas-ass responses here.
essell@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If it helps, my total spend is listed at 7964 USD
So, that’s fun!
huey_m@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
It all depends how old the account is. $1000 in a few years is definitely bananas… over 15, that’s a damn cheap hobby honestly.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I believe it’s over 20 years now. I got the account when half life 2 came out. But I don’t game all that much since 10+ years ago.
snooggums@piefed.world 21 hours ago
While I have spent a large amount on games on steam, I have easily gotten my money’s worth and would not regret it if it disappeared tomorrow. I would be disappointed of course, but would see it like an old console breaking and not feeling like replacing it.
This is mainly because I don’t frequently replay games after I have had my fill of them.
Would probably just buy games I didn’t already play on some other site like GoG.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I’ll be alright.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I keep a copy of the generic steam crack on my computer. It’s very well tested. So as long as I had the files on my computer I would only lost access to the very few games I have that use a different drm.