For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …
Not as much as you might first think as I generally wait for Steam sales. Well over a thousand bucks CAD though.
If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??
Submitted 2 months ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 month ago
$2908.44
That is what steam reports as total external funds added.
That includes hardware purchases (OG Steam Controller, Steam Link, and Steam Deck with the new price), and it doesn’t count the games bought on Humble Bundle.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
If they take Arc Raiders away from me, I’m going to lose my mind.
dangrousperson@feddit.org 2 months ago
according to steamDB 1000€ at lowest prices 1700€ at today’s prices over 16 years
kind of expected more
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More than $6815.18, because my account is older than 2015 and purchases onyl go back to 2015.
But in reality, I will just reacquire the games if my library gets taken. Barnes & Noble isn’t breaking into my home to take books out of my bookshelf, it is not unreasonable to demand digital products are treated the same. So I treat them the same, regardless of what moron politicians say.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Idk probably about $250
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Beth@piefed.social 2 months ago
Maybe $300 in total.
Kaligalis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
None because I don’t buy games with unbroken DRM (including the need for corporate-run servers) and therefore can always get 'em all back via piracy.
aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Like 20$ i guess.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I’ll be alright.
GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
$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.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it’s quite old.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I don’t get the question.
The money is gone now, so it’s already “lost”.
Or do you mean how many games did I buy that I have never played? That is an interesting metric I guess.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You get the question, you’re just criticizing it.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Ok, then the question didn’t need the extra fluff:
How much have you spent on steam. Is that what they want to know?
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have spent $7664 apparently.
Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Probably close to $1,500.
Deebster@infosec.pub 2 months ago
£1094, or £2055 today (15 year account).
Rookie numbers, looking at the other replies.
dom@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
2,900 CAD apparently
23lonestar@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
$6,227 per SteamDB
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SteamDB says an account value of $4017 and $6438 USD in today’s prices, over the course of 21.4 years. I’ve transitioned my new purchases to GOG when possible.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 2 months ago
$1850 @ 21 years
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
6554€, starting with HL2.
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Now I have to ask , was it in 2004 ? Was anything else on Steam when you bought it? I remember how mad everyone was that the disc in store just provided a steam installer
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
At least Counterstrike was also available - i know because i installed steam after buying HL2 for a LAN party i was going to, and we also played CS at that point. 2004 sounds about right - must have been about 23 at that point.
PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 2 months ago
According to Steam, ive spent $1440 dollars over 13 years.
Thing is, I have 930 games.
And while I pride myself on only buying during sales or other massive discounts, an average of $1.54 per game seems extremely low to me.
Nor does the fact that even when factoring in my supposed savings, i would have spend only 4.76 per game if not on sale especially since I have a fair number of AAA games on the account.
So im not sure steam is tracking me accurately.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
If you went hard on the early humble bundles and also subscribed to humble monthly for a while it’s possible
PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thats the thing. I didn’t.
I did spend a while near addicted to Fanaticals mystery bundles though.
But even so, those often wound up being duplicates so I didn’t get as many games as you might expect
AlexNorris@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
10-20$
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Probably like 5k over 15 yrs
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I don’t wanna set my library to public so SteamDB can figure it out, but it’s over $1000 just going by what I can get to in my history (which does not go all the way back to 2003 when I first made my account and had gotten HL2 and Ragdoll KungFu as my first two purchases on Steam).
huey_m@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Can you not check directly if your account is private? I went through Help > Support > My Account> Data Related to Account > External Funds Used for totals. Does that rely on a public profile?
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have mine set to private and can still use that steamdb calculator thing.