1300$ in 17 years. Around 1200 games. I think I probably spent more elsewhere and got steam keys. I still have a physical copy of portal 2, which was cheaper at release than on steam and had a key inside haha. Good times.
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Considering 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.
Surprised to see I've only spent 1200€ in 20 years. That is value for money IMO
$1,100 over 15 years. I'm not a gamer, and I'm well aware I don't own these games, so I'm glad it's low
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21 years, $4000, 1381 games, 29% avg completion rate. I’m not unhappy with that
21 years? a veteran 🫡
Not bad, under $9000! I thought for sure it would be over 10k. I'm at 2k games, and I almost always buy on sale.
If your account is less than about 5 years old (and you live in the US) you can also just look at the points shop. Each Steam Point corresponds to one cent spent on Steam.
Yeah but I spent a bunch of them
The shop has a page where it tells you how many you've spent as well.
Not too bad!
This is not the tally that the article is talking about though
I only buy physical so mines like 20$ 🤣
$130 over 14 years. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Well not how much you've spent, how much it values your collection. But what's that number based on? I've only bought one full price game in my entire life on Steam. And it was one of my biggest regrets so I'm not doing that again. So right there all the sale prices I'm paying aren't being calculated right? Then there's the case of free games and humble bundles, back when they were awesome. Hell probably a third to half of the games I have in my Steam account either came from Humble bundles or free giveaways.
SteamDB gives you a valuation based on full price. The article describes an entry on Steam's Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.
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€15.77 on a 5 year old account
I own Terraria, Among Us, BTD6, Celeste and Gelatine, all bought on a discount
Outside of steam i own minecraft and the mobile version of BTD6 and have only once pirated a game that i actually played
Why play other games when you have modded minecraft and terraria
I literally can't see this information on mobile. It prompts me to sign in but when I input my info, email code and all, it prompts me to do it again. 🙄
$1118 over 15+ years isn't too bad
This site puts my 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.
- I have only tf2 on steam