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There's a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can't tell you how precisely much you've actually spent on Valve's 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.
After 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 been bought but are as-of-yet 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 new games a year then I'm not sure that counts for much π«
A 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.
That's exactly why the next paragraph tells you how to find "External funds used" deep in the Steam Help menu...
Home - > Account - > Purchase History
I don't know why you would use a third Party Tool that estimates your purchases, 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 aren't included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesnβt know how much you paid for it, though, so it's completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)
This isn't a 3rd party tool, it's a separate Steam Support page that lists your total purchases. It basically takes the data from the Purchase History section (assuming that you usually pay directly and not using Steam gift cards) and totals it so that you don't have to do that manually.
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.
That path is incorrect and the article tells you exactly how to find it on Steam, as well as the limitations of the third party tool youβre alluding to.
If you dig you can find this on Amazon. I've been buying from Amazon since 1995 and the last time I looked my purchases were somewhere around $260,000. And that was before covid.
Do you have a link? I'll start looking, will edit this comment if I find it.
Edit: Link to Steam total spend: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
Edit: This seems to be how to do it for Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/privacy-central/data-requests/preview.html - My data hasn't come through yet so I don't know how difficult it is to get the sum of all orders/refunds.
$666 for 71 games.
Patient gamer reporting in.
Devil gamer confirmed π
$3643.42 USD
I have 1139 games. Had the account for 20+ years. Most of the games are from humblebundle and according to anothet website that goes off of retail prices, total would be over $15k.
21 years on Steam was terrifying to see.
Yep. I've known about this feature for a while. I always think my numbers are insane and someone always comes along and one ups me so while I'm near the right end of the bell curve, I'm by no means at the end.
It's not wasted if you've enjoyed
I did pretty good. So far 530 games for $1867
That's about $3.50 per game
I often leave games in my wishlist until they are 70-80% off
530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. There's almost no time recorded in Half-life, Day of defeat or Counterstrike and those are the games I played the most. I also got most games through Humblebundle, where I spent 270 dollars since June 2012. But as I haven't been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I don't even want to know.
6.5k in 15 years. I did spend a lot when I was younger.
I'm at about the same amount. Kinda shocking to see it.
3465 β¬ in 21 years at today's prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 β¬ that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.
3,6 β¬ per game, 49 β¬ per year.
Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, it's well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!
Oh damn. I've spent $30,359.76 on Steam in the 17 years I've had an account. And I just passed 4,000 games in my Steam library within the last month. That checks out.
What is wrong with you? Have you even played 10% of those games?
I really like video games. And I'm 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. It's basically just archiving my "Random Screenshots of my Games" posts in !games@lemmy.world.
And according to the SteamDB, I've 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.
Iβve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, itβs alright. Iβd be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending
Humble Monthly is awesome.
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
Oh I checked. If was so much
Oh, it's not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.
I don't feel bad. It's a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. I'm sure I'd be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.
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 ... um ... Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device I've 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 I've bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.
My 17-year-old account is at $600. That's 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.
$602.41 for 50 games in 18.4 years. Cost at today's prices: $698. I'd say that's a win.
2,095 hours. 72% of games played. Guess I need to get to work.
I wish I could track my pre-steam numbers. Id be interested to see how much time I put into Mechwarrior 3, or Rollercoaster Tycoon, or Unreal Tournament.
$7000... not bad for 20 years or whatever its been since steam started. Sure as hell drunk more than 7k's worth of alcohol over that time lol
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount Iβve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
"May" nothing, I don't.
Dang, everyone else here has 4 or 5 figures while I'm sitting at $101. And I know for a fact 40% of that was Kerbal Space Program.
TotalSpend 1433$ OldSpend 434$
Not sure if I should add the two ? or is the second one included in the first one ? Anyway that's not too bad for a 14yo account
It's formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.
"TotalSpend" is the total amount of external funds applied to your account. This value is used to determine if an account is a "Limited User Account".
"OldSpend" is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC. If your account was linked to Perfect World for CS:GO or Dota 2,
"PWSpend" will be the approximate USD value of funds applied from Perfect World, otherwise that value will be zero. If your account has applied external funds in Steam China,
"ChinaSpend" will report that total, in RMB.
Weirdly I also have a row for "PackageOnlySpend" that doesn't have a definition.
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.