For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …
…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
You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.
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.
True, but it at least covers all of the purchases actually made on the platform.
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.
$4,370AUD. Somehow both more and less than I expected. Over 11,200 hours of playtime over 18 years.
the money is already lost. if that happened i would pirate whatever i want to download again.
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
Nothing I couldn’t pirate right back, given time.
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.
If you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?
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.
Same here. Steam is the last “digital library” I’m ever really going to use or trust. I’ve been screwed over by everything else, so if that shuts down too, I’m basically just done, and will buy a NAS or something to hold all my games from GOG.
yep. the game exists somewhere. I’ve bought it. I have no issues pirating it to get access to it again. nobody has been hurt by this.
Steam has a back up feature I have my steam games backed up on my NAS
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.
Pretty expensive though, given the prices on storage. And many of them will be out of date in a few months. Face it, we can download from the high seas at any time, the only reason most of us are buying on steam is convenience. Whatever we could backup on steam today we could just retrieve from elsewhere at any time.
Only 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It’s not as many as people think.
It looks like this list is manually curated, so there’s probably more that just aren’t documented as such.
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.
Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was a smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.
That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.
Steam Offline mode is your best friend for archiving games forever.
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Generic stream emulators already exist and is how a vast number of games are “cracked”
Heck, there’s at least one opensource generic steam emulator that you just drop into the game files. I used it before when messing around with modding a multiplayer game, to run multiple copies at once.
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Or by visiting this link: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
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.
Apparently $3135 is what I’ve spent on Steam games, according to Steam themselves. That isn’t what the current value is, but what I’ve actually spent.
Yeah, I have spent a similar amount on video games on steam
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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
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I was a pirate since the 80s. I even financed my first sports car with warez-cds 😁 But steam does have its merits. Don’t worry about updates. As only the major games get updates by pir8s. But as steam’s DRM is trivial, it’s kinda easy-piracy. I already have like 50TB downloaded. If they ever go nuts I’ll download all my favourites and write a script to un-drm them.
And I would love for gog to have current games too. Would stop buying at steam, but 99% of what gog has to offer I already have on steam for many years
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.
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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.
I’ve been thinking about buying a bunch of hard drives and downloading my entire library and cracking it all and stashing the drives in long term storage just in case. That’s been a thought for a very, very long time though…
Steam reports my total spend to be $4,114.82 Steam Calculator reports $4,518 when bought at lowest prices and $7,250 in today’s prices. The calculator says I have 1,468 games, steam says 1,350 and my steam profile lists 1,354
I don’t even have a steam account …
Is this thread really for you then?
I don’t see why not.
Because you don’t have a Steam account.
Right, so I’d lost $0, which is valid answer to the question being asked.
This has Ken M energy and I love it.
No, it has typical Lemmy “I’m too good for x, y, z” energy.
There could be a thread “Girls, why do.you do this?” and some dude will show up “I don’t do this because I’m a guy.”
The internet is like 80% people saying shit for no good reason; full of contrarians, the dumbest motherfuckers that confuse thinking the opposite of the majority with critical thinking and developing an opinion.
Wow that’s impressive
I think we’ve found one of those mythical people that reply to questions people ask online with “I don’t know”.
everyone else sees “why not”. lol
Damn, infinity dollars. You got me beat
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.
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.
Every insteresting game I “bought” on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).
