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Armok_the_bunny, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

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.

pineapplelover,

Yeah but I spent a bunch of them

Armok_the_bunny,

The shop has a page where it tells you how many you’ve spent as well.

WhatSay, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

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

vxx, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

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.

Rentlar,

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.

vxx,

The tool doesn’t 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.

Jestzer,

To judge my friends, of course.

vxx,

Legit

dbtng,
@dbtng@eviltoast.org avatar

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.)

gonzo-rand19,

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.

samuelazers,

It’s been known for atleast 7 years: reddit.com/…/what_is_difference_between_totalspen…

edit: no need to point out those are 2 different links, ill leave this up

Abnorc,

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.

Goldholz,

You bought weapons?? In the mann co store?

Abnorc,

lol yes. I did it a few times before I realized that it’s not a good way to get weapons. Only lost a few bucks.

Edit: Should clarify, my parents bought them.

Hadriscus,

TF2 is free to play ??

bss03,

Don’t they make all their money on hats?

Hadriscus,

I don’t know… I haven’t played since 2007… hats ? I’m so out of the loop…

dual_sport_dork,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

It is now. It wasn’t at first.

It was part of the Valve Orange Box and that was a big deal at the time. There was also a huge deal of whining from people who paid for it when Valve announced they were changing it to a free to play model.

Hadriscus,

Ok I see. yea my memory is of the orange box, on xbox. Or was it the 360 ?

biofaust, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

3465 € in 21 years at today’s prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 € that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.

3,6 € per game, 49 € 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!

RevolverSly, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

It’s not wasted if you’ve enjoyed

Lemminary, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

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. 🙄

hark, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: help.steampowered.com/en/…/AccountSpend

Nalivai,

The official page shows the money you’ve spent, the estimator shows the current price of the games on your account, adjusted to everything. For me the difference is X4

timestatic,

No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.

Kazumara,

Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.

Waraugh, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

598.34 since Dec 2010

pineapplelover,

Not bad

JTskulk, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

Woo $6k!

pineapplelover,

Holy balls

pineapplelover, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

Oh I checked. If was so much

ExtantHuman, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

Does total include the Old Spend?..and what is Package Only? None of these numbers seem to add up to each other. Or are they also separate.

Also what lazy dev just posted the query column names instead of decoding them for the end user

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

From the page with the values:

“OldSpend” is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.

From Steam support regarding package only:

This row includes the portion of the account’s total funds spent that could not be transferred. For example, a hardware purchase, gifted game, or in-game item does not count toward Package Only Spend, but a game purchase for your own library would.

ExtantHuman,

Yes, I read that. It did not clarify what I was asking.

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

You asked what package only means, and I found an answer.

Total is total, with old spend being the cutoff of old spending.

None of the numbers are guaranteed to add up to each other.

I don’t know what’s missing from the reply.

wisely,

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  • setsneedtofeed,
    @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

    From the steam page:

    “TotalSpend” is the total amount of external funds applied to your account.

    “OldSpend” is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.

    Hadriscus, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

    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

    turmacar,

    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.

    Hadriscus,

    Yea same, I don’t know what that last one is. So Total is the total, and Old is the part of the total that was applied before april 17th 2015. I think it makes sense. About 100$ a year, or roughly 8$ a month. I was afraid what I’d find tbh

    njm1314, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

    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.

    Anarch157a,

    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.

    BuboScandiacus,
    @BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

    That’s very unlikely, I couldn’t have spent so much money on steam. I’ve bought like 5 games on steam and not even at full price. The rest comes from grey zone shops/HB

    Edit: Just added up the numbers in my purchase history, it’s about 1/4 of the sum there

    Gibibit,
    @Gibibit@lemmy.world avatar

    Maybe it also counts transactions from the Steam Market? I also found my TotalSpend hard to believe, but it’s also not like I’ve traded hundreds of dollars worth of items in the market.

    The description of the support page notes that these values are used to determine some sort of limited user account status. It might not be intended to keep an accurate tally. I wouldn’t be surprised if these values are only available due to gdpr and accuracy of the description was not a priority when they set it up. I’m implying that the employee who wrote the description might not have understood the value precisely enough.

    But who knows. I could just be huffing copium about my game expenses 😅

    BuboScandiacus,
    @BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

    I’ve maybe sold an item or two for a few cents, nothing more

    setsneedtofeed, (edited )
    @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

    Well not how much you’ve spent, how much it values your collection. But what’s that number based on?

    Please re-read the article. The values are on Steam itself, based on your interactions with it.

    0485919158191, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
    @0485919158191@lemmy.world avatar
    Gibibit,
    @Gibibit@lemmy.world avatar

    This is not the tally that the article is talking about though

    HighFructoseLowStand, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

    “May” nothing, I don’t.

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