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usualsuspect191, 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

$1118 over 15+ years isn’t too bad

mavu, 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 just checked and i thought it would be more.

But I do not know and will never check the amount of time spent playing.

Aurenkin, 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

This is the perfect counterpoint to the idea that knowledge can’t harm you.

dbtng, 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
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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.

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 ?

AndyMFK, 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

$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

dbtng, (edited )
@dbtng@eviltoast.org avatar

Meh. You were late to the party. Musta got Steam to play Half Life Episode Two or Portal.

AndyMFK,

Yeah it was portal! Good guess

Jestzer, (edited ) 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

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.

Tiger_Man_, 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
  1. I have only tf2 on steam
MyFriendGodzilla, 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

$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

dbtng,
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Your profile page will say your account birthday. Float your mouse over “Years of Service”.

MyFriendGodzilla, (edited )

20 years for me. 2004… Interesting times then and still interesting times now lol.

exixx, 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

21 years, $4000, 1381 games, 29% avg completion rate. I’m not unhappy with that

hand,
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21 years? a veteran 🫡

CumBroth, 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
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$130 over 14 years. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

tatann, 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

Less than 1000€ for dozens of games I’ve played, I think the average price I payed is 15€, so I don’t feel robbed

I mostly buy on GOG whenever possible though, even if it means I have to wait a year or two

IndieSpren, (edited ) 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

6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments. Today’s price is over $900 tho, patient gamer gang.

Protoknuckles, 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

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.

LostXOR, 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

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.

dbtng,
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