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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.

alanjaow, do games w American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'

I was disappointed when I saw that there are few roads in the game (my expectations were far too high). I was hoping for, idk, 70% of roads? Really, some sort of driving game using google maps data would be pretty awesome, if a nightmare to process all the images. Hmm, data storage would be an issue too… streaming would be too slow (I think).

EarMaster,
@EarMaster@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t be to sure if Microsoft is working on something like this. What they did with Flight Simulator was pretty spectacular…

REDACTED,

Seriously, I’ve been dreaming about world-scale videogame (world generates as you explore based on every useful satellite data we have) where you can just drive around.

Flight simulator comes close, but it’s flying.

pineapplelover,

And I believe it pulls the information real time from Microsoft servers

EarMaster,
@EarMaster@lemmy.world avatar

It does, but mostly because we’re talking about an enormous amount of data. The number being advertised is 2 Petabyte…

Tim_Bisley, do games w American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'

Would be nice if euro truck sim got this.

Anarki_,

Isn’t it already doable with mods tho? Just get a car mod? Right?

shiroininja,

I’ve played both games for years. There were mod, but half of them are shitty or don’t work. One I tried just gave me black textures. Unless there’s some paid marketplace I don’t know about, the mod options for drivable cars are shitty.

LovableSidekick, do games w American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'

So, according to popular belief it’s really a penis size simulator!

Xella, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

Yep… lol I spend an embarrassing amount of time playing EverQuest 1 emulation servers.

scala,

EQ emu’s ftw!

Quarm? THJ?

Xella,

THJ right now!! I’ve been playing on emu servers for so long. I’ve played on almost all of them.

scala,

Nice i played right before Velious, then got pretty bored soloing in an MMO lol

venotic, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
@venotic@kbin.melroy.org avatar

While I agree that some of the reasons are because of industry direction and affordability. I do have to mention also that it could also be because of nostalgia, familiarity, simplicity and people still chipping at their library.

Buelldozer,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

Upvoted for mentioning simplicity.

JoMiran, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.

caseyweederman, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Alright, that’s really cool.
If you use the gravity reverse ability when people don’t have a ceiling above them, do they fall up into the sky and die?

lorty, do games w WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

So, is it the world first or not? They were technically the first…

Protoknuckles, do gaming w Amazon baffled that throwing money at a problem doesn't work

So that’s why they never give away steam keys.

Minnels, do games w This ancient city sim constantly simulates 1000 NPCs in a clockwork murder sandbox where you can poison someone's drink and leave 'confident that you've pulled off the perfect crime'

Yes!! Saw this game a while back and been waiting with anticipation!

aiden,

Same here. I heard about it from the Dwarf Fortress developers, apparently they helped with some of the procedural world generation or something.

technomad, do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Awesome! I will actually consider purchasing them now.

Great job for those of you that took a stance against this! Voting with your wallet works.

zipzoopaboop, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

This is an absolute win

Graphy, do gaming w Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not

If it actually yelled at you in all games it’d be hilarious to try it out. Too bad it’ll probably be some generic tip regurgitating monkey that only works in like leagues and valorant

jjagaimo, do gaming w Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not
@jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works avatar

If its a single player / coop game, go ahead. Anything competive, it is just cheating. It is an external assistance tool that gives an unfair advantage

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