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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...
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?
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.
Only 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It's not as many as people think.
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.
About US $3000 over 20 years. Not as much as I thought, to be honest. I wait for sales and try not to buy things unless I'm sure I'll play it.
Your Steam purchase history can be found under: https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/
I think purchases from other shops are not included (such as Humble Bundle), which makes sense. I have no total spent money calculated yet, so don't know.
Over 12 years, apparently only ~$1255.33USD over the past 12 years. Also realized I have a huge gap in my purchase history from 2015 to 2020. And it looks like the majority of my spending has been from 2020 onward.
Gonna have a presume at least a little over a quarter of my spending is due to me buying an officially refurbished LCD model deck when they were in stock a couple years ago. IDK actual price because it's lumped in with like 3-4 games I bought at the same time, roughing out to $403.something-cents before tax.
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.
Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it's quite old.
I found a purchase history page in the client, so it might be able to tell you how old an account might be by scrolling all the way down. IDK how far back it goes, though, since my account is only a little over 12 years old.
store(.)steampowered(.)om/account/history
According to SteamDB, $18,181 over 18.6 years. I'm sure that number will be much higher when the Steam sale is over, since it pulls data from current game prices.
That's jaw dropping
More than $6815.18, because my account is older than 2015 and purchases only go back to 2015.
But in reality, I will just reacquire the games if my library gets taken. Barnes & Noble isn't breaking into my home to take books out of my bookshelf, it is not unreasonable to demand digital products are treated the same. So I treat them the same, regardless of what moron politicians say.
Zero. I cannot convert these games to money anyway.
Idk probably about $250
Apparently about $1000, which feels like a lot until I see some of the bananas-ass responses here.
It all depends how old the account is. $1000 in a few years is definitely bananas... over 15, that's a damn cheap hobby honestly.
I believe it's over 20 years now. I got the account when half life 2 came out. But I don't game all that much since 10+ years ago.
I don't wanna set my library to public so SteamDB can figure it out, but it's over $1000 just going by what I can get to in my purchase history (which does not go all the way back to 2003 when I first made my account and had gotten HL2 and Ragdoll KungFu as my first two purchases on Steam). Not sure how accurate SteamDB is anyway, since it wouldn't necessarily know if what I bought was on sale when I bought it 🤷♂️
Can you not check directly if your account is private? I went through Help > Support > My Account> Data Related to Account > External Funds Used for totals. Does that rely on a public profile?
Maybe $300 in total.
Like... 5 bucks or so? For Hollow Knight. The rest of the games are either free, demos or gift.
The vast majority of my library is on GOG
I have spent $7664 apparently.
Probably close to $1,500.
Aah, that's a bit hard to calculate due to Steam keys from bundles and other websites. Running some rough numbers it looks to be about $2600 CAD over 15 years, so... not too bad?
While I have spent a large amount on games on steam, I have easily gotten my money's worth and would not regret it if it disappeared tomorrow. I would be disappointed of course, but would see it like an old console breaking and not feeling like replacing it.
This is mainly because I don't frequently replay games after I have had my fill of them.
Would probably just buy games I didn't already play on some other site like GoG.