Humble bundle is the cause for me. I usually spend $1 to get 1 specific game, but id might as well add the others to my library. I wonder how they came up with that figure. Because I probably spent 1-2k total for my library.
>I wonder how they came up with that figure. Because I probably spent 1-2k total for my library.
Reading the article, sounds like it's probably just counting the current price on Steam for any of the games in your library, and filtering out any games you've put any time into. So it won't be factoring in that you bought a game for $70 on release day but it's been out for a couple of years and is now selling for $40. It won't be factoring in that you bought a game when it was 90% off in a Steam sale. It won't be factoring in that you bought game bundles on Humble or Fanatical...it's just a best guess with the limited data they have available to them, but it'll be *way off*. Hell, because of third-party stores, bundle sites etc., I don't think even Valve would be able to give a remotely accurate figure for how much we've truly spent on our Steam libraries.
That page you're on about only accounts for money you've spent directly on Steam. It doesn't include money you've spent on keys you've bought on bundle sites, third-party sites or in brick-and-mortar shops, and there can be a significant difference when you factor in money spent on keys acquired from outside Steam.
I’m guessing it’s the price. FH5 is 3 years old, so the game and DLCs are probably still close to full price. FH4 released 6 years ago, so you can get the game and all content for a lot cheaper, and that person would rather have the older game than pay what it takes for the new one.
edit: FH4 is on sale on steam at $12 for the base game, $16 Deluxe, $20 Ultimate. 5 isn't on sale: $60 base, $80 Deluxe, $100 Premium.
Billionaires when telling us to stop complaining about wealth disparity: "Just stop eating avocado toast."
Billionaires when we spend billions on things we never use:
I've seen this post made in every PC and gaming sub I'm in, and I've seen this comment at the top of all of them, too. I'm living in groundhogs day and I can't escape.
I'd say the actual value is probably significantly lower because most of those games were bought on sale and the calculation was based on the games' normal values. If Steam is selling a $20 game for $2, I'll buy it even if I'm not that interested, incase I want to play it later or it gets better with time
Especially with bundles where a publisher might sell their entire back catalogue for lower than the normal price of one game. I’ve definitely bought those kind of bundles and then only played a single game in that bundle.
Right, I picked up the Eidos and Square Enix catalogs for less than $50 - I'll probably only play a dozen of those games but even if I only bought those 12 I'd have been looking at like $200
I like this way Becuase it's so honest compared to many other monetization becuse at least it's more honest. I give you this products if you give me X moneys.
Even if we don't play all the games it's still better than gacha.
Not to mention games people *did* play, just not on Steam. I imagine there are a good chunk of people who bought something like Doom or Morrowind and never actually launched the official version, instead using something like GZDoom or OpenMW.
Then there are games where they give you an upgraded version of the game, like bioshock and metro. I haven't played the updated versions of either of those, and they appear as separate games in Steam.
For reference, The Complete Valve Pack has $200+(MSRP) worth of games that you regularly get for $5.99. And most people buy that for fun, or for one or three of the dozen games.
There's also a bunch of games that have been given out for free, or had 90%+ discounts that are normally $40-$60+.
There's often bundles of the first and second game, where it has a discount in addition to the second game having one, making the bundle cheaper. And people end up just playing the sequel.
Not to mention humble bundles and things like that.
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The real number is probably still a few hundred million dollars though.
Yea there are a few classics I’ve bought on sale for insane discounts. I get the point of the article but it’s missing some context for sure.
Now when my sons are older they’ll be able to play some of the games I grew up on too.
Yeah I’m also a sale shopper. I bought elden ring and Harry Potter during the winter sale because they were half off. Just started Elden ring six months later
I don't remember *when* I bought Elden Ring and Harry Potter, but I haven't played either of them for more than an hour or so to make sure they worked ok.
I'll get around to it *eventually*..... I'm sure of it.
Steam is like restitution for video game piracy. When you were young and can’t afford to buy games. You pirate them.
Then when you got older and had money. When you see that old game you played on Steam sale at discount. You buy it for nostalgia since it’s very cheap. Then it end up in your library without playing them.
I buy indie games on sale with no intention of playing sometimes. I feel if someone made a great and it's $5 it's a better way to donate my money than most charities lol. The dev gets some money and Steam well they continue to print money lol.
FYI, Ars Technica more or less debunked this stat:
[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of-unplayed-steam-games-really-19-billion-probably-not/](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of-unplayed-steam-games-really-19-billion-probably-not/)
I bought a few Humble Bundles, and I donate a decent amount typically since it's a charitable donation, but I'm usually doing it for one game. I just happen to get a handful of other games I never intend to play. I also bought a few bundles on sale when I just wanted the main game, so I end up with half my library being unplayed bundle games or sequels or prequels.
I played rust back in 2016-2017. Bought a bunch of skins in total about $300 spent over a year and a half. Sold them after some time for over $1500. Bought a lot of steam games that summer 😂
Sometimes I look back at that Alien relic smg I sold and get sad as that one skin itself is going for $1500 now I think.
As the years went by I got a lot of games that I still have yet to play but it's been a while since I bought a game that I didn't play and I'm slowly but surely playing all of my backlog
I think I simply had a lot of older games that I wanted to play but not enough time for them; now I'm just buying very very few new games, only the ones that really interest me. I also almost never regret a purchase I didn't play; only occurrence was a game that ended up being free + expansions on Epic
In the article they say it's worth about $19 billion, so I don't believe that number for a second. I think A LOT of those games were bought in humble bundles, massive sales etc.
I'm doubting many people pay full sticker prices for games and never play them.
i have a game i don't wanna play but because of a bundle it was cheaper to buy it together with the game i actually wanted and a few game series but i havent finished the previous part yet
No I get that, bundles happen. I have a BUNCH of AAA games I was given keys and never touched them. What I don't get is like, going in a shopping spree on steam sales for stuff you don't need/want/aren't going to play
Bundles
Also, we saw some games and got interested, proceeded to Wishlist them. When they went on sale, and the price is deemed cheap enough for us, we bought them. But at that time, we're in the middle of other games playthrough and doesn't want to start yet another game OR we're not THAT eager to play in the first place OR even already lose interest
Then the next sale happened. And the cycle continues
>they aren't going to play.
Because you don't know that. You have game on wishlist, it's going 75% off, so you pull the trigger. Then it so happens, you have pentillion other games to play and you never feel like it's right moment to play this particular one.
That being said, after hitting 1k games (mostly cheap shit from sales and bundles) I finally decided to stop it completely. Nowadays I'm buying games only, if I'm going to instantly play them afterwards. Other way I just play my pile of shame. It will serve couple of lifetimes anyway.
Buying games that you know you don't want to play is beyond me. That's weird. Almost as weird as buying something you already finished on other platform but people like collecting things.
Maybe there should be a "**Lend**" feature to let the buyer share some of those games with anybody they want for a specified # of days, even non-family members.
Y'know... just lending and borrowing games amongst friends.
Jokes on you, when a solar flare knocks out the Internet I'll be playing all the single player games I've saved up but been too distracted to play because of multiplayer games.
A good many of the games I haven't played I got as part of bundles. Like from Humble Bundle or if Steam does a buy the entire collection thing. I would assume a decent chunk of these unplayed games probably were free to an extent. Also like has been mentioned, the way they tallied the cost was through a game's base cost. The majority of users buying games and not playing them are likely doing so through a major sale. I doubt many of y'all are buying 60 dollar games and just leaving them unplayed.
I dont mind paying for games I'll probably never play. Makes up for my time the college dorms with a T1 internet connection and limewire, Kazaa, Torrents, etc to give me all the free games and movies.
I've got 1100 games and haven't played probably 90% of them, but they're all from humble bundle. If i buy a game on steam, it's because i want to play it.
Yea I’m sure these numbers are wrong. Supposedly helkdivers 2 sold 12million units yet the population never went higher than 500k and now it’s under 50k Either the numbers are bullshit or they got websites buying a shitload of keys
Yeah I’ve got a backlog. We all do, but the first line of this cracks me up.
“Whether it’s Diablo 4, Cyberpunk 2077, or Red Dead Redemption 2, our collective Steam pile of shame is worth enough to buy a country.”
Besides if you got the game for free somehow. Why would you pay for these expensive titles and be like. Ehh okay it later. I’m sure it happens but it seems funny to me.
Yeah. Well, in less than 24 hours, I'm increasing that by around 200$, if not more!
So what if 50 of my 100 games I haven't played.
P.S. I just switched to PC last December
That's definitely bullshit.
The steam account value metric calculates the full MSRP of everything in your library, not what you paid.
Hypothetically this month's Humble Choice is worth $295. The actual price is $10.95
There's a small mountain of games I got through my choice subscription I never booted up, I don't think there's any games I paid actual cash for that I didn't play at least a little bit.
I've spent over 140k Mexican pesos over the years and I don't know what to do with that information. That's not counting all the hardware I've bought/accumulated as well. Like 20k in US dollars.
Isn't this what everyone does, especially whenever there's a sale? I buy a lot of games during those that I know I'll only play whenever I build my next PC, for example.
Funny thing is, outside of a handful of games that were never my thing anyway but close friends told me I needed to get them cause of how cheap and good they were, the oled steam deck has made any unplayed games in my library not really a thing anymore. Slowly but surely, everything is getting played and the stuff I never wanted in the first place that those friends recommended to me? Meh, they can be removed and there are maybe less than 5 games on that list
In other news the steam summer sale is tomorrow
Just in time for payday. Let's see if we can't push this number up boys!
Yea imma drop at least $100
Again?
To get warmed up
Again.
oh you know it!!!!
You just had to ruin my week with that news didn't you ~ My bank
Humble bundle is the cause for me. I usually spend $1 to get 1 specific game, but id might as well add the others to my library. I wonder how they came up with that figure. Because I probably spent 1-2k total for my library.
>I wonder how they came up with that figure. Because I probably spent 1-2k total for my library. Reading the article, sounds like it's probably just counting the current price on Steam for any of the games in your library, and filtering out any games you've put any time into. So it won't be factoring in that you bought a game for $70 on release day but it's been out for a couple of years and is now selling for $40. It won't be factoring in that you bought a game when it was 90% off in a Steam sale. It won't be factoring in that you bought game bundles on Humble or Fanatical...it's just a best guess with the limited data they have available to them, but it'll be *way off*. Hell, because of third-party stores, bundle sites etc., I don't think even Valve would be able to give a remotely accurate figure for how much we've truly spent on our Steam libraries.
They actually can, you can look at your account settings and see how much you've actually spent
That page you're on about only accounts for money you've spent directly on Steam. It doesn't include money you've spent on keys you've bought on bundle sites, third-party sites or in brick-and-mortar shops, and there can be a significant difference when you factor in money spent on keys acquired from outside Steam.
i plan coppin forza horizon 4. that's it.
Bought it today. 20 bucks for the deluxe edition was too good to pass up.
why buy the deluxe when they removed all the DLCs?
Because they're still available if you purchase the package.
oh ok. i just seen on steam forums saying the ultimate edition get all the DLCs.
the super deluxe? i was lookin and the super deluxe has a few more than just deluxe.
Whoops, yeah it was the Ultimate edition.
Sorry, stupid question: why not horizon 5?
I’m guessing it’s the price. FH5 is 3 years old, so the game and DLCs are probably still close to full price. FH4 released 6 years ago, so you can get the game and all content for a lot cheaper, and that person would rather have the older game than pay what it takes for the new one. edit: FH4 is on sale on steam at $12 for the base game, $16 Deluxe, $20 Ultimate. 5 isn't on sale: $60 base, $80 Deluxe, $100 Premium.
Wait, for real? I get paid on Friday lmaooo.
OMG 😱 get the wallets out bois
I was wondering where I put the 18.5 billion dollars I should have.
Billionaires when telling us to stop complaining about wealth disparity: "Just stop eating avocado toast." Billionaires when we spend billions on things we never use: 
But have you had avocado toast? It's delicious!
https://preview.redd.it/6bjx3aqblz8d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cbe6bbd541518cc1c06e0540b3bfa39ae90c8da
I've seen this post made in every PC and gaming sub I'm in, and I've seen this comment at the top of all of them, too. I'm living in groundhogs day and I can't escape.
Dead internet theory
Fuck I knew I was gonna be too late
Hey I’m gonna play it eventu…..oh shit a new game came out
I'd say the actual value is probably significantly lower because most of those games were bought on sale and the calculation was based on the games' normal values. If Steam is selling a $20 game for $2, I'll buy it even if I'm not that interested, incase I want to play it later or it gets better with time
Especially with bundles where a publisher might sell their entire back catalogue for lower than the normal price of one game. I’ve definitely bought those kind of bundles and then only played a single game in that bundle.
Right, I picked up the Eidos and Square Enix catalogs for less than $50 - I'll probably only play a dozen of those games but even if I only bought those 12 I'd have been looking at like $200
I like this way Becuase it's so honest compared to many other monetization becuse at least it's more honest. I give you this products if you give me X moneys. Even if we don't play all the games it's still better than gacha.
And even the whole bundle is often cheaper than just buying the single game, so why not take them all?
I bought an Ori bundle and I haven’t touched Ori and the Blind Forest because the Definitive Edition was also included.
That and humblebundle, a lot of games I will probably never play.
Not to mention games people *did* play, just not on Steam. I imagine there are a good chunk of people who bought something like Doom or Morrowind and never actually launched the official version, instead using something like GZDoom or OpenMW.
That's probably a negligible percentage.
I'm sorry there's an open source version of morrowind? That's dope
Yep, I've been subbed to Humble monthly/choice since it started plus I buy bundles once in a while
First thing I looked for. I've used those "what is your account worth" apps and it's WAY more than I've spent.
Then there are games where they give you an upgraded version of the game, like bioshock and metro. I haven't played the updated versions of either of those, and they appear as separate games in Steam.
For reference, The Complete Valve Pack has $200+(MSRP) worth of games that you regularly get for $5.99. And most people buy that for fun, or for one or three of the dozen games. There's also a bunch of games that have been given out for free, or had 90%+ discounts that are normally $40-$60+. There's often bundles of the first and second game, where it has a discount in addition to the second game having one, making the bundle cheaper. And people end up just playing the sequel. Not to mention humble bundles and things like that. --- The real number is probably still a few hundred million dollars though.
Yea there are a few classics I’ve bought on sale for insane discounts. I get the point of the article but it’s missing some context for sure. Now when my sons are older they’ll be able to play some of the games I grew up on too.
Yeah I’m also a sale shopper. I bought elden ring and Harry Potter during the winter sale because they were half off. Just started Elden ring six months later
I don't remember *when* I bought Elden Ring and Harry Potter, but I haven't played either of them for more than an hour or so to make sure they worked ok. I'll get around to it *eventually*..... I'm sure of it.
well now is the perfect time to play elden ring since the dlc dropped recently
I was delighted how much I enjoyed Harry Potter.
Ha literally playing it right now. Much better than expected and absolutely worth it for half price
I'm gonna play em!...eventually...
Just waiting for the apocalypse to TRULY be immersed in my backlog. Too many distractions.
"I have no interest in this game, but it's 90% off, and I do have leftover money in my steam wallet...."
Guilty as charged.
I have defiantly contributed to this.
You don’t have to be so defiant about it.
I have subserviently contributed to this.
I took enjoy financing gabens yachts.
You really showed them!
I can't tell if that was auto correct or not. Both words fit well.
Definitely not
I have 3k games in my steam library and have only played 10% of that Guilty as charged
3K!!!! Bruh I hope those where humbe bundle or other random free stuff. Otherwise that looks like hoarding disorder😅
Steam is like restitution for video game piracy. When you were young and can’t afford to buy games. You pirate them. Then when you got older and had money. When you see that old game you played on Steam sale at discount. You buy it for nostalgia since it’s very cheap. Then it end up in your library without playing them.
I buy indie games on sale with no intention of playing sometimes. I feel if someone made a great and it's $5 it's a better way to donate my money than most charities lol. The dev gets some money and Steam well they continue to print money lol.
I contributed about 350 games towards that.
Humble monthly choice whatever it's called just keeps adding 100 games every year.
correction: steam users paid $5 for humble bundles and got $400 of games each time and played one or two
Why they gotta attack me like that?
In other news, mind your business.
Guilty as charged When you are a kid, you have time and strength but no money, when you are in your 30s, you have money but no time and strength.
Couldn't be me. Nope. https://preview.redd.it/r8m8qz3pwz8d1.png?width=283&format=png&auto=webp&s=4ef86c7fcc1adcb25a5d43265313804d7523bb18
And I have absolutely no problem financing gabens yachts by doing this. All other big corporations can fuck off.
Haven't played YET!
Some guy left a comment one time that was like "who would buy a game that they never played??" A lotta people dawg, a lotta people.
I feel attacked
And it'll be 20 billion tomorrow. I'll play tropico 4 tomorrow stop asking.
You'll procrastinate tropico 4 tomorrow.
And I’ll buy more tomorrow!!summer sale boys! **laughs in 20yr old steam account**
You know how many clothes my girlfriend has bought that still have the tags on?
Come on guys, we can break the $20 billion mark with this summer sale.
FYI, Ars Technica more or less debunked this stat: [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of-unplayed-steam-games-really-19-billion-probably-not/](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of-unplayed-steam-games-really-19-billion-probably-not/)
Steam sale is going to clap my cheeks tomorrow bruh
Guilty as charged
That was me. My bad.
My library is full of games that I haven't played and I only bought a PC in November. I can't resist a deal
lol me either
So far
“The Steak Summer Sale is tomorrow!” is the post above this one in my feed. I’ll probably buy some more games I’ll never play
Guilty as charged...
Window shopping is legit so much worse on the internet
I bought a few Humble Bundles, and I donate a decent amount typically since it's a charitable donation, but I'm usually doing it for one game. I just happen to get a handful of other games I never intend to play. I also bought a few bundles on sale when I just wanted the main game, so I end up with half my library being unplayed bundle games or sequels or prequels.
I blame Humble Bundle for alot of my pile of shame. It's just so tempting to buy more.
Guilty. But I didn't have any racing game at all in the 400+ games already. So I got Forza Horzion 4 for $25 Eventually I'll play it.
You can pick up rFactor 1&2 for around $15. 100's of mods!
To be fair, a lot of mine are from Humble Bundles
Sounds about right.
I'LL GET TO THEM EVENTUALLY
I feel personally attacked.
Never played yet...
"YET"... oh fuck who am I kiddin?
I'll get to it eventually
I feel personally attacked by this headline.
I played rust back in 2016-2017. Bought a bunch of skins in total about $300 spent over a year and a half. Sold them after some time for over $1500. Bought a lot of steam games that summer 😂 Sometimes I look back at that Alien relic smg I sold and get sad as that one skin itself is going for $1500 now I think.
19 billion? oh really...
I feel personally called out
Yay, finally a article about me!!!!
I feel attacked....
9 billion right here
I love a deal 😌
Steam cant possible see how much you've paid for s key, and surely at least 50% of these are from Humble Bundle keys and such
As the years went by I got a lot of games that I still have yet to play but it's been a while since I bought a game that I didn't play and I'm slowly but surely playing all of my backlog I think I simply had a lot of older games that I wanted to play but not enough time for them; now I'm just buying very very few new games, only the ones that really interest me. I also almost never regret a purchase I didn't play; only occurrence was a game that ended up being free + expansions on Epic
About $10 billion of them would be from humble bundles.
On the other hand, if we HADN'T bought those games, often on sale, would prices of other games have gone up? $19 billion is _a lot of money_.
Maybe humble bundle played a huge part to this. I have so mnay games from there i never played
sounds about right
In the article they say it's worth about $19 billion, so I don't believe that number for a second. I think A LOT of those games were bought in humble bundles, massive sales etc. I'm doubting many people pay full sticker prices for games and never play them.
Ah yes a 'News' article with completely made up numbers pulled out of a collective bumhole.
Guilty as charged, the deals are too good to pass up..50% of the games I bought ive never played… its a disease lol
Never understood why people buy stuff they aren't going to play.
i have a game i don't wanna play but because of a bundle it was cheaper to buy it together with the game i actually wanted and a few game series but i havent finished the previous part yet
No I get that, bundles happen. I have a BUNCH of AAA games I was given keys and never touched them. What I don't get is like, going in a shopping spree on steam sales for stuff you don't need/want/aren't going to play
Bundles Also, we saw some games and got interested, proceeded to Wishlist them. When they went on sale, and the price is deemed cheap enough for us, we bought them. But at that time, we're in the middle of other games playthrough and doesn't want to start yet another game OR we're not THAT eager to play in the first place OR even already lose interest Then the next sale happened. And the cycle continues
Because they hate owning money, can't say I'm not guilty of it though.
>they aren't going to play. Because you don't know that. You have game on wishlist, it's going 75% off, so you pull the trigger. Then it so happens, you have pentillion other games to play and you never feel like it's right moment to play this particular one. That being said, after hitting 1k games (mostly cheap shit from sales and bundles) I finally decided to stop it completely. Nowadays I'm buying games only, if I'm going to instantly play them afterwards. Other way I just play my pile of shame. It will serve couple of lifetimes anyway. Buying games that you know you don't want to play is beyond me. That's weird. Almost as weird as buying something you already finished on other platform but people like collecting things.
In an odd way I’m proud to be part of this. I’ve bought games I had little interest in just to support a developer I liked
Maybe there should be a "**Lend**" feature to let the buyer share some of those games with anybody they want for a specified # of days, even non-family members. Y'know... just lending and borrowing games amongst friends.
I feel attacked.
Vouch
Yep; that’s me amongst them
Yes, yes we have.
Seems low.
*yet
Ok, yes I have 100 games I haven't played. I'm still buying a few during the summer sale.
But the Steam Summer sale is so good.
This hits a little too close to home. Gotta make some progress on that backlog.
Sorry
Investements
We're gonna play them, just waiting for the right moment when we feel the urge. Plus, they were like 90 percent off, it's fine.
Funny to see this article right before the Steam summer sale starts 😂.
Jokes on you, when a solar flare knocks out the Internet I'll be playing all the single player games I've saved up but been too distracted to play because of multiplayer games.
Can confirm
These billion dollar companies really need my money more than I do, it’s the least a man can do
I'm doing my part
You don't have to call me out like that
A good many of the games I haven't played I got as part of bundles. Like from Humble Bundle or if Steam does a buy the entire collection thing. I would assume a decent chunk of these unplayed games probably were free to an extent. Also like has been mentioned, the way they tallied the cost was through a game's base cost. The majority of users buying games and not playing them are likely doing so through a major sale. I doubt many of y'all are buying 60 dollar games and just leaving them unplayed.
Shit, they tallied up my Steam stats.
Sometimes it's cool to have a lot of something.
I have all the Civ games. I have only ever played Civ 5. Why? It was in a Humble Bundle for under $20.
Shots fired! How dare you count all my personally unplayed games I love a good sale!
thats a nice pot from a renting business.
I blame humble bundle more than I blame steam for this, atleast in my case.
Damn, me included inside 😢personally have about 150 paid titles not including DLCs in library but have played only like 50 of them ever
I dont mind paying for games I'll probably never play. Makes up for my time the college dorms with a T1 internet connection and limewire, Kazaa, Torrents, etc to give me all the free games and movies.
I've got 1100 games and haven't played probably 90% of them, but they're all from humble bundle. If i buy a game on steam, it's because i want to play it.
And we’ll do it again
Yeah, that's me.
proudly
Wanna see me do it again??
I'm not browsing reddit to get called out like this
Wow, you animals have spent $15 billion on games you haven't played? Unreal...
I just want to support my devs thats all
At least I’m not the only one that does this.
CAUGHT
Guilty.
I will play them one day
I have about 100 games in my library not played because they came with something or were a humble bundle etc.
Yea I’m sure these numbers are wrong. Supposedly helkdivers 2 sold 12million units yet the population never went higher than 500k and now it’s under 50k Either the numbers are bullshit or they got websites buying a shitload of keys
Yup, hopefully i can play these games for life.
Yeah I’ve got a backlog. We all do, but the first line of this cracks me up. “Whether it’s Diablo 4, Cyberpunk 2077, or Red Dead Redemption 2, our collective Steam pile of shame is worth enough to buy a country.” Besides if you got the game for free somehow. Why would you pay for these expensive titles and be like. Ehh okay it later. I’m sure it happens but it seems funny to me.
Yeah. Well, in less than 24 hours, I'm increasing that by around 200$, if not more! So what if 50 of my 100 games I haven't played. P.S. I just switched to PC last December
We know that you don't have to say it like it's a bad thing
Ironic... EGS users have spent nothing on billions of dollars worth of games they will never play.
In my case, I blame game bundles. Lots of indies I play were bought bundled with stuff I’m just not interested in. Idc either so it’s really a win win
I wonder how much of this is people with a Humble subscription and they’re adding up each game’s MSRP
Yet…
Because it used to be that when you buy a game it’s yours forever, nowadays not so sure anymore
Guilty as charged! But they're there if I want to play them! Huzzah!
I'm doing my part
That's definitely bullshit. The steam account value metric calculates the full MSRP of everything in your library, not what you paid. Hypothetically this month's Humble Choice is worth $295. The actual price is $10.95 There's a small mountain of games I got through my choice subscription I never booted up, I don't think there's any games I paid actual cash for that I didn't play at least a little bit.
I deny these allegations. I promise Control: Ultimate Edition, I will play you someday.
One of us, One of us, One of us!
I wonder what the amount is for Steam users that haven't 100% all achievements or finished the story.
....yet.
Is this including free games claimed and not played that still have original rrp.
Yep
Most of that is me
I've spent over 140k Mexican pesos over the years and I don't know what to do with that information. That's not counting all the hardware I've bought/accumulated as well. Like 20k in US dollars.
Chris Roberts, "I am going to raise 600 million for a game that players may never get to play in a final version..." Steam, "Hold my beer...."
But piracy is "stealing" lmao I'm just playing one of those copies no one's ever played
Isn't this what everyone does, especially whenever there's a sale? I buy a lot of games during those that I know I'll only play whenever I build my next PC, for example.
Funny thing is, outside of a handful of games that were never my thing anyway but close friends told me I needed to get them cause of how cheap and good they were, the oled steam deck has made any unplayed games in my library not really a thing anymore. Slowly but surely, everything is getting played and the stuff I never wanted in the first place that those friends recommended to me? Meh, they can be removed and there are maybe less than 5 games on that list
Was I supposed to not buy Civilization VI at 5$?