For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …

    • 64bithero@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 天前

      Now I have to ask , was it in 2004 ? Was anything else on Steam when you bought it? I remember how mad everyone was that the disc in store just provided a steam installer

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        2·
        5 天前

        At least Counterstrike was also available - i know because i installed steam after buying HL2 for a LAN party i was going to, and we also played CS at that point. 2004 sounds about right - must have been about 23 at that point.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    21 天前

    …erm

    £12,898 according to SteamDB at today’s prices

    In my defense I’ve had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that

  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
    27·
    21 天前

    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.

      • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
        36·
        21 天前

        I would just a get pirated copy.

        I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5·
          21 天前

          Same here. Steam is the last “digital library” I’m ever really going to use or trust. I’ve been screwed over by everything else, so if that shuts down too, I’m basically just done, and will buy a NAS or something to hold all my games from GOG.

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          21 天前

          yep. the game exists somewhere. I’ve bought it. I have no issues pirating it to get access to it again. nobody has been hurt by this.

      • bigbangdangler@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        21 天前

        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.

        • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          21 天前

          Pretty expensive though, given the prices on storage. And many of them will be out of date in a few months. Face it, we can download from the high seas at any time, the only reason most of us are buying on steam is convenience. Whatever we could backup on steam today we could just retrieve from elsewhere at any time.

      • missingno@fedia.io
        4·
        21 天前

        It looks like this list is manually curated, so there’s probably more that just aren’t documented as such.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        21 天前

        Probably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.

      • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 天前

        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.

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    21 天前

    1,205 games. $6,516 as of today. 19 year account.

    The depressing part is that of the 1,205 games, 986 (81.8%) are showing as unplayed.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 天前

    Apparently $3135 is what I’ve spent on Steam games, according to Steam themselves. That isn’t what the current value is, but what I’ve actually spent.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      21 天前

      That is wise. I wish they had more than the old games and the handful newer ones. Their moment will come when gaben signs off and steam will enshittify

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          21 天前

          I was a pirate since the 80s. I even financed my first sports car with warez-cds 😁 But steam does have its merits. Don’t worry about updates. As only the major games get updates by pir8s. But as steam’s DRM is trivial, it’s kinda easy-piracy. I already have like 50TB downloaded. If they ever go nuts I’ll download all my favourites and write a script to un-drm them.

          And I would love for gog to have current games too. Would stop buying at steam, but 99% of what gog has to offer I already have on steam for many years

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 天前

      I get the sentiment but not owning it does not equal not enjoying it. You never play any games with friends that only come out on steam? For some single player games I can understand waiting until they release on GOG but many (or like, most) never do.

    • 007Ace@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      21 天前

      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.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 天前

    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.