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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If your account is less than about 5 years old (and you live in the US) you can also just look at the points shop. Each Steam Point corresponds to one cent spent on Steam.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

530 dollars for 251 games in almost 22 years of service. Steam only logged about 210 hours in those years, which is bullshit. There's almost no time recorded in Half-life, Day of defeat or Counterstrike and those are the games I played the most. I also got most games through Humblebundle, where I spent 270 dollars since June 2012. But as I haven't been playing much on PC ever since the PS3 came out, the real money went to Sony and I don't even want to know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

$1118 over 15+ years isn't too bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

$130 over 14 years. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
  1. I have only tf2 on steam
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TotalSpend 1433$ OldSpend 434$

Not sure if I should add the two ? or is the second one included in the first one ? Anyway that's not too bad for a 14yo account

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.

"TotalSpend" is the total amount of external funds applied to your account. This value is used to determine if an account is a "Limited User Account".

"OldSpend" is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC. If your account was linked to Perfect World for CS:GO or Dota 2,

"PWSpend" will be the approximate USD value of funds applied from Perfect World, otherwise that value will be zero. If your account has applied external funds in Steam China,

"ChinaSpend" will report that total, in RMB.

Weirdly I also have a row for "PackageOnlySpend" that doesn't have a definition.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

€15.77 on a 5 year old account

I own Terraria, Among Us, BTD6, Celeste and Gelatine, all bought on a discount

Outside of steam i own minecraft and the mobile version of BTD6 and have only once pirated a game that i actually played

Why play other games when you have modded minecraft and terraria

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"May" nothing, I don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, $2487.15 over 5 years. I wonder if it factors in games i got externally by guesstimating the price though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's about external funds added to your steam account, so it should only be actual money, and not guessing the price of games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's good too know, though, now i wish i had an accurate measurement of how much money i've spent across external sites too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Does total include the Old Spend?...and what is Package Only? None of these numbers seem to add up to each other. Or are they also separate.

Also what lazy dev just posted the query column names instead of decoding them for the end user

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

From the page with the values:

"OldSpend" is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.

From Steam support regarding package only:

This row includes the portion of the account's total funds spent that could not be transferred. For example, a hardware purchase, gifted game, or in-game item does not count toward Package Only Spend, but a game purchase for your own library would.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have used a tool (not this one specifically) that could do this specifically for its other function of calculating the worth of all your steam trading cards/marketable game items, and to batch sell them when I have enough to get something with the cash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I have so much bullshit in my inventory that's not worth putting up at .02¢ each. Hook a brother up with a link

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