Poll: Steam: Worth vs cost

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Risingblade

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Mar 15, 2010
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Found 0 Games with a value of
$0.00 USD

Steam member since: 1970-01-01


Yeah....something off about that calculator
 

Rednog

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Nov 3, 2008
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Ranked 8409th with 1430.1 hours played.

Has played 62/303 games.

Owns 303 games for a total worth of $3729.76.

Overall account cost/hour for gametime is $2.61

I don't agree with the has played 62/303 games though.
I guess they don't track games you haven't played like in forever or played offline.
There was a period of like 3 yeas where I had to play mainly off-line because the place I lived was using a 56k and would refuse to log onto steam and I definitely beat a good chunk of the smaller games in my steam library.
 

Snotnarok

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Nov 17, 2008
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A lot, but really add up the games you've bought over your life time, your head might spin.
 

V8 Ninja

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May 15, 2010
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According to my own Steam spreadsheet (yes, I have one) I have spent a total of $519.43 on games and saved $1,271.57 in deals.

EDIT: My Captcha was "Dueling Banjos". I would watch/play/read that.
 

Sylveria

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Nov 15, 2009
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My Steam Library is precisely $3... I bought the Breath of Death/Cthulhu Saves The World pack. I've also purchased some MMOs through Steam but I really don't count those since they're rather independent entities.
 

dagens24

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Calculated cost is $3331.80. Dunno about actual cost; will check later and update.
 

DirgeNovak

I'm anticipating DmC. Flame me.
Jul 23, 2008
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1060,55$ for 96 games. I don't exactly know how much I actually paid, considering half of them is sales and a few of them were 50$ retail games that are worth considerably less now. I'd estimate I paid about 900$, but this is as rough an estimate can get. In nearly six years I'd say this isn't as bad as I thought.

EDIT: I admit it! I didn't read the whole OP!!! *flogs himself*

Turns out I paid 793,91$. However that doesn't seem to count boxed games that are on Steam. That's basically the Half-Life 2 series for me. I think I paid HL2 29,99, Ep.1 19,99 and the Orange Box 49,99 if memory serves. That makes for a total of 893,88. I fucking nailed it!
 

scarecrow350

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Well apparently its around $720 (probably around £650)
Given that I paid about £200 for that library of 51 games i'm okay with this
Damn you steam and your sneaky sales
 

Vern

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Sep 19, 2008
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After manually calculating my purchases, I came out at around $650. And that figure includes sales and bundles and what have you. I was a bit surprised, but I've been buying games on Steam since 2008, so that's about $125 a year. Steam says I have 135 games loaded. I know some of those were part of a bundle, or a few games I already had that I set up on Steam. But still, each year, I paid just slightly over what two console games would cost. So I could've bought 8 console games, instead I got 135 PC games. And there's a fair few that are big budget games, just on sale. So I didn't get to play them when they came out, but waited a few months for a sale and reaped the rewards.
 

chadachada123

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I've spent $67.00 on games. Yeah, I don't really game on PC very much. Laptop can barely run Minecraft >.>

Sadly, that value-calculator isn't working for my account. Says I've been a member since 1970, too. Meh. Edit: Used WastedOnSteam, got this: "Owns 33 games for a total worth of $245.76. Overall account cost/hour for gametime is $14.89."

$50 of my purchase was for the Valve game pack, which normally costs $100 but is a $200 value. I got a 50% off Valve coupon from this very forum, and since I didn't really own any Valve games before...hehe.

Other than that, I had bought Garry's mod for $10, Saints Row 2 for $3.75, and some zombie game for about three bucks. All-in-all, I guess I have like $250 worth of game that I paid almost $70 for. Not bad, I'd say.
 

McGuinty1

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viranimus said:
Yes, this was the method I was suggesting, because it tells you what you paid for an item when you bought it. which gives you a more accurate figure than what either calculator will provide. (though I do like that new calculator with all the various metrics it applies)
Well now I'm embarrassed. I thought I had read the full OP, but seeing as how there's no indication that you edited it, I apologize for posting redundant info. I guess I read some of the responses having problems with the calculator and assumed you hadnt posted instructions on hand-calculating directly in Steam. My bad.

And yes, I'm glad that I found that Wasted on Steam site through this thread, I can see myself using that tool a lot in the future!
 

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Mushroom Camper
Sep 30, 2009
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£240 for about 40 games/dlc. The average price of a game is between £2.50-6.00 with one or two £20-30 games bumping the total up a little.
 

Aprilgold

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About 650 is what it said. Of course I know thats off by at least fifty bucks since I traded for fifty bucks worth of games. And is probably in the three-hundreds due to buying games at a ridiculously low price on sales.

Not bad, but that is fair due to having 68 and counting games.
 

Subaltern

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http://wastedonsteam.com/usd/id/lacanian

I love having a full time job :)

...Although that means I don't have much time to actually play the games I can buy :(
 

Norrdicus

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Feb 27, 2012
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I've about $580 worth of games on my account (excluding ones simply bought elsewhere and registered), but I've spent less than $200 on them
 

Aris Khandr

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Oct 6, 2010
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Spent: $188.73
Value: 1561.61

It isn't taking into account things like Shogun 2 or Empire, that I bought retail and plugged into Steam. Or what friends have spent on me. Still rather impressive.
 

BENZOOKA

This is the most wittiest title
Oct 26, 2009
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1211,30 ? (steamcalculator)
Owns 76 games for a total worth of $1189.81. (wastedonsteam)
:SSSSS

Has logged 2253.4 hours of playtime ? that's 93 days, 21 hours, and 24 minutes, where Counter-Strike: Source is their most played game, which accounts for 68.7% of their playtime

Overall account cost/hour for gametime is $0.53

Heh. Got CS:S free with HL2 though. And many of the games I've purchased when they were on sale.

Way too much money spent though. Especially as I have quite a lot of titles that I have barely played at all.
 

trollnystan

I'm back, baby, & still dancing!
Dec 27, 2010
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Ouch. I've spent more money on Steam than I should: 362.62EUR (not counting games given to me and Humble Bundle games)
And it's worth: 746.42EUR (not counting yada yada yada)

[link]http://wastedonsteam.com/eur/id/tr0llnyst4n[/link]
I'd just like to point out that my friend has played Skyrim on my computer too so all those hours aren't mine. Really. And sometimes I pause for a long time. Promise. I hope. Damn...