Poll: Steam: Worth vs cost

[Kapol]

I've spent about $1,200 total for everything. The 'value' of it is $4,840. But I've got a lot of games on sale, and the total is just what I've spent on Steam itself.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

£62.69

I'd say that's pretty good considering I have 32 games in my library, totalling roughly 387 hours of playtime.

16p for every hour of fun, 12 hours a game (mean), £1.95 a game (mean).

I'd say I've done a pretty decent job of my Steam library, especially considering I won't stop playing or buying now, if anything I'll hopefully be increasing it.

 

[McGuinty1]

If you guys want to know how much you've actually spent in real dollars on your Steam games, when you're logged in to Steam or steampowered.com, click on the drop down menu labelled "(your username)'s account" at the top right of the window beside your avatar (doesn't matter what page you're on). Click on "Account Details", and at the next screen you have the option of viewing "LICENSES + SUBSCRIPTIONS" or "STORE TRANSACTIONS". The transactions screen will show you the most recent half-dozen or so of your purchases and how much you paid for each transaction; it will list exactly which games/dlc/etc. were in each transaction. It also shows your gift purchases in a separate table below, and you can press "See All" to expand out the tables just like how it works in the store.

I used a calculator to manually add up all my purchases (including Half-Life 2 which I bought at retail, obviously the price of anything bought offline is not listed), and I came up with a figure of $3661.74. Compare this with the figure of $5071.01 that Wasted On Steam gave me.

Clearly I need to rethink my spending habits. This has been a bit of an eye opener, I knew it was gonna be a lot, but seeing $3600 on paper really hammers home what a metric assload of money I have spent just on goddamn Steam. I shudder to think what I have spent on Xbox, PS3 and Blu-rays in just the past 4 years...

 

[roushutsu]

According to that wastedonsteam site:

-Owns 10 games for a total worth of $94.93 (at the games' current prices)

Yeah I have a rather small library at the moment. Though I guess I should take into account that my copies of Portal and Portal 2 I bought at stores and not through Steam itself. Not sure if that affects anything.

 

[gigastar]

According to the calculator, ive spent about $750 on Steam.

However alot of the things in my Steam library i got on offers or in a pack deal, so im betting its somewhere closer to $600, probably less.

 

[viranimus]

If you guys want to know how much you've actually spent in real dollars on your Steam games, when you're logged in to Steam or steampowered.com, click on the drop down menu labelled "(your username)'s account" at the top right of the window beside your avatar (doesn't matter what page you're on). Click on "Account Details", and at the next screen you have the option of viewing "LICENSES + SUBSCRIPTIONS" or "STORE TRANSACTIONS". The transactions screen will show you the most recent half-dozen or so of your purchases and how much you paid for each transaction; it will list exactly which games/dlc/etc. were in each transaction. It also shows your gift purchases in a separate table below, and you can press "See All" to expand out the tables just like how it works in the store.

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)

Only real limitation is items you got for free (like games you got for say buying a new video card), games you bought retail and activated on steam, DLC packages you won , or Indie bundles, but between those categories you can likely get a solid estimate from memory and tack it onto the more accurate figure.

And yes, it IS eye opening. Thankfully my 400$ I have spent has been spanned since 2008, so roughly about 100$ per year, and thats not a figure I am too terribly ashamed of, especially considering thats a figure I still feel comfortable loosing should Valve/Steam decide to separate me from my licenses for whatever reason they would chose to do so.

 

[Risingblade]

Found 0 Games with a value of
$0.00 USD

Steam member since: 1970-01-01


Yeah....something off about that calculator

 

[Rednog]

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]

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

 

[V8 Ninja]

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]

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]

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

 

[DirgeNovak]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!

 

[CAPTCHA]

£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]

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.