I've had and been using steam since 2003... I really don't want to know what that number is. And I am also convinced someone is collecting this data point for nefarious purposes, because its 2026 and everything is being used for nefarious purposes. Including this comment.
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Outside of my mom being an nefarious purpose there isn’t one here.
Rather to get a gauge of how bad and expensive it be if Steam just ceased to exist. Sounds like some people already had accounted for that
Total spend says 12k, not bad for 15 years considering how often I buy games for my friends lol
.....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
You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.
Even that won’t be perfectly accurate, as it doesn’t include money spent on secondary stores for steam codes. So things like humble bundles aren’t included.
True, but it at least covers all of the purchases actually made on the platform.
Oh, I didn't know that was a thing. Only $1,746 for me. Pretty sure my wife's is much more, but she's hidden her games.
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the money is already lost. if that happened i would pirate whatever i want to download again.
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
Not as much as you might first think as I generally wait for Steam sales. Well over a thousand bucks CAD though.
Nothing I couldn't pirate right back, given time.
FYI, you can get total spent by going to Help > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.
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.
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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.
If you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?
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.
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Only 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It's not as many as people think.
It looks like this list is manually curated, so there's probably more that just aren't documented as such.
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Shut down or not it's already lost.
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.
I keep a copy of the generic steam crack on my computer. It's very well tested. So as long as I had the files on my computer I would only lost access to the very few games I have that use a different drm.
Many games on Steam are DRM free, included older Valve games.
$2908.44
That is what steam reports as total external funds added.
That includes hardware purchases (OG Steam Controller, Steam Link, and Steam Deck with the new price), and it doesn’t count the games bought on Humble Bundle.
Steam reports my total spend to be $4,114.82 Steam Calculator reports $4,518 when bought at lowest prices and $7,250 in today's prices. The calculator says I have 1,468 games, steam says 1,350 and my steam profile lists 1,354
SteamDB puts my account at $2400 "at lowest prices", but I've definitely spent way more than that, and I own dark souls prepare to die, which a new key for that is up on cdk4g and g2a for $400-$500 alone.
I've been thinking about buying a bunch of hard drives and downloading my entire library and cracking it all and stashing the drives in long term storage just in case. That's been a thought for a very, very long time though...
696 games at $4142 over 22.5 years
7228.16 USD with 2026 prices but don't forget inflation over the years.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend this is a high security page so if you know how to open it in the steam client, that will be easier.
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Like 20$ i guess.
About US $3000 over 20 years. Not as much as I thought, to be honest. I wait for sales and try not to buy things unless I'm sure I'll play it.
€100k more or less. I boycotted steam until left4dead2. Then I caved in. 50k was for the level though. And yes I know how stupid that is. The rest was games bought on steam. Then there might be more through other sources that provide steam-keys.
But it Wouldn't be really lost. At least not the games I already downloaded. Steam's DRM is trivial, so I would have at least those left.
Also, nothing to worry until gaben signs off. I predict it will then be turned into the usual us-american enshittification-craphole everything else is.
50k was for the level though
I don't understand
Also how big is your steam library if you don't mind me asking? I'm not up on my conversion rates but €100k is in the realm of house money
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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.
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Less than I thought! About 1,900, can't tell if that's USD or EUR I've used both. Saved over 3,000, supposedly. For over 17 years, 112 bucks a year for a hobby shared nearly the entire time between 2 - later 3 people - that's pretty good I'd say. Not a lot of hobbies come in that cheap.
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Every insteresting game I "bought" on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).
£600 in 21 years apparently and most of that is from the first 10 years too. It's not my go-to store anymore.
I've had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I've got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.
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