I noticed that I've been buying more and more games recently and I wondered how much money have I spent since I created my Steam account in 2014. It turned out that it's been quite a lot, considering that I'm a student with no stable income living in a country where the average monthly salary is 3 times lower than in the USA.

If my math is correct, I've spent around 190€ for 341 games (180€ for 219 games if you don't want to count the damn BundleStars Dollar bundles), with the most expensive one being Cities: Skylines for 27,99€ followed by Borderlands 2 for 11,24€. Almost half of it, over 80€, was spent this year.

Now as you can see, my philosophy seems to be "if it costs more than 5€, I'm not buying it". I really have no interest in buying 60€ AAA games when I can have tons of wonderful small games all for the same price. I'm sure there are people who spend much more on video games but for me, this is quite a high number, although I have no regrets. After all, video games are the only thing that makes me happy and is stopping me from ending it all :'')

I didn't count any games I bought before 2014 and my usage of digital distribution such as my The Sims collection that must've cost me hundreds of euros. Ouch

6 years ago

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So how much is it?

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I'm not sure, I've never done the math, but basically the main source of games for me is Humble and the 1 dollar tier, I rarely buy from Bundle star and IndieGala - roughly I think I am in the 30-50 per year.

6 years ago
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I don't know, and I'm not sure if I want to know.
Edit: just calculated the amount for this year so far and it was $ 88.24 usd... I don't feel like continuing.

6 years ago*
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Easily over 2000, but only if you include gifts. According to the purchase history, I've spent 6 times as much on gifts than on games for myself. I'd like to say it's money well spent, but maybe that's going too far. I'd say it's money I enjoyed spending, in any case.

6 years ago
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No idea, but I would say easily over 2000€.

steamdb.info calculator says:

34752€ Current account value
10966€ Total cost with sales

6 years ago
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I forgot the like $800 I spent buying the ps3 and ps4.

6 years ago
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Impossible for me to know.

I started using Steam in early 2009, and it pretty much became my singular gaming platform (with a few exceptions), since I had sold all my console stuff (I had an insane Dreamcast collection).

With sales and bundles, I don't think I've ever paid full-price for a game--and those bundles have DEEP discounts, sometimes. However, I have bought extra bundles, and gifts for others, so I don't know how those factor in to how much I've spent/saved.

Between gifts from friends, SG wins, and free games from IG, HB, gleam, etc, many (though not a large percentage) of the games/DLCs in my library I've spent no money on. My first Steam game, Portal, was even a gift!

What further complicates things is I used to play a specific F2P game, and spent a stupid amount of money on it (really wish I hadn't spent any).

According to SteamDB, here's the estimated value of my account (I used Google to convert to Euros):

$36023 (30508.58€)
Current account value
$10203 (8641.12€)
Total cost with sales

If you just use the 'sales' estimate, that's approximately $1133.67 (960.13€) per year.

I have a problem.

6 years ago
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Probably around 180 or 200. most of the items i got were on sale but the cash cards weren't so.. yea. I don't think i wasted my money on it. I got all the good games minus the wishlist.

6 years ago
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Not enough

6 years ago
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Between $1000 - 1500 on Steam and then probably another $1000 at least on other sites. Spent a lot more on retail games before I went digital.

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6 years ago
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developers tell me i should spend more but my pocket says it's too much already </3

6 years ago
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On my Steam account, less than $20.
About 3 years of WoW with 2 expansions, so about $700 there.
Maybe $300-500 on other games over the years for PC
Maybe $100-200 on games for Xbox 360
Spent much more than that just on PCs over the years, but lets say I needed them for school... That sounds plausible.
I spent more than that on my Magic: The Gathering addiction back in the day, haha. Now I am sad, all those cards and no one to play with :(

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