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£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

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

Nothing I couldn't pirate right back, given time.

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.

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.

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.

@64bithero
4771 € according to SteamDB

7228.16 USD with 2026 prices but don't forget inflation over the years.

https://help.steampowered.com/... this is a high security page so if you know how to open it in the steam client, that will be easier.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

Total spend says 12k, not bad for 15 years considering how often I buy games for my friends lol

696 games at $4142 over 22.5 years

Like... 5 bucks or so? For Hollow Knight. The rest of the games are either free, demos or gift.

The vast majority of my library is on GOG

Aah, that's a bit hard to calculate due to Steam keys from bundles and other websites. Running some rough numbers it looks to be about $2600 CAD over 15 years, so... not too bad?

Every insteresting game I "bought" on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).

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.

€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.

I don't wanna set my library to public so SteamDB can figure it out, but it's over $1000 just going by what I can get to in my purchase history (which does not go all the way back to 2003 when I first made my account and had gotten HL2 and Ragdoll KungFu as my first two purchases on Steam). Not sure how accurate SteamDB is anyway, since it wouldn't necessarily know if what I bought was on sale when I bought it 🤷‍♂️

I've had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I've got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.

Your Steam purchase history can be found under: https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/

I think purchases from other shops are not included (such as Humble Bundle), which makes sense. I have no total spent money calculated yet, so don't know.

£600 in 21 years apparently and most of that is from the first 10 years too. It's not my go-to store anymore.

While I have spent a large amount on games on steam, I have easily gotten my money's worth and would not regret it if it disappeared tomorrow. I would be disappointed of course, but would see it like an old console breaking and not feeling like replacing it.

This is mainly because I don't frequently replay games after I have had my fill of them.

Would probably just buy games I didn't already play on some other site like GoG.

$1219.04 since 2011 (I didn't bother with Steam until Skyrim released and I was living somewhere without a local game store)

Maybe $300 in total.

Not as much as you might first think as I generally wait for Steam sales. Well over a thousand bucks CAD though.

Over 12 years, apparently only ~$1255.33USD over the past 12 years. Also realized I have a huge gap in my purchase history from 2015 to 2020. And it looks like the majority of my spending has been from 2020 onward.

Gonna have a presume at least a little over a quarter of my spending is due to me buying an officially refurbished LCD model deck when they were in stock a couple years ago. IDK actual price because it's lumped in with like 3-4 games I bought at the same time, roughing out to $403.something-cents before tax.

More than $6815.18, because my account is older than 2015 and purchases only go back to 2015.

But in reality, I will just reacquire the games if my library gets taken. Barnes & Noble isn't breaking into my home to take books out of my bookshelf, it is not unreasonable to demand digital products are treated the same. So I treat them the same, regardless of what moron politicians say.

Idk probably about $250

$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.

according to steamDB 1000€ at lowest prices 1700€ at today's prices over 16 years

kind of expected more

Shut down or not it's already lost.

£1094, or £2055 today (15 year account).

Rookie numbers, looking at the other replies.

If they take Arc Raiders away from me, I'm going to lose my mind.

I have spent $7664 apparently.

Probably close to $1,500.

$1850 @ 21 years

SteamDB says an account value of $4017 and $6438 USD in today's prices, over the course of 21.4 years. I've transitioned my new purchases to GOG when possible.

I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I'll be alright.

$1320.15 USD or like £988 GBP over the last 7 years damn-

That's like £150 a year-

Bet most are unplayed too because I rack up hundreds of hours on a couple of games then forget about the rest oops. I gotta start going through my backlog.

Edit: according to https://help.steampowered.com/...

$6,227 per SteamDB

Apparently about $1000, which feels like a lot until I see some of the bananas-ass responses here.

Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it's quite old.

2,900 CAD apparently

Hardly any of you actually buy games? Geez. I mean, congrats as I know I've spent far too much over the years, especially compared to the amount of time I actually spend gaming. So mainly I'm proud of your resilience.

US$7374 (AU$10721) over the last 10 years - but most of that in the last 5. Was a console gamer mostly before that so have more spent on console games over the years too.

According to Steam, ive spent $1440 dollars over 13 years.

Thing is, I have 930 games.

And while I pride myself on only buying during sales or other massive discounts, an average of $1.54 per game seems extremely low to me.

Nor does the fact that even when factoring in my supposed savings, i would have spend only 4.76 per game if not on sale especially since I have a fair number of AAA games on the account.

So im not sure steam is tracking me accurately.

Probably like 5k over 15 yrs

I don't even have a steam account ...

Like 20$ i guess.

6554€, starting with HL2.

I don't get the question.

The money is gone now, so it's already "lost".

Or do you mean how many games did I buy that I have never played? That is an interesting metric I guess.

Zero

10-20$

None because I don't buy games with unbroken DRM (including the need for corporate-run servers) and therefore can always get 'em all back via piracy.

Lost? Not really any. I've replaced everything I can on GOG, and replaced what I can't with pirate copies.

The 2GB RAM usage of a client that does no more than spam me with irrelevant recommendation isn't worth it now that I can't just slap another 16 in there for the heck of it.

I moved the "common" folder installations out, tried launching them all directly, anything that did not force Steam to open or scream that it wasn;t running I kept official and made a backup. Anything that did I dumped and yarred the games I already owned.

My Steam library is something like 1500 games, spent a lot replacing console stuff when I moved to PC, but now I consider it to have been a mistake. I just don't trust Valve anymore, simply being better than Ubislop and BiowEAr isn't enough, with ho the state of gaming is shifting to be completely anti-consumer. We're not the customer there, we're the product, proven by how a publisher can add DRM after launch, or break a game and force out an update, and Valve will demand that we accept this no matter how bad it is.