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    How much $$$ have you spent on steam?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mogger, Sep 17, 2010.

  1. mogger

    mogger Notebook Guru

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    How much $$$ have you spent on steam?

    $30 here :eek:
     
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  2. talin

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    $4.95, and not a penny more. :p
     
    talin, Sep 17, 2010
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  3. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    I'm just gonna...umm...leave this here:

    [​IMG]
     
    Lithus, Sep 17, 2010
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  4. Amnesiac

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    About $40. I think.

    I did spend $50 AUD on a disc copy of Modern Warfare 2, which somehow tied itself to Steam.
     
    Amnesiac, Sep 17, 2010
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  5. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    I've got 67 games... not sure how that all translates to cash, though ;) Probably a couple hundred bucks, but I've gotten a lot more for my money through Steam than I would have through traditional sales.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 17, 2010
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  6. AboutThreeFitty

    AboutThreeFitty ~350

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    $100? It would be more but my Xbox eats all of the money I have for Steam. :mad:
     
    AboutThreeFitty, Sep 17, 2010
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  7. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Are you sure it's not $3.50? ;)
     
    talin, Sep 17, 2010
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  8. Harleyquin07

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    Impressive. That's a good 3-4 years worth of purchases.

    In my case, I haven't spent a cent.
     
    Harleyquin07, Sep 17, 2010
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  9. HTWingNut

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    Oh boy... here we go since we're comparing sizes :)

    [​IMG]
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 17, 2010
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  10. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    A few hundred maybe? Not sure... My rough estimate is definitely about £500 :p
     
    Baka, Sep 18, 2010
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  11. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Not very much compared to how many games I have, I only buy when things are on sale and my library is full of top tier games I've purchased for less than $10.

    My games list says I have 41. Only spend around $200.
     
    rschauby, Sep 18, 2010
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  12. Voodoofreak

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    Over $400 so far...
     
    Voodoofreak, Sep 18, 2010
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  13. Darkness62

    Darkness62 Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't know... This much?

    [​IMG]

    Don't even buy games in stores anymore, a week ago my wife was wandering around some clothing store, so bored I went to EB Games. I went to the PC Games, some there not as much as there used to be. The manager comes over and says "Don't see many people looking at PC Games anymore." *Goofy grin I turn and say "Yeah, I buy everything digital download or Steam now... Hmmm not much use for stores anymore." His face just sank, guess they are not doing so well here. 2 EB Games have gone under here since last year.
     
    Darkness62, Sep 18, 2010
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  14. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    I rarely ever bought anything from Gamestop when they did carry a decent amount of PC games. Although periodically I used to check them out because they'd have great clearance prices on game from time to time.
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 18, 2010
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  15. aznofazns

    aznofazns Performance Junkie

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    htwingnut, you are officially insane.

    Mine looks pitiful in comparison:

    [​IMG]
     
    aznofazns, Sep 18, 2010
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  16. HTWingNut

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    Check out my entire collection, well probably missing a dozen or so I forgot to add, but close enough. :)

    HTWingnut's Games - GameSpot

    It's slowed down a lot over the last couple years though.
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 18, 2010
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  17. aznofazns

    aznofazns Performance Junkie

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    Have you actually played through all of those games? Or even most of them? I'm still in awe.
     
    aznofazns, Sep 18, 2010
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  18. key001

    key001 Notebook Evangelist

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    $0, I got HL1, HL2 and CS:S for free on steam and a bunch of useless HL1 mods so I'm just waiting for black mesa source
     
    key001, Sep 18, 2010
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  19. Tree_Burner

    Tree_Burner Notebook Deity

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    I have spent exactly $0.00 on steam :p
     
    Tree_Burner, Sep 18, 2010
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  20. InfectedSonic

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    according to steamcalculator.com (not 100% accurate as it doesnt count preorders)
    ive spent using current value (so not what i paid for them)
    1953.63 USD

    ive been on steam since 2004 though so yeah not that much really.
     
    InfectedSonic, Sep 18, 2010
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  21. Confrence

    Confrence Notebook Consultant

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    $864.40 USD

    Never thought I had spent that much. Although alot of the games that I bought was on sale.
     
    Confrence, Sep 18, 2010
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  22. IWantMyMTV

    IWantMyMTV Notebook Evangelist

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    I would guess around $1300...over three or so years though...(really longer than that if you go back to my Half-Life 2 purchase from the store that required me to load up Steam, but I didn't start really going for digital downloads until three years ago...)
     

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  23. spaghetticheese

    spaghetticheese Notebook Smasher

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    well steam calculator only works out using current prices not prices games were bought at. i got almost ALL my games on deals, according to current value tho it's worth £464.71

    edit: lol just worked out my friend's account and his came to 2443,44€
     
    spaghetticheese, Sep 18, 2010
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  24. dummy27

    dummy27 Notebook Consultant

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    How did you get those games for free?
     
    dummy27, Sep 18, 2010
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  25. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    I got a some stuff like GTA4 when it was at about $7 so I think I spent around $250-$300 on my Steam collection...
     

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  26. E.D.U.

    E.D.U. Notebook Deity

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    Duudde....that is frickin' insane.........As I scrolled down, my jaw kept dropping until it finally dislocated. I don't even feel like calculating my measly amount spent after seeing that. You are indeed a nut :D .
     
    E.D.U., Sep 18, 2010
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  27. seeker_moc

    seeker_moc Notebook Virtuoso

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    @htwingnut:

    Holy crap... Were do you find the time to actually play that many games??? I might go through 10 games in an entire year.



    As for me, I just got Steam a few weeks ago. So far, around $30.
     
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  28. HTWingNut

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    Well, I used to play a LOT. Up until a couple years ago I was married with no kids and a good job. Had a lot of free time. Most of those Steam games were acquired from the rock bottom sales and lots of them from the Steam packs where you get like 5-10 games with a single purchase.

    Now I only play about 5-6 games a year if that. Although I do pick up classics on Steam or gog.com with a sale just so it can replace my old CD.

    I think "IWantMyMTV" has as much if not more than I do.

    I've also been buying Steam games since Half-Life 2 came out.
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 18, 2010
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  29. sean473

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    except for the 29.99 pounds i spent on MW2 , all my other steams games have been free.. but i only got 6..
     
    sean473, Sep 18, 2010
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  30. City Pig

    City Pig Notebook Virtuoso

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    $2.50 I'm quite the spender, huh? :p

    I'm planning on buying Left 4 Dead 1&2 soon, though.
     
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  31. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Just over $1,000 according to Steam Calculator. It's not entirely accurate since it doesn't account for sales, which is how I get the majority of my games. If I had to guess, I'd say I've actually spent somewhere in the vicinity of $600.

    When I have more time, I'll go dig out all my Steam email receipts and add them up for the actual number.
     
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  32. Bearclaw

    Bearclaw Steaming

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  33. HTWingNut

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    Just used steam calc +1 to whomever stated it first, didn't know it existed.

    ~ $2550. I know I haven't spent that much because of all the deals I got, and this stretches all the way back to 2004 so even so $2550 / 6 years is ~$35/mo, so about one game per month on average.

     
    HTWingNut, Sep 18, 2010
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  34. streather

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    well over $1000.
     
    streather, Sep 18, 2010
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  35. Voodooi

    Voodooi AFK for a while...

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    Star Trek Online, Battlefield BC 2, TF2, and SW: Battlefront 2.

    So 150-200$-ish ...I have some at D2D too and a gigantic pile from retail stores.
     
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  36. Bearclaw

    Bearclaw Steaming

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    Hehe Steamcalculator says I'm spent this much but they don't take into account sale prices.

    I've gone and added up my spendings myself and it actually goes to around $2000.

    [​IMG]
     
    Bearclaw, Sep 19, 2010
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  37. Prydeless

    Prydeless Stupid is

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    Steam: TF2 & CoD4 - $69.94
    Impulse: Gratuitous Space Battles, X-Com: UFO Defense, Civ IV Complete - $37.94
    GOG: FreeSpace 2, I'76 Arsenal, Psychonauts - $18.97
     
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  38. Versalius02

    Versalius02 Notebook Consultant

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    By the Steam calculator I've got $961 invested, but by my own calculations I've spent $432. So, on average, I pay a little less than 50% of the normal price when I buy from Steam. Not bad if I may say so. :D
     
    Versalius02, Sep 19, 2010
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  39. nemt

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    none technically
    the only Steam game I have is Civ V and I got the activation code through Direct2Drive.
     
    nemt, Sep 20, 2010
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  40. AznImports602

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    According to steam calculator:

    $838.49 USD
     
    AznImports602, Sep 20, 2010
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  41. Hayte

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    How much have I spent on Steam? Too much. Its waaay too easy to spend money with it. It takes less clicks to spend than it does for me to get into my internet banking and check how much money I've got.

    That right there makes it dangerous. :O
     
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