If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??
2026-07-01 22:35 UTC
Replies (19)
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@Fizz@lemmy.nz 2026-07-02 03:08
Probably like 5k over 15 yrs
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@NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2026-07-02 03:12
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.
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@cobysev@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 23:02
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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@TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 03:29
Apparently about $1000, which feels like a lot until I see some of the bananas-ass responses here.
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@MayaSin@lemmy.ca 2026-07-02 03:53
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.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-07-02 04:20
Your Steam purchase history can be found under: 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.
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@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2026-07-02 05:00
Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it’s quite old.
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@BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 05:05
Every insteresting game I “bought” on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).
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@huey_m@reddthat.com 2026-07-02 05:22
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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@Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 2026-07-01 22:38
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.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-07-02 00:17
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 🤷♂️
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@huey_m@reddthat.com 2026-07-02 05:34
FYI, you can get total spent by going to Help > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.
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@DevDave@piefed.social 2026-07-02 00:10
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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@placebo@lemmy.zip 2026-07-02 06:07
Zero. I cannot convert these games to money anyway.
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@AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2026-07-02 06:17
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.
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@remon@ani.social 2026-07-02 07:10
I don’t even have a steam account …
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@Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 2026-07-02 00:35
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.
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@PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 11:29
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.
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@ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 2026-07-03 06:31
$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.