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I don’t know why you would use a third Party Tool that estimates your purchases, when it has always been right there in your account, without estimates.
To judge my friends, of course.
Legit
This isn’t a 3rd party tool, it’s a separate Steam Support page that lists your total purchases. It basically takes the data from the Purchase History section (assuming that you usually pay directly and not using Steam gift cards) and totals it so that you don’t have to do that manually.
It’s been known for atleast 7 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/8m9fxm/what_is_difference_between_totalspend_and_oldspend/
edit: no need to point out those are 2 different links, ill leave this up
Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren’t included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesn’t know how much you paid for it, though, so it’s completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)
Hahaha this takes me back. My first purchases in 2011 were a few TF2 weapons. I got my account a short time after it went F2P.
You bought weapons?? In the mann co store?
lol yes. I did it a few times before I realized that it’s not a good way to get weapons. Only lost a few bucks.
Edit: Should clarify, my parents bought them.
TF2 is free to play ??
Don’t they make all their money on hats?
I don’t know… I haven’t played since 2007… hats ? I’m so out of the loop…
It is now. It wasn’t at first.
It was part of the Valve Orange Box and that was a big deal at the time. There was also a huge deal of whining from people who paid for it when Valve announced they were changing it to a free to play model.
Ok I see. yea my memory is of the orange box, on xbox. Or was it the 360 ?
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I’m even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don’t have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
Seems some are confusing the third party estimator with the official page. This is the official page: https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.
Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.
The official page shows the money you’ve spent, the estimator shows the current price of the games on your account, adjusted to everything. For me the difference is X4
Dang, everyone else here has 4 or 5 figures while I’m sitting at $101. And I know for a fact 40% of that was Kerbal Space Program.
Invest!
£1,585.73
Not bad for 16 years I guess.
I have used a tool (not this one specifically) that could do this specifically for its other function of calculating the worth of all your steam trading cards/marketable game items, and to batch sell them when I have enough to get something with the cash.
I have so much bullshit in my inventory that’s not worth putting up at .02¢ each. Hook a brother up with a link
Less than 1000€ for dozens of games I’ve played, I think the average price I payed is 15€, so I don’t feel robbed
I mostly buy on GOG whenever possible though, even if it means I have to wait a year or two
This site puts my lowest cost estimate at ~$400 USD. Out of curiosity, I then went through my purchase history and added everything up, which came out to ~$1,000 USD. The average was ~$14 and the median was ~$10.
It’s not wasted if you’ve enjoyed
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount I’ve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
Nice 👍
21 years on Steam was terrifying to see.
Yep. I’ve known about this feature for a while. I always think my numbers are insane and someone always comes along and one ups me so while I’m near the right end of the bell curve, I’m by no means at the end.
Woo $6k!
Holy balls
$130 over 14 years. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
6 years with just over $300 with 80% played. I was expecting worse after seeing the 5 figure numbers in the comments. Today’s price is over $900 tho, patient gamer gang.
