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[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 156 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm at least $200 of this statistic, now do the people who played for less than ten hours. I'd be like $1,000.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, I have a ton of games I completed with under 10 hours in them.

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[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Less then 1h i'm probably at around $1000 lol

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 145 points 4 months ago (1 children)

alternative headline "steam users have a ton of games they got from a humble bundle for super cheap and we didn't take that into account and used the msrp value of each game for this shocking headline."

Also some games don't count time on older games. i know I have games like half life 2 episode 1 that i have beaten that show I never played them since I played them before they started tracking time.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've had games not record time because I was in offline mode on vacation and I pre-downloaded it, or I just played in offline mode or directly from a game's executable without steam's crap embedded.

In the past it's been trivial to set achievement unlocks and time played with 3rd party tools too.

I don't see any kind of discounts mentioned either. I almost never buy from steam directly, usually reputable 3rd party sites like Fanatical, GamersGate, WinGameStore etc that I find through isthereanydeal. It'll show as being on my account but nobody knows what I paid for it and I almost never pay MSRP.

Then there's the countless bundle keys I used to get that I definitely never played and will never play because I wanted 2-3 games in a bundle of 10-20 that was cheaper than one of the games alone.

It wouldn't shock me at all if there was 10 billion worth of unplayed games though. I have friends that buy all the hot releases and then barely touch them because a couple hundred bucks a month is not significant to their monthly budget.

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[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 74 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I have a large collection of unplayed games, and most of them came from Humble Bundle.

[–] chamaeleon@fedia.io 26 points 4 months ago

This is true for me as well. I'm going to guess 95% or more of my steam games come from bundles. I have only bought a few games on steam itself. Similar situation with GOG, where a large majority of my games have been bought on 80-95% off sales. Just in case the itch strikes...

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

I used to buy games that devs talked about on reddit's game dev subs. No intent to play them. I'd just pick 'em up to help the dev if I liked them or their style.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Haha whaaattt... Nobody actually does that...haha, that would be like, just kinda silly right...

glances nervously at Steam library

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Don't look at my Epic collection. Between it and Steam have a few thousand dollars in games. (If you're counting retail prices)

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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like...each of us...right?

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Yes individually. XD

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 29 points 4 months ago

I don't want to talk about it

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Yeah, guilty as charged and I don't even mind.

I buy the games on sale if I play them then good for me, if I don't then I supported developers. I see no problem here.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is bullshit analysis. People can buy their steam keys from endless sources and sales. Some games that would have been $20+ some people can get for as little as $0.50 depending on circumstances.

It'd be impossible to calculate how much has been spent. They also just straight multiplied the amount of public ones instead of better estimating that using data they had.

All you can do is say how much they are currently or were worth. Considering how steep the price drops can be for many games, it's a pretty wide range of possibilities and makes estimating this fairly worthless.

Just a deliberately bullshit headline made by idiots wielding "data science" hype.

Exactly. I almost never pay full price on Steam, and I add a lot of keys from Humble or Fanatical bundles where I only intend to play half or so.

So yeah, I'm guessing it's actually 10% or so of that figure if we make a few rules:

  • count bundles as a single game, and if one game is played from it, that counts for the whole bundle
  • assume games added to Steam are part of a bundle (perhaps in groups of 5)
  • don't count games that were ever given away free
  • assume all games were purchased at a discount

That would probably get us pretty close to the real number.

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'll play them eventually. I will. Stop harassing me!

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[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I have stopped buying games that aren't on 90% off sales, and even then mostly stopped. I only buy a game that I want to play immediately. I have way too much to do and play and it's not worth building a backlog since I'll just forget it anyways.

Long gone are the days of super sales where 75-95% off were common.

Edit: clarification: I buy very cheap games for my backlog and buy games full price as long as I want to play them right now.

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 35 points 4 months ago

Steam just had a 90% off sale from an entire publisher. Right now, looking at the stores front page there is
86% off a call of the wild
70% off hell pie.
90% off dragon age.
85% off a worms game.
75% off blasphemous.
90% off another dragon age game.
80% off kingdom Come.
75% off riders Republic.
90% off team17 games.

You're yelling at clouds, old man.

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[–] HollowHawk@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 months ago

Steam Summer Sale starts in 2 days. You know what to do!

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just want to add, not only is it a ridiculous number because of sales, there's also free games that wreck the numbers.

Glancing at my unplayed library, sure there's a bunch of leftovers from Humble Bundles I got ages ago for what amounted to a fraction of retail, but there's also things like BioShock 1&2 Remastered - games that were given out FOR FREE to owners of the original. I've PLAYED the originals, but I assume the powers that be would tell you I have $60 worth of unplayed games sitting there since I haven't opened the remasters.

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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wondering how much the budle deals effect this number. I've got a lot of games from bundles and a lot of them I didn't really want but they came with the bundle, so they're added to my library.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

This is it. I have a ton from humble bundle and free keys. Very few I've paid for and never played.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This number is likely very inflated though and doesn't match what people actually spent on unplayed games.

It couldn't have accounted for key sales or bundle purchases. I have at least a hundred unplayed games that were included in some random Humble Bundle I bought just because of one game that was in that bundle. If you were to divide bundle pricing by amount of unplayed games, it'd be like 1 or 2 bucks per game.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

If you were to divide bundle pricing by amount of unplayed games, it'd be like 1 or 2 bucks per game.

And even that number isn't really representative, because when I buy a bundle for one game, it's because the bundle price is at or at least pretty near the historic low for that game. So the "extra" games aren't really costing me anything.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 4 months ago

Gaben has now got 19 Billion dollars he’ll never spend.

[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 11 points 4 months ago

I'm part of the problem.

[–] Sauciness6413@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I’ll play them when I get the time. I never get any time :(

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

I knew I'd get called out some day. Bastards.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Why do they have to personally attack me like that?

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I'll do it again.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Humble Bundle is a big contributor to my unplayed games. There's usually only a few games in a bundle that I'm interested in at a good price, and the test I'll eventually get to... Maybe when I retire... If I get to retire...

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[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

Finally, a customer base for my games

[–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I think about 18 billion of that was me

[–] feandoe@feddit.cl 5 points 4 months ago

1700 games

I don't have anything to play!

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago
[–] Eggyhead@kbin.run 5 points 4 months ago

Many of my unplayed games are PC remasters of old console games I played at a younger age. I played the games, I just haven’t played them on steam.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The games I haven't played yet are also the games I never paid full price for, or got in a bundle, heavily discounted.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I have over a thousand games in my library (almost all from sales) and yeah... I've probably played less than 5% of them. I'm a collector? 😅

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Now THAT'S the economy.

[–] ExtraordinaryJoe@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have absolutely bought games and played them for less than 2 hours and never played them again. I'm a lot more discriminating now, but as recently as last month I bought a game because I thought I would like it. I played a couple of times but can't get into it. I would love to have a new, fun MMO to play but there are so many that look interesting and then... bleh.

[–] BubbleMonkey 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I don’t really use steam and I have this problem too. I buy discs used, and I don’t always look up gameplay videos.. so yeah, often not my cup of tea turns out. But resellable if I want down the line, at least.

Just the other day I bought a Wii super monkeyball game that uses the balance board. I have everything I need to play it, but the chances of actually doing that are pretty slim, tbh. A lot of the older games (anything under $10 for consoles more than a decade old, really) I buy are like that. “Might be fun, might never get played, but in an emergency, can be sold”.

I miss playing mmos, but none of them have hit like vanilla wow on a pve server, and now I hate people too much to bother. If I could spin up a server of my own and just play by myself or with a few people I know, sure, but most games don’t allow that. So single player it is.

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[–] gusvgus@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago
[–] DannyMac@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago
[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Too busy, never played.

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