The problem is that you pay $20-30 for a game that ends up sucking when you finally get to play it 2 months later which is past Steam's refund date. If you never play it, it may still be a fun game and not a bad decision. Schrodinger's game.
I knew I'd get called out some day. Bastards.
I'll play them eventually. I will. Stop harassing me!
Saving them for my retirement. (I will probably only retire when my health is so poor that it is clear that I won't outlive my retirement resources.)
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.
To be fair, I have a ton of games I completed with under 10 hours in them.
And a bunch I didn't complete, but felt I got good value from for <10h playtime.
Less then 1h i'm probably at around $1000 lol
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.
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.
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.
I have a large collection of unplayed games, and most of them came from Humble Bundle.
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...
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.
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:
That would probably get us pretty close to the real number.
Haha whaaattt... Nobody actually does that...haha, that would be like, just kinda silly right...
glances nervously at Steam library
Gaben has now got 19 Billion dollars he’ll never spend.
And I'll do it again.
I think the summer sale starts tomorrow, definitely gonna add a few more to the old backlog lol
this is what i have been saying all along
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.
Also depending on how theyre counted some games have beta servers and shit listed separately also mod kits and the like can be included in this.
I don't want to talk about it
Like...each of us...right?
Yes individually. XD
Steam Summer Sale starts in 2 days. You know what to do!
It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me!
... I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
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.
This is it. I have a ton from humble bundle and free keys. Very few I've paid for and never played.
I’ll play them when I get the time. I never get any time :(
Too busy, never played.
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.
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.
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.
I'm part of the problem.
I think about 18 billion of that was me
Finally, a customer base for my games
I'll do it again.
Now THAT'S the economy.
Why do they have to personally attack me like that?
1700 games
I don't have anything to play!
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.
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? 😅
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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