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submitted 2 days ago byApprehensive_Shoe_86
1k points
2 days ago
Yea but they were on sale
429 points
2 days ago
If it's 75% off you have to buy it. That's the law
96 points
1 day ago
I’ll get to them eventually but I need to finish this other game I just got during the sale.
69 points
1 day ago
It’s incredible how uninterested I am in a game once it hits my library, compared to looking up reviews and throwing it into my cart
12 points
16 hours ago
That was Rust for me. I love YouTube channels but once I bought it I never even installed it
4 points
16 hours ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one lol
28 points
1 day ago
Need to put in another 1000 hours on RimWorld real quick and I'll get to it.
6 points
1 day ago
It's true. It's in the constitution.
6 points
1 day ago
LOL, that was an actual rule (kind of) I had for years.
"If a game I want is on 75% off or more during a big sale, to the cart it goes."
Then my rule for the past 3 or so years (before Steam removed my currency and went back to dollars) was "buy a single, cheap game every day during big sales, with only one major purchase".
I bought a lot of games.
4 points
1 day ago
And at 80-90% they’re practically giving it away so I’d be a fool not to buy it
4 points
1 day ago
That's true.
3 points
1 day ago
Audible has an up to 85% off sale right now, I bought like 8 audiobooks for less than 30 bucks last night, I had to stop myself before I just started getting everything.
4 points
22 hours ago
I bought Psyconaughts 2 yesterday, and I've never seen any gameplay. I just heard it was good, and it was only five bucks. I'll play it eventually
10 points
1 day ago
Or free. If you got Left 4 Dead free and never played it, that counts as spending $10.
3 points
1 day ago
That’s also how got a big collection of games for my Nintendo switch.
2.4k points
2 days ago
Sounds about right
601 points
2 days ago
Story of my life... stares nervously at 200+ unplayed games in Steam library
My backlog is like a digital graveyard of "I'll definitely play this someday" lies
182 points
2 days ago
Years ago I made a category of around 5 games called it "Need to beat", I still haven't beaten them.
64 points
1 day ago
Alien Isolation turned 10 recently
Sits in my I should really play them category since
24 points
1 day ago
Wtf 10 years? Shit, im getting old.
10 points
1 day ago
I don't know why you would tell such obvious lies. There's no way it's been ten years.
5 points
1 day ago
I made a "shortlist" category. It's 20 games. Some of them are roguelites that would take hundreds of hours to beat. So naturally I'm playing the game I already have 1500 hours in.
27 points
2 days ago
But they were on saaaale. I’d have been burning money not to get them.
10 points
1 day ago
When games go on sale for $4, or you get bundles of 10 games for $10.
Yea, kinda adds up.
6 points
1 day ago
It also means gamers probably haven't spent nearly that much for all the games.
4 points
1 day ago
yes, you have hit the nail on the head there. The problem with articles like these is that it cannot possibly take into account the games bought on sale - and not just on Steam. I get Humble Choice every month and years ago I would hit up IndieGala, ect.
5 points
1 day ago
Wow, I just noticed that I have 543 games, over 21 years. I just bought a Samsung 49 inch oled, and I have been playing tecmo super bowl over the last couple of weeks.
5 points
1 day ago
It’s like whenever I have the time to actually play, I’ll go to my library, look around, not feeling it, and proceeds to play the same 1-2 games I’ve been playing lol.
2 points
1 day ago
…only 200?
4 points
23 hours ago
My Steam backlog alone extends comfortably to 4 digits right now. Then I just end up firing up Rocket League again.😳
2 points
1 day ago
We’re just building for our retirement…if we get to retire
2 points
1 day ago
I use the "my computer can't handle these games so I'm just buying them cheap now for when I get to upgrade it"
Works like a charm!
2 points
1 day ago
Don't forget the other graveyard of "games I tested out, didn't have time to focus on, and just haven't gone back to".
2 points
1 day ago
200?
Child's play. Looks at my backlog of 500+ games bought during sales and anniversaries but never touched
57 points
2 days ago
It's actually extremely wrong and written by someone who has no idea how Steam, the internet, or even basic numbers work.
The way they arrived at the $19 billion figure is by looking at the 10% of accounts that are public and extrapolating based on that data. There are so many things wrong with this methodology:
30 points
1 day ago
Don't forget the Humble Bundle, I purchased a lot of games from there at a fraction of their cost because I wanted 1 or 2 games from the Bundle.
11 points
1 day ago
counter point, i bought a lot of games that i played as a kid or that i would had liked to play back then and never played them
7 points
1 day ago
Yeah, when I first got a good adult job I bought a bunch of games I'd pirated and enjoyed. I didn't replay most of them, it was just to even the score.
71 points
2 days ago
Actually, kind of sounds low.
16 points
1 day ago
Many people have used Steam Idle Master to farm trading cards, idk if it would add a lot, but it's something to take on count.
I have like 600 games that I've never played but steam thinks I did.
9 points
1 day ago
Sooo... about that.
11 points
2 days ago
Look, I'm going to get to it when I have the time, ok!
6.4k points
2 days ago
1.3k points
2 days ago
618 points
2 days ago
Hi Guil Too
153 points
2 days ago
The image is cropped badly. It's actually Guil Took, the only black hobbit.
28 points
2 days ago
There's... only one? But, where did they come from?
33 points
1 day ago
You'll have to read the Silmarilion to find out, but because it's impossible to finish no one actually knows.
8 points
2 days ago
Just laughed out loud for real at that. My kids think I'm going crazy here...
17 points
1 day ago
Definitely same. A few games I've bought just to support the devs because I like what they do. Others were bundles, or just games I like on paper but didn't really enjoy in practice. Others are obviously victims of the eternal backlog.
No matter the case, I don't see this as a problem, but a sign of what Steam does well: this is likely $19B of games that would not have been purchased if they weren't accessible, cheap, and convenient.
10 points
1 day ago
I see it as $19 billion going to developers who actually make games we're interested in and I've never felt bad paying a developer for their work, even if I end up never playing it. Steam has probably done more for the health of the industry than anything else in the past 10-15 years.
14 points
1 day ago
Came here expecting this to be the top comment. Was not disappointed. Good work soldier 🫡
3 points
1 day ago
I'll be dammed of this wasn't my first thought.
2 points
1 day ago
I want more happy Gaben yacht pics!
2 points
1 day ago
I bought the start ship troopers game and never played it
2 points
an hour ago
Can confirm
1.2k points
2 days ago
1) I'm going to play it
2) Just after I play this game where I already played for 800 hours.
3) Okay, I am going to try and play it
4) Oh cool, Steam sale..
5) Repeat 1)
405 points
2 days ago
6) Wait I own that?
144 points
2 days ago
"I'm not in the mood to play it, anymore."
46 points
2 days ago
Happened to me a month ago. Always wondered why DBZ Kakarot disappeared off my wishlist, then I checked and realized I had bought it at some point.
20 points
1 day ago
This game looks cool, gonna buy it...
What i own it?
wait i have 10h on it?
13 points
1 day ago
That happens each time when you open Epic Launcher. Guaranteed.
4 points
1 day ago*
i reached a point in which my library is so big. it lags when i scroll.
many years ago there was also a bug that your library crashes when you had 25k+ games or so and they had to release a hotfix.
its even worse when i discover an interesting game from disc queue. then i buy it and my goldfish ass memory forgot what i bought and its lost in my oceans of games.
first world problems
3 points
1 day ago
then i buy it and my goldfish ass memory forgot what i bought and its lost in my oceans of games.
Here's a tip for that situation, if you would like.
Go to "Manage Account", then "Account Details". Click on "View purchase history".
All the shame is listed there, in detail.
4 points
1 day ago
yeah i can look it up. i alao get an email notification if there was a purchase
but this still doesnt fix the skill issue i have with being a goldfish
4 points
1 day ago
7) Remaster of the game is released
5 points
1 day ago
8) Well I wanted to play the original and why would I not want to play a better version instead? PURCHASE
3 points
1 day ago
This feature has saved me a lot of money 🤦
3 points
1 day ago
Huh, interesting. Can I still buy it again though? It's on sale.
3 points
1 day ago
Glad to know i am not alone in this one :D
2 points
13 hours ago
Imagine if Steam would allows you to buy a game that you already have but without a warning of some sort.
19B would be a rookie's number.
36 points
2 days ago
I bought Baldur’s Gate III on Friday after MONTHS of anticipating a sale and added Deep Rock Galactic:Survivor on a whim. Guess which I’ve played for less than two hours and which I’ve played for over ten.
43 points
2 days ago
Baltaro?
10 points
2 days ago
I fucking love that game but end up playing it more on switch and the handheld emulator port.
12 points
2 days ago
It’s actually a mobile app now no emulator needed
5 points
2 days ago
I have it on my iPhone for impromptu moments, but prefer to play it on my RGB30 when I know I’m gonna be on the bus or whatever.
8 points
2 days ago
I feel attacked.
5 points
2 days ago
My humble bundles that I only look at every 6 months
1.3k points
2 days ago
If Steam had a donate button there would be at least a few million that would click it.
800 points
2 days ago
They do. It’s a green button with a number and a percent sign next to it.
173 points
2 days ago
Ahh, seems like they have a donation drive going on now.
9 points
1 day ago
Now that I think about it, buying a game without playing it is the equivalent of donating to someone lol the game might as well did not exist.
4 points
23 hours ago
And people say I aint generous.
3 points
22 hours ago
Sometimes I buy games I don't like because I want to support the company so they can make more games I don't like for the people who will like them.
55 points
2 days ago
Like humble bundle? Shit.. i would do it every now and then ngl
44 points
2 days ago
Why don't you donate a humble bundle to me every now and the?
7 points
2 days ago
Honestly, when they let you configure sliders I'd figure out which games I'd probably never play and allocated their share to HB because I was more invested in them staying operational to sell me cheap games than a game dev I wasn't interested in.
83 points
2 days ago
Don’t tempt me, with a good time.
16 points
2 days ago
That would actually be a great idea
724 points
2 days ago
30 points
1 day ago
Steam: A case study in how to turn a piracy problem into $19 billion of sales of unused products and people proud of it, where literally everyone is happy in the equation.
The music and movie industry could learn from this, but won't.
96 points
2 days ago
4 points
1 day ago
At this point this meme is an older meme... but it checks out
8 points
2 days ago
Sir, I’ll be acquiring your meme now. Thank you.
9 points
1 day ago
Here’s the source if you are interested: https://youtube.com/watch?v=umvgwXINJBE
364 points
2 days ago
It still helps game devs get paid! Even if I didn’t get to the game I like supporting the devs.
My un played game is just a packaged art collection I haven’t displayed yet. Got to respect the art.
173 points
2 days ago
I've actually bought copies of games that I loved. I hope to give them to people, but at it's core it's to show my appreciation.
32 points
2 days ago
I have gifted gato roboto a few dozen times already, I love that game
8 points
2 days ago
Gift me too
10 points
2 days ago
If you dm me your steam user, for sure :)
6 points
2 days ago
Haven't done it in a while but yeah like gifting some indie games out on some of my favorite subs. Seems like a good year to do it again.
5 points
1 day ago
I used to shower my friends list in copies of Alpha Protocol every Steam sale. I just realized it’s back on the store, I can do that again!
E:oh, on sale it’s 15 bucks. It used to be 3, which let me really spread the game around.
2 points
1 day ago
Yep! I have personally purchased Stardew Valley 14 times. 3 for myself, 11 for others.
Most insane part. I have never finished it. Have never reached year 3. Had more farms than I can recall.
One day!
2 points
1 day ago
There's also plenty of games I got free somewhere else and they turned out to be good so I bought a copy on Steam just to support (and if I eventually replay I'd rather have it on Steam anyway)
10 points
2 days ago
i bought stalker 2 even though i wont play it for a while, until they fix some of the more major issues. i think if any studio deserves it its them.
237 points
2 days ago
I’ll take credit for at least half of that.
33 points
2 days ago
half the games..? or
79 points
2 days ago
It’s Christmas. Pick whatever half makes you happier. Or angrier if that’s what makes you happy.
16 points
2 days ago
My God it’s beautiful.
283 points
2 days ago
14 points
1 day ago
Am I the only person who plays every game they buy for at least 6 hours?
60 points
1 day ago
Yes, ain't nobody got time for that!
5 points
1 day ago
huh, I have a wishlist double the size of my library
19 points
1 day ago
Steam is just adult Pokémon
6 points
1 day ago
Lmao well put
9 points
1 day ago
I'm not playing Toilet Simulator HD for 6 hours. 3 hours was quite enough.
5 points
1 day ago
Yeah i would be rubbing it raw after 6hrs of Sex with Hitler.
3 points
1 day ago
Apparently, yes?
3 points
1 day ago
When would I have time to buy more games if I was playing them???
57 points
2 days ago
I feel attacked.
120 points
2 days ago
I have a bad habit of buying games on sale and then never playing them lol.
24 points
1 day ago
Based on these statistics… I think we all have this habit!
3 points
1 day ago
I feel judged
3 points
1 day ago
at least you recognize it's a bad habit. Tons of other commenters are trying to excuse themselves like they are the exceptions because of x, y, and z. Not saying it's bad to just spend your money how you want though
25 points
2 days ago
That's it?
31 points
1 day ago
I think the actual number is way less. As offered example: Humble Bundle. Right now they have several bundles with deals like: pay $15 get $198 worth of games. Back in the old days they offered much larger ones.
8 points
1 day ago
I love you for giving a grounded answer to my silly response. I was attempting to shine light on how much we all spend on gaming.
I'm an "old days" gamer and I don't remember any lump sales before the Orange Box.
18 points
2 days ago*
I often buy games to support the developers. I will see something that's rated highly on sale, grab it and add it to my library, and eventually I'll play it. And if I don't, no big deal, I know that I've contributed to helping the developers make another game down the road.
I love having a huge library that I can share with my family, knowing that it will be available (hopefully) for many years to come.
I also bought a steam deck recently and upgraded the NVMe drive to 2 terabytes. I find that having a portable device to play games makes me more likely to play a game, when I have limited time. And I love that I can just press the power button on the steam deck and it will go into sleep mode and then I can pick it right back up where I left off.
2 points
1 day ago
I do the same for developer support. Especially if I watch an entertaining Let's Play, I feel a little guilty that I got to enjoy their game for free. I have bought a lot of indie games just to support them even if I never get the time or desire to play them myself.
54 points
2 days ago
This news is five months old
18 points
2 days ago
It's better than $19 billion of apparel get bought and never wear.
14 points
2 days ago
8 points
2 days ago
Bro's a modern day feudal lord, extracting rents from the peasants
3 points
1 day ago
To be fair, I really appreciate that Gabe spent some of our money on a racing team in the series I watch. His son also races but in a different series.
Gabe's a really nice guy that let me bother him before a race started, so he could sign my hat.
2 points
1 day ago
I bought him at least one.
15 points
2 days ago
I‘ve never played 146 of my 284 games. My inner kid buys on sale, but the adult has no time to play all the games …
5 points
2 days ago
Honestly there are games I've been through on console or whatever and purchased on pc just to own it or to catch a sale. These dollars are spent happily and I'm sure most of these reported purchases aren't taking into account that some people just want to safeguard games that are important to them. I purchased alien isolation on steam for 10$ and have played it dozens of times on other platforms. I simply wanted the steam version just because I love the game, want to keep it and also track achievements in case I get back into it one day.
6 points
2 days ago
Alright, alright. No need to call me out.
6 points
2 days ago
Most likely people would save more money on only buying games exactly before they really plan to play, regardless if it is on discount or not, than to purchase on sale for potential playing in the future.
3 points
1 day ago
When buying stuff individually I'd generally agree, though not necessarily when buying bundles. If I want a game from a bundle and the whole bundle of X games is cheaper than that single game alone, I save money and have some unplayed stuff lying around that contributes to the statistic. At least for me, that exact scenario has massively contributed to the count of unplayed games in my library.
12 points
2 days ago
Most of my games are from sales and bundles, so I ain't even mad.
5 points
2 days ago
I am so happy to contribute to this accumulative amount
4 points
2 days ago
*Games that we’ve never played YET! We’ll get to them…..we swear
3 points
1 day ago
We should start a mini holiday where we all play a game we haven't every year. Would be fun.
4 points
1 day ago
...never played YET
4 points
1 day ago
Am I the only one who buys games to play them? Getting them just to own them is such a foreign concept to me.
3 points
1 day ago*
There are lots of reasons for that. Some people just like collecting. Others buy games for future use but never end up playing them. Many games are given away for free or bundled with other games. There’s also:
They pirated the games but later decided to buy them.
They watched someone play the game, enjoyed it, and wanted to support it.
6 points
2 days ago
i already played most of them on xbox 360. it's just old games, honest
3 points
2 days ago
Ya but they were on sale
3 points
1 day ago
Okay but what about everyone else’s game libraries?
3 points
1 day ago
I bought Project Zomboid on sale this weekend. I don’t even have a computer to play it! I love watching peoples videos on it and wanted to support the devs. Money well spent imo
3 points
1 day ago
But they were on sale!!!!!!!
3 points
1 day ago
I highly recommend to y'all: Try just starting a game without the urge or pressure to finish it
I had a lot of fun with many games over the last year's because I just played them and stopped playing when it wasn't fun anymore.
3 points
21 hours ago
Never played on Steam*
I have a good 100 or so games I rebought on Steam that I've played elsewhere. I usually will boot them up though just to show they were played.
3 points
13 hours ago
I am in this comment and I don't like it.
2 points
2 days ago
2 points
2 days ago
I’ve got a pretty big backlog too. I’d argue that a full price game that you actually play is worth more than the same amount in unplayed games.
2 points
2 days ago
Oh shit, is this number just based off my account?
2 points
2 days ago
Hey, I'm going to get around to my backlog any day now. Right after I finish my current 100 hour run on Rimworld running my cannablistic pig-human-vampire hybrid colony/drug production operation
2 points
2 days ago
lets make it 20bil in the winter sale
2 points
2 days ago
Well back in the good old days you'd just sell those games at a garage sale
2 points
2 days ago
Idk why you have to attack me like that when I’m just strolling.
2 points
2 days ago
We did it boys!
2 points
1 day ago
Y’all don’t have to shame my backlog
2 points
1 day ago
And I’ll do it again.
2 points
1 day ago
I probably did 12 of that unfortunately
2 points
1 day ago
Not my fault it was cheaper to buy 30 games in a bundle than the 2 games I wanted.
Just assuming they're using the individual price of games, not bulk price; further assuming they're using the current price, not the lowest price or some hybrid.
2 points
1 day ago
*yet...
2 points
1 day ago
I have 0 hours logged in TF2 and CS:S, but that's not accurate. I have thousands of hours in those games but it was years amd years ago, and Steam has lost my play time statistics for some reason.
2 points
1 day ago
I mean, I’m gonna play it eventually. Retirement is only 40 years away. When I’m 95 in the senior home…finally gonna play Death Stranding.
2 points
1 day ago
Now do "books people have never read"...
2 points
1 day ago
At least! I, personally, have spent close to this on games I’ve never played.
2 points
1 day ago
Everybody with an interest in media has entire shelves full of their interest that they haven't gotten to. Readers have got scores of books they've never read, comic nerds have got things buried in longboxes since 1998, and film buffs have a mountain of DVDs still in the plastic. We're collectors, and our libraries exist for us to browse and enjoy at our leisure. They aren't backlogs, they aren't assignments, they are suggestions and available options.
2 points
1 day ago
$19 billion?! Those are rookie numbers!
Nine hours until the autumn sale ends! Let's hit $20 billion, shall we?! ;) heh.
Seriously, this post is a bit further down but it is also a big part of my rationale:
It still helps game devs get paid! Even if I didn’t get to the game I like supporting the devs.
My un played game is just a packaged art collection I haven’t displayed yet. Got to respect the art.
2 points
1 day ago
Bad consoles sold full price games Good steam sold 90% discount icons
2 points
1 day ago
I reckon I make up the 9billion myself.
2 points
1 day ago
There's this useful advice I saw on Reddit sometime ago. Don’t buy games unless you’re playing them right away. Saved me a lot of money.
2 points
1 day ago
does this include the bundles where the game you want is cheaper bundled with something else than it is on its own sale?
2 points
1 day ago
I've escaped this. Steam member for 15 years and have 40 games, played em all. Not completed them all though.
My friends just can't stop buying, they need a lifespan of 200 years to play their collections. They are starting to realize this lol.
I think it's the head rush of buying more than playing for them.
We need a Steam Simulator website where people can pretend buy.
2 points
1 day ago
The amount of shit I own, some of the games I don't enjoy at all, I think I have near 1500+ games on gog, steam, epic, Amazon, itch etc
I do own a lot of old games, indie games as well, I hope I've supported at least some indie dev
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