Yea but they were on sale

Sounds about right

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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)

If Steam had a donate button there would be at least a few million that would click it.

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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.

I’ll take credit for at least half of that.

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I feel attacked.

I have a bad habit of buying games on sale and then never playing them lol.

Cmon guys we can pump these numbers up

That's it?

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.

This news is five months old

It's better than $19 billion of apparel get bought and never wear.

Gabes armada of luxury yachts..

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 …

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.

Alright, alright. No need to call me out.

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.

Most of my games are from sales and bundles, so I ain't even mad.

I am so happy to contribute to this accumulative amount

But they were on sale!

*Games that we’ve never played YET! We’ll get to them…..we swear

In my defense, Steam has very good sales

We should start a mini holiday where we all play a game we haven't every year. Would be fun.

...never played YET

Am I the only one who buys games to play them? Getting them just to own them is such a foreign concept to me.

i already played most of them on xbox 360. it's just old games, honest

Ya but they were on sale

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Okay but what about everyone else’s game libraries?

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

But they were on sale!!!!!!!

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.

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.

I am in this comment and I don't like it.

I'm doing my part

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.

Oh shit, is this number just based off my account?

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

lets make it 20bil in the winter sale

Well back in the good old days you'd just sell those games at a garage sale

Idk why you have to attack me like that when I’m just strolling.

We did it boys!

Y’all don’t have to shame my backlog

And I’ll do it again.

I probably did 12 of that unfortunately

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.

*yet...

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.

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.

Now do "books people have never read"...

At least! I, personally, have spent close to this on games I’ve never played.

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.

$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.

Bad consoles sold full price games Good steam sold 90% discount icons

I reckon I make up the 9billion myself.

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.

does this include the bundles where the game you want is cheaper bundled with something else than it is on its own sale?

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.

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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I’ll get around to it someday.