Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played - eviltoast
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They don’t have access to price paid tho…

    So like, where are they getting the price? A game that was $60 on release 5 years ago might have been bought then or for $5 on a sale.

    That’s not even getting into Humble Bundles from back in the day.

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      5 months ago

      They don’t list their methodology, so it’s pretty much a made up number.

      And yeah, back when you had to add the entire bundle to your account, you’d get a ton of crap bundle games that you’d never play. These days you can generally list the code for others to use.

      Like H3AFF-I28Q2-AF4AV

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      5 months ago

      It’s definitely inflated but I’d say the real number has to be at the very least within 10% of that estimate (probably a lot more, but I’ve seen some AAA games at a 90% discount in the past) which is still in the billions of dollars, which is still kind of nuts