The number is based on the 10% of Steam accounts visible publicly. And then they calculated based on current full retail price of the unplayed games. It’s a nonsense figure.
For sure. Easily half (likely more) of my unplayed games are Bundle games from a bundle I got primarily for something else. There’s a few gems I’m sure.
There are a few games I bought on sale to play later as well (I’ll get to you!) but the other glaring flaw I see is a selection bias. The people who use this service or similar services are going to be the heavier Steam users with collections in the hundreds.
So heavier users, with lots of bundle games and sales. I’d divide that total by 10 at least
Ok so they checked my account, but what about all the other users?
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Which why nowadays, even during the mighty deals periods, I don’t buy games anymore. Right now, I’m focusing on finishing games I already own.
It also helps that Steam sales are nowhere near as good as they used to be. I don’t even remember the last time I saw a 90+% discount, but there was a time when they’d pop up regularly during the winter sale.
But yeah, these days my standard for even considering a purchase is “will I play it right now?”
They are few but very infrequently now adays
Inquisition is pretty good, if you haven’t tried it yet.
I played it to completion when it came out. That game and Valhalla some reason isn’t in my library anymore. And not sure if it’s due to Ubisoft and ea was pulling shit and back on steam with their launchers? Or maybe I lost my mind and bought it in orgin? Who knows
It was decent- just always wanted an origins style remake, and feel like they get farther and farther from the mark each time.
You might’ve lost your mind, I don’t think there are any known cases of games from your library disappearing
Welp must have bought them somewhere else because I definitely played them
Yup. Cyberpunk is often on sale, but I always ask myself if I can really play it when I’m in the middle of other games.
I would advise against getting Cyberpunk. CDPR held a cosplay contest, and one of the finalists they featured on their Xitter was a cis woman who stuck a glowstick down her pants to cosplay as the controversial “Mix it up” trans character from an advertisement ingame. CDPR says their intent with that ad was to highlight the way evil corporations fetishise trans bodies to sell product. But when CDPR’s own Xitter is fetishising trans bodies to sell product… well that, as we’ve already discussed, is an evil corporation.
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So, what you are saying is that all the people using steam combined might make it to the top 100 list of billionaires if their unplayed games were personified?
Most of my unplayed games were part of bundles, or giveaways. But I am guilty of buying games and only playing them a small time before moving on to the next new different thing.
It’s those damn Humble Bundles. I don’t know what half the games in my library are, but I probably didn’t actually want them.
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Fuck do I ever relate to this. I probably have over 200 titles in my Steam library that I redeemed from Humble Bundles and have never installed. Insane.
I went from a bout 50 to about 500 before I figured out I won’t ever play most of them.
I have a bunch of games I bought a while after playing the pirated versions, and I usually don’t play them at all.
I guess there isn’t really a way to see how many people do this.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.
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
Guess I’m playing Rise of the Triad now.
Enjoy :D
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
… Yet!
I have over 500 titles in my backlog of shame (loads of freebies, but still shameful). If I play a new game every week, it’ll take me 10 years to get through it.
What if some are absolute bangers and I sink 300+ hours in? I’ll never be finished!
But what if none of them are? For 10 years I’d have slogged through a quagmire of mediocrity for nothing other than to tick a series of boxes.
I just want to point out how incredible it is that in today’s age we have this incredible amount of entertainment available. Even if we apply Sturgeons law that’s still a fill years worth of solid games. He’ll, do it twice. That still means there’s at least 5 bangers in that mess, and I find it incredible that most all of that content is recent!
I’ve saved tons of money by only not playing games I get for free. Much more affordable that way.
I once forgot my humble bundle sub for a year and a half. That was nuts collecting all those.
Too bad people will never be able to get a refund on them, that would be too much like right. ☹️
Are there any stats out there for in-game purchases that never get used? 🤔
They don’t say how they come to that number in the article, so I assume they are using non-sale prices. I know that I’ve gotten some bundles of games in the past that were 95%+ off, which I bought just for the one game because it was the same price or cheaper.
Doesn’t Steam keep up with the amount of time people have played their games? Or is it up to the individual games to track that?
I have no idea to be honest, I don’t use Steam and haven’t purchased any games since the 90s…
Doesn’t Steam keep up with the amount of time people have played their games? Or is it up to the individual games to track that?
Steam does keep track of play time, but I am not sure what playtime has to do with my comment.
Playtime = 0?
Then player hasn’t played the game.
Duh.
Why? You bought the games. It’s like going to the store, buying a bunch of clothes, and realizing after a few months that you don’t want them anymore. They cannot be returned.
That’s why I don’t buy shit I ain’t gonna use. Well, save for emergency supplies, I hope to never have to use those.
I’ve also not spent anything on games I’ve played, and then if I liked them I’d go on to purchase the game on steam. What’s the point here?
