Posted June 14, 2014
iippo: no way would dare to calculate my GOG and Steam "investment".
-bit later-
well, i checked steam calculator and its saying my accounts worth is $8677.42 during the past 10years - but then again, its probably using full prices and not counting the dozens and dozens of bundles correctly.
still, "too much" is probably the correct answer.
Yeah, it says my account is $1053 and change but that's pure BS because almost every single game I own on Steam is from one of the major bundle sites bundles, or from an Amazon or GMG bundle or collection for 60-80% off or similar, and any individually purchased games have mostly been 75-90% off as well as a tonne of freebies from various promotions and won through giveaways over time. For example, one of my games is listed as $24.99 and I got it in a bundle with probably 10 other games for $4 or similar. Other games are listed as their individually priced regular prices on Steam, while I got them in the "everything" pack, such as the entire Hitman series, entire GTA series, entire Tomb Raider series, and many others and go those collections for 75% off or more. Also a whole bunch of games show up as being priced at $0 when I did pay for them and they do have prices showing on Steam (ie: they're not absent from Steam now or anything like that). -bit later-
well, i checked steam calculator and its saying my accounts worth is $8677.42 during the past 10years - but then again, its probably using full prices and not counting the dozens and dozens of bundles correctly.
still, "too much" is probably the correct answer.
So while the Steam calculator is an interesting concept it is incredibly inaccurate as it can't possibly know what any particular person actually paid for any of their games on Steam (if they paid anything at all), nor where they got it from. ;) Likewise since it can't know what you really paid for a game, the calculations it makes based on its estimate of price paid such as price per hour of logged game play are also inaccurate, not to mention it doesn't and can't take into account situations where you played a game and accidentally (or purposefully) left it running all night and half the next day because you were too lazy to exit the game or got sidetracked by life and racked up 16 hours of gameplay on Steam which you didn't actually play. ;o)
The only way to get accuracy is to keep track of all expenditures oneself in a spreadsheet or database of some sort. I'm unaware of any websites that let you enter such info manually and keep track of it and it'd be an arduous process and probably not interesting to the majority of folks out there. I'd be surprised if I spent more than $250 or so for my entire Steam collection including the 40-50 games I have keys for that I haven't yet redeemed.
So the site is a cool idea in theory, but very inaccurate in practice. :)