It's fun to speculate, but sales and library quirks make it impossible to know.
  • Windshear@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I apparently have over $500 of unplayed games. However, looking at my library there’s a lot that I’ve played through that it shows zero hours, whether I used a script loader because of mods or for some reason it just doesn’t show that I’ve played the game (Bioshock series for some reason. I’ve played them all through).

    I’ve also never payed full price for a game. Patient gamers unite! Just not right away.

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      A lot, probably most, of my hours on steam are from before they tracked it. I had 3,000 hours in CS:S and it shows 0 because I stopped playing long ago. Steams been around for a long time, much longer than its ability to track games, so I imagine there’s a lot of people with “unplayed” games that they’ve played, plus people like you that don’t show their hours for whatever reason.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Most of my Steam library is shit I have no intention of ever playing. I’ve bought a TON of bundles that contain one game I actually want that justifies the entire purchase; one or two that look like they have some potential, so I’ll bookmark them for a rainy day; and like 15 digital turds that I now have the key to, so… why not, might as well activate.

    The ‘unplayed math’ is comically bad in my case.

    • Plap plap 𓁑𓂸 @lemmyf.uk
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      5 months ago

      Fanatical, or whatever they used to be called had rediculous bundles and is the reason why have have almost 1000 games on my account. There were times that I would be interested in one game, and it was cheaper to buy the bundle from them than the one game on it’s own from Steam.

      • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        It used to be called Bundle Stars though I dare say most would have been more familiar with Humble Bundle until the Fanatical rebranding in 2017.

        • Plap plap 𓁑𓂸 @lemmyf.uk
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          5 months ago

          That sounds right. I used to buy a ton even before the rebranding. Looking now, they have a bundle that has Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (currently $30 on Steam) for $20 with 32 other games, most notably Devil May Cry 4, which is still more expensive on Steam than the bundle. Crazy.