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Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they have never played. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Exactly. I almost never pay full price on Steam, and I add a lot of keys from Humble or Fanatical bundles where I only intend to play half or so.

So yeah, I'm guessing it's actually 10% or so of that figure if we make a few rules:

  • count bundles as a single game, and if one game is played from it, that counts for the whole bundle
  • assume games added to Steam are part of a bundle (perhaps in groups of 5)
  • don't count games that were ever given away free
  • assume all games were purchased at a discount

That would probably get us pretty close to the real number.