How much has Steam saved you?

Technology and Gaming
#1

$216.12 is how much I have spent on games using Steam. That may not seem like a lot for some of you, but right now funds are tight. I had even set myself the cutoff that I wouldn’t purchase a game unless it came down to about $5 or less. Finding out that even with that rule I’ve still managed to spend over $200 is a little concerning, so I decided to see just what I was getting for that.

So I went back into steam, looked at each individual game I purchased, and broke all the packages like Orange Box down into their individual games to see how much everything I had gotten would be if I had purchased everything individually and at full price.

$784.48

All the games I purchased would be nearly $800 if I had purchased them individually and without the incredible deals that steam runs. That’s just a few dollars shy of 75% savings rate.

So, like the title says; how much has Steam saved you?

#2

Even though I still have all of my Steam E-mail receipts I’m too lazy to go back and do the math. But Steam has saved me quiet a bit of money. Sometimes I will sign into Steam just to make sure I am not missing a good deal. Right now I’m waiting for F.E.A.R. 2 to go down in price. (I was too broke last time it was down to 25 bucks.)

I have around 30 something games I bought off of steam or so. And for the exception of the original Half-Life 2 (which I bought out of a game shop the day it came out) I bought all of my steam games at a discount. I’m sure I’ve saved a few hundred dollars.

#3
  • a lot cuz i would probably have just pirated half of this
#4

I used to pirate a lot of games, but I’ve discovered it’s a lot easier to just have a perpetual Steam account full of 5$ games that you can download at any time instead of trying to backup all your pirated shit.

I have 54 games on my account, most of them aren’t even installed, I just bought them because they were ridiculously cheap (All 3 Company of Heroes games for 12 bucks? Check.) just to say that I own them now.

#5

I saved a lot of money though I wasted a lot of money. It was worth it though.

#6

Over 9000

#7

Probably wasted me more because i wouldn’t of bought the game if it wasn’t on steam… think about it.

#8

I was tallying up the number of all the games I have bought or received on steam, how much I or others have paid, and the full price at the time I bought it. I spend only about $100.05 on games that I have purchased for myself and others, when I should have spent $325, a 69% savings. I have purchased 30 games for myself and friends, and I have yet to pay more than $25 for a game, and have only paid an average of $3.33 per game. $100.05 is about the cost of 2 full priced retail games. When I add into the mix the games that my friends and family have purchased for me, the number of games purchased totals out to 37 games for a cost of $205.05. with a full retail value of $483.59, a 58% savings. We’ve paid a combined average of $5.54 a game.

Growing up, I could never really afford very many games. If I was lucky enough to get a console, I probably had 11 games for it. Thanks to steam I can afford more games that I want to play than ever before in my life.

#9

This. I also have a habit of downloading brand new games. Damn you internet. Damn you!

#10

I have saved very much, of the 200 euro’s i spend, i think i would have payed 400 otherwise

#11

There was one time that i got HL1 for only a dollar on its 10 year B-Day. Saved like $9. I’m not sure about every other game I bought, I assume that I saved a decent amount when I bought the orange box. Everything else, I don’t know.

#12

A whole lot, I bought my steam account for 10$ from a guy who spent the money on weed.

After that I won the orange box in a contest and got 3 other games as gifts.

#13

Not to mention the gas-moneys you/your parents (whichever applies). Steam does can has save good.

#14

Game Title Price Total Running
BioShock® 2 $49.99 USD $49.99 USD
BioShock™ $19.99 USD $69.98 USD
Call of Duty: World at War $39.99 USD $109.97 USD
Far Cry® 2: Fortune’s Edition $19.99 USD $129.96 USD
Garry’s Mod $9.99 USD $139.95 USD
Mass Effect $19.99 USD $159.94 USD

Package Title Price Total Running
Crysis® Maximum Edition $39.99 USD $199.93 USD
id Super Pack $69.99 USD $269.92 USD
Valve Complete Pack $99.99 USD $369.91 USD
(And the id and Valve packs each have many games in them.)

[COLOR=‘Red’]
[b]Individual (Retail) Price: $674.52
Price Payed: $369.91

Percent Saved: 54% Off Retail[/b]

EDIT: Seeing the shabbiness of the amount of games I’ve actually payed for… I now realize more than half of my game “library” is mods…

#15

more than 95% of my gaming library was downloaded from torrents.

#16

This too. Otherwise:

With packages + rebates:[/SIZE]
-Half-Life Platinum1[/SIZE]: 10$
-Counter-Strike: Source2[/SIZE]: 40$
-Half-Life 2: Episode 12[/SIZE]: 10$
-The Orange Box: 30$
-Audiosurf: 10$
-The Path: 10$
-Penumbra Collectors Pack: 5$
-Garry’s Mod: 10$
-Windosill: 3$
-Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory: 10$
-Splinter Cell: Double Agent: 10$
-Assassin’s Creed: 5$
-The Longest Journey + Dreamfall: 25$
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl: 5$
-Far Cry 2: 20$
-DiRT: 20$
-DiRT 2: 40$
-Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: 60$
-FATALE: 7$
-The Graveyard: 5$
-Braid: 10$
-Mirror’s Edge + Grand Theft Auto 4: 15$
-Unreal Deal Pack: 14$
-Battlefield 2: 8$
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky: 5$
-Prince of Persia Pack: 23$
-Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition: 38$
-Oblivion: Game of the Year Deluxe Edition: 27$
-Crysis Complete Pack: 14$
-Psychonauts3[/SIZE]: Free!
-Mount and Blade: 5$
Total: 494$

Individually:[/SIZE]
-Half-Life: 10$
-Half-Life: Blue Shift: 5$
-Half-Life: Opposing Force: 5$
-Counter-Strike 1.6: 10$
-Team Fortress Classic: 5$
-Day of Defeat: 5$
-Deathmatch Classic: 5$
-Ricochet: 5$
-Counter-Strike: Source: 20$
-Day of Defeat: Source: 10$
-Half-Life 2: Episode 1: 10$
-Half-Life 2: 20$
-Half-Life 2: Episode 1: 10$
-Half-Life 2: Episode 2: 14$
-Half-Life 2: Deathmatch: 5$
-Audiosurf: 10$
-The Path: 10$
-Penumbra: Overture: 10$
-Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition: 15$
-Garry’s Mod: 10$
-Windosill: 3$
-Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory: 10$
-Splinter Cell: Double Agent: 10$
-Assassin’s Creed: 20$
-The Longest Journey: 10$
-The Longest Journey: Dreamfall: 20$
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl: 20$
-Far Cry 2: 20$
-DiRT: 20$
-DiRT 2: 40$
-Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: 60$
-FATALE: 7$
-The Graveyard: 5$
-Braid: 10$
-Mirror’s Edge: 20$
-Grand Theft Auto 4: 30$
-Unreal: 10$
-Unreal 2: The Awakening: 15$
-Unreal Tournament: 10$
-Unreal Tournament 2004: 15$
-Unreal Tournament 3: 20$
-Battlefield 2: 20$
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky: 10$
-Prince of Persia: 30$
-Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: 10$
-Prince of Persia: Warrior Within: 10$
-Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: 10$
-Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition: 50$
-Oblivion: Game of the Year Deluxe Edition: 25$
-Crysis: 30$
-Crysis Warhead: 30$
-Psychonauts*3[/SIZE]: Free!
-Mount and Blade: 30$
Total: 824$

[COLOR=‘DarkRed’]Saved: 330$

Not bad.

*1: I only bought Half-Life in retail and it gave this
*2: Bought in retail
*3: Thank you Siggs![/SIZE]

#17

coughpaidcough

#18

Payed is correct too.

#19

According to my STEAM profile I own 18 games (including the Source SDK), which probably doesn’t sound like much and, if you actually count them, amount to 16. I guess Synergy and the Zombie Driver demo also enter that list, I dunno. Out of the 16 actual games I got, I only bought Psychonauts, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Blue Shift and Opposing Force, and got all the others (Audiosurf, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Osmos, Windosill, Half-Life 2, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, and Portal) as gifts. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and, of course, the Source SDK, do not count, since they’re liek free and stuff.

Doin’ teh math now! fires up Windows Calculator

Orange Box (Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Portal, Team Fortress 2, no Episode Two): $29.99
Separate copy of Half-Life 2: Episode Two: $14.99
Psychonauts: $9.99
Half-Life: Blue Shift: $4.99
Half-Life: Opposing Force: $4.99
Audiosurf: $9.99
Half-Life: Source + Half-Life Deathmatch: Source: $9.99
Osmos: $9.99
Windosill: $2.99
Portal: $19.99
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch/Source SDK: Free.

Money I should’ve paid: $117.9
Money actually spent: $24.97
Saved money: $92.93

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#20

Wait a second. Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is free!?

Why the hell is it not on my list then? :frowning:

I’ve got like Orange Box and still had a retail version of Half-Life 2 from like when it came out, and still no HL2: DM for me.

What the hell.

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