How Steam Makes You Buy Games That You never Play
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AccidentalDenz
Lord of Steam
Saw this the other day. Makes you think!
HomerJ
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AccidentalDenz
Lord of Steam
It'll be 3000 in the next couple of months!at least steams tactics dont work on you and your 2000 games
HomerJ
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this dude has over 35000 games
Sonix • Steam Ladder
Sonix is ranked 6384th worldwide on Steam with 97 badges and 37,891 games.
steamladder.com
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AccidentalDenz
Lord of Steam
I'm 173rd in the UK according to that site 🤔
this dude has over 35000 games
Sonix • Steam Ladder
Sonix is ranked 6384th worldwide on Steam with 97 badges and 37,891 games.
Slacking mate need to up your game
HomerJ
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im so low the list doesn't go that far
i clicked on the profile on that list of the person with the most games, most played, dota 2, 6239 hours played
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HomerJ
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as Confucius once said, denz doesn't slack, only accumulates
AccidentalDenz
Lord of Steam
To be fair, you're probably second on the Springfield list behind Comic Book Guy!im so low the list doesn't go that far
i clicked on the profile on that list of the person with the most games, most played, dota 2, 6239 hours played
Playing around with the lists on that site, there are some truly mind boggling numbers on there. The person with the most playtime on Steam according to that site has a touch over 2.4 MILLION hours across their library of 9,490 games. That's an average of 250-something hours per game.
AccidentalDenz
Lord of Steam
Tools like Steam Achievement Manager (SAM) can allow you to "play" multiple games at once, which can be used to get Steam Trading Cards or playtime related achievements, or I guess just run up stupidly big playtimes for those that way inclined.
Next week for example, I could easily clock 40 to 50 hours on Starfield (week off work!), and use SAM to gather the trading cards for whatever Humble Choice games I get on Tuesday. That means I could potentially have 8 or 9 games "running" at once. I could easily have 200+ hours of playtime on Steam over the 7 days when there's only 168 hours in a week!
You can sell the trading cards on the market for actual real money too, I've bought a couple games over the years entirely funded with the free trading cardsWait..... what?? I've no idea what that is
SpyderTracks
We love you Ukraine
I always sell my trading cards for about 7p each. Doesn't sound like a lot but if you're gaming regularly it soon adds up
Some smaller indy games I've had cards sell for upwards of 90p, think one game I sold 5 cards for over a fiver
Seems the more popular the game the less they sell for in my very limited experience
Then you get the packs every now and then and you can get a couple £ for those. Sold a Steam profile page wallpaper for like £9 once as well
AccidentalDenz
Lord of Steam
I got a Civ 5 foil card from a booster pack and sold it for £2.20-odd back when Civ 5 was the must-play strategy game. I got 85% of that after Steam/publisher fees, so was quite happy with the £1.90 or whatever it was. A few of those cards were listed for 3 or 4 quid but just were not selling quickly at all. I took the easy money and let the buyer chase their profit from a card I got for free.
My large Steam library has made getting booster packs fairly easy. That has allowed me to complete badges to boost my Steam level which increases my chances of future booster packs. Not quite a virtuous circle as the booster packs are random, but selling the odd foil card from booster packs funds future card purchases - won't pay more than 5p for a card, and only if it's the last card I need to complete a badge.
My large Steam library has made getting booster packs fairly easy. That has allowed me to complete badges to boost my Steam level which increases my chances of future booster packs. Not quite a virtuous circle as the booster packs are random, but selling the odd foil card from booster packs funds future card purchases - won't pay more than 5p for a card, and only if it's the last card I need to complete a badge.
HomerJ
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yeah but no life though
"Whooo, im number two, im number two, in your face flanders"
i always think of denz as gaming god yoda sitting in front of a gaming rig
"play games I must, winning i am"
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