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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Steam will now tell you how much money you've spent..."
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:52:40 -0400
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:11:23 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/88crBnDp3nY
>
>Ha, $0 in my account. ;)

To spare you from an annoying portrait-mode video 

In Steam, go to HELP menu. Click "Steam Support". Select "My Account".
Scroll down and select "Data Related to your Steam Account". Then
select "external funds used".

Or just go to:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend

The amounts are divided into various categories. It's not clear if the
amounts are cumulative or seperate. 

    PWSpend and ChinaSpend are very specific (the former if 
    your account were "linked to Perfect World for CS:GO or 
    Dota 2", the latter for external funds in SteamChina, 
    in RMB). 

    OldSpend is how much money you spent prior to April 2015. 
    Valve changed how accounts were treated past that date, 
    with accounts with low spend amounts (I think $20USD or 
    less?) being restricted as 'limited accounts'. This was 
    done to limit bots, I think. I'm not sure if OldSpend is a 
    subset of TotalSpend or not. (e.g., do I add up the two 
    numbers or not? I'm guessing not, but it's not clear)

    I've no idea what PackageOnlySpend is, and I've not seen 
    any explanation for it.

Note that these numbers only include the value of games and items
purchased through Steam through external funds (e.g., stuff you bought
with a credit card or SteamWallet gift-card funds). It does NOT
include the cost of retail games (since Valve can't know how much you
bought those games for), nor does it include any games you've bought
with funds earned through trading stuff on Steam (e.g., I've sold so
many of those stupid trading cards that I've actually been able to buy
a few games that way)

Similarly, the value of free games or games purchased by buying keys
on third-party resellers (Fanatical, Greenman Gaming, Humble, etc.)
aren't included. Similarly any MTX or DLC purchased outside of Steam
aren't included.

The TL;DR is that this page only shows how much EXTERNAL money was fed
directly into the Steam marketplace. As such, it's likely an
incomplete picture of how much you've actually spent on your Steam
video-game library.


Personally, I always found the Purchase History page more useful.
https://store.steampowered.com/account/history
It's a per-transaction breakdown of every purchase made on Steam. It
still doesn't include free stuff or keys acquired through retail or
third-party resellers (you need to cross-reference
https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses for when you added
those). But this new 'totalSpend' page is neat too.



All that said, I'm actually surprised at how low the values shown were
on the page for my account. I expected a value at least one magnitude
higher. ;-)