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On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:55:04 +0100, Mr Rob
<noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:48:33 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:11:23 -0000 (UTC), in
>>comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant wrote: 
>>
>>>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/88crBnDp3nY
>>>
>>>Ha, $0 in my account. ;)
>>
>>$2,389.21 in 13 years.
>>
>>So $183.79/yr. Or 3 full price games a year ($59.99).
>>
>>Not bad.
>>
>>I have 514 games in my library.
>>
>>Avg. price is therefore is $4.65 a game. All hail The Number.
>

Amateur ;-)

(Although my spend/per game is much less; ~$0.50 USD... and I'd bet
most of that amount comes from DLC). I buy a lot of the actual games
outside of Steam's marketplace (Humble, etc.) but DLC is almost
entirely through Valve. 

Sadly, GOG doesn't offer a similar feature (there is an order history
page ( https://www.gog.com/account/settings/orders ) but I would have
to go through each order and manually add up the number of games and
amount I paid to get the total. But -even with all the freebies I've
gotten on GOG (either directly or through Amazon) I wouldn't be
surprised if the amount I've spent directly with GOG far surpasses the
amount I've given to Valve.

However, I can tell you my total spend on Epic Game Store... without
checking any webpage, even! Let's see, add this to that, and that to
the other, carry the one and... yup, $0.00 USD (convert to local
currency as appropriate).

Same with BlizzardNet, Microsoft, and Ubisoft; $0.00 spend on each. I
am ashamed to admit that I did give EA some of my cash at one point,
though. I apologize; I was weak and I wanted my Mass Effect DLC.