• tekeous@usenet.lol
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    5 months ago

    No, I’ve saved hundreds of thousands. Between Steam sales and Humble Bundle, always being a patient gamer, I’ve amassed over 300 games id like to play but haven’t spent more than $500 on Steam over my entire life. I’m poor but $500 over a couple years I can do.

    For comparison, at $60 a game, that would buy me 8 console or Nintendo games at full price plus a little DLC.

    It’s the best price, bar none.

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      5 months ago

      Is that in American dollars?

      If those 300 games were even US $70 each which is exceedingly generous, you’d only scratch $21,000 as the cost of everything. Unless Steam was literally giving you $180,000+ for using their store, you’ve not saved hundreds of thousands.

      Unless you’re referring to hundreds of thousands of pennies.

      • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        It’s possible they have more games in their library as they did say 300+ games they want to play, but yeah the numbers they gave don’t add up to hundreds of thousands. Unless they were taking phrases like “a $700 Demon Souls machine” very literally.

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        5 months ago

        Different guy but I’ve got over 2,700 games on Steam thanks to sales… So I’ve probably saved at least one thousand… Maybe not two, unless we count not buying for Star Citizen as a savings!