'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
Our champion Steam spender has dropped a new car's worth of cash into Gabe's yacht fund.
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I don't know why you would use a third Party Tool that estimates your purchases, when it has always been right there in your account, without estimates.
Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren't included in the Steam spend category.
The tool doesn’t know how much you paid for it, though, so it's completely ignoring sales, donations and in app purchases, and just applies a price to it.
You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.
Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)
This isn't a 3rd party tool, it's a separate Steam Support page that lists your total purchases. It basically takes the data from the Purchase History section (assuming that you usually pay directly and not using Steam gift cards) and totals it so that you don't have to do that manually.
It's been known for atleast 7 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/8m9fxm/what_is_difference_between_totalspend_and_oldspend/
edit: no need to point out those are 2 different links, ill leave this up
Hahaha this takes me back. My first purchases in 2011 were a few TF2 weapons. I got my account a short time after it went F2P.
You bought weapons?? In the mann co store?
lol yes. I did it a few times before I realized that it’s not a good way to get weapons. Only lost a few bucks.
Edit: Should clarify, my parents bought them.
TF2 is free to play ??
Don't they make all their money on hats?
I don't know... I haven't played since 2007....... hats ? I'm so out of the loop.....
It is now. It wasn't at first.
It was part of the Valve Orange Box and that was a big deal at the time. There was also a huge deal of whining from people who paid for it when Valve announced they were changing it to a free to play model.
Ok I see. yea my memory is of the orange box, on xbox. Or was it the 360 ?
To judge my friends, of course.
Legit