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iippo: no way would dare to calculate my GOG and Steam "investment".

-bit later-

well, i checked steam calculator and its saying my accounts worth is $8677.42 during the past 10years - but then again, its probably using full prices and not counting the dozens and dozens of bundles correctly.

still, "too much" is probably the correct answer.
Yeah, it says my account is $1053 and change but that's pure BS because almost every single game I own on Steam is from one of the major bundle sites bundles, or from an Amazon or GMG bundle or collection for 60-80% off or similar, and any individually purchased games have mostly been 75-90% off as well as a tonne of freebies from various promotions and won through giveaways over time. For example, one of my games is listed as $24.99 and I got it in a bundle with probably 10 other games for $4 or similar. Other games are listed as their individually priced regular prices on Steam, while I got them in the "everything" pack, such as the entire Hitman series, entire GTA series, entire Tomb Raider series, and many others and go those collections for 75% off or more. Also a whole bunch of games show up as being priced at $0 when I did pay for them and they do have prices showing on Steam (ie: they're not absent from Steam now or anything like that).

So while the Steam calculator is an interesting concept it is incredibly inaccurate as it can't possibly know what any particular person actually paid for any of their games on Steam (if they paid anything at all), nor where they got it from. ;) Likewise since it can't know what you really paid for a game, the calculations it makes based on its estimate of price paid such as price per hour of logged game play are also inaccurate, not to mention it doesn't and can't take into account situations where you played a game and accidentally (or purposefully) left it running all night and half the next day because you were too lazy to exit the game or got sidetracked by life and racked up 16 hours of gameplay on Steam which you didn't actually play. ;o)

The only way to get accuracy is to keep track of all expenditures oneself in a spreadsheet or database of some sort. I'm unaware of any websites that let you enter such info manually and keep track of it and it'd be an arduous process and probably not interesting to the majority of folks out there. I'd be surprised if I spent more than $250 or so for my entire Steam collection including the 40-50 games I have keys for that I haven't yet redeemed.

So the site is a cool idea in theory, but very inaccurate in practice. :)
It would be fun to indicate the number (and names ?) of games owned for each profile :)

As for the amount, it's not an indicator. Discounts are so frequent on GOG, if you're patient enough, you can grab any game you want for a few $$$.
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zuhutay: It would be fun to indicate the number (and names ?) of games owned for each profile :)
+1

I'm waiting for this for a long time, like LastFM only with GoG-Games.
Looking into someones game collection is always interesting. :)
An indicator how much you have in common would be awesome too.

As long as it's all optional.
Post edited June 14, 2014 by Klumpen0815
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Klumpen0815: An indicator how much you have in common would be awesome too.

As long as it's all optional.
Yes, of course. ;)

I'd be very curious to see people's collections.
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DieRuhe: You know, I just realized your icon is a Steam icon. Too funny.
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Licurg: What ? :/
It was driving me nuts; every time I saw it I thought, "Where have I seen that before?" And then realized it's the icon I picked for my Steam account! Maybe they just draw from some sort of "common use" icons or something! :-o
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Klumpen0815: An indicator how much you have in common would be awesome too.

As long as it's all optional.
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zuhutay: Yes, of course. ;)

I'd be very curious to see people's collections.
Well there are people who set up their virtual library and wishlist for public viewing here
[url=http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers]http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers[/url]

Links in Red is disabled public viewing while in Blue is enable for public viewing
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Licurg: What ? :/
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DieRuhe: It was driving me nuts; every time I saw it I thought, "Where have I seen that before?" And then realized it's the icon I picked for my Steam account! Maybe they just draw from some sort of "common use" icons or something! :-o
They'd better, or else I'll have to change my avatar :(
Achievement unlocked: "I have too much money"
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DieRuhe: It was driving me nuts; every time I saw it I thought, "Where have I seen that before?" And then realized it's the icon I picked for my Steam account! Maybe they just draw from some sort of "common use" icons or something! :-o
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Licurg: They'd better, or else I'll have to change my avatar :(
Well, I'm not really sure how they set it up, but it is possible to create your own avatars for Steam. I didn't; I just picked one, but maybe once you create one it's available for other people to use. No idea, really, so maybe it didn't originate there, but it is there to use.