I feel like I have a steam tax which basically consist on the games I buy but I never play.

If I add that cost to the games I actually play I feel it could be a 30% tax on my account.

Btw I know is not really a tax since I’m actually getting something in return but Idk how else to englobe this concept haha

  • Valkhir@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can’t give you a proper number, but “high”.

    I have bought >200 games in the past two years (I wasn’t really a PC gamer for a solid decade, so I owned very few Steam games before the Deck), played about 20+ of them, and finished 10 or so out of those.

    That said, the main reason I bought so many in such a short time is because I had a huge backlog of games I wanted to get as soon as I got back into PC gaming - games I’d heard about after the Switch got me back into gaming a few years prior, but that were never ported/could never be ported.

    Of course I bought the vast majority of them on steep sales, and a few giveaways/bundles, but I still spent a fair chunk of money. That said, I am now at the point where there are few things left on my wishlist, and I’m already seeing the number of games I buy on a monthly basis decreasing by a lot compared to when I was filling out my backlog, so over time my “tax rate” should start to go down :-)