So does that compensate for all those pirated games that people actually do play?

I’ll play them eventually. I will. Stop harassing me!

I knew I’d get called out some day. Bastards.

Yeah, guilty as charged and I don’t even mind.

I buy the games on sale if I play them then good for me, if I don’t then I supported developers. I see no problem here.

This is bullshit analysis. People can buy their steam keys from endless sources and sales. Some games that would have been $20+ some people can get for as little as $0.50 depending on circumstances.

It’d be impossible to calculate how much has been spent. They also just straight multiplied the amount of public ones instead of better estimating that using data they had.

All you can do is say how much they are currently or were worth. Considering how steep the price drops can be for many games, it’s a pretty wide range of possibilities and makes estimating this fairly worthless.

Just a deliberately bullshit headline made by idiots wielding “data science” hype.

Steam Summer Sale starts in 2 days. You know what to do!

The problem is that you pay $20-30 for a game that ends up sucking when you finally get to play it 2 months later which is past Steam’s refund date. If you never play it, it may still be a fun game and not a bad decision. Schrodinger’s game.

Gaben has now got 19 Billion dollars he’ll never spend.

It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me!

Too busy, never played.

And I’ll do it again.

I think about 18 billion of that was me

Now THAT’S the economy.

1700 games

I don’t have anything to play!

Finally, a customer base for my games