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Surely there has been an occasion in which you have made a compulsive purchase due to the good price that a game had in a certain store, or in sales like those on Steam. Personally, it is something that has happened to me on countless occasions, especially because it was a well-known game or because it was a “novelty” that barely reached the market, although it has finally been completely abandoned in my account. In my case, I have collections of entire sagas that I have not even started once, and it seems that like me, There are many Steam players who commit these types of actions.
While you might expect the amount of money people spend on games they've never played to be high, research by PCGamesN has revealed just how much money Steam players have spent on games they haven't started or played. only once in your account. For it, The number of accounts that are public has been taken into accountwhich are only around 10% of all those that exist, which gives a result of 73 million accounts.
Steam players have invested nearly $20 billion in games they've never played once
With that data in hand, it has been concluded that there are nearly $2 billion worth of games that have been purchased and that have not been played even once in that percentage. Subsequently, making an estimate and multiplying by 10, they have come to the conclusion that it is possible that the number of money invested by Steam players in games they have never started is about 20 billion dollarsa figure that, as pointed out in the article, exceeds the GDP of countries such as Nicaragua, Niger or Mauritius.
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As I mentioned at the beginning, there may be several reasons that lead us to spend money on a title that we have never (or even are going to) start, but One of them is FOMO. He fear of missing out (or fear of missing out) is a phenomenon that causes us to always want to be up to date, something that is really complicated in the world of video games. Don't we like Westerns? It doesn't matter, everyone says Red Dead Redemption 2 is wonderful, so I'm going to buy it.
This type of behavior has become really common in recent years, especially due to fear of not being able to follow a debate or any news about the game of the moment. In fact, some of you may have already purchased Shadow of the Erdtree, even though you've never even started Elden Ring. This is the type of behavior that has led Steam players to invest that astronomical amount of money, and that will probably continue to increase in the coming years.