A new report has found that Steam users aren’t exempt from buying a game just to never play it. Apparently, based on available data, users collectively have spent $19 billion on games that have never seen past the purchase screen.
A report from PCGamesN using SteamID Finder data, which only has about 10% of Steam’s users found that users collectively accumulated $1.9 billion, but the report decided to times that by 10 to account for profiles that aren’t public and arrived at a shocking $19 billion. Dubbed the Pile of Shame, this accounts for the games that players have purchased but have no intention on actually playing the game.
It’s worth pointing out that everyone has a backlog of games that they think they will play but it just ends up as a means to toss money. In the end, this report is more about the interesting nature of how many games people purchase without the full intent of opening the game after installation. This is also just talking about Steam users, who knows the numbers if we were to toss console gamers into the mix.
