r/AskReddit • u/PokojniDomar • 22h ago

What could $999 get you in your respective hobby?

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u/Strong-Penguin-Bias 22h ago

on steam? like a trillion game if I time my sales correctly.

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u/A_Uniqueusername444 21h ago

A well placed spend on Steam can go far.

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u/ChatnNaked 19h ago

Sim skins/maps

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u/FauxReal 6h ago

I also got a lot of Steam games via Humble Bundles back in the day.

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u/howardhus 21h ago

ah, the dreaded steam kangaroo.. collecting games IS thr hobby… gotta catch rhem all!!

playing games? sorry, no time

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u/Glad_Case_3183 20h ago

Steam really does turn buying games into its own little minigame. The backlog just keeps growing while somehow becoming tomorrow’s problem.

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u/FS_Slacker 17h ago

I buy games on sale but by the time I get to them, they’re even cheaper

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u/glytxh 21h ago

I believe there are accounts with games valued in the hundreds of thousands?

I’ve only briefly peaked into that world of Steam. Whole other world of madness.

I don’t think my library is even worth half as much as the machine I play them on

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u/Pope_adope 20h ago

Well, there’s the difference between full value and what you actually paid with all the sales. I think my account over the past 15 years has $3k in money spent, but about $3k in money saved

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u/Fel1xcsgo 15h ago

Knowing I’ve only played counter strike for the past 20 years it’s hard to achieve lol

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u/drewman77 17h ago

*peeked

Sorry, pet peeve

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u/Sunkilleer 20h ago

dont make fun of me because i was smart and bought a game when it was on sale for a dollar... even though ill never play it because its not my type of game.

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u/lildozer74 19h ago

Hey now let’s not overlook the value.

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u/DMala 20h ago

I’m too cheap to waste money on games I don’t play. On the rare occasions when I buy a game, I play the shit out of it.

Free Epic Games, and GOG games from Amazon Prime, on the other hand…

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u/Geen_Fang 19h ago

I've got dozens of them and I couldn't name you one of them off the top of my head 🤣

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u/Flaky-Bar-6656 10h ago

I built a $3000 computer and have over 600 games but all I do is fall asleep 30 minutes into playing banished

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u/icedcoffeeeee 21h ago

Or maybe 16GB of RAM!

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u/NativeMasshole 22h ago

Or 90% of a Steam Machine.

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u/TheWolphman 20h ago

I wonder how many literal steam machines you could get for $999?

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u/BaconPoweredPirate 7h ago

Going with the cheapest kettle on Amazon, you could get 141 of them

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u/rdldr 16h ago

That's about what I spent on mine, though I built it myself with a 5600x/9060xt. It's larger than the steam machine of course, but the performance blows it out of the water

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u/thewooba 15h ago

What do you need a graphics card for on a steam machine? Theyre usually used for locomotion. Too heavy to be blown out of water

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u/LateralEntry 20h ago

But if you need to build the PC in the first place? Good luck

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u/DSonla 14h ago

Depends on the kind of game you're trying to run.

I mostly play Terraria and Age of mythology right now so I don't need a beast.

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u/Geen_Fang 19h ago

not to mention humble bundles! 

literally hundreds of games.

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u/yonk069 21h ago edited 5h ago

Each game would have to be $.0000000000999 each to be under the budget of $999

Edit: Changed period in price to make sense

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u/AlbertPoohole 8h ago

Those zeroes are doing absolutely nothing for you.

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u/Ermellino 12h ago

Eh, before the currency conversion in 2016 (I think) I got some sellable summer event shit, sold it on the marked and bought the cheapest games for 2-5-10 cents, got steam autoplayer to farm the collection cards and sold them, bought other games with the money and so on. I've bought over 100 games like this and in the end I accumulated around 5$ which I used to buy Terraria.

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u/Peralton 18h ago

Or only some of all the Train Simulator DLC. Estimated to be over $15000.

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u/ChapKid 18h ago

Years ago I had the PlayerUnknowns trenchcoat for PUBG. It sold for like $850 on community market and I rode that amount for YEARS. Especially when I would time a sale, try a game and return it if it just wasn't my thing.

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u/Jinium 16h ago

Or like Sims 4 base game with half of the existing DLCs

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u/theFather_load 14h ago

Ah... a fellow Steam game collector.should really get around to playing them sometime.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 13h ago

I'm sorry, there wasn't a decimal point. Zoolander: The Game is actually 999 dollars because it includes the Earth To campaign with Hansel...

...and it costs a lot of money to license a George Michael song. May he rest in peace.

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u/spoo4brains 11h ago

Steam sales haven't been amazing in the past decade.

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u/MattieShoes 5h ago

I miss the 5 games for $5 deals

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u/CreamFilledLlama 21h ago

The same as now, 1.