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The math on unplayed Steam “shame” is way off—and no cause for guilt
(arstechnica.com)
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I apparently have over $500 of unplayed games. However, looking at my library there's a lot that I've played through that it shows zero hours, whether I used a script loader because of mods or for some reason it just doesn't show that I've played the game (Bioshock series for some reason. I've played them all through).
I've also never payed full price for a game. Patient gamers unite! Just not right away.
A lot, probably most, of my hours on steam are from before they tracked it. I had 3,000 hours in CS:S and it shows 0 because I stopped playing long ago. Steams been around for a long time, much longer than its ability to track games, so I imagine there’s a lot of people with “unplayed” games that they’ve played, plus people like you that don’t show their hours for whatever reason.