Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC

Tony Bark@pawb.social · 4 days ago

Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

$20 million on microtransactions

Please don’t.

$73 million on games and DLC

$42 per person average? Those are rookie numbers!

Delphia@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

20 million divided by 1.7 is about $11 per person, which isnt really that high.

I also think theres a distinction to be made between microtransactions in f2p titles and microtransactions in AAA premium titles. I logged something like 4000 hours in Mechwarrior online and I bought mech packs because I wanted to support the devs.