Question about game statistics...

[Alice How Do You Do]

Another Steam user plays one of their games on my PC, then I play their game through my Steam account while it's still installed. Afterwards, the game is uninstalled, the other user's account is gone, and the game is removed entirely.

If I purchase the game, will all of the stats from when I played their copy show up in my library, next to my copy, as if I have been playing my copy the entire time?

I'm referring to all of the stats and information typically logged when you play a game in your library, such as hours played, for example.

Thanks.

[Moderate my posterior.]

the stats are for the played game, not the individual license, so there will be no partitioning of "stats"

[Alice How Do You Do]

Originally posted by Socialist Butterfly:

the stats are for the played game, not the individual license, so there will be no partitioning of "stats"

Splendid. Thank you very much. I may create a new account to change my name without having my current name still show up underneath. I'm going to purchase my games again on my new account, and want to make sure that if any statistics aren't recorded, I wait to play the game until I copy the game over.

Thanks again.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Alice How Do You Do:

Originally posted by Socialist Butterfly:

the stats are for the played game, not the individual license, so there will be no partitioning of "stats"

Splendid. Thank you very much. I may create a new account to change my name without having my current name still show up underneath. I'm going to purchase my games again on my new account, and want to make sure that if any statistics aren't recorded, I wait to play the game until I copy the game over.

Thanks again.

Just to be extra-clear.

If you played your friend's game while logged into your *friends* steam account, of course the statistics won't pass over to your account if you buy the game. Stats are locked to specific accounts, not computers.

If you two "Steam Family Shared" the games together, then yes.. your time played, achievements, etc will remain the same even if you buy the game yourself and so no longer play the family shared copy but your own.

IF you start a brand new Steam account, even on the same computer, then if you buy the game and start there, no stats will transfer over, because again stats are stored by steam *account* not computer.

Two people playing the same game on the same computer (but while logged into two different Steam accounts) will not share stats.

[Kargor]

Also, making a new account, and thus splitting your games between multiple accounts, just so you loose the name history? WTF?

If you really care that much about your name history, just make variations of your name to show on your history.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

wait 3-4 years without name changes and they go away.

[wuddih]

games are not exclusively developed for Steam.

what about the common used save files locations?

even with steam cloud functionality implemented into the game, some games look at those other locations first and override in what ever direction they chose to do. not rarely are the standard common locations prioritized.

hours plays is something else, that is not a statistic the game dev can influence. but other statistics and achievements can be carried over to any Steam account you throw at a game on the same machine. that depends how the game handles those.