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A thing can hold great personal value and still not be worth any money.
If ever there was an example of something that some people value greatly but has no financial worth, it's Steam level.
Are you saying that because you're a "low level type" or because it's true? I'm confused.
I know, I'm just kidding XD. You both made a good point. I the end all value lies in the eyes of the beholder. My Steam account has a significant value for me, too - of course.
Btw - thank you for your contributions. I always enjoy reading them.
Fair do's. I wasn't sure.
And though I'm a cheapskate and have only spent a miniscule amount on these games, they do hold value to me - being retired they're very much my bottom line to go to when I have nothing else to do or I'm unable to do anything else.
That and my massive sausage collection. I have one called Frank, and another not.
Seriously though, it is a good example. It's not like I couldn't afford to level up more, but to me, there is no value in doing so.
And having a higher level wouldn't even increase the percieved worth of a Steam account. It isn't in any way tied to the amount of games one owns.
Of course my account is of value to me personally. But the money aspect? Thats just money spent, its gone, like money spent on any other experience.
Fair points.
I tend to view it like this - I don't like buying digitally, so I view any such games as acceptable losses. That's why I'm a cheapskate with buying anyway. The point at which you hand over the cash is when I deem the "loss" occurs. What happens after that may be that I play the game to death, or I don't play it much. It doesn't really matter because at the point of purchase I already accepted that it was an acceptable loss to me.
I know that's probably a weird way of looking at things, but it works for me.
He is saying that because it is basically true.
Steam Accounts have exactly a NULL Value as the answer to the topic. Steam Levels are prestigious and nothing more. Steam Games are licenses and nothing more... and so on and so forth
If Valve decided to retire because why bother anyways then everyones profiles are gone; reduced to atoms. You have ZERO property on anything on Steam which is essentially the reason why Steam Accounts - including games, level, inventory etc... - having NOTHING but a personal value.
My account as well as anyones account is owned by Valve and no one else. They only allow us to use it as long as we keep on track with the ToS
You're almost correct.
Valve don't own the games though. They own your account and the UI.
The game LICENCES are owned by you, and in the tits up situation, in the worst case, yes they would be gone.
Oh I still do that, although it's always a bit more time intensive as I'm mostly housebound (not due to coronavirus).
I just do it all online.
My best weapon there was learned from when I started my own DJ business decades ago, and learned about record collecting, and how to evaluate records, what to look out for and so on. So very closely paralleled to game collecting.
So, in that respect it makes up for me being housebound. I'm in Britain so things may be different in your neck of the woods, but here there's still plenty of independent stores I can ring up and ask if they do mail order or online. Got a nice "black book" of shops and I rigorously go through everything about once a month. As I said, time consuming but really rewarding, not just for the cheap prices, but also because they're physical games which are better, and you can also get hard to find games too.
I've got shedloads of games I've bought that have since turned out to be expensive collectables - all because I did my research at the time and capitalised on it.
This basically, infact your account still belongs to valves no matter how much you spend on it. Infact valve can ban, trade ban, game ban, suspend or limit your account without notice according to their ToS and eula's. Has been done millions of times over the last two decades.
Thats why people shouldn't get too emotionally attached to thier steam accounts.
There is a distinction though (but I do agree with your conslusion that one shouldn't get attached to the account).
Valve own the account ONLY (and their own games where applicable). The game licences themselves are your property for whatever purpose just game licences can be. The right is granted for use by the individual IP holders.
So when Valve do resort to action it HAS to be dependent on the crime. They can't freeze your whole account, say, for cheating in a game or ripping someone off or something.
They can ONLY block you from any game that you haven't legitimately paid for or have done som serious breach of terms thereon. Likewise they can remove certain rights of access (like posting on these forums) if you behave poorly too.
But to completely block a whole account, games and all would require some SERIOUS crap to be done that would both be an account issue AND game-related across all those games.
The simple reason for this isn't just the ownership thing - though it is relevant - it's because of theft, frankly. They could easily be sued for theft or fraud if they blocked your access to games based on something unrelated. Or they'd have to reimburse you in full.
Small distinction, I know, but it's germane.
If that is true then nobody than op can answer that question. We can't say "your x amount of hrs are worth y amount in value" since someone's y value will differ.