Hello PC Gaming community.

With this post I kind of want to poll the Steam gamers here; how important are your or your friends’ Steam stats to you?

By that, I mean total playtime, badges, level, number of achievements etc.

For exemple, I have a colleague that keeps boasting about his playtime and expertise on a particular game (which is over 3000 hours). However, whenever I log in Steam, he’s always online running that game (even when he’s actually at work). I have trouble grasping the utility of artificially inflating your numbers if you only played the game for maybe 10% of that amount.

Thanks in advance!

  • Rentlar
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    9 months ago

    I use it to only measure money/time value you got out of a game. I don’t use stats to measure skill, I can tell well enough by the way I play with said friend.

    If I played a $50 for 5 hours then that’s $10/hour. It’s expensive, but if it was a blast, then at least it’s cheaper than a night out. If I have 100 or more hours clocked, that’s under $0.50/hr of entertainment so quite worth it imo. I’d basically check it when I’m on the fence about shelling out cash.