# I wonder how much my Steam account would go for if I decided to ever sell it? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 8, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337 "2017-10-08T23:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/1 "2017-10-08T23:44:32Z")
Looking over this list…(under the spoiler box, since it’s a long list), IN YOUR OPINION, how much do you think this collection of games would go for, at the least? 100% Orange Juice 4 Elements 6180 the moon 80 Days A New Beginning - Final Cut A Valley Without Wind A Valley Without Wind 2 A Virus Named TOM A Walk in the Dark AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity ABZÛ Adam’s Venture Chronicles Adam’s Venture Episode 1: The Search For The Lost Garden Adam’s Venture Episode 2: Solomon’s Secret Adam’s Venture Episode 3: Revelations AdVenture Capitalist Adventure Chronicles: The Search For Lost Treasure Aerena Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition Age of Empires II: HD Edition AI War: Fleet Command Alan Wake Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns Alien: Isolation Aliens: Colonial Marines Alter Ego AlternativA Always Sometimes Monsters American Mensa Academy Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Amnesia: The Dark Descent Among the Sleep Ampu-Tea Ancients of Ooga Anna - Extended Edition Anomaly Warzone Earth Antichamber Arcane Worlds Arma: Cold War Assault Assassin’s Creed Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Assassin’s Creed II Assassin’s Creed Revelations Assassin’s Creed® III Astro Tripper Atom Zombie Smasher Auditorium Avadon: The Black Fortress Avencast Awesomenauts Awkward Dimensions Redux Aztaka Back to the Future: Ep 1 - It’s About Time Back to the Future: Ep 2 - Get Tannen! Back to the Future: Ep 3 - Citizen Brown Back to the Future: Ep 4 - Double Visions Back to the Future: Ep 5 - OUTATIME Bad Rats Bang Bang Racing Banished Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok Bastion Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition Batman: Arkham City GOTY Batman™: Arkham Knight Batman™: Arkham Origins Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition BattleBlock Theater Battlefield 2 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Beat Hazard Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians Before the Echo Ben There, Dan That! 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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/2 "2017-10-08T23:50:24Z")
I’ll give you 35 cents! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/3 "2017-10-08T23:52:22Z")
wow that’s almost like my gog list … but how do you go about selling a account ? I know if you do get caught seller and buyer both gets banned Actually wasn’t it until a year or two ago you couldn’t even share your steam account ? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/4 "2017-10-08T23:58:08Z")
Steam Calculator gives it a value of $7,266 MSRP or $1,899 for sale values. Realistically, most of it is either bundle fodder stuff or older games and I’d be surprised if it was more than a few hundred – assuming you found someone who didn’t own any PC games and wanted an instant library. My own is $17,688 MSRP or $4,899 sale priced and I doubt I would get much more than that as well. Under $500 for sure. I just can’t imagine anyone thinking “Wow, I sure want to pay $3,000 for this account; it’d be a great deal!”. For what it’s worth, I certainly have not spent eighteen grand on games and I haven’t even spent five grand. Probably closer to two grand spread over the last eight years or so. I don’t think Steam calculator accounts for the diminished value of bundled games and has no way of knowing that a game was cheaper via off-Steam vendors at some point. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/5 "2017-10-09T06:02:05Z")
I’ve never seen or heard of anyone selling a steam account. The problem is that it’s not too hard for a person new to steam to build up a big backlog of games that they chose for the same price they’d pay to get an account with a bunch of games they may or may not be interested in. I’m also not sure if Valve attempts to identify and punish selling a steam account. It would also be unusual, I think, for someone to enter steam now without having their own account with their own games - maybe little kids just getting started, but then they usually don’t have a few hundred dollars or the wherewithall to buy a steam account anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/6 "2017-10-09T12:42:38Z")
I do know guys who used to play on console and just built a gaming PC in recent history. But none of them showed any interest in buying someone else’s account full of five dollar indie titles and AAA games from 2013. That’s why I’m guessing a few hundred at most and to a fairly unique buyer – there’s just no market for it no matter what it’s nominally worth. Sort of like trying to sell five years worth of the _New York Times_. I ignored the EULA implications of selling a Steam account assuming that this is hypothetical anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/7 "2017-10-09T13:10:03Z")
I can envision a situation where a Steam account has a game that can’t be legally obtained anywhere else due to licensing issues, but if you’re willing to break EULA to buy a Steam account you probably aren’t too worried about pirating abandonware in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/8 "2017-10-09T13:22:02Z")
The other value I could see would be in the achievements, for someone who wanted to show off but didn’t want to actually earn them. But for whatever reason, Steam achievements seem to be held in much less regard than they are on consoles. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/9 "2017-11-04T20:47:45Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’ll give you 35 cents! I’d almost pay you that to take the games off me and leave me with just a few curated games I’ve a chance of getting around to playing. Why does Steam make it so hard to delete games from your list en masse, can we have a multiple delete option? A lot of my Steam pile consists of bundled games that I just reflexively registered or thought might be good but actually weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-much-my-steam-account-would-go-for-if-i-decided-to-ever-sell-it/798337/10 "2017-11-04T20:58:38Z")
You can use the favorites list to have a curated list like you want and just ignore the rest. Only the ones you favorite will at the top.