# Post summer sale, how many games are on your steam account? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802 "2011-07-12T21:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802/21 "2011-07-14T00:12:35Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > 0, actually. I bought Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition for a friend, and created my Steam account to do that. I like long-playing RPGs and already had everything that I wanted. The only downloaded game I own is the DA:O Ultimate Edition, and I got that through Impulse Driven. O hai, I’m an idiot who didn’t save my password and secret question’s answer to my secured password app when I signed up for my Steam account - does it count as having a Steam account if you can’t access it? I sent a “help?!” message via Steam’s support page but haven’t gotten a response. Maybe they’re laughing their asses off at me. There’s the downside of making very, very strong passwords and hints. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![badlyburnttoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@badlyburnttoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badlyburnttoast)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802/22 "2011-07-14T06:00:56Z")
Oh, another poll to show off how many games beef buys that he won’t ever play, I see 😛 Hand counting, discarding demos, expansions, DLCs, single/multiplayer links for the same game, free games I’ve never played, or duplicate copies (I still have civ4 and every expansion listed twice, once for mac and once for pc - I guess they are never going to fix that) I’ve got 44. Going by beef’s ‘official’ “view all x” games number, I’ve got 84… so yeah, it’s not really very accurate at all. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802/23 "2011-07-15T16:33:43Z")
Apparently I’ve got 101. I didn’t expect I’d be that high. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802/24 "2011-07-15T23:15:10Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > O hai, I’m an idiot who didn’t save my password and secret question’s answer to my secured password app when I signed up for my Steam account - does it count as having a Steam account if you can’t access it? > > I sent a “help?!” message via Steam’s support page but haven’t gotten a response. Maybe they’re laughing their asses off at me. There’s the downside of making very, very strong passwords and hints. ☹ Follow-up: Got an E-mail yesterday with a new password. I guess they figured no hacker would know that this account actually did have zero games on it and was used to buy one gift, like I explained in my “help me” message. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802/25 "2011-07-17T22:09:39Z")
Surprised we don’t have more 200+ people. I know there are a bunch in the group, but they haven’t participated in the poll since they are terrible people. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802/26 "2011-07-18T11:48:22Z")
more like terribly busy people. busy with their recently bought games that is. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-summer-sale-how-many-games-are-on-your-steam-account/588802.md?page=1)