Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC
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From their report report :
[ For years we’ve seen an encouraging pattern. Hit new releases are excellent at generating new first-time purchasers, and we’ve tried to build many platform features to encourage those new users to stick around, find more great games, and play with friends. To gather data illustrating the effectiveness of that approach, we went all the way back to 2023 and identified the biggest 20 releases of that year. We looked at every new first-time purchaser generated by those products (that is, an account making a purchase, or redeeming a Steam key, for the first time) for a total of 1.7 million new users. Then we followed that cohort of new users. The stats below represent what those players did from January 2024 through early March 2025.
......That cohort of players has gone on to spend $20 million on in-game transactions across hundreds of other games—plus another $73 million on premium games and DLC across thousands more products. ]
So they are not average gamers, more like new blood in steam, and the numbers are for money they spent additional after the reason they came to steam.
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That seems like a lot, but that's <$12/user in microtransactions and ~$43/user in games. That's like.. 2 microtransaction purchases and a couple indie games each.
But the sad reality is that the mtx are in all likelyhood,concentrated in a small group of users.
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You monster!
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Lmao. I mostly play the free games. I also have the heroic launcher and I'm signed into gog, epic and prime on it and so far, they've given me 85 free games. I have a lifetime supply of games.
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But the sad reality is that the mtx are in all likelyhood,concentrated in a small group of users.
No doubt, but it's still not a lot over the sample size.
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