Valve awarded Steam consumer SonixLegend a particular achievement on Tuesday. It’s referred to as the “Game Collector” badge, and it was bestowed upon SonixLegend after they bought over 40,000 Steam video games. So far as we all know, they’re the one particular person to have ever completed it. Cool! But additionally how?
As Gamesradar reports, SonixLegend has a reputation within the Steam neighborhood for being the super-user even amongst super-users. Based mostly in Shanghai, China in accordance with their public data, they’ve been lively on Valve’s PC gaming storefront for over a decade and have an account stage of 303. They’ve been accumulating video games for years and it’s lastly caught up with them within the type of a brand new Steam file.
Due to locations like SteamDB, we will glean all types of bizarre data about SonixLegend’s assortment. Technically, they’ve 97,000 titles of their account, however majority of them are junk that don’t qualify for the achievement. If you happen to have been one way or the other in a position to magically refund every thing within the library at right now’s costs, the full catalog can be price over $640,000. Man, wouldn’t it suck to lose the password to that account or get banned for breaking Valve’s TOS.
Polygon estimated that it might take over seven years to beat each sport in SonixLegend’s assortment. However on the charge they’re really going, that can most likely by no means occur. SonixLegend’s precise favourite sport, paradoxically sufficient, is a free-to-play co-op shooter referred to as Alien Swarm. It got here out again in 2010. They’ve performed it for over 550 hours. In addition they have over 100 Steam merchandise that value greater than $200 every.
However whereas SonixLegend is presently successful Steam, they’re hardly the one particular person gunning for the 40K achievement. A leaderboard shows practically 20 different Steam customers who all have over 30,000 video games of their libraries. SonixLegend seems to be in a semi-direct race with at the least one particularly who goes by Ian Brandon Anderson. They’re the present runner-up with 39,497 qualifying video games. Simply, uh, one other 533 to take first place. The present worth of their library is $542,444. However being the primary to 45,000, assuming Valve provides an achievement for that? Priceless.
The cash for Gabe Newell’s next yacht has to come back from someplace.
