PC Gaming Legend Wins Steam With Achievement For Shopping for 40,000 Games

Valve awarded Steam consumer SonixLegend a particular achievement on Tuesday. It’s known as the “Game Collector” badge, and it was bestowed upon SonixLegend after they bought over 40,000 Steam video games. As far as we all know, they’re the one particular person to have ever finished it. Cool! But additionally how?

As Gamesradar reports, SonixLegend has a reputation within the Steam group for being the super-user even amongst super-users. Based in Shanghai, China in keeping with their public information, they’ve been energetic 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 report.

Thanks to locations like SteamDB, we are able to glean all types of bizarre information 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 have been in some way in a position to magically refund the whole lot within the library at immediately’s costs, the entire catalog could be price over $640,000. Man, would it not suck to lose the password to that account or get banned for breaking Valve’s TOS.

Polygon estimated that it will take over seven years to beat each sport in SonixLegend’s assortment. But on the charge they’re really going, that can in all probability by no means occur. SonixLegend’s precise favourite sport, sarcastically sufficient, is a free-to-play co-op shooter known as Alien Swarm. It got here out again in 2010. They have performed it for over 550 hours. They even have over 100 Steam merchandise that price greater than $200 every.

But whereas SonixLegend is at the moment 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 not less than one specifically who goes by Ian Brandon Anderson. They’re the present runner-up with 39,497 qualifying video games. Just, uh, one other 533 to take first place. The present worth of their library is $542,444. But being the primary to 45,000, assuming Valve provides an achievement for that? Priceless.

The cash for Gabe Newell’s subsequent yacht has to return from someplace.