Where do people get so many steam games?

.Indie Bundles
.Other Bundles
.Sales and coupons

I have over 200 games, and not a single one of those was bought full price, majority of my purchases have been during those major Steam Sale Events.

Sales, bundles, steamgifts.

I had 2 games for 2 years when i joined steam. And actually the one was free- champions online :) But now i save some money and when the sales start i buy what i want. I try not to buy games i would not play/gift just to add in library. Which btw is hard, when you see such discounts!

Most of the time it's from sales, at least thats where I got mine. Last game I bought was Space Marine for 10 € on Carrefour, pretty good deal.

As many people said: MASSIVE Sales!
For example, My profile shows 380 games which is not really true, the real number being a little above 200 games. From this 200 games I don't think I payed the full price for more than 10 titles. At least 1/3 of those titles are from humblebundle/indieroyale/indiegala or other random indie pack. And the rest are mostly from Holiday/Thanksgiving/Summer steam sales. Also some of them are gifts from friends :P

Xarabas got all the games with divine help. He has a luck boost of +5671

I buy games on sale of if they're cheap.

I have a barren field in my backyard where I plant game seeds which I gather from the wild and carefully tend to them until they grow mature and I can harvest them. Getting a decent harvest of Skyrims this year, but I also have to deal with those pesky indies popping up all over the place all the time. I can't really handle them all, so I occasionally hand some out to neighbours and people around the village, or to Old Man Knuth, who lives in the cave up the hill.

Another thing some might want to look out for is e-Bay deals, I actually got TESV the other day for just over 20 bucks on a not-very-popular bid for some reason. You should be in the clear as long as those offering such deals have enough positive feedback to warrant that you won't be getting scammed (I wouldn't bid on someone offering a $60 game for $20 if they didn't have feedback from at least 100 users). It's true that these deals are just about as common as rain in the dessert, though, so you need to either be very lucky, or look for stuff not many people know about (I'm a teapot collector as well and I found some damn valuable items on e-Bay that were being offered for virtually shit compared to their real values, usually because the people selling them were being ignorants).

I also lucked out on the DOTA2 beta testing, so if you're into that kind of stuff (i.e. playing a buggy version and possibly actually reporting whatever you find that doesn't look right simply because it's nice to do that in exchange for getting to play the game early), subscribe to any betas that you may find interesting. Sometimes you can get to keep the game after the testing period is over as a token of appreciation (although that's not common at all from my experience).

step 1: get some dead island keys
step 2: make some accounts and activate those keys
step 3: trade the accounts for gifts/keys!
step 4: profit!

I have over 200...

Worth about 2,000 USD - I've spent MAYBE a few hundred?
Admittedly, I got free copies of Skyrim and RAGE from Bethesda, but the other games I just wait until they go on a Steam sale and pick them up.

Sales my friend....

i have a job

Gabe gifted me all those games!

over 200 games and counting.

I have been collecting them since 2004 though so yeah. Usually wait for sales then boom, BUY ALL THE GAMES!

I was wondering the same thing when I saw a multitude of people with 300+ $20+ games, with 80%+ unplayed...

However its dumb to collect games at least on steam. After all you dont even own them you just own licence to play them. Too bad most dont know that and waste money like crazy.

My friend has 93 games and he didn't spend a cent. I joined Steam 1 month ago and I have 17 games or something without spending a cent. The key to this is the Internet. I go everywhere to hunt for codes and giveaways. Theres also coupon giveaways everywhere and it's really easy to get one. This one time, I managed to get a 50% sanctum coupon when it was on sale and I got Binding of Isaac for it. This is what I do until I start earning my own money.

Games i have
Alpha Protocol = 2$

BITTRIP Runner, Jamestown, Super Meat Boy, Shank, NightSky = traded

Borderlands = 5$

Counter Strike Source + Day of Defeat Source = 10$

Defense Grid The awakening = traded

Dota 2 = contest, gift

Dungeon Defenders = traded

Faerie Solitaire = gift

Fate Of The World = christmas coal craft

Fractal, Nuclear Dawn, Super Crossfire, Max and the magic marker = 2$

Frozen Synapse, Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds exp, Trine, Spacechem, Trauma = 5$

Killing Floor = 5$

Lucidity = traded

Magicka = 5$

Max Payne = gift

Max Payne 2 = gift

Nation Red = traded

Portal = free

Red Orchestra 2 = 45$

Red Orchestra 1 = free

Sequence = gift

Half Life 2, Ep1, Ep2, TF2 = gift

Terraria = 4$

So yeah, its not about spending much money...

I have only 3 Steam games where I payed more than $20 and like 7 games where i payed more than $10
The rest of the games were purchased for less than $10, and half of it is from indie bundles or was gifted.

I gift to others and get games in return.

In my case, gifts. At least 60% of my account are gifts, the rest i got from HiB's and the Winter holiday fever.

The Video Game Fairy.
It's like the Tooth Fairy, but you leave toenails under your mattress. When you wake up, if you've been good, the toenails will be gone and you'll have a new Steam game in your library. I find it best to leave a full set of ten toenails for a ten dollar game. So save them up before putting them under your mattress if you want something like Skyrim.

I have slaves in mines in Columbia and Equador, they recently found huge seams of games there.

Gift/sale :)