{"id":97500,"date":"2016-07-01T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97500"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:50:09","slug":"meet-the-man-who-owns-over-half-the-games-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97500-meet-the-man-who-owns-over-half-the-games-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who owns over half the games on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steam Summer Sale comes to a conclusion on 4 July and if yiou are anything like us, your wallet is already starting to feel the pinch.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t feel too bad until you meet <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/palmdesert\" target=\"_blank\">PalmDesert,<\/a><\/strong> who not only owns over half of the available games on Steam, he was also the first user to break user level 1000, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2016\/07\/01\/guy-who-owns-over-half-of-the-games-on-steam-reaches-highest-user-level\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports VG247<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He owns 5,029 games and 3,372 pieces of DLC. Steam\u2019s entire library is made up of 7,481 games and add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>And what did he receive from Valve when he reached level 1000? <strong>Nothing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Valve hadn\u2019t even created a proper icon for level 1000 at the time. It looked like something was broken, with digits going out of the bounds of the circlet icon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many games do you own on Steam? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The world\u2019s first self-driving fatality has been confirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97394-the-worlds-first-self-driving-fatality-has-been-confirmed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The world\u2019s first self-driving fatality has been confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing gaming and tech specials\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97232-amazing-gaming-and-tech-specials-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing gaming and tech specials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why your driverless car could try to kill you\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/96503-this-is-why-your-driverless-car-could-try-to-kill-you.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why your driverless car could try to kill you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t feel too bad about your Summer Sale spending until you meet this guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":88839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,85,697],"class_list":["post-97500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97506,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97500\/revisions\/97506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}