CrankyKong
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Valkyria Chronicles is close to selling half a million.
Any chance they bring the other games to PC?
Any chance they bring the other games to PC?
Valkyria Chronicles is close to selling half a million.
Any chance they bring the other games to PC?
Do people saying it's too expensive only buy games during Steam sales ?
$19.99/£14.99 is pretty cheap in a world where console ports direct from Steam are the same price as retail console games and games like Anno 2022 are £49.99
Rocket League is doing some nasty stuff on the charts (294,737 ± 11,811 right now). I can't wait to see future weekend deals, and that future Free Weekend that will hook people like a drug. I'm so happy we'll have SteamSpy to help us follow all of this.
I do hope their PS+ deal was worth it. If they're pulling in 300,000+ on Steam at full price, what the hell would they have done on PS4?
Valkyria Chronicles is close to selling half a million.
Any chance they bring the other games to PC?
"Indie game" is a common short-hand and everyone knows what it is referring to, so please don't lecture me about things I'm perfectly aware of.
Freedom Planet having 3 times less owners than Shovel Knight make me sad :/
http://steamspy.com/app/248310
"Indie game" is a common short-hand and everyone knows what it is referring to, so please don't lecture me about things I'm perfectly aware of.
Sekai Project only has their indie/doujin games listed. I don't know if it's because of pressure from Japanese publishers or if they just don't want those numbers out there.I just noticed Planetarian was removed from this, I could check its sales when the site went up.
Sekai Project only has their indie/doujin games listed. I don't know if it's because of pressure from Japanese publishers or if they just don't want those numbers out there.
Not excited about more games being removed.
Afaik Sekai Project said, at least for Grisaia, that the japanese rights holder didnt want the sales to be public.
Guess other publishers just followed suit.
Afaik Sekai Project said, at least for Grisaia, that the japanese rights holder didnt want the sales to be public.
I mean... so? I don't see any reason to respect a request like that from a publisher. This is based on publicly-available information, using pretty standard statistical techniques. It's not proprietary information and so none of the discretion that normally comes into play in such situations should apply here.
I mean... so? I don't see any reason to respect a request like that from a publisher. This is based on publicly-available information, using pretty standard statistical techniques. It's not proprietary information and so none of the discretion that normally comes into play in such situations should apply here.
Now, when someone has a legitimate, concrete reason -- as the Kerbal devs did -- it makes sense to grant a rare exclusion. But letting anyone who asks be excluded guarantees the tool will become useless pretty quickly as more and more devs and publishers start to pull their data.
Why is Steamspy even granting these requests? These are publically available datapoints and not official data.
They shouldn't, I fixed this bug couple of months agoSpeaking of KSP and other removed games, they still pop up in the main page on the 'random game' section. Seen KSP once.
If a game is delisted, is it still accounted for in derived metrics? (e.g. total games owned, tag popularity, etc.)
Several reasons.
1. I don't want to be a dick.
If someone wants to hide his game's data, I'm OK with it. He might have reasons for this. Living in Mexico where people get kidnapped is an obvious one, but people might have other less life-threatening reasons to hide this information.
It's not for me to decide if the reason provided is worthy. I'm not a judge.
2. Steam Spy relies on Valve's good will to exist.
If Valve gets enough complaints about Steam Spy I will get my key revoked and Steam Spy will cease to work.
Steam Spy was designed to help game developers, not to threaten them. I hope if someone feels threatened, he'll ask me to remove his games from Steam Spy, not ask Valve to close Steam Spy.
There are a few Gamasutra blog articles using SteamSpy data, but that's a tiny amount of stuff.I'm still shocked no major site is using Steamspy to produce analysis articles for games. You have the potential of a weekly featured content that covers hard figures in a public data starved industry.
Yet, nobody's doing anything. Analysis of crowdfunded games' sales. Analysis of discounts over sales. Early access -> full release transitions. Back catalog 'legs' analysis. How popular bundles are. Percentage of people beating the average on bundles. News\controversies effecting sales. How AAA games are really doing on PC. Effects of delayed ports on sales.
Week in, week out. Never ending stream of unique editorials that no other place does. But nothing of that sort is happening. The most disappointing thing is that even the business-orientated websites such GI.Biz and Gamasutra aren't doing anything with Steamspy data.
Rocket League is doing some nasty stuff on the charts (294,737 ± 11,811 right now). I can't wait to see future weekend deals, and that future Free Weekend that will hook people like a drug. I'm so happy we'll have SteamSpy to help us follow all of this.
I do hope their PS+ deal was worth it. If they're pulling in 300,000+ on Steam at full price, what the hell would they have done on PS4?
I dealt with japanese publishers before (anime ones though) and I can see that, if that is true that they wouldnt want that a website to show their sales data, that they can easily cancel a contract with the western publisher.
1. I don't want to be a dick.
If someone wants to hide his game's data, I'm OK with it. He might have reasons for this. Living in Mexico where people get kidnapped is an obvious one, but people might have other less life-threatening reasons to hide this information.
I think you made the right move.Several reasons.
1. I don't want to be a dick.
If someone wants to hide his game's data, I'm OK with it. He might have reasons for this. Living in Mexico where people get kidnapped is an obvious one, but people might have other less life-threatening reasons to hide this information.
It's not for me to decide if the reason provided is worthy. I'm not a judge.
2. Steam Spy relies on Valve's good will to exist.
If Valve gets enough complaints about Steam Spy I will get my key revoked and Steam Spy will cease to work.
Steam Spy was designed to help game developers, not to threaten them. I hope if someone feels threatened, he'll ask me to remove his games from Steam Spy, not ask Valve to close Steam Spy.
I totally respect your desire to treat devs right, but I really do think there are reasons that are better than others. It doesn't actually take that many requests before the dataset becomes pretty useless and someone else is better off duplicating your methodology and ignoring even the reasonable exclusion requests. If we assume making this data available is a public good (and I certainly feel that way) I don't think it's really being a dick to keep doing it even if not everyone is on board.
I don't get this many requests, so I wouldn't worry this much yet.
Folks, decision time...
Would you be interested in actual weeklysaleownership data for all Steam games? Like, top-25 selling games thread with additional data provided online?
I think I found a relatively hassle-free way of getting that data off of SteamSpy, are people interested in that though?
Also, galyonkin, would you be okay with having said data posted on these forums?
1. Rocket League (577,295)
2. Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (99,060)
3. NotGTAV (64,302)
4. Guild of Dungeoneering (32,257)
5. F1 2015 (26,625)
6. How To Survive Third Person (25,057)
7. Victor Vran (24,228)
8. Secrets of Grindea (23,856)
9. Way of the Samurai 4 (22,119)
10. Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop! (21,013)
11. TIS-100 (18,438)
12. oO (13,745)
13. Dungeon Souls (13,271)
14. Interstellaria (12,007)
15. Rake (10,427)
Wait what the fuck, Secrets of Grindea went full release? And I didn't hear about it? Do we have an OT?
That game is the modern Secret of Mana, except better. I got it for free but I feel like I'm going to get someone a gift copy because those devs deserve it.
Oh, it wasn't Early access before? I had a key from a livestream befor so I just assumed it had been. Guess not though.Early Access for now.
So far Gamescom has been really inspiring. I'm glad so many developers and publishers are using Steam Spy to research the market