• Valve to make its own SteamSpy replacement
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https://www.vg247.com/2018/06/29/valve-replace-steamspy-accurate-useful-solution/ Wasn’t SteamSpy that guy’s source of income?
Even if he didn't have a job, when you run a website like that for so long, it looks pretty good on your CV.
more like "Something we have absolute control over and can skew in our favor"
I mean the alternative was valve making an API to access anonymized data, which would have been susceptible to the exact same thing.
I mean it sucks for the SteamSpy guy, but it is Valve's data. I've always been under the impression that he was under their mercy the whole time with his project.
The review graphs prove Valve doesn't care if it makes games look bad.
2013 onwards Valve just plain sucks...
Good job Valve! focus on more shit that has literally nothing to do with actual videogames and exclusively with money.
Valve's always found stat transparency important, I can't see anything bad in this.
There was a large exodus after Portal 2 came out, and if you believe a dev's bio on the Valve site hiring got even more difficult after 2011 as well. 2011 must have been the date of the coup by the cabal bosses who only care about microtransactions and VR while keeping Gabe occupied with Dota 2 bot matches. Disregarding all that, this is a good thing?
Unfortunately as it turned out, Valve's "do whatever the fuck you want" system can be just as corrupt as a strict office but for completely different reasons.
Assuming Valve actually goes through this and does it properly, is this such a bad thing? IIRC Steamspy would use workarounds that could result in inaccurate data.
Man, I remember people actually complaining and insulting Valve for doing the graph thing in the reviews. Something along the lines "fuck you valve, controlling information like that and making it worse for players" despite the graphs being useful at what times a certain game has received a big amount of positive/negative reviews.
That's standard operating procedure a lot of people take with Valve for no reason.
I assume they'd want to sell this data or provide it as a service as it's extremely valuable. Correlating behavior profiles to what kind of games people like is pretty much how AAA game development works today (they want data-driven decisions -- especially when spending millions).
As garry says too. SteamSpy was a side project, Galyonkin is the Director of Publishing Strategy at Epic Games. Fortnite Battle Royale is his fault
Sell the data? Which part of 'transparency' did u not get? SteamSpy has helped small companies way more than AAA as the big boys have got their own big data which are probably way more detailed and intrusive. A "more accurate and more helpful solution" for public viewing is a blessing.
It's not for no reason though. There are multiple issues people legitimately have with their organization structure, their lack of communication, Valvetime and on and on.
At this point the lack of communication is due to one of three reasons. -Nearly every Valve employee has social anxiety -Nearly every Valve employee is super egotistical and don't think we deserve to know what they're doing -They don't care It's funny, Valve time used to mean quality over quantity, but now we get neither.
Steamspy was the most valuable tool when evaluating a videogame's success and for smaller studios pitching and selling games to publishers. It was a disaster for many companies when steamDB and steamspy shut down.
-Or they becoming private techno-cult that worshipped VR as big thing instead making PC Video games.
VR is a big thing though and they have some VR games in development.
valve has historically been reasonably transparent about these kinds of things, esp. for a privately owned company
valve could do literally anything and people will complain
Particularly on this site due to its special relationship with Valve. Heck this site voted Valve in the top 5 worst gaming companies for last year's VGAs.
How about they focus their efforts on that fucking source exploit showcased over two fucking years ago instead of this right now? Nevermind the fact they fucked off stack guards so they're basically begging please come fuck our games up.
If the Half-Life franchise was concluded, people wouldn't be complaining nearly as much.
there's a good number of people on FP that say they'd hate it or not even care if valve released HL3
I always love seeing posts that explains Valve's behaviour/actions from outsiders who aren't affiliated with Valve in anyway
more like 2008(5?) onwards.
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