Valve working on “more accurate” replacement for Steam Spy’s sales data
Steam maker also reiterates it doesn’t want to moderate things as the “taste police.”
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Series: Steam Gauge
Steam Spy announces it’s shutting down, blames Valve’s new privacy settings
Sales-estimate service, born from an Ars data project, says goodbye to its best source.
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Steam Gauge: What VR games are popular with HTC Vive’s early adopters [Updated]
One month in, Ars analysis shows what people are buying and playing in VR.
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Steam Gauge: Measuring the value of the Steam Summer Sale
Featured discounts lead to more sales, but lower prices aren’t always better.
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Steam Spy gives daily, public estimates of Steam sales data
Project builds off Steam Gauge’s sampling techniques for deep data dive.
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Steam Gauge: Measuring the most popular Steam games of 2014
Free-to-play dominates “sales,” while pay-to-own dominates hourly usage.
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Steam Gauge: Do strong reviews lead to stronger sales on Steam?
High review scores are better than low ones, but reviews don’t determine sales destiny.
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Steam Gauge: Addressing your questions and concerns
Plus, we offer an expanded list of the Top 100 most played Steam games.
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Introducing Steam Gauge: Ars reveals Steam’s most popular games
We sampled public data to estimate sales and gameplay info for every Steam game.
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