Valve have stifled another statistical technique people used to estimate Steam sales figures, one which temporarily revived the popular estimatron SteamSpy. This latest weird trick, based on Steam achievement numbers, has been cut off less than a week after game dev Tyler Glaiel–of Closure and The End Is Night fame–brought it to public attention. While such numbers are mostly useful to Jo Public for funsies and conspiracy theories, many developers had previously said they used SteamSpy estimates in their market research. Valve do claim they’re working on better tools for developers to get data out of Steam, but for now they’re back in the lurch. (more…)
Source : rockpapershotgun.com
