After multiple websites reported that Steam Spy is dead, I think it is time to discuss what is actually going on.
As you might know, on 11th of April, 2018 Valve has made changes to their Steam Web API, removing owned games from user’s information, unless they actively opt-in.
Many…
The following article is based on the presentation I gave at GDC 2018. The data was gathered during February 2018 and by now is probably slightly outdated.
Steam Spy only tracks owners and players, not sales. Steam Spy doesn’t track DLCs or MTXs.
It’s impossible to distinguish between games sold…
Small indie titles usually have a smaller audience save for a few outliers. The problem with our approach is that people seem to normalize extremely successful breakout hits while assuming everything that didn’t sell north of a million copies is a complete failure.
This is simply not true. It’s understandable…
You’ve heard this talk before: iPad was supposed to replace PC for the majority of casual users dragging us into the sci-fi future of thin and powerful devices that can do everything.
Of course, it didn’t happen and is unlikely to happen shortly, but iPad can indeed replace PC in…
In 2016 there were 5,245 new games released on Steam — the biggest year yet for new releases. Yet, the overall sales and revenue from paid titles were roughly the same as the last year.
Important note: The following data was gathered using Steam Spy service. Steam Spy estimates ownership…
Over 4000 games were released on Steam this year alone. Some of those games, to put it mildly, are of dubious quality and got bad reviews. So gamers started asking: “Why won’t Valve filter new games like it did before Greenlight”?
I don’t work at Valve, so everything below is…
Rob Fahey wrote an interesting article at GamesIndustry.biz about the transition our industry is going through, but his version of the future seems to be focused exclusively on console and maybe PC titles without taking into account all other gaming platforms and niches.
What’s going on, in my opinion, is…
This was the first Steam Summer Sale without any daily or flash deals. And despite the perception of some of the core gamers, it ended up better than the previous one for both game developers and consumers: gamers bought more games, developers earned more money. …
As a person born in the Soviet Union and raised in Ukraine, I grew up in a bit different culture than most people reading this. The post-Soviet culture was patriarchal, favoring young and healthy over the people with disabilities.
Despite that post-Soviet game developers were one of the first to…
Along with marketing & PR, market research and analytics are still considered to be something reserved exclusively for “the big guys” — either major publishers or free-to-play behemoths.
Some indie developers even go as far as to declare these tools “evil”, and stand by our ancestral ways of doing things…
