I am one of those people who likes to see the raw numbers for games: namely, how many people actually play the game, and on average for how long. For quite awhile I used a site called Steamspy, which essentially catalouges this and other playtime data (number of owners, how many people are buying the game, geographical distribution of playerbase, players playing consecutively ect) for many games (most titles on Steam are there, including all the EA ones), and often use it as my final determinant on whether to buy a game or not (if the data shows most players stop playing after the 3 hour mark....).
It is essentially Steamdb with more numbers.
However, while looking for said player data on Stellaris, in this case so I could see how many players are still playing the game compared to say a month ago, I noticed something odd:
I thought this was a one off thing, so I tried with every other PDX title: they were all filtered from the search results. I was becoming increasingly suspicious about what this meant when I decided to take a more direct approach: I googled "Eu4 Steamspy". Sure enough, the page appeared as the first link, and I clicked on it.
At least according to steamspy, Paradox seemed to request it's games be removed from the service. My quesiton is: why is this? Almost every other major developer seems content to allow their games to be included on the site (Ea, Creative Assembly, Activision, Ubisoft, SEGA, Valve, and Bethesda titles can be looked up at will), so why is Paradox blocking the results?
Espessialy since much of the data I can get off of Steamdb anyway, this just seems like nonsense.
It is essentially Steamdb with more numbers.
However, while looking for said player data on Stellaris, in this case so I could see how many players are still playing the game compared to say a month ago, I noticed something odd:
I thought this was a one off thing, so I tried with every other PDX title: they were all filtered from the search results. I was becoming increasingly suspicious about what this meant when I decided to take a more direct approach: I googled "Eu4 Steamspy". Sure enough, the page appeared as the first link, and I clicked on it.
At least according to steamspy, Paradox seemed to request it's games be removed from the service. My quesiton is: why is this? Almost every other major developer seems content to allow their games to be included on the site (Ea, Creative Assembly, Activision, Ubisoft, SEGA, Valve, and Bethesda titles can be looked up at will), so why is Paradox blocking the results?
Espessialy since much of the data I can get off of Steamdb anyway, this just seems like nonsense.
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