Stefan Mileschin

Business development head Jan-Peter Ewert says that Valve is working on a "more accurate and more useful" alternative to Steam Spy, whose sales metrics were neutered after an update was made to Steam's Web API. Steam Spy's founder Sergey Galyonkin is responding positively to the news, as it aligns with his original goal of letting smaller developers make better decisions using sales data. Steam Spy is a website that, until recently, offered fairly accurate data on game sales, installs, and audiences that it pulled directly from Steam. This information was useful for developers and publishers, who could gauge where audience interest was at a given time and use it to make good decisions about what to develop and how.

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