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Data mining. They've got a huge corpus of information available to them that they haven't monetized yet (as far as I'm aware). Also, and I don't mean this flip
by hguant 6y ago
Data mining. They've got a huge corpus of information available to them that they haven't monetized yet (as far as I'm aware).
Also, and I don't mean this flippantly - stickers and shit. People want to look different, and selling a sticker or custom emoji pack would bring in money. You see this with Nitro a little, I believe they're experimenting with it
- aclelland 6y agoYeah, as long as you run the desktop app they'll keep track of what games and apps you have running (even if you disable the app sharing to your friends) which seems like it would be _very_ valuable to most gaming related companies. Edit: If you want to confirm this you can use their data export feature and check it. One good thing about that tool is that the data is well formatted and easy to parse
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoThanks for the heads up. Fuck this spyware trend.
- kevincox 6y agoThis is the reason that I much prefer to keep apps in my web browser. Sandboxing is a valuable feature. (And the desktop client is just a web browser anyways)
- aloisdg 6y agoYour settings are limited in the browser. I dont know why..
- throwaway3699 6y agoA lot of that information is public already: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/ https://store.steampowered.com/stats/
- f1refly 6y agoIt's quite something else to monitor the processes that have been launched from the application itself than to monitor all processes that run on the host system.