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And the company behind Nexus: >We acquire. We amplify. We conquer. https://www.wearechosen.io/ https://www.wearechosen.io/ lmao good luck. Love how the guy
by haunter 1mo ago
And the company behind Nexus:
>We acquire. We amplify.
We conquer.
https://www.wearechosen.io/ https://www.wearechosen.io/
lmao good luck.
Love how the guy was running the site alone becaue he couldn’t “trust anyone else” and ended up selling to a company like this.
Though SteamDB is not irreplacebale at all, it’s running on the Steam Web API so not something super secret stuff.
- tencentshill 1mo agoThe fundamental function of the site can now be vibecoded in a day, so now has no value. The daily visitors are the only unused item of value remaining.
- bjord 1mo agothat's optimistic
- Banditoz 1mo agoI await your repo tomorrow, then! I'd be happy to use an alternative with all backfilled playercount data and sales history that hasn't been sold out.
- amiga386 1mo agoSteamDB is itself a massive collection of data - on pricing, game usage, etc. Scraped over years, in a way that Valve tolerate. It could not be vibecoded in a day unless you want to hallucinate the data, which makes the site useless. In fact, if the techbros actually tried, they'd force Valve into putting up anti-scraping countermeasures on all their APIs within hours.
- pathartl 1mo agoThe value is in the contributed art.
- whatevaa 1mo agoGo ahead and do it just to prove a point.
- account42 1mo agoThe fundamental function is already on GitHub: https://github.com/steamre/steamkit https://github.com/steamre/steamkit That only leaves the remaining 99.9% of work. Good luck.
- bakugo 1mo agoOkay, so go ahead and replace it. Even if we ignore the whole historical data aspect of SteamDB, you may find that accurately tracking and storing as much data as possible for hundreds of thousands of apps on Steam may not be as easy as it sounds, especially when you're doing it for free. SteamDB is (was) one guy's passion project, that's the only way a site like this can work, and passion projects in tech are a thing of the past. There's no way to monetize it without making it borderline unusable. I am confident that, when SteamDB inevitably becomes a cesspit of intrusive ads and/or starts locking features behind a paywall (that no one will pay for, because paying a monthly subscription to see metadata for Steam games is insane, which will lead to more desperate measures and possibly an eventual shutdown of the site), no suitable replacement will be made.
- doctorpangloss 1mo agoThe most valuable data is the per user purchase histories from before the time those were hidden by default.
- jamesnorden 1mo agoWhy is that "valuable"?
- NamlchakKhandro 1mo agoSo we know how many hentai games you've bought
- doctorpangloss 1mo agothey basically map out the paying audience for your game on Steam
- 2001zhaozhao 1mo ago> Though SteamDB is not irreplacebale at all, it’s running on the Steam Web API so not something super secret stuff. Is it possible to use Steam API to collect all the data that SteamDB collected over the years again? Alternatively, maybe someone needs to to scrape SteamDB asap before they lock it down?
- account42 1mo agoIt's already been behind Cloudflare for a while so maybe it would be more sensible to ask Pavel to make a dump of the historical data available somewhere.
- johen8 1mo agoDamn, good for him, I guess, but what a bummer, I wonder how they'll enshittify the site. Also a reminder for everyone to disable or at least keep an eye out for updates on the extension. They say in the FAQ they won't change it, but i've been burned before by such promises
- flaunf221 1mo agoNexus was sold to those new owners a bit over a year ago. Nothing changed for the worse since that time. So don't expect any immediate changes.
- account42 1mo agoThe part that's hard to replace is the historical data.