I get how that could be demoralizing for the team but I think the vast majority of users don’t look at steamdb or care about it. I think I’ve looked once or twice and only for bigger games.
This may sound dumb, and I’ll google it in a second, but idk what steamdb is.
Edit: ok, it’s a stats website or something? idk why this would be useful to the average player or the dev is upset. I don’t need to know how many people are playing XYZ game. Maybe I just play weird, indie stuff so that player count isn’t ever going to be a useful ranking metric, but why would a player care?
For competitive multiplayer games, there’s some minimum threshold of active players required for the experience to work. If there aren’t enough users, the chances that you’ll find a game with a reasonable skill gap and latency go way down.
Steamdb is useful for a couple different reasons. It shows you more stats than just the number of players, it also shows the price history and what’s on sale (you can filter only the games at a historic low price for the best deals), when a game was released and last updated (great to see if it’s an abandoned game), some other cool stuff that players might like to check before buying a game.
I usually go there during the seasonal sales and it helps save me money after seeing that most games have been that price before so it can probably wait until I actually have money haha
I get how that could be demoralizing for the team but I think the vast majority of users don’t look at steamdb or care about it. I think I’ve looked once or twice and only for bigger games.
This may sound dumb, and I’ll google it in a second, but idk what steamdb is.
Edit: ok, it’s a stats website or something? idk why this would be useful to the average player or the dev is upset. I don’t need to know how many people are playing XYZ game. Maybe I just play weird, indie stuff so that player count isn’t ever going to be a useful ranking metric, but why would a player care?
For competitive multiplayer games, there’s some minimum threshold of active players required for the experience to work. If there aren’t enough users, the chances that you’ll find a game with a reasonable skill gap and latency go way down.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I don’t play that style of game. Mostly solo or coop.
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Steamdb is useful for a couple different reasons. It shows you more stats than just the number of players, it also shows the price history and what’s on sale (you can filter only the games at a historic low price for the best deals), when a game was released and last updated (great to see if it’s an abandoned game), some other cool stuff that players might like to check before buying a game.
I usually go there during the seasonal sales and it helps save me money after seeing that most games have been that price before so it can probably wait until I actually have money haha
Oooh I love a good deal tracker.