Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 A recently discovered hole in Valve's API allowed observers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for thousands of Steam games. While Valve has now closed this inadvertent data leak, Ars can still provide the data it revealed as a historical record of the aggregate popularity of a large portion of the Steam library. Here is a CSV file if you're so inclined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massdriver Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Pretty interesting stuff. Would it be fair to say that these are sales, or just people that have opened the games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Warframe, top 10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massdriver Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Quote Caveats Because this data is derived directly from Steam's API for each game, it ends up much more precise than the old Steam Gauge/Steam Spy estimation methods, which relied on random sampling of a small portion of the Steam player base. But this method only works for games with developer-defined Achievements, so it covers about 13,000 of the roughly 23,000 games now on Steam. It's not exactly clear how Valve defines this "Achievement denominator," which approaches but doesn't precisely match up with the "players" statistics provided to individual developers. The new data also gives no indication of how many people own the game without having played it. And, in very rare cases, this method could come up with a denominator that's off by a factor of two, thanks to common factors (though this chance becomes vanishingly small in games with more than a few Achievements). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Brawlhalla stats: Top 25, almost beat out HL2 in downloads. Icons will do gangbusters. Or maybe just steal from that audience. Either way, Brawlhalla is huge for what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 22 minutes ago, Massdriver said: Pretty interesting stuff. Would it be fair to say that these are sales, or just people that have opened the games? "As far as we can tell, the number is actually closest to "total number of Steam users who have played the game at least once." People with the game in their account but who have never touched it don't count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 And DOTA 2 has a player count of all of them combined but not on the list because achievements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Yeah, DS is in the top 100. DS3 at 100, and DS1 at 101. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Man Obsidian got so screwed on New Vegas, 5.2 million people own it on steam... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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