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Chet Faliszek (Former Valve employee, CEO of Stray Bombay): We will never do Early Access again. (i.vgy.me)
submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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FYI the game he's talking about is The Anacrusis: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120480/The_Anacrusis/

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Oooh I love a good deal tracker.