Haha get fucked VCs. Valve making sure that SteamDB buyout money ain’t coming back from their now devalued goods. It’s a shame we lost a good service but nice knowing it went out with a poison pill.
Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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Funwayguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SteamDB buyout money ain’t coming back from their now devalued goods
Wait… did I miss something?
Link@rentadrunk.org 2 weeks ago
Am I missing something? Hasn’t this always been there?
Nighed@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Yes
tb_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This isn’t new? This doesn’t have the same activity nor price history SteamDB does? What are you even talking about?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good. SteamDB is completely dead being bought by NexusMods.
Who wants to bet the first thing to go will be concurrent user count? Or perhaps I will need to pay a subscription to view the numbers.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Been hearing this a lot, but no one can ever actually explain why, only that ‘nexusmods bad’ but never even why they’re bad.
Is it because they removed bigoted mods?
Is it because they stopped drama queens holding up entire modding scenes with drama?
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 2 weeks ago
The company that now owns SteamDB has this bolded on their front page:
It can’t really get more dystopian than that.
NexusMods themselves went to absolute shit, requiring an account for stuff like downloading mods, and getting a premium subscription for basic features like “Instant downloads”, “Viewing more mods per page”, and “The ability to choose a preferred download server”.
SteamDB used to provide a completely free (in price) service, with no strings attached. This was by far the most common usecase of the service. Seeing the history of NexusMods and the company that owns it, this will change. The moment SteamDB requires an account for previously public info, or even a premium subscription, is the moment the service becomes unusable for most. Effectively, SteamDB is marked for death.
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it is mostly about eventually plastering steamdb with ads and requiring logins… secondary, i think the presented data will be slightly less trusted after the aquisition.
and it also is kinda about a “community project” being gobbled up by corpos
SleveMcDichael@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Because they got bought out by venture capital. Even if they’re not so bad currently, they’re eventually going to want a return on their “investment,” and that return is going to come at the expense of the users.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
People downvoting you for asking a simple question just demonstrates how fucking toxic everyone is over this.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You got downvoted by morons and bigots.
The claim/fear that Nexus will remove concurrent player counts is literally the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
The real reason NexusMods acquiring SteamDB is concerning is because, as stated in their announcement, they’re dedicating an entire team with more resources to keeping it running. This used to be done by one person + donations. So, ads, sponsors, affiliate schemes, and more anti-user plans are being cooked up to make it sustainable.
It’s a valid concern. Overblown but valid.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To me, it’s a mixture of things:
Removing “bigoted mods” is just saying “we decide what you can download”, and I can make that determination for myself, as a grown ass adult.
Their monetisation is shit, and they’re very heavyhanded about it
Their user-facing behaviour is smug and condescending, they act like modding exists because of them and not the other way around.