Valve is working on its own variant of statistics website SteamSpy

Valve is working on its own version of the now-discontinued Steam stats website SteamSpy. The company strives to make the information more comprehensive and accurate than what SteamSpy could provide.

On SteamSpy, users can find information about the popularity of a game, in the form of sales figures, averages of reviews, numbers of active players, among other things. That came to an abrupt end earlier this year when Valve decided to make Steam profiles private by default to comply with the AVG.

In response, SteamSpy switched to a new machine learning algorithm that pulls in data from outside of Steam. While that works in principle, SteamSpy front man Sergey Galyonkin labels the new variant as “not very accurate.” In addition, the sales figures in their current form are only accessible to users who support SteamSpy on Patreon.

PCGamesN reports that Steam’s head of development, Jan Peter Ewert, revealed the plans at Russia’s White Nights gaming industry conference in response to a question from the audience. The SteamSpy replacement could theoretically be accurate 100 percent of the time, something SteamSpy never managed to do.

Galyonkin says himself look out for Valve’s tools. According to him, it is important to correct the ‘data asymmetry’ in the games industry and also give smaller developers access to large, reliable data sets.