Valve has taken matters into its own hands with a new Steam Charts feature, officially showing the best-selling games on the platform. In the past, fans of PC games had to turn to third-party websites to keep up with the best games on Steam, but now Valve offers a detailed, real-time overview of the most popular games on the store.
The new Steam Charts page is Valve’s response to various third-party sites, including SteamDB, SteamSpy, and SteamCharts, which contain all of the data previously offered on Valve’s platform and top-performing games. It replaces the old Steam stats page and features a real-time ranking of the best-selling and most-played games, along with additional weekly and monthly breakdowns.
The charts themselves are really cool, just like music charts like the US Billboard charts, they show how many weeks a game has been on the charts and how much the game has moved up or down the charts compared to The last week. You can also see the current number of players in the game and their daily peak, just like on the previous Steam stats page. It dates back to 2004, when Counter-Strike was the only game available, and also includes historical entries for games no longer on the platform.
Valve notes that “new best-selling game lists are ranked by total revenue, including all sources such as DLC and in-game transactions” to give a better idea of which games are doing well. With more games focused on long-term support and live service models, this new model should give a clearer picture of the success of these games.
Free-to-play PC games will also be included in the lists, with Valve stating that “Traditionally, our best-selling game lists only included revenue from purchases of premium games, but this hid extremely popular free or low-cost games where players buy passes. seasons, big expansions and games.” , or other forms of new content.” He adds that multiple versions of the game can also be combined to prevent duplicate entries from distorting stats.
You can check out the Steam Charts page for yourself at this link. Hopefully this marks the start of more platform changes from Valve, as many PC gamers say that Steam manuals are a mess to use. In related news, a recent update makes it easier to get free games and DLC from Steam, and some users have called for more consistent Steam age verification to be applied across the Steam platform.
Source : PC Gamesn
