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In it they note SteamDB might finally gain a proper API for people to use, and there's no plans to put adverts on it.
Cool. 😃
But, they will be looking to commercialise it somehow - as they said, "SteamDB needs to make money".
Oh... 🫩 Aaaaaaaand it's fucked.
Yes it's fucked because running servers costs a lot of money and SteamDB runs on donations. So I hope you did donate at some point when you used their services and disapprove of this development.
Being financial able to contribute is required to validate an opinion. Just like only the wealthy should vote.
Well if the opinion is „they shouldn’t be bought to sustain themselves financially“, yes.
Right, did you look up if they sold because of financial hardship? Pretty sure everything I've read has been about its owner personally suffering burnout and disillusionment with the current tech and internet landscape.
The owner can do whatever they want with their platform. I don’t feel entitled to an opinion because I never donated one cent to them.
Dude...it isn't an "opinion."
https://80.lv/articles/nexus-mods-owner-acquires-steamdb-after-co-founder-struggled-with-burnout
https://kotaku.com/nexus-mods-steamdb-steam-2000730486
https://www.techspot.com/news/113712-steamdb-acquired-nexus-mods-after-13-years-independent.html
Guy was even apparently looking for a replacement for himself for years before deciding to sell after burnout. So yes, saying it is because people did not donate isn't really consistent with the evidence and explicit reasoning the owner gave. You are not only expressing an opinion, but an unsubstantiated one.
Also, yes, it is hardly fair to say that people don't have a right to feel upset that a free service has the potential to no longer be free. In fact, what you've described, the need to spend money to do so, is antithetical to the philosophy behind that model. Chill out and adopt a more understanding perspective, it is seriously less work and more effective.
I meant the opinion to feel upset about the owner selling if I didn’t invest any resources, time nor money, into the provided service. I wasn’t talking about usage of said service which shouldn’t be gatekept if one opts out of donations of course.
Does my life time membership to nexus mods mean I also get life time membership to steam DB now? If not then fuck off nexus mods you sack of dog shit. I already regret how shitty you turned your site into don't do it twice.
If it does then my point still stands but I will also take advantage of this.
If NexusMods is anything to go by, SteamDB will soon require an account to use, with strict limits unless you pay for premium access.
And then proceed to leak your username, e-mail and password.
Plus they're going to allow developers to hide whenever they make changes so we can track minor changes anymore
Fuck they're going to break/API Paywall IsThereAnyDeal aren't they
The same NexusMods that was bought up by a shady investment agency a while ago?
Yep, and we all knew it was as a good sign when at the initial announcement they didn’t announce who
Well, it was good while it lasted.
The theme of this millennium.
Great. Can't wait to have to pay to use that site.
Oh god please no ! Noooo !
is it bad or very bad or fucking bad?
Is there an alternative to steamdb?
RIP
But... Why?
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🤮🤮🤮
The enshittification of the internet continues. This comes after a whole year of journalists and others sperging out about how steam charts were being weaponized by the chuds. Which I'm sure is just a coincidence!
eww
Ough. Bad.
Well shit... i guess it's time to get as much out of it as possible and start looking for an alternative.
that is so unfortunate /gen
Well that sucks
you know, couldn't someone make a sort of decentralized git of game art assets and just have a client fetch the missing assets, dumping them into the steam library when it finds entries that dont have populated metadata? we dont actually need a centralized web page for this
What's special about SteamDB that no real, fully fledged alternatives showed up yet? What would prevent someone from "forking" it?
They've been working on collecting data for a long time. They have a lot of established methods and data that a newcomer would have to do the work to replicate.
I'm not aware of anything they do being open source, so you couldn't just fork it. You'd have to start from scratch.
That's kinda what I was trying to point to. Yes it is a lot of work to replicate the functionality, but apparently Valve has no intention of "plugging the hole" this data is coming from, and I'm not sure NexusMods would have any ability to torpedo any potential alternatives as they also depend on a third party. So if/when the original enshitifies it would be possible to move on to a new platform.
literally nothing
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh oh
Oh no...
Oh no. Fuck.