Player Activity Graph for MMO on Store Page

[Tigax]

Can we please have a graph/chart, which shows the number of people playing any given game through steam at the time of page load and over time for the last 24 hours? Or at least for MMOs. I don't want to buy a game like "Minimum" if there is no one in there to play with.

INB4 other sources play the game too.. I will suffer with the limited amount of information I am requesting.

I'd like other information like:

• Sales over past three months
• Forum posts per hour/day over past week
• Updates & size of updates over past three months especially for early access
• Sale dates and prices for past three months
• I would definately like to see how many people purchased a game as a gift

But for now I'll just stick to the OP request

[Spawn of Totoro]

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

This already contains the first part.

Originally posted by Tigax:

I'd like other information like:

• Sales over past three months
• Forum posts per hour/day over past week
• Updates & size of updates over past three months especially for early access
• Sale dates and prices for past three months
• I would definately like to see how many people purchased a game as a gift

Valve doesn't release sales figures. Such information is confidential and requires developer/publisher permission.

Forums post won't tell you much. If you want to see how active the forums is, just take a look. If the post on the first page are from a few days ago, then it probably isn't very active.

That would be up the the developer to release/post such information. I think this may help though: http://steamdb.info

Same as the first, but there are other sites that keep track of it as well as the prices on other sites. Examples: SteamPrices[www.steamprices.com], http://isthereanydeal.com/.

Don't know what that would matter either. A gift is still a purchase and still someone playing.
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[Tigax]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

This already contains the first part.

I want it on the store page, obviously the information is available, why can't we just make it easier to find? I don't care what the top 100 are doing anyway, I want to know what the specific game I'm looking at is doing.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by Tigax:

I'd like other information like:

• Sales over past three months
• Forum posts per hour/day over past week
• Updates & size of updates over past three months especially for early access
• Sale dates and prices for past three months
• I would definately like to see how many people purchased a game as a gift

Valve doesn't release sales figures. Such information is confidential and requires developer/publisher permission.

Forums post won't tell you much. If you want to see how active the forums is, just take a look. If the post on the first page are from a few days ago, then it probably isn't very active.

Forum posts will give me an insight on how many people are playing the game or are interested in it. If you don't know what you're talking about please refrain from posting.
As for the second part of the paragraph I must refer to the first of my answers, I want the information on the store page. As with any advertising, which is all steam basically does, you have a very small window of opportunity to win a potential buyer over; forcing me to research information which could easily be presented to me decreases the sales potential for that title.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

That would be up the the developer to release/post such information.

Not even a feasible suggestion. Honestly, are you just trolling my thread?

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Same as the first, but there are other sites that keep track of it as well as the prices on other sites. Examples: SteamPrices[www.steamprices.com], http://isthereanydeal.com/.

So steam shouldn't give me the information because another website has already done it, and compares it with the competitors of steam making me aware of who they are, potentially causing steam to lose my business altogether?

I hope you don't work for steam.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Don't know what that would matter either. A gift is still a purchase and still someone playing.

At this point I'm suprised they let you talk to people. A gift purchase tells me a LOT. It tells me that there was a player who played the game, liked the game, and liked it so much they paid to share it with a friend. That's better than a green thumbed review every day of the week.
Marketting is not your strong point and you should stay away from threads like these./quote]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

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Same to you.