And the company behind Nexus:

>We acquire. We amplify. We conquer.

https://www.wearechosen.io/

lmao good luck.

Love how the guy was running the site alone becaue he couldn’t “trust anyone else” and ended up selling to a company like this.

Though SteamDB is not irreplacebale at all, it’s running on the Steam Web API so not something super secret stuff.

> Though SteamDB is not irreplacebale at all, it’s running on the Steam Web API so not something super secret stuff.

Is it possible to use Steam API to collect all the data that SteamDB collected over the years again?

Alternatively, maybe someone needs to to scrape SteamDB asap before they lock it down?

Damn, good for him, I guess, but what a bummer, I wonder how they'll enshittify the site. Also a reminder for everyone to disable or at least keep an eye out for updates on the extension. They say in the FAQ they won't change it, but i've been burned before by such promises

Okay, so go ahead and replace it. Even if we ignore the whole historical data aspect of SteamDB, you may find that accurately tracking and storing as much data as possible for hundreds of thousands of apps on Steam may not be as easy as it sounds, especially when you're doing it for free.

SteamDB is (was) one guy's passion project, that's the only way a site like this can work, and passion projects in tech are a thing of the past. There's no way to monetize it without making it borderline unusable. I am confident that, when SteamDB inevitably becomes a cesspit of intrusive ads and/or starts locking features behind a paywall (that no one will pay for, because paying a monthly subscription to see metadata for Steam games is insane, which will lead to more desperate measures and possibly an eventual shutdown of the site), no suitable replacement will be made.

The fundamental function of the site can now be vibecoded in a day, so now has no value. The daily visitors are the only unused item of value remaining.