Today Valve has published a new change for the developers, the navigation traffic tools, a bunch of metrics that will display more information about regions, places where the traffic comes from and so, let's take a look at the blogpost, shall we?
Unfortunately this is only available for the developer and only about their own games/apps but they could share that info to make a better picture of the market and where they could focus in order to gain momentum or get better revenues.
What do you think about this changes? Would you like to see this information?
As you can see it's a panel with detailer information, this in addition with the exact number of sold copies (which is another piece of data devs have) and the new policy for sharing information that Valve updated alongside the Revenue Share Tiers two weeks ago, could lead into a new wave of information more detailed from the developers themselves.We've just released some substantial changes to Steam's navigation traffic tools in order to give you deeper insight into the impressions and overall traffic your titles generate on Steam.
Until recently, we've only been sharing impressions and views on the Steam Store and its product pages (you've probably seen your individual product's traffic numbers in the Steamworks partner site). As of today, we are reporting data from across the Steam Client and the Steam Community as well. In addition, we're now recording customers' home countries so you can see if your marketing efforts are resonating in certain regions — or if there are opportunities for growth in others. Furthermore, we're categorizing these customers so you can see a breakdown of which visitors own your game, and which do not.
All of this data will be collected, sorted and shared via a new dashboard that will allow you to get a better picture of your products across all of Steam. At the top level we've added an overview page for all your products where you can quickly see the source of all your views and impressions. You can access this page (Steamworks) from the "Tools => Store & Steam Platform Navigation Traffic" menu on the partner site.
If you want more detail, you can visit the Traffic Breakdown page where you can compare traffic across all your products.
You can also drill down into one of your products and filter by Store Traffic, Steam Platform Traffic, or traffic that was driven from outside of Steam.
And (finally!) we've also given you the option to download this traffic data in CSV format, so you can dig into the data and make your own pretty graphs.
We hope you find all of this data useful and, as always, please share your feedback on these changes and let us know of any more tools or changes that could be useful to you.
Unfortunately this is only available for the developer and only about their own games/apps but they could share that info to make a better picture of the market and where they could focus in order to gain momentum or get better revenues.
What do you think about this changes? Would you like to see this information?
