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RIP SteamDB, prepare for the enshittification

From their FAQ: https://steamdb.info/faq/?guildid=215154001799413770

What are you going to do with it?

Short term: nothing you’ll notice. SteamDB keeps running exactly as it does today. Same site, same features, same data, same URL, still free.

Then we invest. SteamDB goes from essentially a one-person operation to a cross-functional team with modern infrastructure, security and scalability. That means long-standing backlog items actually shipping, more robust infrastructure, and less “everything depends on one person not burning out.”

We will also be connecting SteamDB’s data to modding tools and modding metadata so a mod manager can know which build of a game you’re running, warn you before an update breaks your setup, and make things like collections/mod lists install significantly more reliably.

Are you going to commercialise it?

We’re going to be straight about this rather than dance around it: yes, SteamDB needs to make money. What xPaw has built - and kept running largely through personal dedication and community donations - is an extraordinary achievement. Giving it the team, infrastructure and long-term investment it deserves is how we protect that work and ensure SteamDB can thrive for the next decade and beyond.

That said, we want to be smart about it, and it’s very important that we don’t degrade SteamDB from the amazing resource it is today. While we could simply put ads on the website, we don’t think that’s the right approach here. So we’ll be looking at other, lighter-touch ways to make the website sustainable. This may include use of partnerships, integrations, and affiliate links with publishers when you buy a game after visiting SteamDB. These are harder to do, take longer to set up, and may not show the benefits immediately, but we’re happy to take that hit in the interest of doing things right.

Here’s what it does not mean: no paywall on anything that exists today, no selling your personal data, no login walls, no degrading the site to squeeze value out of it. Enshittification is when an owner extracts value while the product gets worse. Our plan is the opposite direction: put money and people in so the product gets better. Judge us on what we ship.

I’m sad (but not surprised) it’s that expensive because I would have jumped on it at 700€, at the same time it encourages me to try and find individual parts for a custom build at the same price with greater theoretical performance

Yeah that was already pointed out in the comments hence why i edited the title

Shit you’re right, I got misled by whoever shared it to me saying it leaked, I’ll update the title

I was getting curious of the Titanium Court gameplay, and then the music hit me, I stopped and went to wishlist it lol

Thank YOU for the kind words!

According to Valve designer Lawrence Yang, developers hoping for a “Steam Machine Verified” badge can expect “fewer constraints” than Steam Deck Verification. “One easy rule of thumb is that if your title is Verified on Steam Deck, it will be Verified on Steam Machine,” Yang continued. VR developers seeking Steam Frame verification may expect a different process, though Yang said Valve will “be going through the same rounds of testing and providing developer feedback” as it does for the other verification programs.

I would buy them if the Steam Deck can’t be a controller for the Steam Machine (which I’m cautiously considering), like the Wii U

I’d recommend Protondb as well https://www.protondb.com/explore

I’ll take a look at both, thank you!!

No please I can’t afford a new rehab

It looks lovely, reminds me of Minit haha

Ive been waiting for a good sale to get it, can’t wait to dive into it

How’s Northguard with the control scheme? I only played it on PC

Yeah those sound awful, and I feel like they cut off words from players sometimes, I have a hard time understanding what people say when playing solo if they’re using it

Glad they tried it in act 3 where fps starts being a problem, too many reviews only checked act 1 for performance

Same situation, I was in the second batch, whiny Delta fan, impossible to play without headphones, annoying for people around me…

I snatched the Huaying from Ifixit as soon as it was back in stock. It was scary to open the deck so early but I feel like having that experience taught me more about maintaining it !

I dont think I’m smart enough to provide an educated answer to this, but it does feel like a pattern where the US disreguard international agreements

First three paragraphs of the article

Once again, the threat worked. By brandishing in recent weeks the prospect of a new tax on foreign companies – dubbed the “revenge tax” – the United States secured a major concession from other G7 countries on a tax issue that has irked Donald Trump since his return to the White House: the taxation of multinationals, and more specifically, the 15% global minimum corporate tax adopted in 2021 by 140 countries under the aegis of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Already implemented in 2024 across the European Union as well as in the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan, this tax was seen as a first step in combating unfair tax competition among states.

Eager to share this American victory, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced it on Thursday, June 26, on the social network X. “After months of productive dialogue with other countries on the OECD Global Tax Deal, we will announce a joint understanding among G7 countries that defends American interests,” he wrote. “(…) OECD Pillar 2 taxes [that is, the 15% global minimum tax] will not apply to US companies.” Le Monde was able to confirm this information on Friday, 27 June, via both France’s Ministry of Finance and the OECD, as the G7 finalized a communiqué seen by the newspaper.

“The rest of the G7 [France, UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan] has capitulated,” said Gary Clyde Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, an American think tank. “Might makes right. This is a special privilege granted to the United States, even though they are not a tax haven and were not the target of this tax reform,” lamented Pascal Saint-Amans, who was the chief negotiator for the tax reform at the OECD.