![]() With such a loyal clientele being present, we knew we had to create the preset, where everyone can view Steam deals only. Many of the users don’t even dare looking at other distributors and prefer to buy PC games on Steam. It is the shop of choice for the fast majority of PC gamers. The platform was launched in 2003 and since then has grown to be the most popular storefront for digital games. offers a wide variety of features.Steam is a service which digitally distributes PC games. Steampeek.hu lets you find similar games. offers price information and history graphs. I am especially sorry to all who liked and used the niche features that are not available on most other websites.īest regards, regarding the most obvious question: I have deleted all user information from the database and will not be able to satisfy requests for an export of your collected data - most notably your wishlists. ![]() I hope you can understand my decision to close the website. At some point one starts to ask themselves if this is still all worth the trouble. But it was made easier when I looked at the steadily declining visitor count, probably caused by better offerings from other websites that also compare prices to other stores than only Steam. Of course, this decision was not made easy. Additionally, defending against people that tried to gather price information from instead of Steam was always feeling like an uphill battle. wrong price information during a sale for games that are part of a cheaper bundle or package. Some issues from the early days were never fully solved and probably never would have, i.e. When Steam changed their website design and code, I came back to the project to fix the apparent issues. ![]() Most tasks always were fully automated and worked without me doing something. Both were lacking in the last three years and the website went into some sort of slumber. But as all hobbies go, you have to find the time and motivation to stick with it. We had a complete website relaunch in 2015 where I added a mobile friendly responsive design and accessibility. It was a nice playground to test and improve my programming skills and I wanted to apply all best practices that I learned. Features like personalized RSS feeds and profile cards were used more than others but also caused quite a few resource problems. More and more features became obsolete and I countered it with meta-analysis like Price Tracker and Publisher comparison, but the website statistics show that these features were not being used a lot - in the end, they were not in spirit of the initial website idea and goal: compare prices from different Steam regions. There was a need for websites like but this has changed in my opinion. In recent years, Steam also added the features and options that its users were asking for. A few years later, I decided to remove the least popular regions to reduce the costs and improve website performance. This was difficult on the technical side and made running the website a lot more expensive. 7 years ago, tried to keep up the pace and index prices for all new regions. With the release of dozens of new currencies on Steam since approx. more options for searching games and wishlist notifications. They also lacked a lot of the features users wanted, e.g. When I started this website over 10 years ago, Steam had a lot less currencies than today and allowed users to buy from other store regions. I am sorry to announce that as of today, has closed its doors.
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