Josh Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 The stats on the free Ultra App Kit indicate something strange: Ultra App Kit, free licenses granted: 15046 First-time downloads: 171 This means that 98.8% of the activity is "fake". Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceBurger Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Yes Quote i now hate love C++ Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep~~This is a test of the emergency signature system~~Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep RX 6800XT | i5-13600KF | 32GB DDR5 | 1440p is perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genebris Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Real people also grab free games or even buy on sale and just never play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reepblue Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Genebris said: Real people also grab free games or even buy on sale and just never play I don't mind the ladder as it'll still be money in my pocket. 🙃 Quote Cyclone - Ultra Game System - Component Preprocessor - Tex2TGA - Darkness Awaits Template (Leadwerks) If you like my work, consider supporting me on Patreon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genebris Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Games are so cheap that gamers are limited by their time not by the money when choosing what to play. I myself have plenty of games and software in the library that I haven't started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StOneDOes Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 18 hours ago, Genebris said: Real people also grab free games or even buy on sale and just never play I can attest to that. I've got a few things I've either bought or been gifted and never installed/played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Here is one possible explanation: You can't use a swarm of bots to artificially raise your ranking on Steam, without spending so much money it would be unprofitable. However, you might be able to use bots to artificially depress the ranking of other products, thereby elevating your own ranking relative to them. The newest game on Steam right now is Winnie the Pooh: The Serial Killer with an app ID of 2273510. That means there are somewhere around two million products on Steam. It would be possible for me to create an automated process that registers new Steam accounts, and browses pages without taking any further action. This would cause the Steam ranking system to downrank those pages, since they are not converting into sales. The bots would be instructed to avoid the pages I want to not damage, so those pages would only have human traffic, and Steam would record they have a higher conversion rate, as a higher percentage of page views would result in a sale. This would result in the products I want to earn money rising in the rankings and earning more cash. I don't know if the numbers really work out, but if they do there would be a strong incentive to set up such a system, and I guarantee you somebody has tried. Something like that seems more believable to me than the story that 99% of people add a free app to their account but then they forget to ever play it. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genebris Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 If views actually downgrade ranking then I would expect that at least only paid accounts count into that. It would be really dumb otherwise but who know. By the way, I get no views on my store page, so at least they don't target me 😇 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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