The founder of the analytical service Steam Spy Sergey Galenkin has suspended accepting payments on Patreon. According to the developer, the service is having problems right now.

Using a loophole in the statistics of gaming achievements, Ars Technica calculated the approximate number of game owners on Steam. The most popular game in the store turned out to be Team Fortress 2, which has more than 50 million owners.

The new method of counting game owners on Steam, which has already been adopted by the Steam Spy service, no longer works. This possibility was eliminated by Valve itself, said the author of the method, indie developer Tyler Glaiel.

The developer of the indie platformer The End is Night, Tyler Glaiel, gave the Steam Spy service a code that, according to him, will increase the accuracy of estimates of game sales on Steam.

Apple has updated the rules for publishing applications in the App Store. According to the updated policy, in order to be placed in the official Apple store, programs should not allow users to buy content outside the App Store. Failure to comply with this condition did not allow Valve to release the Steam Link game streaming application in the App Store.

The independent analytical resource Steam Spy has introduced a new feature — the service has a database of developers and publishers of video games on Steam.

On April 11, the independent analytical service Steam Spy stopped receiving Steam user data because Valve hid this information from third-party eyes. The author of the Games Industry publication Christopher Dring believes that this decision will harm small and medium-sized gaming companies.

The creator of the analytical service Steam Spy Sergey Galenkin told about the problems in the work of the resource. He tweeted about it on the service. According to Galenkin, the collection of up-to-date data is difficult due to the fact that Steam has closed access to users’ game libraries.

The fifth part of the famous Far Cry shooter series was released on March 27 and is in great demand. In a week since the release of Far Cry 5, more than 500 thousand Steam users have appeared.

Steam Spy reports: in 2017, 7.6 thousand games were released on the Steam platform. This is more than the total number of releases in the Valve store for the previous 2 years.