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Thanks. Your approval inspires me with confidence and determination :^)

Interesting, I didn't know key review exclusion was a recent change.

Are you just looking for press kit resources? There's a somewhat dated press kit available from https://github.com/250/Steam-Top-250/releases/download/press... that might contain some useful images. If you're looking for something more specific, let me know!

Charting game ranking history is my personal favourite upcoming feature. I want a graph with the full history of a game's ranking across all rankings, so you can easily see how many segments it's participating in both past and present. However, another limitation of the current infrastructure is we don't have a persistent data store. Every day we create a new, independent database snapshot containing only that day's data. Once again, this feature will take several months to develop, mainly because I have to go back to work now because I didn't receive enough funding via Patreon, but I'm looking forward to it at least as much as you :)

Thanks so much for your comments and questions!

* Although excluding key reviews positions your game better, and therefore seems like a good idea from your perspective, from our slightly more neutral perspective, why would we feel compelled to make that change? Aren't key activation customers just as valid as Steam purchasers, whose reviews and opinions are equally valid?

I'm not really swayed by the argument that Valve thinks it's cool. I don't know why Valve thinks that's a good idea; it may be because they have no oversight over how keys are distributed, or it may be to encourage you to push punters to purchase on Steam because it makes them more money, but their reasons are their own.

Aside, I'd posit that whilst it may look better for your game, it may look equally better for other games, too. There's no guarantee your game would be in any better standing for making such a change.

* Player count factors in fairly minimally for games with relatively low sales. It's just there to stop big names taking over the ranking. We use the total player count; that is, anyone who's ever launched the game.

* You're not the first person to suggest a badge-type widget. I wish we could do that but please understand the site is statically generated at present. Until we have dynamically generated pages we're quite limited in what we can do. It will take several months to get there, but once it's possible, having an embeddable widget would be cool!

In the meantime you can create a game tracking link for your game which will load the page centred around wherever your game is in the ranking, and highlight it. To generate one, click the link icon that appears when hovering over a ranking entry.

Hey Tomáš, I didn't know you worked for SteamDB :^)

Thanks for your feedback and questions! We have a lot of plans, but none that involve integrating curator recommendations, I'm afraid. On the contrary, one of our next goals is to do the opposite: create an automated curator that delivers Steam 250 recommendations directly back into Steam. For a peek at our roadmap check out the Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/steam250 under the "What's next?" heading.

Some further details are in a secret Patron-only post ;)

It's certainly not official, no, and I hope they don't make us change the name what with sites like Steam Spy and SteamDB running around, too ;)

This is now live at http://steam250.com/owners Thanks for your suggestion!

The movement indicators for this ranking won't be meaningful until tomorrow.

If everyone added their favourite software it wouldn't be so tedious.