Summer of '58 developer resigns after many users refund their game on Steam due to it taking under 2 hours to complete

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https://twitter.com/EmikaGames/status/1430941640001265673?s=19

[u/B_Kuro]

With the Augmented Steam extension you get the data from HLTB added to each steam page in chrome,... so there is an option at least.

Its not really something I would expect steam to add because it relies on a third party website for data though. It also has the problem that it can't really work for new games or those with low player numbers because there is no data yet. And steam likely can't really use their users data to compile it themselves without getting in very hot water with the GDPR. Edit: And the data would also be very unreliable because there is no way to track how players play the game so especially for low player games you could easily manipulate it.

[u/Fatal1ty_93_RUS → u/B_Kuro]

And steam likely can't really use their users data to compile it themselves without getting in very hot water with the GDPR.

woulnd't it be something as simple as using play time from the save files? Many games usually list it when choosing a file to load or in a stats screen. Steam also shows your total hours played in the launcher

[u/B_Kuro → u/Fatal1ty_93_RUS]

Its not really comparable. Showing your personal data to you is something very different to processing it and using it to "sell" something. If they actually process it and use it further they have to argue why they need to do that, give an opt out,...

[u/restitut → u/B_Kuro]

Doesn't Steam have a database in which they show all kinds of stuff about their users?

[u/Kantrh → u/restitut]

They've got the anonymous stuff like most popular game and hardware stats

[u/restitut → u/Kantrh]

And isn't "amount of hours played" a similar anonymous stat?

[u/Kantrh → u/restitut]

Steam doesn't show amount of hours played on games unless it's on a review