steam250

Marketing complete, time for new features!

Published: February 24th 2018, 3:33:30 pm

Welcome new club members! As our club grows, it encourages more members to join us, so thanks to everyone for being here; your contribution means a lot. I wanted to give you a little update because yesterday was a big day for us.

You might have heard that Kotaku published a featured article about us yesterday which is a big win. That article went on to inspire many more original and translated versions around the world, including three from China, and articles in German, Spanish and Polish. On that Friday alone we had more than 25,000 unique visitors and more than 60,000 page views which is our single biggest day by far. With this, the promise to focus more on marketing this month has been fulfilled and I will return to developing new features again.

In my last post I laid out some short term plans for the future, and said that I'd be returning to work soon, but it was cold outside so I decided to continue working on Steam 250 full time instead. Consequently, all the short-term goals have already been completed, with a few extras thrown in too! Here's a summary of what's new this month so far:

• Pre-2006 rankings condensed into a single ranking.
• New annual and all-time sales rankings (based on ownership data).
• Client-side platform filtering (click the filter button at the top of any ranking).
• Added Week Top 20 ranking for a better overview of new releases.
• Added VR Exclusives ranking and new VRX game tag for VR enthusiasts.
• About page to learn more about our mission and how things work behind the scenes.
• Many other smaller changes and improvements throughout the month.

You may have noticed I've been spamming you guys a lot less this month but if you want to catch all the updates as they happen I recommend following us on Twitter. I think it's a better format to post regular updates on Twitter and summary updates with extra secrets here on Patreon, but let me know what you think! If you haven't joined us on Discord yet, we have a small and friendly community for discussing games and rankings, and I'd love to see you there. See you soon! 👋