Things are starting to look up for Steam Spy
Last month, Valve made changes to Steam's privacy settings which hid certain user information by default. Unfortunately, access to this data was crucial for respected stats site Steam Spy to function, and the service was essentially crippled as a result. Now, however, its future is looking brighter.
Shortly after Valve's privacy changes were unveiled, Steam Spy creator Sergey Galyonkin announced that his service wouldn't "be able to operate any more", later expanding on that in an interview with Eurogamer.
Problematically for Steam Spy, Valve's adjustments meant that a Steam user's owned games were no longer publicly visible on their profile by default. Additionally, according to Galyonkin in a new post on his website, Steam's Store API, which contained basic information about games - such as prices, release dates, and genres - was changed, making it "useless".
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