Steam Top 10 [Mar 21, 2021, 5:02 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Here is the new list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week:
BIGtrouble77 wrote on Mar 22, 2021, 11:18:
I'm just saying that I think it's highly unlikely the Index is getting that position purely based on organic sales, even at $1k. My guess is that Valve gives special consideration for ranking hardware (since only Valve sells hardware) to prop it up in the charts.
It's not a conspiracy, it's what most companies do. Google routinely props up paid search results, it's their business model.
They do not, the list is based on revenue. That's why hardware offerings sometimes crop up in there. It's also why we see identical games with different SKUs. There is no preferential treatment for Valve products, they routinely fall out of the list entirely.
Where you might see "promoted" entries is in the store itself.
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