2013-01-25, 11:12 PM
The move valve made most likely had very little to do with the DBR and a lot more to do with DB using valve's client API and monetizing it, the client API has data that you shouldn't have access to as a third party site. That's why valve's working on improving their web API and cut off access to the client API.
Valve even released a new web API which makes it very unlikely that valve did it just because of DBR since they probably wouldn't have gotten a new web API ready in such a short time-span.
Also i was in the top 2% according to DBR. Meh.
The main problem was basically DB using something that was in the gray area as far as legal vs illegal and valve simply decided to restrict the access to it(To mention one thing, it had information about your friend list, even if you had it set to private in your profile).
DB haven't even tried working with the new web API but decided to state that 'valve shut us down'. It's so silly.
Valve even released a new web API which makes it very unlikely that valve did it just because of DBR since they probably wouldn't have gotten a new web API ready in such a short time-span.
Also i was in the top 2% according to DBR. Meh.
The main problem was basically DB using something that was in the gray area as far as legal vs illegal and valve simply decided to restrict the access to it(To mention one thing, it had information about your friend list, even if you had it set to private in your profile).
DB haven't even tried working with the new web API but decided to state that 'valve shut us down'. It's so silly.