Valve mistakenly posts recap of its winter sale for all to see — and turns out it made money

Valve hasn’t stopped accidentally exposing information. Thankfully, the data it unintentionally shared this time doesn’t belong to its customers.

Earlier today, Valve accidentally posted some followup data (although no specific dollar amounts) about its Steam winter sale to its page for SteamVR. The company has since removed that post since it was seemingly meant only for its partners — but SteamDB website founder xPaw saved all of the relevant info. The post reveals why the most recent sale didn’t have any of those limited time-only “flash” sales and how that benefited everyone selling games on Steam. Even smaller developers came off better despite Steam having to shut down for a few hours on Christmas day as the result of a cyberattack.