Steam Spy is a site of statistics. Using the publicly viewable stats provided by Steam, it’s often used as a judge by many of how well roughly games are doing. It tracks the number of owners of a game, when the owners bought the game and so on. However it’s not perfect.

Because of this, publisher company Paradox Interactive have asked Steam Spy to remove the data on their games from the site. The owner of the site, Sergey Galyonkin, has complied saying that Paradox has a right to ask for the data to come down, even if he doesn’t think it’s any danger to the company.

For their part, Paradox’s reasons for these actions were explained on Twitter through the account of one Shams Jorjani, a business guy for the company.

@AllGamesChanelT SS numbers are wildly off at times. We’d rather share correct data through ISFE https://t.co/7OqxyX5eZW instead.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) June 2, 2016

It’s a fair judgement and Jorjani went on to say that he has seen many business plans from devs that were based on inaccurate information gained from Steam Spy, saying that the assumption made is “Owners x full price = tons of money – please give us $$$” on their part. Galyonkin responded with a tweet asking if that data should really be removed just because some people didn’t know how to read it properly.

Either way, while Paradox won’t be the first to ask for the removal of their games’ data, they are the first major publisher to ask to have it taken down. It’s unclear if others might try as well if they’ve things to hide, but less data makes a resource like Steam Spy a lot less useful.