• Valve Announces Steam Greenlight

    Discussion in 'News' started by -smash-, Jul 9, 2012.

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    Steam Greenlight is a new service that will let you, yes YOU, pick which indie-developed games make it to Steam in the future. From the services info page:

    Valve is encouraging developers to publish their games to Greenlight as early as possible so that the game and the developers can gain as much support as possible before it's ready to ship. This will give the developers a better chance of seeing their games on Steam.

    If the game is not accepted at any point, well, Valve is nice enough to let developers to continue to use their server space to advertise their games.

    Valve's Anna Sweet commented on the difficulty of the publishing process saying
    Steam Greenlight is set to be released on 30th August.
    -smash-, Jul 9, 2012
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Discussion in 'News' started by -smash-, Jul 9, 2012.

  1. Tollbooth Willie
    Oh boy now we have a say in which terrible games with all "style" and absolutely zero substance get added to the Steam library. Woo.
    Tollbooth Willie, Jul 9, 2012
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  2. Paulaner
    This... is... awesome.
    The more indie games make it to Steam, the better.
    Paulaner, Jul 9, 2012
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  3. Hectic Glenn
    What an excellent step forward in the continued support Steam has given to indie titles. I know Valve get inundated with indie teams wanting their games on Steam and it's really hard to grade whether they make the grade. It's a job too big for the Valve now, I'm sure the consensus of the consumer will give them all the statistics they need.
    Hectic Glenn, Jul 9, 2012
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  4. Pi Mu Rho
    Very interesting indeed.
    Pi Mu Rho, Jul 9, 2012
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  5. Sheepo
    It's so cute how your lack of pretention is so pretentious.
    Sheepo, Jul 9, 2012
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  6. Tollbooth Willie
    It's so cute how much I want you to kill yourself.
    Tollbooth Willie, Jul 9, 2012
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  7. Wanted Bob
    Wow, sounds like a great idea to me! Always like to see the creative games that indie developers come up with.

    Yet another way Steam plans to destroy my wallet ;_;
    Wanted Bob, Jul 9, 2012
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  8. Krynn72
    Yay, Valve is letting their customers do part of their job for them! What a great service!

    I dont see how this helps anything, or anyone except for Valve in that now they can tell indie devs to **** off without feeling bad about it, because hey, wasn't their decision.
    Krynn72, Jul 10, 2012
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  9. StardogChampion
    The point is that it shouldn't be Valve's job.

    They have a bunch of people working for them that don't have a clue about games, and they get to decide what gets added to Steam.

    This will fastrack games that people want to buy/play.
    StardogChampion, Jul 10, 2012
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  10. -smash-
    Exactly. Let the invisible hand of the indie market do the work.
    -smash-, Jul 10, 2012
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  11. Paulaner
    A lot of wonderful indie games don't make it to Steam because Valve employees aren't able to tell gems from shit. More power to gamers will correct that.
    Paulaner, Jul 10, 2012
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  12. bobtheskull
    There are plenty of horrifically bad indie games currently available on Steam. How many decent games lost out on distribution on Steam because of bad choices on their part? Here's hoping this means more of the good ones get through! Only time will tell if this will work, but I don't imagine any major issues would hinder it.
    bobtheskull, Jul 10, 2012
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  13. Krynn72
    What good indie games have been rejected from Steam?
    Krynn72, Jul 10, 2012
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  14. Paulaner
    An indie developer talking about getting his game on to Steam:

    Source
    Paulaner, Jul 10, 2012
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