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Valve Kills Steam Greenlight - Shared from /gaming
Valve Kills Steam Greenlight - Shared from /gaming
Gaming! So many games, not enough posts!
Interesting. I know that Greenlight does allow a ton of less than stellar games onto the platform but...is that such a bad thing? I'm of the opinion that what is a "bad" game is often subjective. I've played plenty of games that were absolutely terrible, but I still had fun with them. (Sort of like watching a movie that's so bad, it's good.)
I think that there needs to be a better way of sorting and ranking games. The current tagging system is a complete joke. So many people use it as a way to troll. For instance, tagging a game obviously targetted at children as "psychological horror" or tagging a violent FPS as "family friendly." This makes it difficult to find proper games. Combine that with people posting joke reviews that are meant to do nothing but get a cheap laugh and you have completely worthless system.




From the developers I know who were trying to get a game on Greenlight, it was seen as a capricious gateway to customers. I think its own success killed it. Too many games to try, so most never got players.
I never did anything with Greenlight and don't play many (any?) indy games so this won't effect me much personally. However, I do know many developers used and relied on Greenlight to get their games out there. It'll be interesting to see if anything takes its place.
They're switching over to something called Steam Direct. Developers will need to pay a fee to get listed in addition to a mountain of paperwork. The fees aren't decided, but numbers between $100 and $5000 have been floated from different corners.