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Steam Greenlight Announced
Steam continues to be some sort of giant hippie gaming commune, today announcing Steam Greenlight. Rather than solicit funding for games like Kickstarter, Steam Greenlight will be a community-facing portal that will allow members to vote and comment on games that are eligible to be distributed through Steam. The highest rated ones will be approved for distribution through the network.
Currently, a small group of workers at Valve has to decide which games will be sold through Steam and which won’t. By relying on the community, not only will they get a more accurate picture of what will perform well on the service, but they’ll also remove a bottleneck in the distribution process. Pretty smart, no?
The initiative will launch in August, and the official post on the Steam Community has more details about how to submit a game for the program.
Is this a good idea though? It’s a novel solution to a problem for sure, and awfully optimistic in respecting the machinations of the community. I just worry the first time a developer accidentally steps on a PR landmine and the Internet hate machine starts revving up, it’ll bring the wonderland of democracy crumbling down. Plus, you know it won’t take long before a game is misrepresented and lots of angry gamers cry murder once it’s released.
What do you guys think? More gold from Valve or a riot waiting to happen?
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I don’t mind!
hey valve, HOW ABOUT HALF LIFE 3 FIRST!!!!
Once again , Valve proves to be the most epic, nice , amazing company out there. Not enough that they give us epic deals, they also let us choose now :P
This is a Riot Waiting to happen, I’ve been part of steam a lot less than most of you guys (about 4 years) and I can tell for sure that when it comes to this… stuff aint good enough.. remember the L4D2 fiasco? .. that wouldn’t came out if it was for the internet… .
I don’t trust steam community
I’m thinking this will be only with small or indie publishers since the larger games will probably get put on there regardless. I think it’s a good opportunity to get a lot more indie games on the platform, and is a good idea.
I really wonder how well it can do this. The problem is that many great niche games may end up rejected because the average Steam retard will feel the need to down-vote everything that doesn’t cater to their own pathetically narrow-minded tastes.
@Hell_Phone I’ve been on Steam for 6 years and I don’t have any problem with Half Life 3 not being out, it’s gonna turn into Diablo 3 at this point, everyone begs for it to come out and when it does, it will be an amazing game but people will complain it’s not sh*tting angels out of its asshole, and the game is awful. Everyone overhyped it. Just put HL3 at the back of your minds, it will happen eventually.
All we can hope for at this point is that it doesn´t backfire in some horrible way. As long as the interwebs play nice, which it almos never does, this can and probably will be a welcome change to the steam community.
I don’t see the practical uses of this; the folks at Valve usually do a pretty good job of deciding what goes on the service. But does this mean we’ll be able to play the games in order to make a judgement, because i can see a whole can of worms being opened because of that.
I think they should hurry up and do the summer sale before i get le mad …. us Auzzies are almost out of hollies D:
but Valve are doing whats best for us gamers and for the developers
why can’t i get the idea that this will be trolled :(
why can’t i get the idea out my head that this will be either spammed or trolled *