Tuesday, July 10th 2012
Valve Announces Steam Greenlight
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Steam Greenlight, a new platform feature that enlists the community's help in selecting some of the next games to be released on Steam.
Steam Greenlight will allow developers and publishers to post information and media about their game in an effort to convince the Community that their game should be released on Steam. Greenlight piggybacks on Steam Workshop's flexible system that organizes content and lets customers rate and leave feedback.
As well as serving as a clearing house for game submissions, Greenlight will provide an incredible level of added exposure for new games and an opportunity to connect directly with potential customers and fans.
"Making the call to publish or not publish a title isn't fun," said Anna Sweet, at Valve. "Many times opinions vary and our internal jury is hung on a decision. But with the introduction of the Steam Workshop we realized an opportunity to enlist the community's help as we review certain titles and, hopefully, increase the volume and quality of creative submissions."
Steam Greenlight will be released August 30.
For more information, please visit this page.
Steam Greenlight will allow developers and publishers to post information and media about their game in an effort to convince the Community that their game should be released on Steam. Greenlight piggybacks on Steam Workshop's flexible system that organizes content and lets customers rate and leave feedback.
As well as serving as a clearing house for game submissions, Greenlight will provide an incredible level of added exposure for new games and an opportunity to connect directly with potential customers and fans.
"Making the call to publish or not publish a title isn't fun," said Anna Sweet, at Valve. "Many times opinions vary and our internal jury is hung on a decision. But with the introduction of the Steam Workshop we realized an opportunity to enlist the community's help as we review certain titles and, hopefully, increase the volume and quality of creative submissions."
Steam Greenlight will be released August 30.
For more information, please visit this page.
27 Comments on Valve Announces Steam Greenlight
The other major harshness I've seen has come on devs who just sorta vanish after release. This is of course justified. Titles like Skydrift would be fantastic had the dev kept refining it. Hydrophobia too, cept Phobia was doomed the second Dark Energy decided to alter the story and characters. Turned a clear win episodic title into a short eye candy romp with worse voice actors than it's original XBL release.
Hard Reset, Trine, Torchlight...going good thanks to active devs.
Release date 31 February 3431 AC.
will I ever see HL3 released in my lifetime
Gabe Newell could probably get $100 out of almost every gamer on this planet for that game and he just sits on it. It's hard to be mad at the guy though. He brought us Steam and stuck with it even though some very loud people hated it in its Origin. EA, meh.
Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, Terminator 3, Aliens 3, Matrix 3, Quake 3, Doom 3, etc, etc, etc...
What I don't understand, is if a game meets the criteria for publication such as amount of violence, sex, bad language etc, then why does it need to pass a popularity contest at all to be published? In a free market, any product would stand or fall on its merits, not on whether some third party approved of it or not. This is the core problem with any store, be it Steam, Apple or Microsoft.
Quake 4 managed to make it past the accursed 3's and that was a solid game. There may be hope yet.
Are you referring to the Atari 800 XL? That was my first gaming machine. Atari failed at marketing and that's why Commodore put them out of business.