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Valve Announces Steam Greenlight

Desert Eagle

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Quake 4 was Quake 4. Not to be confused with Quake 3



Um no. Atari didn't go out of business. Their lack of platform regulation caused the great video game crash of the early/mid 80's. Commodore was a drop in the bucket compared to Atari's market share at the time.

Oh...well nevermind then. This is why I come here. You people know things that I don't know.
 

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Reputation...ok I'll buy that.

There is a little more to it also.
When Steam (as a publisher) puts up a game they are making an investment in money, time and resources.
If there is no substantial interest in a particular game, their ROI is going to be crap, if any.
If the community as a whole shows great interest, their likelyhood of getting a good ROI improves substantially. Using the community to judge this makes more sense than just having a bunch of people aroung a table scrathing their head about how well a game will do in their store.

They are, after all, a business. :)
 
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Great. Now I can put a red light on those Woodcutter Simulator 2013.
 
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