Steam Greenlight har visar sitt vara ett genidrag av Valve och en otrolig hjälp för indieutvecklare, och detta har resulterat i otaliga geniala spel som annars kanske aldrig hade sett dagens ljus. Men nu är det dags att lämna det bakom sig menar Valve som kommer lägga ner och ersätta tjänsten. Såhär skriver de på sitt forum:
"After the launch of Steam Greenlight, we realized that it was a useful stepping stone for moving to a more direct distribution system, but it still left us short of that goal. Along the way, it helped us lower the barrier to publishing for many developers while delivering many great new games to Steam. There are now over 100 Greenlight titles that have made at least $1 Million each, and many of those would likely not have been published in the old, heavily curated Steam store."
Valve fortsätter med att förklara vad de anser inte riktigt har fungerat för dem och berättar hur de ska gå vidare i framtiden:
"These unforeseen successes made it abundantly clear that there are many different audiences on Steam, each looking for a different experience. For example, we see some people that sink thousands of hours into one or two games, while others purchase dozens of titles each year and play portions of each. Some customers are really excited about 4X strategy games, while others just buy visual novels.
Greenlight also exposed two key problems we still needed to address: improving the entire pipeline for bringing new content to Steam and finding more ways to connect customers with the types of content they wanted."
Det är på grund av detta som Greenlight därför stänger under våren och ersätts av nya Steam Direct:
"The next step in these improvements is to establish a new direct sign-up system for developers to put their games on Steam. This new path, which we're calling "Steam Direct," is targeted for Spring 2017 and will replace Steam Greenlight. We will ask new developers to complete a set of digital paperwork, personal or company verification, and tax documents similar to the process of applying for a bank account. Once set up, developers will pay a recoupable application fee for each new title they wish to distribute, which is intended to decrease the noise in the submission pipeline."
Valve avslutar sitt långa inlägg med att lova att de vill "make sure Steam is a welcoming environment for all developers who are serious about treating customers fairly and making quality gaming experiences" samt att de "look forward to hearing your thoughts".
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