Posted February 10, 2017
Yeah but... the only question that matters is...
How will Grimoire get on Steam without Greenlight?!?
How will Grimoire get on Steam without Greenlight?!?
yogsloth
GRAAAAAAH!!!!!
Registered: Dec 2013
From United States
tfishell
Remorse: The List, if you like FPS psych horror
Registered: Oct 2010
From United States
Posted February 10, 2017
If somebody has a RPS account, you might reply to the guy asking, "What’s gogs policy on these sort of things?" - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/10/valve-to-abolish-steam-greenlight-open-up-with-steam-direct/#comment-2384129
HunchBluntley
language geek
Registered: Jul 2014
From United States
Posted February 10, 2017
Of course, percentages aside, the number of games added last year is staggering, and certainly waaaay too many.
(Sort of off-topic, but I had to laugh at this other comment) from the Kotaku article. =D )
supplementscene
New User
Registered: Nov 2015
From United Kingdom
Posted February 10, 2017
So how do you come to the conclusion *this* news is about bringing on a metric ton of shovel ware?
Barefoot_Monkey
invertEd
Registered: Sep 2008
From South Africa
Posted February 11, 2017
It seems like an improvement. With Greenlight you paid $100 once and then either submit as much as possible until something gets notices, otherwise you wasted all that money; or your lone submission gets buried unless you do some do something to get people to vote, which often ends up being rather dodgy.
With direct you pay $100 (maybe - still to be decided) per submission, which gets moderated by Valve and (from the sound of it) your fee gets reimbursed if they like your game. All those bad games that are submitted pay for the moderation. If I understood correctly, once your first game is accepted you will be able to add more games directly without waiting for moderation, but you still pay a recoupable $100 per title. Presumably those get added to a queue where moderators can later approve your games, giving your money back, or even revoke your direct access if they think you're abusing the system (for example, acting as a proxy to let other devs skip the initial moderation to get bad games on the store).
That's all conjecture on my part based on few details that Valve gave away in their announcement.
With direct you pay $100 (maybe - still to be decided) per submission, which gets moderated by Valve and (from the sound of it) your fee gets reimbursed if they like your game. All those bad games that are submitted pay for the moderation. If I understood correctly, once your first game is accepted you will be able to add more games directly without waiting for moderation, but you still pay a recoupable $100 per title. Presumably those get added to a queue where moderators can later approve your games, giving your money back, or even revoke your direct access if they think you're abusing the system (for example, acting as a proxy to let other devs skip the initial moderation to get bad games on the store).
That's all conjecture on my part based on few details that Valve gave away in their announcement.
Matruchus
Don't ignore Tux
Registered: Jun 2011
From Slovenia
Shadowstalker16
Jaded optimist
Registered: Apr 2014
From India
Posted February 11, 2017
Didn't know there was thread about this.Either way, I think a TC system overhaul would've been better. Steam themselves seem to have said that there have been many greenlit games that made over 1 million dollars that would never have seen the light of day if they were chosen through a curated system.
Nirth
Songs of Conquest
Registered: Oct 2010
From Other
