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Posted February 10, 2017
Bring on the metric ton of shovelware! Hooray!

Even more crap I get to ignore. Oh, joy. Guess there will be really no reason anymore for me to browse for games other than discounted AAA titles.
Posted February 10, 2017
Valve have announced plans to hugely widen the number of games they allow onto Steam

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-62eJfLXcm2o/U11e7p58NOI/AAAAAAAAAkM/k1YM2yUQXR8/s1600/divided+by+zero.jpg
Post edited February 10, 2017 by Grargar
Posted February 10, 2017
=D
Posted February 10, 2017
Meh, makes no difference to me. I don't use the Steam site or client to find new games I might interested in, just to buy and play. So basically, I already know what I want to watch for in Steam sales. More shovelware won't affect much for me.
Posted February 10, 2017
I must be confused because the biggest change they are making there is that the entry fee for selling games on Steam changes from one single $100 donation to Childs Play for unlimited games, to a $100 - $5000 (still to be decided) recoupable fee per new game.

So how do you come to the conclusion *this* news is about bringing on a metric ton of shovel ware?
Post edited February 10, 2017 by Pheace
Posted February 10, 2017
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Pheace: I must be confused because the biggest change they are making there is that the entry fee for selling games on Steam changes from one single $100 donation to Childs Play for unlimited games, to a $100 - $5000 (still to be decided) recoupable fee per new game.

So how do you come to the conclusion *this* news is about bringing on a metric ton of shovel ware?
Greenlight also requires a number of users to vote for "allowing" the game to be available on Steam. With Direct, they remove this step entirely.
Posted February 10, 2017
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Ghildrean: Greenlight also requires a number of users to vote for "allowing" the game to be available on Steam. With Direct, they remove this step entirely.
Lately there's hardly been any difference there though, games have been getting through Greenlight en masse.
Posted February 10, 2017
Great! I can't wait to play the latest games from Tigital Vomicide.
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Ghildrean: Greenlight also requires a number of users to vote for "allowing" the game to be available on Steam. With Direct, they remove this step entirely.
I also recall people thinking that the $100 fee to get into Greenlight would be enough to drive the riff-raff away.
Post edited February 10, 2017 by rampancy
Posted February 10, 2017
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse (Valve-wise), the universe reminds me it offers endless possibilities...
Posted February 10, 2017
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Ghildrean: Greenlight also requires a number of users to vote for "allowing" the game to be available on Steam. With Direct, they remove this step entirely.
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Pheace: Lately there's hardly been any difference there though, games have been getting through Greenlight en masse.
I know. I think I read somewhere there were even groups of users that could vote for the game in question for a price or something like that.

Just pointing out the only difference between the two systems.
Post edited February 10, 2017 by Ghildrean
Posted February 10, 2017
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Pheace: Lately there's hardly been any difference there though, games have been getting through Greenlight en masse.
Nearly 40% of Steam's entire catalog was released In 2016...
Post edited February 10, 2017 by rampancy
Posted February 10, 2017
Duck and cover!!
Posted February 10, 2017
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Ghildrean: Just pointing out the only difference between the two systems.
I assume you meant to say the only 'other' difference :)
Posted February 10, 2017
Seemed like a 1st April joke but no :o)

I'm very curious about what will be the exact financial terms for the devs (regarding the fee, will the store cut be modified, etc).

Meanwhile as we don't have more infos, we can get a peek into the other side to see how the news is taken:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5t8v61/steam_greenlight_is_about_to_be_dumped/
Posted February 10, 2017
It’s too late. The damage has already been done.
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