Steam's new project - Greenlight

[Weaver]

IMO there's just too many damn games on it at the moment. I don't have time to review every single one of them.

 

[SlamDunc]

So when do I get to play "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong: The Game"? Or is there some process to select the games that go on it in the first place?

Though this could be a good idea. Even if they do not get on Steam they get a little publicity.

Captcha: 'Fancy Free' No Captcha, "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong: The Game" will be the most fancy of things.

EDIT: I feel sad I need to say this but if you are offended please look it up.

 

[Awexsome]

Hellooooo fanboy system control.

Taking the gamer masses as a whole is a terrible idea. Some shoddily thrown together indie game would get a better ratio than ME3 if it hypothetically ever came up.

Hate rules over love when it comes to these things. Metabombs are proof of this.

 

[Chibini]

For some shameless selfpromoting, here's an indie game I've uploaded to greenlight.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92935891&searchtext=

It's a retro-style adventure/RPG game with an MMO as a setting. Been workin on it with the rest of the Derail crew for a year now. Enjoy! : ]

 

[Kitty4President]

Just because a game has blocks doesn't mean its a minecraft ripoff.

Its bad enough stupid people are calling "towns" and the gnome version of dwarf fortress "Minecraft ripoffs." regardless of the fact they are based on Dwarf Fortress, a game older than Minecraft.

My god Minecraft has the worst fanbase since Call of Duty. Anything similar is trolled to hell before they learn what it is. Now actual games that came before Minecraft are getting down-voted, and not being allowed on steam.

I don't understand why you're getting your panties in a twist.
Did I just say "There's a bunch of Minecraft ripoffs"? No, I said "There's a bunch of ripoffs, especially minecraft ones". There are other examples of games being copied here, y'know. Plus, I never even mentioned any games which I think fit the "minecraft clone" catagory.
Calm Down, bro.

 

[DugMachine]

I just hope 4chan doesn't do it's trolling on this and greenlight silly games.

 

[bafrali]

Well power to the people i guess. Of course it has its risks but so did creating a digital distribution platform. Carry on Valve.

 

[MetalMagpie]

anc[is]This has a lot of potential for abuse from both sides. On the one hand random trolls could doom a project before it even has a chance. On the other hand anyone with a horde of fans could just point them to any random piece of trash and that would get more attention than a decent game no one has heard of before.

It's been confirmed by a Valve employee that downvotes do not remove upvotes. It looks as if all the downvote does is remove the game from your list (not confirmed). And no amount of votes guarantees a game will be added to Steam. All Steam promise is that they'll pay more attention to games that seem to be "getting traction".

So what's preventing one developer from creating a bunch of Steam accounts to downvote their competitors and upvote their own game? And isn't this sort of making games even more of a popularity contest?

I'm assuming voting on Greenlight works the same as other community features (such as chat). I.e. You need to have spent money on your Steam account first. So creating loads of fake accounts could get expensive.

The original release I saw on Greenlight emphasised that it's still the responsibility of the developer to promote their game. So if they want to prove to Steam that they can get enough "traction" for their game to be a success, they're going to need to drum up some enthusiasm. "Popularity contest" is perhaps a mean way of putting it, but if no one cares about a game, then no one will buy it.

 

[MetalMagpie]

I just hope 4chan doesn't do it's trolling on this and greenlight silly games.

The percentage bar is a bit of a lie. From reading the FAQs, Valve won't automatically accept a game just because it gets the "required" number of votes. They also don't actually require a game to hit a particular number of votes for it to get accepted. They're just interested in finding out which games people are most interested in so they can consider them.

Think of it like voting on a shortlist for Valve employees to consider.

 

[Tentaquil]

Great idea, I just hope it won't abused by trolls.

Famous last words right there