Valve has closed Steam Greenlight, a service for publishing games by independent developers on Steam that have gained sufficient user support.
“We have disabled voting and stopped accepting games in Steam Greenlight. Over the next week, the Valve team will select the last batch of titles to go through Greenlight,” Valve engineer Alden Knoll wrote in a corporate blog.
To replace Greenlight, Steam Direct is launched on June 13 — a new service for the distribution of games in Valve’s Steam store.
Placing the game on Steam via Direct will cost $100.
Valve is abandoning the Greenlight system and introducing Direct for the same reason that it started the experiment with Steam Greenlight in 2012 — to present more diverse game content on the platform.
Prior to the start of the Steam Greenlight program, Valve employees manually selected games for the Steam catalog and regularly received questions about why a particular game was not included in the list.
According to Alden Knoll, the Steam Greenlight experience proved to Valve that the internal team cannot provide a variety of games for every taste in the Steam store.
According to Valve, Direct develops this idea, giving consumers the right to choose the most suitable games for themselves.
At the same time, Valve is working on improving algorithms that recommend games to gamers for review from the Steam catalog.
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