No more Steam Greenlight program. However, Valve introduces Steam Direct, a new path for developers to bring their games to the Steam Store.
According to Venture Beat, the gaming platform Valve is planning to launch its new program Steam Direct in spring. Under the new program, game developers are allowed to launch their games on Steam. They need to fill out some basic paperwork (just like opening a bank account).
Under Steam Greenlight program, the Steam users were allowed to pledge support for games that Valve then helps appear on the service, its replacement Steam Direct lets the game developers get their games onto the service event without first having to win over audiences to a title, according BBC.
In a statement, Valve said developers would be able to publish their games directly after they completed a sign-up process. The sign up process requires developers to submit the same sort of information just like opening a bank account.
Aside from that, developers will pay a publishing fee. Previously, Valve said it had not yet decided how much this would be. Later on, after consulting developers, the company said said it could range from $100 (£80) to $5000 per title.
According to the company, the fee would "decrease the noise in the submission pipeline." Many people interpret it as an attempt to discourage unethical developers from submitting bad games as they have done with Greenlight.
Many Steam users complained that a lot of the games Greenlight shows off are not deserved to publicize. According to them, the games are poorly coded and derivative.
Under the program of Greenlight, Steam introduced a small fee of $100 for listing a game on the platform. This had been done to discourage the wrong practise.
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