Valve to Launch Community-Driven 'Greenlight' Service

Rob Williams · 07-10-2012, 05:27 PM

Valve, regular innovators where digital game distribution is concerned, has just announced "Greenlight", a new community-based effort on Steam that will see gamers choose which titles get released through the service. According to Valve, the internal greenlight group has always had a hard time deciding which games get through the gates, which I find a little interesting. I admit that I've always thought Steam would release anything and everything that came in, especially given the huge surge of indie titles, but apparently I was a little off the mark.

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Kayden · 07-10-2012, 07:55 PM

I thought they let any game on their service as well. I love this idea, it will help us common folk show what we want and not let those who have the money control what we see.

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Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Valve to Launch Community-Driven 'Greenlight' Service Valve, regular innovators where digital game distribution is concerned, has just announced "Greenlight", a new community-based effort on Steam that will see gamers choose which titles get released through the service. According to Valve, the internal greenlight group has always had a hard time deciding which games get through the gates, which I find a little interesting. I admit that I've always thought Steam would release anything and everything that came in, especially given the huge surge of indie titles, but apparently I was a little off the mark. Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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