Valve to let gamers choose which games end up on Steam

[Phynaz]

Valve is blocked for me at work, so I'll have to take you there via Techreport.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/23233

 

[shortylickens]

OK, I want a fixed KOTOR 2 and Win 7 compatible Final Fantasty VII on Steam.

 

[diesbudt]

I want hello Kitty online for steam.

 

[darkewaffle]

Skies of Arcadia 2!

 

[diesbudt]

Skies of Arcadia 2!

There is a 2!?

I played legends on the gamecube long ago. Definitely an underrated game.

 

[Dankk]

This is a brilliant idea.

Valve gets a metric fuckload of indie games submitted to them all the time, and in the past they've had to rely in a small team of people to review them and sift through all the crap.

For every 1 game that makes it to Steam, there are probably 99 others that are broken or fraudulent. One of the Valve reps mentioned that a common trick is to change the title and loading screen of Call of Duty and submit it as a new game.

This will be a great way to crowdsource these decisions, where crappy games will be weeded out via the voting process. There've been a lot of good games that have unfortunately not made it to Steam, but now Valve has a way of gauging how popular/successful a game will be. Again; brilliant idea.

 

[Red Storm]

I couldn't find the option for Episode 3...

 

[JTsyo]

I couldn't find the option for Episode 3...

lol

I don't suppose games I play on bnet and Origin will be an option.

 

[shortylickens]

lol

I don't suppose games I play on bnet and Origin will be an option.

Nope. When they saw how incredibly profitable Steam was they knew they had to make their own system.

 

[Rakewell]

Black Mesa?

 

[diesbudt]

Nope. When they saw how incredibly profitable Steam was they knew they had to make their own system.

That is what kills me with business. If something is working, competitors copy it with their own version, instead of 1 upping them.

Anotehr example of this is Wii motion control. Even though the Wii games are more targeted to casual players, and family/party like games, PS3 and the 360 saw the succeess with motion control and had to adopt their own version.

 

[CPA]

According to Valve, developers will be able to submit games for consideration "as early in the development process as they like;" they'll only need to provide a description of the game, one video, four screenshots, "tentative system requirements," and box art.

Not sure how any gamer could make an informed decision with that small amount of information.

 

[shortylickens]

According to Valve, developers will be able to submit games for consideration "as early in the development process as they like;" they'll only need to provide a description of the game, one video, four screenshots, "tentative system requirements," and box art.

Not sure how any gamer could make an informed decision with that small amount of information.

If you see "Available March 2020", DONT BUY IT!!

 

[JTsyo]

At least I can count on the ATOT effect if there's something I want to see on Steam

 

[CPA]

If you see "Available March 2020", DONT BUY IT!!

Noted!

 

[KeithP]

Why would Valve want to limit the games on Steam based on votes from people that, for the most part, have no business running their own lives much less deciding on what products Steam offers for sale?

It seems to me Valve should be spending their time working on a Steam UI that makes it easy to find games based on various criteria the user provides not limiting choice because their service is a mess and adding too many games would make navigation a pain.

-KeithP

 

[gorobei]

do you people even read the linked articles?

the greenlight program appears to be for indie games in preproduction. the idea being to see how many people are interested in some unknown dev's project based on a description and any preproduction art/assets. basically they are making a games only version of kickstarter. without the money pledging part for now.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

It seems to me Valve should be spending their time working on a Steam UI that makes it easy to find games based on various criteria the user provides not limiting choice because their service is a mess and adding too many games would make navigation a pain.

-KeithP

Couldnt agree more. Ive started a few threads on the steam forums about this. At the very worst, just allow multiple categories, and set it up like gmail does labels.

I spent some time organizing all my games a month or so ago, and now its even worse than before. I made about 15 different categories (8 indie and 8 regular) and now everytime i open steam, theyre all expanded, and it looks like this:

But i still like the voting idea. Honestly how long should it take to fix the library? doesnt seem that hard.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

This is for getting attention to games that otherwise might not be carried... not to determine whether call of duty 35 will be sold on steam.

 

[TheUnk]

For every 1 game that makes it to Steam, there are probably 99 others that are broken or fraudulent. One of the Valve reps mentioned that a common trick is to change the title and loading screen of Call of Duty and submit it as a new game.

And they got away with it like 4 times now.

 

[aka1nas]

According to Valve, developers will be able to submit games for consideration "as early in the development process as they like;" they'll only need to provide a description of the game, one video, four screenshots, "tentative system requirements," and box art.

Not sure how any gamer could make an informed decision with that small amount of information.

That's about all that you get with some preorders now, so I don't see a major problem.