Steam Greenlight has been closed to make way for a new model called Steam Direct, Valve today advised.
“Steam Greenlight launched on August 30, 2012, at a time when we realized that we weren’t able to predict which titles players were really interested in,” Valve said of the service. “Up until that point, a small team here at Valve had been hand-picking games to invite on to the Steam platform, and almost every day we would hear from players wondering why awesome new game X wasn’t available on Steam. The more this happened, the less confident we became that our own tastes were accurately representing the tastes of everyone using Steam. Greenlight was introduced as a way to help our team figure out which games players most wanted, by having those Steam users vote.”
Nearly five years after its launch, Greenlight is now closed. Valve is currently readying its replacement, Steam Direct.
“The goal with Steam Direct is to provide an understandable and predictable path for developers from anywhere in the world to bring their games to Steam,” Valve said.
The process is relatively simple. Developers will need to sign up for the service and pay $100 USD for each title they wish to publish via Steam. Once a title makes $1,000 USD, that initial $100 fee will be returned to the developer. Brand new devs will need to wait 30 full days before publishing their first game.
Steam Direct launches on 13 June. You can read more about the service here.
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