Sit back and wave at the Greenlight
There has been a wealth of news from Steam Developer Days as freewheeling game makers tweet like fiends. There’s theSteam Controller redesign, Valve wantingmusic and video services for SteamOS,75 million active users on Steam(a 10M bump in three months), and more.
Atweet by Dave Oshry, recently responsible for revivingRise of the Triad, also points to Valve’s Gabe Newell being unhappy with Steam Greenlight. “Our goal is to make Greenlight go away. Not because it’s not useful, but because we’re evolving.”
Greenlight hasreceived some criticismsince its inception for still acting as a barrier to release. Newell has gone on record against closed systems, where Windows is heading, so working to increasingly open up Steam to smaller developers makes a lot of sense.
