Steam Greenlight Ending

GamesBeat collects some developer tweets from Valve's just-launched developer days, since the press is not in attendance. One tweet mentions third-party Steam controllers are in the cards, and another says that the Steam Greenlight program is going away. This meshes with a video interview recently mentioned on PC Gamer where Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail speculated that the recent rash of greenlights was to clear the queue before ending the system. "I'm thinking that because they've been clearing the queue at such a rapid rate. They've been clearing 100 games every month. . .You don’t do that because there are 100 good games on Greenlight every month," he suggests. "You do that because you want to get rid of everything that isn't greenlit before you kill it, so you don’t upset developers." His theory is that any developer will eventually be able to put their games on Steam.
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Prez wrote on Jan 15, 2014, 16:59:
I think many people would rather see Early Access go away, but I for one like it and hope it stays. Greenlight was a good idea but it just didn't work well. It didn't stop boatloads of crapware from getting on Steam.

Early access going away would mean Valve couldn't take their 30% for unfinished software, silly. They're not going to let that happen.

Basically what made Steam the "best" of the digital distribution markets (i.e. they actually vetted the stuff they sold) is going to go away. And I gotta admit, it seems like a smart business move on Valve's part because why make your 30% for doing something when you can earn the same amount and do absolutely nothing for it except screwing over the expectations of your consumers?

The way I read this whole thing was, "Well Greenlight seemed like a great idea here at Valve but we accidentally fired (oh, I'm sorry peer reviewed out) the guy that ran it and no one else wants to deal with it so we're dumping it!"
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