Valve announced a new system on their digital download service, Steam. Steam Greenlight will allow the Steam community and users to give their thumbs up on indie game that have not been released on Steam to be added to the Steam catalogue. Essentially users will be green-lighting games featured on Steam Greenlight to be on Steam. This hopefully would speed up the process of deciding which indie title will be published on Steam. There has been some criticism lately of Steam's rather slow process of decision making regarding indie titles, as well as the quality of some of the cheap low budget indie games on Steam. I love the way Valve are approaching this by allowing the community to give they say. Giving us a voice in telling them what games we want to play(there is an option to submit games not on Steam Greenlight in this system too). This however, is not to say that Valve will not be having their own internal submission evaluation process, but I hope this would alleviate the time it takes for this entire process and help the indie developers who have been frustrated by... Valve time.
Source: Steam News
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