Valve is planning to make Steam open, Network API like, to upload what you want… what you think.
cool
Hopefully there’ll still be a distinction between officially-vetted games and user-submitted ones. I don’t want to have to start filtering by rating when looking for games on steam.
To quote the first comment:
This is practically what my first thought was. It somehow feels like it will be too “open”.
Exactly my point.
but they let any shit on now as long as its from a publisher or whatever
The difference between a shitty game from an actual publisher and 70,000 shitty flash games is pretty significant, though.
I’m sure they know that this will be an issue and will address it in some way.
well yeah but the main difference is millions of dollars which is a shitty one to be on the wrong side of if your the guy that made one of those flash games
They’d better have something similar to Greenlight’s $100 charge submission charge. I really don’t like the idea of Steam being an open network for games. Too much extra room and potential for crap.
Steam will be filled with tons of crappy flash games, that wont be good for its rep.
I don’t really see a problem. Youtube is full of shitty videos, doesn’t mean you have to watch them. Or even know they exist. Or did you miss the user generated store thing?
I don’t want Steam to become like youtube, where everything is dictated by the algorithms that try to predict what a user likes, and we end up with people buying games just because of their popularity (they end up being recommended to more and people because the search algorithm has too many positive variables) A perfect example of this on youtube is gangnam style.
A good idea is create an “Comunity Games” bar whith all the user created games with direct downloads to Steam, but also have the greenlight buttons with Like/Unlike, Bugs, Comments, and when a game have lots of unlike or a button like “Repetitive” or “The same flash crap” or “OriginalGameDoNotSteal” the game will be deleted innmediatly, also i hope they still in the need of pay, a bit less ($20 -$50) so you can avoid fake games and episodes 3 everiwhere.
Sorry for the english
They also talked about opening up the storefront and allowing only for “stores” selected by people. Yahtzee Croshaw was an example of someone who might put together a store. And it’d be games Yahtzee approved of, so basically you’d go into Yahtzee’s store and you’d look through the games he has and approves of and he would have a dictated mark up from the default steam price for the items in his store. He’d get a percent of that back for whatever you bought as a compensation for his service to the community in gathering an interesting and useful storefront. So you wouldn’t need a system or approval process. Your community would approve everything. Shitty flash games wouldn’t find their way on to many stores for this reason. Publishers would probably run stores and individual indie devs would probably too. I doubt this would be a problem.
Wait, you get paid to make a Storefront? Considering my wide ranging gaming taste and tendency to write long winded reviews, I could actually make money on this.
Sign me the fuck up.
I don’t know how MUCH though. Thing is, based on the interview and the DICE conference both of which I watched. It sounds like you can mark up the price of the game to your discretion, the thing is if you mark it up too high you are competing with other stores. Your store would probably have to be pretty good and popular to make enough money to be worth the effort. I imagine the people who would be most inclined to be successful at this are already existing members of the video game media. From game jurnalizts to popular youtubers.
This is a lot of change. I don’t know if I want it or not. (Not like it matters)
It’s the content you generate for said game. There’s a whole new legal end of it if they do this. It looks good in theory, but I wonder how they’re going to manage, cleanse the stupid shit, and keep the copyright down to a minimum.
It’s in the future, prolly far off. Just wait and see the revised ToU.
To be honest, Kenny, I really don’t think that there’s that big of a market for Sonic games.
Har har. I realize I go into depth about them sometimes but I like a ton of other games. At some point I will have to take a picture of my collection. 300+ games across 10 platforms.