just awesome, i hope bms will be ready soon
It generally feels like an excellent new feature for Steam, and developers that want to promote their games or gauge the response of the Steam community.
I am a bit confused about who gets to vote. Everybody? Steam community members? Steam customers? or are there extra restrictions to avoid fake accounts/trolls?
And the other thing is this snippet about concept games. It does not state what happens if you gather the required amount of votes for this case. Does it guarantee that whenever you are ready to release, Steam will support its distribution via its platform?
It would also be interesting if a nonfinished game could be released on Steam. This kind of way to release a game has become popular since Notch/Mojang made Minecraft available during development. It allows for players to get new content all the time for no extra charge which is one reason why Minecraft is so popular. Overgrowth and Kerbal Space Program do the same thing and they seem very successful. I think Valve saw that and is now trying to implement it.
I know that Black Mesa would not benefit from this way because it is not a commercial product and the devs absolutely do not want to release a beta.
I think everyone with a valid Stem account (at least one game bought) will be able to vote.
This seems like the most likely condition.
If the DeV Team (what I think they should call themselves :3 ) decides to put Black Mesa up there… I’d mostly be interested in watching the tsunami of votes roll in.
This is amazing. contacts Mojang
I wish Disney would get their head out of their ass and fucking get Tron 2.0 on steam.
Mojang doesn’t like Steam because greedy
Sadly, at the moment Steam Greenlight only supports commercial projects. Hopefully it will be updated after release to support free mods and total conversions, as this seems like the perfect platform for the distribution of Black Mesa.
I don’t see any evidence for this claim. Where did you see that?
https://lambdageneration.com/posts/steam-greenlight-announced-intends-to-crowd-source-steam-game-distribution/#more-7301
‘…it’s being limited to paid releases.’
I worry about those pricks who will make a fake BM page on Greenlight and stir everything up.
I’m more then certain that the protests outside Valve’s HQ will get more into “Release that bloody Black Mesa on Steam!!!”
Also, it’s not the fact that Valve didn’t allow Minecraft on Steam. Notch is just greedy and he tried to cover that up with “him not being able to add new content as easily as off Steam”.
Lambdageneration is a fan site. I would like to see a more official word on this.
Me too, that article has me a little worried. :[
just hope this all go’s ahead - would make for a broader audience thats for sure. Theres going to be alot of people who just go meh i cbf going to an outside link to download this its to hard.
but as the last 2 pages have said, as if valve arnt going to allow this, they need it. theres no offical news on episode 3/hl3 so bm would be a half life life line. it’d spark up the community again.
look at https://planethalflife.gamespy.com/ when was the last time that damn p.o.d was changed? even the news stream is lacking.
I’m aware it’s a fan site. I just assumed they got their information from an official source.
just like they did
Was that…? Nevermind.
This is pretty cool news, though. Hopefully BM can get hosted on this.
This is a wonderful development for sure! I’m only sad for once Black Mesa is released, Valve won’t reveal anything about their next HL project for another half a year. They’ll just play with your game all day…
Edit: And yeah, hundreds of thousands downloading it might cause Steam some problems. But anything between a resonance cascade and a portal storm is acceptable.
BM summer release… Fuck yeah!