Valve Celebrates One Year of Steam Greenlight ... with SALE
Steam Greenlight is one year old today. In a statement this morning, Valve said Greenlight has doubled the number of independent titles available on Steam since its launch, and new titles continue to be submitted every day.
"Ultimately our goal is to have no bottlenecks at all between developers and consumers," said Valve co-founder Gabe Newell. "As we move closer to that, launching Greenlight and evolving our backend toolset has helped us increase our publishing throughput, pushing the number of independent titles released in the last twelve months to equal the number of titles published from all other categories combined. We expect that number to grow dramatically as we continue to iterate upon our developer service features and seek more ways to improve Steam's value to the community."
Yesterday, Valve announced 100 new Greenlit titles, calling the new milestone “both a celebration of the progress we've made behind the scenes and a stress test of our systems. Future batches are not likely to be as large, but if everything goes smoothly we should be able to continue increasing the throughput of games from Greenlight to the Steam store.”
Steam Greenlight was originally announced last summer before launching in August 2012. Valve soon implemented a $100 fee to cut down on joke submissions, and later expanded the program to accept non-games and “Concepts,” allowing devs to “start building a community and getting feedback from prospective customers.”
IGN.com
OP: Steam is marking down many Greenlight games through Mon, Sept 2nd 10am PDT (1pm EDT, 6pm BST). A quickie list of the biggest markdowns:
75% off
McPixel, now $1.25
Postal 2 Complete, now $2.50
DLC Quest, now $0.75
Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams, now $3.75
66% off
Gnomoria, now $2.72
Sang-Froid Tales of Werewolves, now $5.10
No Time To Explain, now $3.40
AirBuccaneers, now $5.10
Euro Truck, now $3.06
Euro Truck Simulator 2, now $13.60
Fly'n, now $3.40
Miasmata, now $5.10
Dawn of Fantasy: Kingdom Wars, now $6.80
Towns, now $5.10
Surgeon Simulator 2013, now $3.40
Kinetic Void, now $6.80
Incredipede, now $3.40
La-Mulana, now $5.10
Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition, now $3.40
Primordia, now $3.40
Anodyne, now $3.40
Inquisitor, now $3.40
50% off
Waking Mars, now $4.99
Miner Wars 2081, now $9.99
Organ Trail Director's Cut, now $2.49
Gear Up, now $4.99
Receiver, now $2.49
Akaneiro: Demon Hunters, now $4.99
Evoland, now $4.99
Eador, now $9.99
DarkFall Unholy Wars, now $19.97
Rush Bros, now $4.99
Kentucky Route Zero, now $12.49
There are many more games on sale between 10% and 40% off. I didn't get an alert email when a game on my Wishlist was marked down, so it might be worth taking a look manually to see if something you want is on sale now.
Steam's Greenlight Sale Page
Does anyone else vote on Greenlight games? Six of the ones I voted for have been green-lit, but I've only bought one. oop