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Steam Greenlight: 1000 games and counting, more Greenlit every few weeks

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idolminds

Neo Member
Why don't the Pinball Arcade people sell the game anywhere else on PC? I'd go buy it now rather than wait for a Greenlight that may never go through. Thats mainly what I do with Greenlight anyway. "Oh hey, that game looks cool. Lemme check their web site and see if I can buy it already."

Already played the crap out of La-Mulana. Sucks to be the people waiting for Steam to get its act together.
 
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Warm Machine

Member
Some of those games that just got Greenlit would probably have sunk their studios if they didn't get on Steam. I find it hard to believe that outside of Steam they would have come close to paying their costs off.
 
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Blizzard

Banned
Ha at no La Mulana, Pinball Arcade, or Shantae. Maybe we'll get an update on their ranking positions after another month though.
 
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ThatsMytrunks

Member
So my game's been up since the week after greenlight started, it's gotten some decent traffic (15k unique visitors, 450 favorites), and I was at 52% of the way to the top 100, and for every day for a couple of weeks it was slowly going down.

I don't know what the fuck is going on, and I don't know how to push my game forward.
 
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YianGaruga

Banned
ThatsMytrunks said:
So my game's been up since the week after greenlight started, it's gotten some decent traffic (15k unique visitors, 450 favorites), and I was at 52% of the way to the top 100, and for every day for a couple of weeks it was slowly going down.

I don't know what the fuck is going on, and I don't know how to push my game forward.
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Are you advertising it? Most games won't be able to get to the top on their own merits, sadly.
It could also be a sign that people aren't interested enough.
 
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Nymerio

Member
Goddamnit, I feel for the poor soul at Valve who had to wade through that cesspit of crappy games prior to greenlight. I can't believe some of the crap that is on there. I'm not very picky and vote on almost anything that seems interesting, but some of the stuff I saw on there is just ridiculous...

A lot of these devs need learn who to properly make a case for their games. If your 3 minute trailer consists of 20 seconds of gameplay and the rest of the time the screen is black with some bullshit text on it ("Kill monsters", "collect loot", etc.) it's just annoying. And why even bother to put your game on greenlight with 3 images of concept art that doesn't even say anything about the game?
 
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FatBaby

Member
idolminds said:
Why don't the Pinball Arcade people sell the game anywhere else on PC? I'd go buy it now rather than wait for a Greenlight that may never go through. Thats mainly what I do with Greenlight anyway. "Oh hey, that game looks cool. Lemme check their web site and see if I can buy it already."

Already played the crap out of La-Mulana. Sucks to be the people waiting for Steam to get its act together.
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Probably because it involves a ton of DLC with the table packs, and at this point in time, Steam seems like the only realistic solution to provide that. Unless there is some other method I am missing. Origin, I guess?
 
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gabbo

Member
Warm Machine said:
Some of those games that just got Greenlit would probably have sunk their studios if they didn't get on Steam. I find it hard to believe that outside of Steam they would have come close to paying their costs off.
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Care to point out which game you think this applies to most?
 
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Nymerio

Member
And I'm done:

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BudokaiMR2

Member
Hmm yeah I wasn't really holding my breath for La-Mulana in this latest batch but it is still disappointing.

It is starting to get frustrating especially when Valve does silly stuff like push Primorida into Greenlight. There was obviously no need for it to be there as evidenced by the speed at which it flew through the charts. Instead it basically just took a spot from other new developers who the system is supposedly for and some of whom have been waiting months now. I know that is a negative way to look at things but I really don't understand why some games are being directed towards Greenlight.

It really does feel like they are just using everyone as test subjects without any real thought to their own needs....
 
Nabs

Nabs

Member
Isn't Primordia coming out this week? They probably just used Greenlight to get some hype. It worked.
 
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Nymerio

Member
You can view the ones you've voted for and even change your vote. The voting was quite interesting, because whenever I started voting after a break or whatever I had far more good will than say 20 minutes later. After a certain time you just started throwing downvotes around because some of the crap that is on there is just unbelievable.

There are some real gems out there though, what surprised me the most must have been this: Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator.
 
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cartman414

Member
BudokaiMR2 said:
Hmm yeah I wasn't really holding my breath for La-Mulana in this latest batch but it is still disappointing.

It is starting to get frustrating especially when Valve does silly stuff like push Primorida into Greenlight. There was obviously no need for it to be there as evidenced by the speed at which it flew through the charts. Instead it basically just took a spot from other new developers who the system is supposedly for and some of whom have been waiting months now. I know that is a negative way to look at things but I really don't understand why some games are being directed towards Greenlight.

It really does feel like they are just using everyone as test subjects without any real thought to their own needs....
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Question: was Dragon's Lair necessary?
 
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BudokaiMR2

Member
cartman414 said:
Question: was Dragon's Lair necessary?
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I don't know honestly. I mean I can see the reasoning that sent it through Greenlight as it is so old and nothing really comparable on the service.

Primordia just seems strange to me because it was an experienced developer with previous content on the Steam store and yet they were specifically told to apply through Greenlight. The official FAQ of Greenlight says it is meant for 'new' developers which Wadjet Eye would not fall under(they aren't the only example).

The actual targets and goals for Greenlight are so vague and undefined at this point it is hard to really know what to expect.
 
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HP_Wuvcraft

Banned
Drakensang is on Greenlight. That one was really odd.

I loved reading the comments for it, though. People acting like it was a pretentious Baldur's Gate rip off from an unknown indie dev.
 
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BudokaiMR2

Member
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Echoplx

Member
Popstar said:
Why is it on Greenlight, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=106180446 , when it's already in the store http://store.steampowered.com/app/33770/?snr=1_7_suggest__13 ?
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This game is available on Steam in certain regions ONLY (I.e., North America, maybe South America). It is on Steam in those regions as THQ have published it on Steam under their Valusoft label. However, THQ do not have the license to sell the game to the Rest of the World (ROW).

DTP, who have placed this game on Greenlight, have the ROW license. Unfortunately, there is no longer a channel for them to use to get the game on Steam without it going through Greenlight. This is why the game is on Greenlight.

If you can buy the game on Steam already, you're lucky. Please remember that most of Steam's customers are not as lucky as you and cannot purchase the game on Steam.

Thank you.
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http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/106180446/864950398896029040/
 
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Blizzard

Banned
2 years, not bad. If they work at it, maybe we can get HL2:Ep3/HL3 levels of Greenlight backlog. :p

We need to come up with a catchy name for it, like "Greenlog" or "backlight".
 
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I H8 Memes

Member
I wish the criteria was upvote/downvote insteead of buy vs not buy. Of course we can treat it the same but some people might the buy/wont buy that too literally. There are a lot of games I wouldn't buy that I upvote just because they are high quality games that belong on Steam.
 
Wok

Wok

Member
I H8 Memes said:
I wish the criteria was upvote/downvote insteead of buy vs not buy. Of course we can treat it the same but some people might the buy/wont buy that too literally. There are a lot of games I wouldn't buy that I upvote just because they are high quality games that belong on Steam.
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Whether you would buy a game is a more objective criterion rather than whether you think other people would buy the game.

allansm said:
There is a 0% chance I will back this game even though I upvoted it. I didn't like the dev's attitude at all.
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Could you point some links which would explain what makes you dislike his attitude? I am curious.
 
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Nymerio

Member
gabbo said:
My god.. I just can't bring myself to downvote things I don't like, unless they're really heinous. i've rated, maybe 95 games/ideas (since before the split) tops.
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Just try to go threw 20 games in one session. I guarantee you'll be so annoyed by shitty trailers and bad art that you won't have any scruple downvoting anything ever again.

edit: Would be amazing if the HL3 announcement will be the game going up on greenlight.
 
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allansm

Member
Wok said:
Whether you would buy a game is a more objective criterion rather than whether you think other people would buy the game.



Could you point some links which would explain what makes you dislike his attitude? I am curious.
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Sorry, english is not my first language so I can't make myself clear enough sometimes. What I disliked was putting a game for consideration on greenlight without having the funding to complete it and without telling the release date would be the second half of 2014. Maia and Spud's Quest did the right thing, in my opinion: both were listed as a concept during their kickstarter, Spud's Quest was moved to the games section as soon as the kickstarter ended, Maya is still a concept.
 
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R1CHO

Member
My stats are:

263 thumbs up
719 thumbs down

I don't feel bad about it, i am trying to be honest; actually i think is quite positive.
 
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