Valve Will Let Gamers Pick Games To Appear On Steam

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Valve has announced a new system called Greenlight (http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/), which will allow the gaming community to select which games get chosen for distribution via Steam. Developers will post information about their games — this can be screenshots and videos, or even concepts and potential game mechanics for titles still in development. Once posted, the Steam community will be able to vote on which ones are the best. This will prioritize which games become available on Steam first. Greenlight is Valve's attempt to solve what they call an "intractable problem" (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/173845/Valve_Steam_Greenlight_is_the_solution_to_an_intra ctable_problem.php) — figuring out ahead of time what games players will like. They also hope to facilitate the development of interesting games (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-10-valve-steam-greenlight-will-create-fandom). "We think it's going to encourage this virtuous development cycle. The problem we had of, how do we encourage somebody when they're not done developing yet? This we think will work. We think a bunch of people will be looking at it going, 'oh my gosh, I want that.'"
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/10/1822221/valve-will-let-gamers-pick-games-to-appear-on-steam