Hey so I know OF Greenlight but not much about it and I also saw a thread in the General Forum about Greenlight being canceled. I know it’s like $100 to submit your game but what are the requirements?
Can ANY trash get through the system? (sorry for calling some games trash, I mean it’s someone’s work but you know what I mean…) Who sorts out what gets in and what doesn’t?
It’s very possible nobody does. However that in itself won’t be much more of a problem than Greenlight already is. A LOT of bad, half assed products already got through it, so it certainly wasn’t much of a filter for bad products to begin with. And on the plus side, if your product happens to be good but there isn’t that much noise about it, this way you’d get through anyway and let it stand on its own feet, once you pay the fee.
And if it happens to not work as intended, or be worse than the current situation is, it’s very likely Steam will decommission it within a couple days. Think about the whole paid mods issue.
Read this:
Everything else is speculation.
Usually, the route is like this: You pay a $100 fee for Greenlight access > Then you set-up a page (either Concept or finished work) > Users vote, if they want to see your Game on Steam or not > If they want, your Game will be greenlit and you’ll get an e-mail with further informations. You’ll also need to do digital paperwork, such as signing an NDA (you’re not allowed to talk about anything behind-the-scenes), setting up your company details, etc.
But since Greenlight gets replaced by a new system very soon, these steps might get obsolote.
That it runs.
Trash gets through all the time.
Community members. Some of which just love watching the world burn. So they occasionally vote the trash onto the store.
Here is an example.
Damn… Sounds like a mess in a place where everything should actually be organized.
I did, thank you for the link. Still quite a few unanswered questions but I guess you already said, everything else is speculation.
Wow… Thanks for the great explanation. So even if I have a good game and for some reason I didn’t get good feedback and didn’t get a green light… I can’t put my game up? According to what others said here, anything pretty much gets through… Is that greenlight even necessary? This is why it’s probably being removed.
Lol wow… You’re sour about that entire thing ah. A lot of developers are pissed off. As an avid gamer I know what you mean. I see what kind of pure SH*T gets through.
5 DOLLARS 49 CENTS CANADIAN FOR THAT GAME?
NICE GRAPHICS? LOL…
I don’t wanna hurt that developer but maybe he should go back to the books. This is messed up. How can they let this happen? I am not even a developer yet and I am shocked, I can only imagine how you guys feel… I don’t understand why people even bothered buying that game.
If you want more discussion and speculation you can check out this thread in the general discussion forum: https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/steam-greenlight-is-going-away.455797/page-5#post-2959738
Thank you!