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I see what you did there.

Yup. Hopefully the good outweighs the bad, though. :)

Of course we will!

First we need to release on Steam after handling the legal and technical side of things though. :)

I think the point of Greenlight is not to prevent bad games from appearing in the store (because they're there since long before Greenlight), but to give a chance to good ones that otherwise couldn't make it to the store.

Valve itself said that it knew Greenlight was a flawed process and were trying to think of something better.
At least it allows good games to also come to Steam. A few of my favorites actually were greenlit this time.

Before Greenlight, a small number of Valve operatives were flooded with dozens of new games applying for Steam everyday. They were refusing a good number of them based on reasons unknown to us. Some developers were telling how they finally got into Steam by sending the same game every week for a year again and again. A lot of people were complaining how so many great games were being refused into Steam.

Then Valve came up with the Greenlight to let people decide which games they want in Steam. The 100 games they greenlit above were (almost) the top 100 most popular games in Greenlight amongst 1500~ games waiting for their turn. All with 10-15k votes of people saying "Yes, I would buy this game if it was on Steam."

A game being sold in a store isn't about how good that game is based on my, your, or her tastes. It is about how many people tell that store owner that they want to buy that game. It is not a contest that is about fairness with judges and rules and everything. It is about promoting your product, big companies promote their games with expensive CG videos made by huge teams with eye-popping costs, they throw parties, events, make huge boots that cost more than sports cars on conventions. Small indie developers have very small budgets to promote their games, they make giveaways on sites they love instead.

I agree, but valve let's many bad games on steam without greenlight all the time. (See badrats, revelations 2012, WarZ, etc). And some triple A games are pretty shit too sometimes.

Valve is just weird. Still no idea why Deadly Premonition had to be green lighted.