Tag: steam direct

  • Steam Greenlight Shutdown; Direct Starts June 13th

    Valve’s Steam Greenlight program has finally been shut down in favor of Steam Direct (which launches June 13th) after months without clarity about when this changeover would occur and what the cost would be to developers submitting their games into the new Steam Direct program. There’s this interesting note in the announcement from Valve’s Alden Kroll:…

  • Steam Direct Update from Valve

    Back in February Valve announced that they were going to replace Steam Greenlight with Steam Direct. There was some confusion because Valve had not yet decided on a price per game for submissions, or a timeframe for this change to occur. The original announcement only gave a vague date of “Spring 2017.” Well, Summer starts on…

  • Goodbye Greenlight, Hello Direct

    Valve is replacing Steam Greenlight. Alden Kroll: The next step in these improvements is to establish a new direct sign-up system for developers to put their games on Steam. This new path, which we’re calling “Steam Direct,” is targeted for Spring 2017 and will replace Steam Greenlight. We will ask new developers to complete a…