Serious Sunday: Sunsetting Steam Greenlight - Valve's move toward direct distribution & its dangers
3This week, Luke editorializes about the recent news that Valve is dropping its Steam Greenlight service on its Steam game distribution platform, ending an era of crowdsourced game approval quality control on the juggernaut PC gaming platform. The news speaks of a move from the democratic player voting system to a more pure direct distribution system, and Luke explains what that might mean, and the issues that could stem from it.
Luke further explores the successes and failures of the Greenlight system, and talks about the dangers of direct distribution without robust quality control, and how it contributed to the games crash of 1983, as well as some thought about how Valve could manage their platform without turning it into a messy free-for-all, as other platforms like the App Store and Google Play are.
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Serious Sunday is a freeform, sometimes roundtable discussion between the members of Level 0 NPCs, where a specific topic is pre-selected by the group to be explored and discussed at length. Each of the NPCs approach the topic from both the perspective of a seasoned, die-hard gamer, and as creators of games themselves. Part freeform review, part critical analysis, part video game book club, Serious Sunday is where the NPCs take a step back and take a moment to give a serious look at something that is important to the industry, or games in general.