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Valve Will Let Gamers Pick Games To Appear On Steam 129

Valve has announced a new system called 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" — figuring out ahead of time what games players will like. They also hope to facilitate the development of interesting games. "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.'"

Comment Even better... (Score 1) 572

The likelihood of things like "Oh, of COURSE has kiddy porn on it!" is high.

Even scarier is the inevitable:

"No, we can't show you the list of sites you can't visit because then you might use it to go to the site on another ISP That's not blocking it".

The transparency issue here is incredibly frightening.

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