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Adding discussions & more data for developers

September 18th, 2012 - Alden

Today's update to Steam Greenlight brings a handful of changes and additions for fans and developers.

First, we heard from both developers and gamers that it was hard to have a meaningful conversation about a Greenlight game within the often lengthy comment section on the page. So starting today, each listing in Steam Greenlight will also have a dedicated discussion area where fans can ask questions, post feedback, and start conversations around the game.

For developers, we're adding more data on weekly voting for their title and greater visibility about their status within the Greenlight process.

Developers can now see a graph showing their up-vote traffic for each day of the past week, and compare it with the average votes for top-ranked games.

Next, we've made changes to help give developers a better idea of how their titles are progressing to being Greenlit. For games in the Top 100 ranking, devs will now see their specific numerical ranking. For games below the top 100, they will see their progress toward top 100.

And finally, mark your calendars for October 15. On that date, we'll be announcing at least 10 of the next games that the community has voted up and moving them to the 'Greenlit' section. Make sure you get your votes in and make your voice count.

Head on over to the Greenlight discussions to let us know what you think about these updates, and be sure to join the Official Group for the latest news and announcements.

Other minor updates of note:
- Added a section to the front page of the Steam store to promote Steam Greenlight
- Added a new tab to Greenlight item detail pages to list out more comments per-page

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Honey Nut Chelios Oct 7, 2012 @ 9:54am

Is there any way for non-devs to see the overall rank of a particular title? Perhaps have filters similar to what is shown on the Greenlight main page (genre, platform, etc).

Exerpt Oct 2, 2012 @ 6:30pm

It seems it would be quite tough to get a 2D game greenlight.

Meltdown Interactive Media Sep 27, 2012 @ 9:22am

I have to agree with Mindwedge. Valve should rank within genres, not overall. It will be impossible for racing games or games in lesser genres to compete with FPS and RPG titles.

Awesome Games Studio Sep 22, 2012 @ 7:57am

Just noticed you moved the banner a little higher, that's cool! However, I still have some suggestions:
- the banner looks broken - shouldn't the gradient cover the icons entirely rather than just partially? http://www.awesomegamesstudio.com/_tmp/greenlight_bug.png
- how about a button next to search bar? here's what it could look like: http://www.awesomegamesstudio.com/_tmp/greenlight_2.png

The_Crazy_Hand Sep 20, 2012 @ 10:32pm

So now instead of progress towards being greenlit, each game has to compete for a spot in the top 100 and hope? Are you fucking serious?

wishnowski Sep 20, 2012 @ 7:39am

Thank you for the new data! It's helpful and encouraging to actually see the target we're aiming for.

ShadowShifters Sep 19, 2012 @ 5:22pm

The uplifting "#32" ranking instead of the depressing "5%" bar has given us renewed hope I must say - as an indie dev, I just can't get enough metrics so please Valve, bring on the data!

Parody Games Sep 19, 2012 @ 4:54pm

I like the addition of a discussion section. The ranking numbers are nice to see from a developer perspective, though the daily votes don't seem particularly meaningful - the current graph doesn't seem to give you a lot of concrete information. I do appreciate the attempt to promote Greenlight a bit more! I do hope that as thing progress there may be a bit more of a split between rankings by genre as a number of people have suggested. It does merit some thought, as most games do seem to be listed as quite a few genres right now.

Shad0WeN Sep 19, 2012 @ 4:50pm

@Danaroth : if they did that I would stop using Greenlight altogether because I'm not going to sit there and go through hundreds of games (and probably arbitrarily downvoting them) just to get to the ones that I actually want to see

Timmy Sep 19, 2012 @ 7:42am

@Spooky Ghost When these games are ready. Some of them will add Steam achievements and other Steam features, others are still not released (e.g. Towns or Project Zomboid), so I think they can't be added to Steam right now.

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