so valve is charging 100 bucks to put a game on greenlight

[HellsHero]

excuse you did you mean this:

Do you not understand currency conversion? 1 USD = 32 RUB, so therefor 1 RUB = 0.03 USD, those are obviously not the exact numbers, but regardless.

What I said is still true. If Steam actually doesn't do any currency conversion (I'm not sure) and does do 1 usd = 1 euro = 1 rub = etc. then Russians have cheap games and countries in the European union have more expensive games.

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[Aphtonites]

he's still at it lol

you know he's doing this for attention and you've successfully given him that, right?

[?]

I wonder if big publishers have to pay Valve to put stuff on steam. Because if I find out that they don't and Indie devs do then that's forgeted up. Also like I said earlier if it's to stop scams being uploaded then why do they have all the pay2win games like APB, Combat Arms, Blacklight ,War inc., and fallen earth?

because those aren't scams? a scam game would be paying 25 dollars for ingame premium money and not getting that money

[Mecha]

Greenlight still has a lot of problems

1. The downvote
It holds no purpose whatsoever. It may have done when putting something on there was free, but not anymore. If people don't want the game, they wouldn't look at it.

2. Prone to votebombs
Okay, take the Yogscast for example. If they suddenly said "HEY, GO VOTE FOR THIS stuff", everyone would instantly dive in and vote for it, and not touch anything else. I suppose this could be fixed by making rewards if you vote for a lot of different things, but that would promote mindless voting on everything. It's a tough one.

3. Feels like a popularity contest
Hell, isn't every vote-for-me thing one? It's a minor issue, but valve should add a search-by-genre feature, and results should not be based on date or popularity: It should be totally random each time.

4. Lack of quality standards
There should at least be some standards on there. Like requiring a playable demo, a gameplay video, and maybe some other things.

£0.02

[Jairo]

you should have to have played 30+ hours that week/have an account over 1 year old to have the right to vote

[fred da kiko]

you should have to have played 30+ hours that week/have an account over 1 year old to have the right to vote

The 30 hr week thing is a bit steep, people have jobs and stuff. The year old account makes sense though, and I agree there should be game criteria.

[Fredulus]

you should have to have played 30+ hours that week/have an account over 1 year old to have the right to vote

looks like we got a no-lifer on our hands here, folks

[HellsHero]

you should have to have played 30+ hours that week

I've only played 12 hours in 2 weeks

[Jairo]

looks like we got a no-lifer on our hands here, folks

it's just for balancing
never said I do it :V
even though I do :C