I hope so but I doubt it, there are new games released on the greenlight page maybe every two days, Blockland is already deep in the page lists, how will new players ever find it? (Unless they search blocks or legos).
Why can't Badspot just put Blocklad on steam like every other company does? (I don't know how Steam works with this) Blockland LLC is already registered, can't Badspot just pay the fee or something to put it in?
On Greenlight the "Your Queue" option for queueing shows random games you've not voted for, I think.
So, regardless of how old it is you can still see it.
I still have games showing up on there that were originally posted that I never voted for. So, unless it works differently than that, then it should always have an equally fair chance as any other games.
And really, I would imagine that most of the traffic that goes towards people voting for stuff on Greenlight actually comes from people knowing of a game, being told it is on greenlight and then going to vote for it.
I wouldn't imagine that most of the votes come from people randomly looking at Greenlight.
So, really, as long as we just keep promoting it to all our players (since there is no chance that all of them have voted, since not even all of the active forum members are even aware of Greenlight or have voted), as well as promoting it among other people and spreading it around, then we ought to have a reasonably chance at it.
And just make sure that if you have any friends who play computer games, make sure you tell them to vote for it.
If you go around their house, get on their computer and vote for it anyway. :3
And share it via Facebook or Twitter or whatnot. Just because we didn't get into the very very small selection of titles this time doesn't mean we have to give up.
This topic alone is proof enough of what community support we have and how many people really want to see it go forward. Just keep up the positive attitude and do what you can to promote Greenlight.
I'm not entirely sure how Valve does choose which games get on to Steam, but I would imagine that (as is the case) most games on Steam that just appear on there do infact come from larger developers and publishers.
And they got in because they would have agreements already to put their games up.
Take EA games on Steam for example. EA will have a deal with Steam already that they host all their latest games.
Steam is happy to make this deal because they know that EA will consistently publish games, regularly which will always be bought en masse.
Indie developers aren't really going to be offered this sort of agreement because we aren't repeat providers.
Badspot isn't going to be releasing another game to Steam anytime soon. So it won't be worth their time taking him in this sort of contract if it's for one single game.
They wouldn't likely even offer the sort of deal to Mojang, because they don't regularly pump out games (let alone their whole method of alpha/beta early-purchase/play).
The whole point of Greenlight is for Steam to let smaller games, that don't belong to bigger publishers or developers, get a chance at getting on.
They've set Greenlight up and they expect us to go through the hoops. Which we shall. They won't happily just put us on because we give them more money.
