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PostPosted: 07-09-2012 09:07 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Not sure if entirely a good thing.

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Developers post information, screenshots, and videos for their game and seek a critical mass of community support in order to get selected for distribution.

http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/
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PostPosted: 07-09-2012 11:14 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Could be interesting...do valve bank role the rest of the production of the already started game?
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PostPosted: 07-09-2012 11:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hmm. I'm also unsure what to think of this.



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PostPosted: 07-10-2012 08:40 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


in what way could it be a bad thing that would impact negatively on your quality of life exactly?
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seremtan wrote:
in what way could it be a bad thing that would impact negatively on your quality of life exactly?


'cos it could denote an oncoming deluge of hype-churning marketing guff in an effort to scrounge community likes/upvotes/thumbsups, plus encouraging of fagsbook, tweeting, twatting and god knows what else. /shudder
that and gaming communities by and large are a whiny, over-reactionary herd of morons that review and score games without having even played them and post DO NOT BUY in the steam forums, because their shitty rig keeps crashing, or they can't play Sonic properly with a mouse. how do these knobsters know what a decent pitch for a game is? = hype. fuck hype.

'course it could also mean some clever little numbers that would have otherwise been ignored, get a brighter chance for release and obvious shite gets rightly left by the wayside. like I says, i'm uncertain, so we'll have to see. i'm just not feeling all that keen if common folk will be the be-all and end-all of what floats and what croaks in a world where Sims expansions and CoD rule the charts. i'd rather not the more risk-happy indie scene get geared for mass appeal for the sake of an easy launch.
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PostPosted: 07-10-2012 09:59 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well, maybe. but it's not like pro studios turn out uniformly amazing work. in general, decent games are the occasional diamond in an ocean of shit

anything to shake things up, really
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seremtan wrote:
well, maybe. but it's not like pro studios turn out uniformly amazing work. in general, decent games are the occasional diamond in an ocean of shit



There are a lot of games that really shouldn't see the light of day at the moment, but they do so this Greenlight thing shouldn't produce too much more shite than we are already used to.
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