{"id":115361,"date":"2017-02-14T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115361"},"modified":"2017-02-14T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:28:24","slug":"valve-kills-steam-greenlight-and-introduces-steam-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/115361-valve-kills-steam-greenlight-and-introduces-steam-direct","title":{"rendered":"Valve kills Steam Greenlight and introduces Steam Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/593110\/announcements\/detail\/558846854614253751\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it will remove its Greenlight community-curation system in favour of a more direct platform.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to provide developers with an unhindered publishing path using its new Steam Direct distribution model.<\/p>\n<p>This requires developers to pay a recoupable fee in order to list their game on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Steam Direct will replace Greenlight in the first half of 2017, and developers will need to complete certain paperwork in order to publish a game.<\/p>\n<p>The entry fee required for developers to publish games through Steam Direct has not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Since Steam\u2019s Discovery Update in 2016, the time users spend playing games has steadily increased and the average number of titles purchased per customer has doubled.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/198592-valve-kills-steam-greenlight.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/196468-playstation-4-pro-vs-gaming-pc-south-african-price-comparison.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">PlayStation 4 Pro vs Gaming PC \u2013 South African price comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has announced it will remove its Greenlight community-curation system in favour of a more direct platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24005,6564,85],"class_list":["post-115361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-direct","tag-greenlight","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115363,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115361\/revisions\/115363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}