{"id":61462,"date":"2014-01-16T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61462"},"modified":"2014-01-16T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T09:14:37","slug":"steam-greenlight-to-be-killed-its-evolution-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61462-steam-greenlight-to-be-killed-its-evolution-baby","title":{"rendered":"Steam Greenlight to be killed &#8211; it&#8217;s evolution, baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve is currently hosting its Steam Dev Days conference which is closed to the press. Of course, there are plenty of attendees willing to share details, and <a title=\"SteamDB\" href=\"http:\/\/steamdb.info\/blog\/42\/\">SteamDB<\/a> is in the process of compiling highlights from the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Out the gates, Valve boss Gabe Newell revealed that they are planning to do away with the Steam Greenlight project, which allows users to vote in which in-development games get a spot on the Steam Store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to make Greenlight go away. Not because it&#8217;s not useful, but because we&#8217;re evolving,&#8221; Said Newell.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Newell said that Valve wants developers to take control of the Steam Store and how they promote their games.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61456-robert-pandatank-botha-pro-gaming-in-sa-isnt-sustainable.html\">PandaTank: pro gaming career in SA isn\u2019t sustainable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61438-maxis-explains-simcity-offline-complexity.html\">Maxis explains Simcity offline complexity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61429-magic-the-gathering-will-soon-be-a-movie.html\">Magic: The Gathering will soon be a movie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61426-halo-movie-rumours-killed-again.html\">Halo movie rumours killed, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve wants developers to take control of the Steam Store, and Greenlight as we know it will be phased out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":56218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,981,85,11734,5577,697],"class_list":["post-61462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-gabe-newell","tag-steam","tag-steam-dev-days","tag-steam-greenlight","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61462","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61464,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61462\/revisions\/61464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}