Steam Greenlight will close in Spring 2017 (replaced by Steam Direct)

Looks good on paper, let's see how it turns out :)

Instead of curating the entries they just put a big paywall. That is kind of lazy, unless there some things that will be sorted out in the future. I'm happy that GOG exists, they have the right ideas on the subject (at least I heaven't seen any problems with it).

Great less crap on steam!

Steamspy just shared:

Of 5,245 games released on Steam in 2016 around 1,700 made over $15,000 - enough to recoup $5,000 fee.
The number grows to 2,100 games with over $9,000 in total revenue if the fee is $3,000. Can't go lower, not enough precision :(
And of course some games released late in 2016 and didn't have a lot of time to move enough copies.

More than 1,700 games per year would still be more than enough to keep all bundle sites alive. ;)

Is steam finally taking right steps? Looks like and I'm amazed

As much as I would like Valve quality assurance, are we sure humans control this stuff. Or is it just going to one of their automated systems so nothing changes really?
Otherwise its simply pay and get on, and nothing will change much scamwise.

gg Lord Gaben! The same as before only that Valve now gets more money directly at the beginning :O

A huge blow to Groupees. Where will they get their garbage games from now?

Well, Valve seems to be finally fed up with trash flooding their servers, everything is better than that Google Play skin called Greenlight.

Glad to see Greenlight zipped up in a digital bodybag, but uncertain about the replacement.

"Democratisation" of the Steam platform has only led to a deluge of crap, making decent games difficult for the average user to find amongst the morass of dross. Hopefully Gaben and co can find a solution to the problem...

bad games are bad,, if they release on steam, they won't sell, I don't see what was wrong with the system other than a few people getting angry they had to navigate a few extra pages to find games they wanted... meh..

Mixed feeling about this decision. On one hand, this will (hopefully) free Steam from the flood of bad/stupid/meme games, on the other, internal grading will probably never be transparent enough and opens some new fields of game devs abuse...