In just the first year we saw titles such as War For The Overworld, Evoland, Rogue Legacy, and Verdun move through Greenlight and go on to become hugely successful. Right from the early days and throughout the life of Greenlight, we have been continually surprised by the hits coming through.

Almost right away, we saw an incredible variety of games being submitted and voted on, which made it clear to us that there are far more distinct tastes and interests among Steam players than we had realized. Greenlight was introduced as a way to help our team figure out which games players most wanted, by having those Steam users vote. The more this happened, the less confident we became that our own tastes were accurately representing the tastes of everyone using Steam. Up until that point, a small team here at Valve had been hand-picking games to invite on to the Steam platform, and almost every day we would hear from players wondering why awesome new game X wasn't available on Steam. Steam Greenlight launched on August 30, 2012, at a time when we realized that we weren't able to predict which titles players were really interested in. These posts introduce and describe the subtle, but important, shift in the way the Steam Store is designed, and who it is designed for. If you haven't already, it's worth reading the last few posts we've made recently about our philosophy, some changes to address bad actors, and some upcoming improvements to Steam Curators system.

In this post, we're going to talk about closing down Steam Greenlight and the transition to Steam Direct.

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