Valve Celebrates First Anniversary of Steam’s Greenlight Service

One year ago, Valve decided to launch an extension of its service on Steam with ‘Greenlight’, with the goal of giving independent developers their chance to shine – aka: get published on the service. While its implementation has been questioned from the get-go, seeing as those who fish for votes have a greater chance of being chosen for inclusion, there’s no denying that the service has been a great thing for indie games, and their developers.

In addition to the success of this program, Valve this past spring launched another indie-targeted feature called “Early Access” which allows developers to sell their games pre-release, in order to fund them all the way to completion. This is yet another feature that has had garnered some criticism, but to date it seems to have become a relative success, with at least a couple of titles deploying on the program each week.