{"id":198592,"date":"2017-02-13T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=198592"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:22:42","slug":"valve-kills-steam-greenlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/198592-valve-kills-steam-greenlight.html","title":{"rendered":"Valve kills Steam Greenlight"},"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&#8217;s 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<h3 class=\"my-4\">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><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has removed Greenlight in favour of a more open platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41310,11783,3602],"class_list":["post-198592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-direct","tag-greenlight","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198602,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198592\/revisions\/198602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}