{"id":48898,"date":"2013-08-29T21:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=48898"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:12:47","slug":"steam-greenlight-achieves-1-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steam-greenlight-achieves-1-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Greenlight achieves 1 year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Greenlight was launched on August 30, 2012 as a way for independent developers to propose new titles for distribution on <a title=\"Steam for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam<\/a> with the help of players.<\/p>\n<p>The service has seen titles gain a lot of popularity through the Steam community and the feedback developers can receive for games in alpha and beta stages is very helpful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48900\" title=\"steam greenlight\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/greenlight_browse_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/greenlight_browse_logo.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/greenlight_browse_logo-256x57.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In one year the amount of available independent titles has doubled and &#8220;new titles [are] being submitted every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Newell stated in the official press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately our goal is to have no bottlenecks at all between developers  and consumers. As we move closer to that,  launching Greenlight and evolving our backend toolset has helped us  increase our publishing throughput, pushing the number of independent  titles released in the last twelve months to equal the number of titles  published from all other categories combined. We expect that number to  grow dramatically as we continue to iterate upon our developer service  features and seek more ways to improve Steam&#8217;s value to the community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steam Greenlight also announced on <a title=\"August 28th Batch of Greenlit Titles\" href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=171260210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 28th<\/a> that 100 titles were greenlit bringing the total number of titles to 260.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\" GREENLIGHT'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/11354\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Greenlight was launched on August 30, 2012 as a way for independent developers to propose new titles for distribution on Steam with the help of players. The service has seen titles gain a lot of popularity through the Steam community and the feedback developers can receive for games in alpha and beta stages is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steam-greenlight-achieves-1-year-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steam Greenlight achieves 1 year anniversary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-48898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332330,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898\/revisions\/332330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=48898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}