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Valve Allowing Developers To Update Games Without Their Approval

Posted on Friday, July 13 @ 11:41:37 Eastern by


Valve, according to PC Gamer, gathered indie developers at a London bar to speak with them about some of the changes that Steam will be experiencing over the next few months. As with the upcoming Steam Greenlight, Valve as realized that it won't be able to attend to the ever-increasing number of updates and game submissions, so now they're taking a hands-off approach.

Developers can now update their games without Valve's approval. So if they happen to break the game, Valve isn't held accountable—the developers will, as it should be. It's nice having a middle-man that cares about the quality of the product, but ultimately it's not their responsibility to ensure that the developers are doing their job with quality assurance.

Established developers no longer have to wait for Valve to complete their testing. Without their oversight, though, it will make testing that much more important. The customers themselves will tell the developers if they experience bugs, and if they tell Valve about these bugs, they will simply forward those comments to the developers.

Also, by updating their games frequently, customers are notified via pop-up message that progress is being made. It apparently is a strong marketing tool, as the data shows that an update always brings a spike of interest and playtime with the title.
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  • Guernica
    Guernica
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Jul 13th, 2012 at 11:51 am
    This is one of the reasons EA originally took their games off steam isn't it? They said Steam wouldn't let them update the games when they wanted to.
    0 1
  • GuerillaMatzilla
    GuerillaMatzilla
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 14th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
    Hah, I think you're right. EA's most valid argument for using Origin instead is no longer valid. This also means no waiting for patch certification right?
    0 1
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 15th, 2012 at 11:20 am
    Steam, why do make me love you so much? Ill need a 2nd job to buy all your things if you keep this up.
    0 0
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jul 13th, 2012 at 11:54 am
    They need to make all the games on Steam compatible with the current Windows versions. I have several games on my account that I can't even play because they don't work on 64 bit. Patching is one thing, but upholding a standard or at least warning customers about the incompatibility would be swell.
    0 2
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Jul 13th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
    I feel your pain
    0 0
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jul 13th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
    Warning customers would be nice.
    0 0
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jul 13th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
    You'r gaming on teh pc, if you cant do basic research to see if a game is going to work on your system I don't think pc gaming is for you.
    0 0
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jul 13th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
    Probably the right choice, especially now that Steam is established enough that the user experience can take a few hits at the hands of irresponsible devs without everyone crying bloody murder.
    0 0

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