Valve is planning to make some big changes to the Steam Store

By Emma Boyle

Valve has shared a blog post detailing changes it’s planning to make to the Steam Store and the reasons behind them.

The first of the three planned posts written by Robin Walker outlines Valve’s philosophy for what will make a successful Steam Store and explains that recent changes to community tagging and filtering have been implemented to help both developers and players make the most of the storefront.

Pleasing both developers and players all the time, however, is a difficult task for Valve as often they have competing interests, and even within these two distinct categories of users there are very different priorities to consider.

Keeping things clear

For example, though Steam Greenlight was a feature that greatly helped smaller developers get their games noticed by a larger number of players, it wasn’t really appreciated by bigger developers and fans of these larger, more mainstream, releases.

Walker says he hopes the changes Valve is planning to make will affect both developers and players in “a manner that they would consider fair” and that explaining these intended changes thoroughly in these blog posts will help both groups understand why the changes have been made.

This new commitment to transparency is evident …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming