Valve discussed the future of Steam with YouTube bloggers

Valve met with the leading popular YouTube channels and discussed with them the prospects for the development of Steam.

Valve has shared with bloggers its plans to reform the operation of its digital store. The company is thinking about revising the sorting algorithms for games on Steam in order to remove and block “fake games” — someone else’s or freely available projects that are trying to sell under the guise of an original work.

This is in line with Valve’s previously announced plan to replace Steam Greenlight with a paid game presentation system Steam Direct this year. Valve also plans to redesign the Steam Curator system, which includes many YouTube game reviewers) and add an additional Steam Explorers system.

Steam Explorers participants will evaluate games with ambiguous indicators on Steam. The projects approved by them will receive an increase in the rating of the store.

Valve wants to add opportunities to the participants of the Steam Curator program, for example, to directly send game keys for writing reviews. This would solve the problem of scammers who receive game keys from developers posing as famous gamers, and then resell them.

The video from the meeting with Valve was published on their YouTube channels by John “TotalBiscuit” Bain, Jim Sterling and several other bloggers.

Source: Gamasutra