I like the new system, and i do have games on steam.
No, it was not.
1: there were many “trolls” who just voted “no” on everything.
2: there was vote-fraud due to people who bought votes, or gave away steam-keys for votes.
3: Greenlight-Votes do not represent sales at all.
4: you only had (roughly) one day of visibility on greenlight, because there are so many entries. (you needed to get votes from elsewhere, or already have a large community, but that still is “from elsewhere”.
There is a market for everything, just the size of the market is different. (There are/were games on steam where you had to slap hookers to get their money, or where you roll around a street as a giant ********, trying to “spread your dna”…)
No one cares for games that are released on steam, because there are between 10 and 20 new games every day, according to steamspy’s newest statistics.
Greenlight never was a helpful tool, it was just a huge “popularity contest” to get into the top 10.
And since the “bad” games could not get there without fraud, they just bought their votes, so the whole system was made useless.
I got my game up there without buying votes or similar things, but it still was annoying.
I was sitting there, every day, knowing that the game will get through regardless of what happens, but still had to wait for an uncertain amount of time to actually get greenlit.
Aaand… all the scammers that try to get keys from you, or advertise their own “games” in your comments.
Steam Direct is better, especially since Trading Cards got “nerfed”, and that there will be a way to send keys directly do the reviewers on steam. (no more fake-mails and stuff)
And if the reviewing of games works as intended, all the bad games should just drop to a place where no one ever will find them, unless he desperately searches for them.
TL:DR glad that greenlight is gonek, can’t get any worse than that.
EDIT: so the forum censored one word… but you will get it anyway, i think.