Greenlight, the programme that allows Indie developers to get their games onto Steam, will be phased out in the coming months. That, and many other juicy bits of news leaked out of the Steam Developer Days conference currently underway in Seattle.
Here are some of the highlights from the conference’s first day, courtesy of Twitter.
The number of people using the Steam mobile app is “over 7 million”:
Over 7 million people use the Steam mobile app. #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/AoSoSwaLnv
— El Oshcuro (@DaveOshry) January 16, 2014
That’s a pretty good figure, but it pales in comparison to the overall number of Steam users, which now surpasses 75 million:
soooo Steam has been growing pretty rapidly over the last few years… #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/Th9XHNRlIq
— El Oshcuro (@DaveOshry) January 16, 2014
Valve has plans to support other currencies besides the US dollar in the Steam store. Spoiler alert: the South African Rand isn’t one of them.
here are the new currencies steam will support in 2014! #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/eNDE0CN1kb
— Armin Ibrisagic (@Arminposts) January 16, 2014
That’s probably because our region doesn’t even feature in the breakdown of Steam sales per region:
Here’s how Steam sales break down, geographically #SteamDevDays : pic.twitter.com/L6S4VU8RFj
— Gamasutra (@gamasutra) January 15, 2014
Valve was very generous to attendees:
First day of #SteamDevDays was awesome!! Valve gave all the attendees Steam Controllers and Steam Machines! pic.twitter.com/VfrfDZZ3K6
— Kyle Holdwick (@kyleholdwick) January 16, 2014
Goodbye, Greenlight:
Also says that Greenlight will fade away as the blocks between development and publishing on Steam are removed… #SteamDevDays
— Tomas Rawlings (@TomasRawlings) January 15, 2014
We’ve already covered the other interesting news that emerged, that of the proposed changes to Valve’s Steam Controller design.
Lastly, some helpful person posted a roundup of everything Valve talked about on day one of the Steam Developer Days conference and posted it to imgur. Highlights include that Alienware’s Steam Machine will hit retail overseas in September 2014, gamers will be able to transfer money between Steam Wallets in 2014 and that talks from the event will eventually be made public.
This was only the first day of the conference; expect even more news to leak out of Seattle tomorrow.