And yeah, it would be weird if Clockwork Empires had to go through Greenlight when Dredmor sold so well. As it is it probably won’t have to, and I have no problem with that seeming double standard, but it does create this two tier system where if you’re lucky you don’t have to bother with the palaver of Greenlight that everyone else has to subject themselves to with slim chances of success.

Also, their curation has improved *slightly* since Greenlight was introduced. Or at least it looks like it has to me; there’s been a huge purge of Slenderman games, for example. The average (seeming) quality of games I see on Greenlight has gotten better — which makes it all the more odd that most of them will never make it through the system.

I agree that the current system is a weird hybrid and probably not going to be around long in its current state. It was weird to realise that, strictly speaking at least, Clockwork Empires would have to be greenlit even though Dredmor was quite successful on Steam. I don’t have any bright ideas on what’s going to happen next. It’d be nice if they curated things better so that you had a higher chance of finding good stuff that might be up your street, but I guess this is where the social stuff is supposed to come in (for people who aren’t allergic to it).