I am not sure, if this is the right place.

 

I recently found this announcement on the Steam Network :
 

It seems, that X-Plane 10 will be published over the gameing plattform Steam in the future : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=201361798

 

The "Steam Greenlight Certification Program" requires a future Steammachine Console Version and lots of "Special License Agreements" from Valve Inc. As it is been known from other Steam-Games, Mods (in our scene, better known as Addons) can only be pusblished via Steam itself - Valve Inc wants to earn on a comission on any DLCs or Mods on their published titels, of course.

 

As far as I know the Steam requirements, that means : good bye to freeware or any other publishers for X-Plane 10 addons in the future !

 

Can somebody confirm that ?

 

Thanks !

 

 

I Someone has donned a Tin Foil Hat.

A couple of things:

 

First, as far as I understand it, Laminar Research are evaluating the possibility of a digital release on Steam and the successful Greenlight was a step in that process; this does not guarantee that LR will release on Steam, nor does it mean that that non-Steam users would be left out in the cold. Steam is an option, not a replacement.

 

Second, Greenlighting a game does not require a "console version" be released. From the Steam Greenlight FAQ:

 

To remain in Steam Greenlight and qualify for distribution via Steam, your game must at least run on a Windows PC. You can also be developing for any other platform you like, but we are only able to support PC, Mac and Linux releases at this time.

In other words, games released through Steam must always run on Windows; support for other operating systems is just a bonus. Furthermore, the upcoming SteamOS is just a custom version of Linux (so-called "Debian Wheezy") designed to run on HTPC-like Steamboxes. These are still fundamentally PCs which you can build and customize yourself with off-the shelf components, just like we do now.

 

Third, Valve/Steam does not have a stranglehold on mods/add-ons for games released through their platform and you are free to modify your games insofar as you are able. For example, my Skyrim install (which is managed through Steam) is chock full of mods that I picked up at the Nexus, a third-party mod-hosting site, and my Steam version of IL-2 Cliffs of Dover works just fine with the Team Fusion mod. Steam does have an option for mod hosting, distribution, and management known as the Mod Workshop, but this is for freeware, user-created content. If XP10 comes to steam and even if it includes support for Steam's Mod Workshop, freeware content will still be available and useable.

Steam Mod Workshop Support Would be awesome.

Being on Steam, shouldn't change anything in the freeware department. Games like Skyrim which uses Steam, have thousands of free mod's that can be downloaded and installed into the game without issue.

 

Payware? That I don't know anything about.

I am not sure, if this is the right place.

 

I recently found this announcement on the Steam Network :

 

It seems, that X-Plane 10 will be published over the gameing plattform Steam in the future : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=201361798

 

The "Steam Greenlight Certification Program" requires a future Steammachine Console Version and lots of "Special License Agreements" from Valve Inc. As it is been known from other Steam-Games, Mods (in our scene, better known as Addons) can only be pusblished via Steam itself - Valve Inc wants to earn on a comission on any DLCs or Mods on their published titels, of course.

 

As far as I know the Steam requirements, that means : good bye to freeware or any other publishers for X-Plane 10 addons in the future !

 

Can somebody confirm that ?

 

Thanks !

 

1st post after 6 months? Mega-lurker!!!  :lol:

 

Glad you decided to finally speak up. Welcome to the hustle 'n bustle! 

If XPX wants to sell on Steam all they have to do is offer a ton of Steam Trading Cards. There are guys on Steam that eat those things up. I've seen a few refuse to buy a game cause it didn't offer Cards for their collection.