hairdye twitter is concerned about changes to the Steam approval process

They’re dropping Greenlight’s approval-by-voting, which favored devs with social media followings, and intense niche identity appeal, and puts up low barriers to amateur, artistic, and experimental concepts

Replacing it with like a bond system of “refundable publishing deposits” up to $5000 per game which favors business operations with some degree of profit-mindedness

The concern is this will render the niche of “microcelebrity bullshit indie game dev” unviable

Thanks, Trump