Steam Greenlight is a system that allows registered users (Steam Community members) to choose whether they consider an indie game is worth being published on Steam or not. On the other side of things, developers can post information about their games for the users to see and judge.
It was released by Valve yesterday and it already had 60 games for users to vote on.
Before Greenlight, developers had to submit their games to Valve for approval, which made things considerably slower. Now, the community decides and only the best games go further to be validated by Valve employees.
But because it allows any Steam user to submit a game, the platform is now being spammed with fake games, games that don't belong to the submitter and also low quality "games" that can't even be called games without putting the word between quotes.
Valve temporarily banned users who did such things, but a better solution has to be found. My opinion is that many younger or less intelligent users don't understand that this system is for submitting games created by them, not games that they want to see on Steam. This way, fake submission of titles such as Mass Effect 3, Half-Life 3 and so on were seen on Steam Greenlight before being removed by Valve.
The platform is very interesting and will be of much use to independent game developers and the Steam community as well. We'll just have to wait and see how the fake game submissions are being handled by Valve.
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