Valve is making changes to deal with a ‘significant increase’ in Steam game submissions
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In a new post today, Valve acknowledged that it’s seen “a significant increase in submissions for store and page review in recent months” and says it’s “running a little behind” by taking “up to 12 business days” for reviews instead of the typical 3-5 days.
Indie developers have recently expressed frustrations over lengthy approval times for Steam games, even causing some games to miss planned launch dates. Valve says that “much” of the delay is having to re-review games, so it’s making some changes to the release checklist for developers to hopefully “cut down on re-reviews for basic functional issues.”
The changes include requiring developers to run games through Steam for at least five minutes. “Believe it or not, sometimes we review builds that have...
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