![]() ![]() 2013: User reviews, Early Access, and the living roomĢ013 is a big year of many little additions. Valve also released the first Steam mobile app, enabling chat, purchases, and remote game installation on-the-go. In much smaller 2012 Steam news, the growth of "DLC" sees the addition of a Downloadable Content filter to the New Releases list (even though everything on Steam is downloadable) as well as DLC and Demo labels added to the top-left corner of game thumbnails. As for loot boxes, the concept existed well before videogames did.) (It wasn't just Valve: Diablo 3 and its auction house also launched in 2012. ![]() Valve arguably built an NFT-like system before NFTs. Only six years earlier, the Oblivion "Horse Armor" DLC had been controversial, and now we were buying and selling virtual hats. Use of loot boxes is declining among big publishers, but the Steam Marketplace reflected a huge fundamental change in how people and publishers think about how we pay for games and the nature of in-game items. The other big event of 2012, and one of the most influential events in the history of gaming, was the launch of the Steam Marketplace, which allowed players to buy and sell in-game items for real money. The Marketplace complimented the crate and key systems in Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which were early examples of loot boxes, one of the most controversial aspects of gaming in the 2010s. ![]() In the end, it was a half-step that Valve wasn't happy with: In 2013, Gabe Newell called Greenlight "a bad example of an election process." Later, Valve would get rid of Greenlight and replace it with Steam Direct, opening Steam to thousands of new games and leading Valve to create controversial new content policies and algorithmic discovery tools. The system came about during the rise of Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites, a time when appealing to 'the wisdom of the crowd' was popular. The first big event is the launch of Steam Greenlight, which allowed Steam users to vote on which indie game projects should be allowed to release on Steam. These times should give you a good indication of when the Steam Sales begin, although you'll also find details about when we expect a variety of festivals to go live, highlighting specific genres.In 2012, Steam got two massive additions that foreshadowed some of the best and worst aspects of modern PC gaming. Here's our expected schedule of Steam Sales for 2023, including the Spring Sale, Summer Sale, Halloween Sale, Autumn Sale, and Winter Sale dates. Steam Winter Sale 2023 - December 21 - January 4, 2024.Steam Autumn Sale 2023 - November 21 - November 28.Steam Halloween Sale 2023 - October 28 - November 1.Steam Next Fest #2 2023 - October 9 - October 16.Steam SHMUP Fest 2023: September 25 - October 2.Steam Strategy Fest 2023: August 28 - September 4.Steam Visual Novel Fest 2023: August 7 - August 14.Steam Stealth Fest 2023: July 24 - July 31.Steam Summer Sale 2023 - June 29 - July 13.Steam Next Fest #1 2023 - June 19 - June 26.Steam Sports Fest 2023 - May 15 - May 22. ![]()
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