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Valve is making changes to deal with a ‘significant increase’ in Steam game submissions
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 dev …
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