Valve on Steam opportunities: 'We're not the taste police'

Speaking at the Business Conference for Games Industry event in Russia this week, Valve's Jan-Peter Ewert said the company is "not the taste police" with regards to opportunities on Steam. 

Ewert's slideshow presentation, relayed by HeroCraft's Michael Kuzmin, was delivered to a room of indie developers and discussed the perceived benefits of g up to Steam. 

One slide headed "the elephant in the room" explored Steam's game releases per week. As shown below, Ewert said Steam launched five games per week pre-Steam Greenlight, 70 games per week during the Greenlight programme (which closed last year), and 180 games per week via Steam Direct thereafter.

A later slide titled "Steam is a big opportunity" acknowledged the platform's increased output, but also considered rising player stats—with Steam having had 13.5 million "new first-time purchasers" between January and May this year. "We don't sell ad space or pick winners and losers," read the slide, followed by: "We are not the taste police".

Kuzmin's thread is worth checking out his question to Ewert about Valve's stance on Steam Spy.