It looks like Valve has made a significant change to the way studios manage games’ release dates on Steam. A Reddit user by the name of HeadlessIvan has posted a screenshot of a message received on Steam indicating that changes to a title’s release date now need to be approved by Valve, and that developers need to have a solid idea of when their games will actually launch. Reached for comment, HeadlessIvan told us that they work in publishing at an indie label, and received the message “while updating the release date for one of our titles.” The message gives the game’s current launch date and says “if you need to make changes to this date, please contact Valve here with the reason for your new release date and what date you’d like to set it as.” It adds, “you should be pretty certain that your new date is the date you will release.” As HeadlessIvan explains in the comments, this means developers can no longer alter the release dates of their games without Valve’s approval.
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