Full Tilt gets green light to host on digital gaming platform Steam

Pete - Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Written by- Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Online poker

Back in mid-October, Full Tilt revealed that it would be listing its free-to-play software client on Steam Greenlight, a system where developers advertise their gaming creations with the potential to be approved on Valve Corporation’s actual Steam platform.

“We have submitted the Full Tilt software to the Steam Greenlight process because we want to introduce the game we love to a whole new market of players who already enjoy competition, strategy and online games”, said a Full Tilt spokesman.

“We believe that poker is a fun, safe, and competitive game that anyone can play, and that Steam is a great place to introduce poker to new audiences.”

Within a month or so, Full Tilt had established itself among the top 50 games on Steam Greenlight thanks to a slew of positive votes from the community, and has now been given the official thumbs up to host certain games on Steam – which currently houses around 3,500 games and 100 million users.

Steam’s terms of service prevent all real money gambling games, so players downloading via the digital platform will be restricted to play money action. There will also be the option to top-up these play money balances via real money, in-game transactions.

Full Tilt is expected to go live on Steam by the end of 2015, with the hope that some portion of the play money gamers brought in by the immensely popular platform will decide to try their hand in some real money games, and in doing so help add some liquidity to the site’s increasingly dry ecosystem.