After a scant two days in Steam's Greenlight program, Darkfall: Unholy Wars developer, Aventurine Studios, has announced that the program is a success and the project is now "Greenlit".

Now this is truly Epic! Thank you everyone for getting Darkfall Unholy Wars Greenlit on Steam in just 2 days!!

Check out the Darkfall: Unholy Wars Greenlight page for more.

Originally posted by Ozmodan
What is Steam's greenlight program?  

it gives lesser known games a chance to get on steam.  if people show enough support they will deem it worthy of their time and resources to offer it on Steam.

Originally posted by Kanyl
Really, in just two days!? I thought it was hard to get a game through the Greenlight Program and I was about to ask some of my friend to vote for it.....Anyway, great sucess and good job everyone! :)

I'm surprised this all went down so quickly, as well. Also, there's more than a few posters on this site that have told me over and over that there simply is not a large group of people interested in this type of game. Funny how fast DF:UW got voted in. Funny how successful EVE has been and for so long. Funny how much of a hit DayZ has been (not an MMO, but a game with OWPVP with a brutal death penalty). Perhaps a lot of folks on this site know much less than they think do about what gamers will go for when options become available. It's not easy to read people's tastes when all we see is an ocean of games that all follow the familiar formula of development that was old many years ago. We shall see what the future holds ;)

Anywho, great news, and very encouraging.

Originally posted by Tayah
Does this mean we have to have steam to play the game now? Or is it just going to be for sale on steam?

Don't think you will have to have Steam, I know some other Greenlight games are released elsewhere as well as on Steam, but if they were smart, they would take advantage of every facet of Steam that they can, including Steam authentication and DRM.

I know some people, for whatever reason, are resistant to Steam, but honestly, it is an awesome utility...it has a HUGE community of people to play these games with (not that DF needs the community/srvers being a MMO, but the more people exposed the better), it keeps that HUGE number of PC gamers connected via friends lists and Steam groups, not to mention all the awesome games and even better sales that are featured exclusively on Steam.