Over the past couple of months, we've been hard at work behind the scenes, revising numerous aspects of Summit Reviews and how we handle things as a group, as well as re-evaluating our place as not only a Steam Curator, but an independent review outlet as well.

As part of those changes which, among other things, included revisions to our recruitment process, policy towards publishers, as well as the day-to-day functioning of our Discord server,[discord.com] we (the Administration team) have come to an agreement to close off the Steam group to the public and make it staff-only.

In the next couple of days, anyone in the group who is not currently a Trainee Reviewer or Reviewer in our staff will be kicked out. You will still, of course, be able to follow our Curator to have all of our reviews appear in your Activity Feed and on the store pages of the games you're looking up, as well as have access to the Application Thread and its comment section, should you wish to join.

The only thing that will change in terms of the Steam Group's functionality is that it will no longer be used for posting announcements. As we've barely been using it in that capacity to begin with, we assume that most of you will not feel the change once it happens. Regardless, we wanted to give you a heads up, as full transparency is one of the things we're striving towards, now more than ever.

As part of that lunge towards transparency, we'd like to invite you, once again, to join our Discord server[discord.com], which has been open to everyone for a little shy of a year now. We're a lot more active on there and keep its members posted on even the tiniest of changes we make!

We're also excited to announce that, as we finalise the changes of these past few months, we'll be kicking off work on our own website, with the goal of diversifying our work, allowing our writers more freedom when it comes to what they write and how they write it, building further trust with publishers and developers, as well as bringing our brand of game criticism to audiences outside of Steam. If all goes well, we should have it done sometime before the end of the year. No hard dates yet, though!

We sincerely hope you'll tag along on this next part of our journey!

Best regards,
WarChaser