A Dream

Because Teeworlds isn't Singleplayer, doesn't support cross-over platforming, is already released (not SoonTM), it's not published by "all of us ", the GitHub developer is "Teeworlds" and not matricks, it's not 102 point out of 100 and the game banner would never be that ugly (I hope so at least)

So I did some research and turns out there are indeed both open-source and free to play games on Steam, from which Valve benefits in no way other than a bigger selection of games in their library - so Teeworlds could indeed possibly fit in.

The way it would work would be via the Greenlight system. After paying a one-time fee of 90€ (it's actually a donation to a charity) one could submit the game to Greenlight.
So - theoretically speaking - if the community would somehow pay this fee, would the developers give their OK to submit the game?
Here is an excerpt from the submission page of Greenlight:

Before you post your game to Steam Greenlight, you must agree to the following:
You own the rights to sell the game you are posting, or you have specific authorization to represent the developer
You agree to the terms and conditions of the Steam Subscriber Agreement

By the way: One can still have non-steam download links for their games on their own website. The steam release would just be an additional way of downloading (with a tremendously bigger reach, that is) the game.

Just think about it: publishing the game on Steam with more than 6 million users a day, all of which are possibly inclined to download teeworlds, it would be a massive boost to not only the player base, but probably to the development team, too. I don't know why, but since teeworlds was the first game I really committed a lot of time to, I want to see it succeed even more than it already has.

Teeworlds don't need Steam.... Steam need Teeworlds!   muahahahahahahaha 

This is like the 10th thread on "what about having Teeworlds on Steam".
The answer is no, we know it's possible, it's been debated so much and the devs have had the finals word on it long ago.
You are not bringing any new argument to the table, even though the thread is well written.

Still, keep in mind that:

go HeroiAmarelo go!

These are not new arguments, we already knew that afaik.

The current state of thing is: yes, we know it's possible, but we don't want to.

edit: congratz Dune. You're now on my blog cover.

I want to comment this topic briefly.

To be honest I neither have the time nor motivation to deal with this problem in detail. However, from my point of it is clear that one should do everything possible to advertise Teeworlds considering the negative development this game has gone through during the approximately last 2 years. About 3 years ago I used to play TW, especially Instagib, on a regular basis. I stopped doing that out of several reasons. But whenever I occasionally started the client again to play a bit there were less and less players online I could play with. TW is experiencing an immense downfall – at least that’s my impression and apparently many other players I had the chance to talk to think the same way.

Because of this I firmly have to pledge for more advertisement for this extremely great game. I mean, it’s a vicious circle. By now I already stopped playing TW basically completely since there simply are not enough players to play instagib when I feel like it, let alone enough players to play other maps than ctf4-instagib. (So i again reduce my playing time which will others lead to shortening their time, usw.)
This means: I don’t exactly know why the TW-authorities seem to have a problem with publishing some sort of TW-version on Steam but I’m quite certain that the advertisement momentarily is more important than (nearly) everything else. What’s a game without players? Worthless. No Fun. Pointless.

I won’t be the one to take any actual actions. But I want to give some food for thought because I think this game has so much more potential which was btw. proven by TW’s past when the game still had much more players. It simply would be a shame if this game was about to be marginalized till no one plays it anymore, knows it anymore.

All in all  I pledge: Everyone who’s investing time/energy into this game anyway should focus on ways of advertising which probably includes the presence  of TW on networks like Steam.

Best regards, baus