Steam Direct fee is...

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Wait... not a joke?

100$ per game instead of 100$ per dev... now that makes sense from Valve's perspective. Oh, I do feel genuinely sorry for people that thought 'Steam Direct' was actually a move to reduce the number of new trash on Steam.

People will find a way to abuse it, no matter what the fee is, even if some kind of quality control exists. Trash will still find its way onto the store. I do think $100 is too low though.

I can bet that they earn more than those 100$/game from the card sells. So what stops them from paying the fee, getting their game immediately into the store, selling some copies through bundles, giving some keys away and making those 100$ back? I really can't see any major difference between this and the Greenlight system other than the fact they get guaranteed access to the Store when they pay the fee.

I think it should be a bit higher, maybe $200 would be a good entry fee for the first game, and would decrease slightly for each following game (190, 180, ...) down to 100 minimum if the games are demonstrated to be 'decent' quality. (ie if the first game has like 12% reviews after several months, it would stay at $200, but if the first game stays above say 50% user ratings after like 30 reviews then it would decrease as suggested)

Loot Loot strikes back.

Coming soon...

'We knew that we wanted it to be as small as possible to ensure it wasn't a barrier to beginning game developers, while also not being so small as to invite easy abuse by people looking to exploit our systems'

That sure worked to keep the trash off steam...great plan!

I think it should be higher to start and lowered as you prove you can make quality games.I think each game should cost a set amount depending on past history and such.

I am not sure how to fix the cards and market though as even if you delayed those for reviews and quality checks unless they actually have someone from Valve doing it I suspect people will just make fake good reviews to get those things added.

I think it's perfect. Here's why:

1. It's per game, so it stops trolls from paying once (using card sales) and then making world worse for the other people by submitting stolen games for example.
2. They stopped cards for new games until they "prove themselves on Steam", so no one is going to buy trash games for cards anymore if there's no cards. This will affect discovery and those games will be shown to less people and so on...
3. People Valve mentions all the time, the ones that would give away thousands of keys to bot nets and then earn from card trade while no one actually bought their games are now stopped - they have to pay PER GAME and CAN'T have cards (see 1 and 2).
4. The only thing left to potentially bother people are "bad games", but that category is relative and with improvements to discovery and curators you won't see much of what you wouldn't play... not their fault you may have ruined your discovery by idling all kinds of crap. And if any of those small weird games becomes an instant hit by any chance, good for Valve and author both.
5. It's affordable for developers around the world. Might be "too small" for someone in USA/EU but for us outside, it's really right in the golden belt.

I don't even know what that is.

To tell truth, bigger barrier of entrance is their new "games from fresh develoeprs will not drop cards until we decide they can finally drop" policy. Especially since it probably will be "you must sell X copies of games through Steam and Steam only, cd-keys don't matter".

$100 per game is still not much if you could just sell those 10000 cards right away. But since Valve will not allow card drops, it will take a lot of time to get it going...

I read that as Steam direct is free. Will this society accept me 🤓

So greenlight (100 dollar fee) is gone, and now you directly get your game on steam for 100$?

Its pretty much the same as GreenLight used to be ...

Seems to low imo .

Edit: thats Per game tho , i didnt read it all ... Thats reasonable then

Well, we'll find out what changes this brings soon enough.
As of today, Greenlight is officially dead, Steam Direct goes live next Monday.

Steam Direct Product Submission Fee
https://steamdb.info/sub/163632/
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/163632/

In order to get fully set up, you will need to a pay a fee for each product you wish sell on Steam. You can pay this fee with any payment method supported by Steam in your region.
This fee is not refundable, but will be recoupable in the payment made after your product has at least $1,000 USD Adjusted Gross Revenue for Steam Store and in-app purchases. Payment of revenue from sales and repayment of fee may be withheld if deposit payment is charged-back, refunded, or otherwise identified as fraudulent.