So Steam Direct backfired again, can't say some of us didn't tell you so.

[ambershee]

@K

I’m also not disillusion that 100 + dollars is going to prevent some talent somewhere to do a nice game and publish, i think if they can buy their household items on an average day and make do with life then they sure can afford to pay much more than just 100 dollars to publish their game which one would assume they’ve worked hard on for many months or years.

To be fair, the average annual salary in some countries is as low as $1000; and for people in those territories $100 is a significant amount of money. Arguably though, the overwhelming majority of those people don’t also have access to development hardware (nor the ability to handle banking in a suitable manner). For those people, small publishers are likely a decent target for getting a product to market.