I’m retired and game programming is my hobby to keep my brain active, and I am a gamer so it’s a labour of love really. So it doesn’t cost me a dollar to program, just time.
I wonder if steam can add a simple filter where you can filter the games list by the level of investment in the production of the game, just something that filters the AAA from the experienced indie teams, the loner indies and the cloners or asset swappers somehow. I don’t know the exact way one might filter but maybe something along those lines can help customers choose what type of games they want to see/buy in steam. They could have a different level of fee for each category too if that helps. The filter could state how many games (1-5, 6 -10, 10 - 20, etc) the company/team have produced previously or revenue and whatever else you could think of, so we could filter out the less experienced productions.
Just my random thoughts.
Cheers,
Max