What do you think of Steam Direct?

[TadeoJones]

@BoredEngineer

I personally never liked the idea of Greenlight, largely as it looked like a popularity contest from a day one. Game winning a popularity contest doesn’t make it a “good” game. Neither only “good” games should be published as this is something too subjective.
Greenlight is basically just replacing a publishers with opinion on what makes a good game and what would sell, with the same opinion of the crowd. It gives a chance to some games but it has the same limits.
A fee to entry, in my opinion, is more democratic and fair solution.

While I find it very well and I completely agree with it.

Steam direct is the best way.

In the rest I’m absolutely against.

The two most important things an indy has are:
1 The ability to risk new and different gameplays and plantings.
2 Maintain possession of the IP.

Both things will be endangered with high rates to publish in steam.

All the games I have done in my professional career have been with publishers, for me they are the enemy.
The biggest evolution that Steam brought is precisely skipping the publishers and maintaining the IP of your game, as the most precious object of any Indy.

I think that 1000$ per tittle (Recoverable) is enought for stop the worst part.