I right now could never afford a fee that high.
To be honest, friends gave me the money for Greenlight, and even bought the Sounds for the game.
My whole game has a budget of less than a 100 bucks, and yet manages to look and play very well. (even real game-developers that currently work in a dev-studio played it, and said that it is fun to play.)
I expect this amount of sales, but i can not afford such a Fee up-front when i have literally nothing for food and everything else.
I am just p*ss-poor, and could not afford such a fee.
I am already working on an all-improved and from ground up rebuilt sequel that will surpass this by far (and is currently doing so), but i do not know if i could afford a 1.000 dollar fee, if this game gets kicked out of greenlight, when they switch to the new system.
If they really overkill it with their fee, there is only one thing left to do -> hang myself.
For me, currently everything depends on these 2 games, everything…