What do you think of Steam Direct?

[EvilCleric]

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I am amazed that people can read all the posts and arguments for higher fees, go through dozens of properly articulated posts presenting arguments and evidence, and go ahead and spew this sort of verbal diarrhea in response that ignores all of that and presents a stupidly over-exaggerated case to present the general ideas in a negative sense. I suppose it’s futile to hold developers to a higher standard that your average internet user.

In summary: You are not helping. At all. But 2/10, you made me respond.

I was been sarcastic but with 2 real points in mind to the community in general:

1. Maybe I misread something or some comment escaped me, but did someone presented some evidence that value X can actually solve the problem? The only thing I got was that value X was considered to high by some or too low by others. If you going to present a fee value or support one, say why and back it up with some evidence, even a general poll would be enough. If we are spewing numbers based on nothing, what is wrong with $250,000 or even 1 million?
2. I’m sicking and tired of reading comments of the type: “if you don’t or can’t do X or Y, you are not serious about game development” and “if you can’t get X your project is not worthed it”. What is a “serious game developer”? When are you considered to be “serious about game developer”? When you drop out school or job and dedicate every single moment to game development? When you get into debt? When you create a company? Spent a couple of years trying to get investors, in order to pay for Steam and some advertising? What? Please tell me.

Sorry, if you considered my previous comment childish or “verbal diarrhea”, but don’t forget, this thread is only asking what we think, but if you want this thread to be serious, let’s be serious.
This thread presented a lot a good ideas, where money wasn’t even mentioned. But, let’s see what Valve will actually do.