What do you think of Steam Direct?

[DarkS474]

@BoredEngineer;669359

That’s why small and very small productions can start with Humble and GOG, where you don’t need to pay high fees but you do need to demonstrate quality of your product. If you are talking about EU countries with 50-65% tax, I guess you mean Nordics or maybe Netherlands. In Netherlands average salary €25,000 to €30,000 a year, so please tell me, how someone could spend at least half a year full time to develop a game, but can’t spend few thousand to publish it? Because it’s too risky and you don’t know if it sells? Well, this doesn’t sounds like you are working professionally as your first risk was not publishing but developing it for half a year, which already costs you x5-10 of the fee.

??? If you work 24/7 on developing games as a freelancer you don’t get any money from any other job. And unless your parents are willing pay the money needed for your, if they can, you are out of budget. Most freelancers and very small software houses don’t have any income other than the games/apps they can make. So the ones without a rich family helping them are out of luck and no one knows how much a product can really make on the market, maybe the first one doesn’t sell well but the next one does … still if the fees are too high the chances of finding out if a business could commence with some real profit are thin.