What do you think of Steam Direct?

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Let’s make it $1,000,000 while we’re at it. For me and many others who don’t live in the US it is pretty much the same, because there is just no way to get that kind of money apart from selling everything we own. Even $5000 is more than I make in a year. Now I wonder why did I think that spending 1.5 years trying to make a decent game was a viable strategy, should have just pushed out a pile of shovelware games. Shovelware devs have profited already, now Valve punishing those who actually wanted to make a good game.

If you’re serious about your project, you will find a way. Small business loans, angel investment, crowd funding, there are a multitude of ways to raise the fee. If the fee is too low, Valve will only be making the problem worse, not better.