What do you think of Steam Direct?

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@Whammy;664593

$5000 would kill my project immediately from being considered for a Steam launch. Way too risky for the indy developer working on a shoestring and quite frankly greedy on Valve’s part. $100 to $200 is tolerable. IIRC, Steam also gets a cut from sales. So they’re double-dipping here at the expense of the developer.

They’ve already stated that there would be a recouperation mechanism for the fee.

@Whammy;664593

$5000 would kill my project immediately from being considered for a Steam launch. Way too risky for the indy developer working on a shoestring and quite frankly greedy on Valve’s part. $100 to $200 is tolerable. IIRC, Steam also gets a cut from sales. So they’re double-dipping here at the expense of the developer.

$100-200 would mean that the storefront would be even worse than it currently is under Greenlight - it quite simply has to be higher. There’s no point making the problem even worse when you’re trying to solve the problem in the first place. $5000 is a tiny amount of money compared to the size of Steam’s audience, and you can easily find that money somewhere with minimal risk to yourself.