What do you think of Steam Direct?

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@ambershee;664642

sigh

Small business loans. Angel investors. Crowdfunding. Publishing agreements. Dev grants / equivalents.

The money is there for anybody who cares to put the effort in to find it. If you can’t seem to raise the money through these routes, you may want to accept the possibility that your game is probably one of the ones that fails to hit the quality barrier and that Valve are deliberately trying to keep out of their marketplace.

In what fantasy world are you finding plenty of rich people giving money to fund games development, uh ?
You are talking about your own fantasy world. It doesn’t happen in the real world in most countries and even where it happens it still just for a few.

Valve can’t make the fee low, or their store will be saturated with low-quality rubbish - this is the entire point of changing the system. Yes, it is possible that a game might not sell enough copies to make a return on the $5000 investment - but this is the risk that you accept when you pay the fee to have access to their storefront and customer base.

To ask a serious question - if you honestly don’t believe that your game is good enough to make $5000, why do you think your game should be on Steam in the first place?

NONSENSE !

Is Apple asking developers to pay $5,000 to publish any app or games perhaps ?

Apple enforces quality control over what it is allowed to sell on the App Store. THAT is something Valve should do as well by hiring employees to do that job.

Is the App Store full of bad stuff ? Well… yes and NO ! … Compared to the mess that is the Google Play Store for Android the App Store regardless of some bad apps and games it still features high and very high quality products overall.
And Apple asks just a small annual fee. Not a very high annual or per-app fee.

If Valve asks a very high fee Steam kicks out all indie developers and most small software houses. It is as simple as that. Surely many large software houses hinting at the $5,000 fee would be pleased by such a thing…

If it was for people like you the Apple App Store and iTunes would have been a huge financial failure with only big studios and big software houses able to afford publishing anything there.