Valve offers new details on Steam Direct

Developers will have to pay $ 100 to publish their games on Steam.

A few months ago Valve introduced direct steam, the successor of Greenlight steam, seeking to enhance the user experience in its popular digital distribution platform, and one of the most controversial issues raised was the rates they should pay developers to publish their games on Steam. At the time, the range was between $ 100 and $ 5,000, and now we know that the final price will only be a hundred dollars "game recoverable. "

"We wanted it to be as little as possible to ensure that it did not affect the game developers that started, but not so little that it was easy to abuse our system," says de Valve. Given the importance of this decision, they chose to create a debate within the community, and ultimately opted for the lowest figure they think will help many developers publish their games while contributing to the "characteristics Design can improve the algorithm Store to find games more easily. "

Valve will monitor the type of games that send them "and implement more features", with which they intend to reduce the economic incentive "to avoid the wrong actors bypassing the store's algorithm. We believe that if we involve human thinking store algorithm while the result is greater transparency, have created a public process that would take the store to have better performance for users, "added Responsible for steam.