Valve takes Steam in a new direction

[dsmart]

Valve takes Steam in a new direction

[GeminiJ13]

I'm confident that Steam's Direct program will be more successful than Greenlight.  I thought that I heard they will be charging persons whom want to submit a game for consideration $100 to do so in an effort to thwart asset flippers and those looking to game the trading card system.  Personally, I feel that Steam should be charging 10 times that amount.  And if the sales of your game exceed that $1000 amount, you get it refunded back to you.  I hope the feedback they get on this new program leads to better games for all of us.

[dsmart]

I'm confident that Steam's Direct program will be more successful than Greenlight.  I thought that I heard they will be charging persons whom want to submit a game for consideration $100 to do so in an effort to thwart asset flippers and those looking to game the trading card system.  Personally, I feel that Steam should be charging 10 times that amount.  And if the sales of your game exceed that $1000 amount, you get it refunded back to you.  I hope the feedback they get on this new program leads to better games for all of us.

The thing that's a bit confusing is that SD isn't all that different from GL. The latter required $99 fee, and voting by backers. The former requires an upfront $100 payment (recoupable) payment, and approval from Valve. While I don't believe that Valve is all of a sudden going to assign resources to check out every single game submission, I feel that they are going to be doing some vetting of the games. That was something missing from GL, and is the reason that it got such a bad rap.

[Ghostmaker]

On a side note, so who's buying stuff during the Steam Summer Sale?

Ah, so many games, so little time...  :supaburn:

[dsmart]

I received email that 62 items in my wishlist were on sale. I deleted that email so fast.