Valve will\u00a0let developers pay a refundable $100 fee to have\u00a0their games listed on Steam in the future.<\/p>\n
The company said<\/strong><\/a> it\u00a0initially wanted to set the fee for the Steam Direct service at $500, but decided a lower fee was more suitable.<\/p>\n A\u00a0combination of human curation and algorithmic discovery will be used to\u00a0highlight\u00a0titles\u00a0most relevant to users, and prevent gamers from being bombarded with poor-quality games.<\/p>\n Valve also announced that it is looking for specific places where it can\u00a0use human intervention in its game discovery algorithm to ensure it is working\u00a0as it intended.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that if we inject human thinking into the Store algorithm, we\u2019ll have created a public process that will incrementally drive the Store to better serve everyone using it,\u201d said Valve.<\/p>\n It said it is currently looking at refunding developers\u2019 $100 listing fee after their game reaches $1,000 in sales. No launch date for the new system was announced.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Valve will let developers pay a refundable $100 fee to have their games listed on Steam in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24005,6564,391,22551,85],"class_list":["post-118073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-direct","tag-greenlight","tag-indie-games","tag-replacement","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Valve kills Steam Greenlight<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"