Valve has retired Steam Greenlight, replacing it with\u00a0Steam Direct \u2013 a model more in line with marketplaces like Google Play.<\/p>\n
Steam Direct will launch on 13 June 2017, and allows game developers to list a title on\u00a0Steam for\u00a0a refundable fee\u00a0of\u00a0$100.<\/p>\n
One the game reaches a $1,000 in sales, the fee will be returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal with Steam Direct is to provide an understandable and predictable path for developers from anywhere in the world to bring their games to Steam,\u201d said Valve.<\/p>\n
\u201cA new developer will simply need to fill out some digital paperwork, including entering bank and tax information, and going through a quick identity verification process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their game is then reviewed by a team at Valve before being listed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a short process prior to release where our review team installs each game to check that it is configured correctly, matches the description provided on the store page, and doesn\u2019t contain malicious content.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNew developers that we haven\u2019t worked with before will need to wait 30 days from the time they pay the app fee until they can release their first game on Steam.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDevelopers will also need to put up a Coming Soon page for a couple of weeks prior to release, which helps get more eyes on upcoming releases and gives players a chance to point out discrepancies that our team may not be able to catch.\u201d<\/p>\n
This article first appeared on MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Valve has retired Steam Greenlight, replacing it with Steam Direct \u2013 a model more in line with marketplaces like Google Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24005,6564,391,85],"class_list":["post-118125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-direct","tag-greenlight","tag-indie-games","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118125","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=118125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118127,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118125\/revisions\/118127"}],"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=118125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Valve upgrades to 100Gbps Internet for Steam gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"