Valve Sets Steam Direct Publishing Fee at $100

Pyrian

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Apparently the fee is going to be refunded if you reach $1000 in sales. So, even from a "costs passed on" perspective, the only thing going on is that people who buy games paying into the fewer than $1000 are paying for the $100. Er. Assuming the sales even reaches the ~$150 required for Steam to even give anything back (you have to make $100 after Steam's 30% cut to get paid, if I understand it correctly)... I wonder how many games even fall into that bracket?
 

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One of the 'tricks' that I recall Totalbiscuit talking about for this new store setup, is that Valve might restrict card production until a game has a certain number of players, and perhaps a certain minimum level of time played... more so than right now.

this would kill off card-farming games
 

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Chaosian said:
$100 is absolutely nothing, though to be fair I'm not sure even $5000 is anything.

https://steamspy.com/app/360590

A literal asset flip with a user score of 14%, that exists purely for trading cards, has 22k owners.
Bear in mind, most of those owners probably got the game for 10c in a bundle.