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HoloDust said:

JEMC said:

In my view, a two tier approach would work better, but not one like the one you proposed.

What they could do (again, imho) is a low entry fee, like $250-300, for the first game of any developer/publisher. That won't stopp anyone who is serious about what they're doing from bringing their games to Steam, but it will make shovelware publishers to think twice.

At the same time, once you already have a game on Steam, that fee for the next games could be increased to about $2,000, an amount that's perfectly assumeable for serious devs/publishers that have faith in their games but that will be too high for those that only publish crap.

Yeah, that can work too, but I'd prefer (at least) 2 tier system that can always tell apart devs who invested more, even if that's their first game on Steam - there are plenty of devs with mid-higher budget games having their first game released on Steam, and I'd like to have a system in place to browse only through those games.

As somone who plays on mobiles from time to time, finding anything on mobile stores is a nightmare, and I'm affraid this is where the Steam is heading with this $100 for all type of solution.

MS is launching similar program, XBox Live Creators, self-publish for $20-$100 (I'm guessing depending on where you're from), but you will not have all the same benefits and your game will be on separate section. I think similar solution would work better for Steam then what they came up with currently.

Problem is that there are games that while looking good, are made by really small teams or even just one person, like Stardew Valley or Banished. Those games have quality, but I doub they'll makers would be able to pay more to be put in the second/higer class tier, thus ending in the shovelware camp.

I can't comment on the MSoft progam because, without an XboxOne nor Win 10, I know nothing about it.