Steam direct $5000. Dumping Linux for windows 10.

[TinFoilHat]

The day i heard this news i installed windows 10 the same day. Wow so this is what unreal market place looks like! Visualstudio already setup! Nomore compiling unreal engine 4 and setup codelite accessor.Valve created SteamOS as a response to the windows store. The Universal Windows Platform does not require $5000 to develop windows games and xbox games . Linux what a waste of time...

[Zyro]

Citation needed

[TinFoilHat]

Unreal engine 4 is free with %5 royalty if you make over a $100,000. Valve is getting rid of steam greenlight that cost a $100. It is being replace with steam direct .Valve now wants $5000 to publish a game.

[Zyro]

Originally posted by TinFoilHat:

Unreal engine 4 is free with %5 royalty if you make over a $100,000.

Wish you good luck this will ever have anything to do with you.
But what has it to do with Linux or Windows?

Originally posted by TinFoilHat:

Valve is getting rid of steam greenlight that cost a $100. It is being replace with steam direct .Valve now wants $5000 to publish a game.

Citation still needed

[TinFoilHat]

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/558846854614253751

[Zyro]

Originally posted by TinFoilHat:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/558846854614253751

Did you give it a try and actually read it?
"We talked to several developers and studios about an appropriate fee, and they gave us a range of responses from as low as $100 to as high as $5,000."
They neither said they would take 5,000$ - nor they will, my bet on it.

[TinFoilHat]

Ya I know it's up to $5000. I'm not going to waste any more time while they figure it out.

[Zyro]

How much is it to get a professional Universal Windows Platform account - and to actually release a product there?

[TinFoilHat]

Universal Windows Platform $19 for individual and $99 for a company.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/store/register
I'm still looking into it.

[[GNU/LINUX] Norbert]

I'm both happy with Valve asking an 'admission fee', for which amount they are still considering,
and which will be _recouplable_

quote:
That changes this Spring when Valve launches Steam Direct. Going forward, developers will need to "complete a set of digital paperwork, personal or company verification, and tax documents similar to the process of applying for a bank account ", submit their game for a compatibility test, and pay a "recoupable application fee" for a game to be uploaded.

source: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/valve-drops-steam-greenlight-for-steam-direct

and with (optionally) publishing commercial mods
source: http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/10/valve-boss-gabe-newell-still-thinks-you-should-pay-for-game-mods/
(I was ok with that also when they tried it a couple of years ago, I think it will boost / improve the efforts and quality)

[Crac]

Originally posted by TinFoilHat:

Ya I know it's up to $5000. I'm not going to waste any more time while they figure it out.

That changes this Spring when Valve launches Steam Direct. Going forward, developers will need to "complete a set of digital paperwork, personal or company verification, and tax documents similar to the process of applying for a bank account ", submit their game for a compatibility test, and pay a "recoupable application fee" for a game to be uploaded. Valve also typically takes a 30 per cent cut of sales through Steam.

Ref: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/valve-drops-steam-greenlight-for-steam-direct

[[GNU/LINUX] Norbert]

lol ;)

[Crac]

;) good call brother.

[Zyro]

I don't get the "recoupable" thing - does it mean Valve's share is considered payed for the first x dollars, taken from the fee?

[[GNU/LINUX] Norbert]

Something like that Zyro, we'll see

[Theshadowman]

visual studio is a bloated 60 GB piece of crap

windows 10 is a piece of spyware designed to compromise your computer, only an idiot would ever use that