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]

引用自 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?

引用自 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]

引用自 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]

引用自 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