So Valve added an entry fee to Greenlight

Discussion in 'Unrelated Discussion' started by killien, September 7, 2012.

  1. killien

    killien Active Member

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    If any of you have been keeping track of it, Valve's Greenlight has been pretty much flooded with joke/troll game submissions
    To combat this, Valve opted to add a $100 fee before you could submit a game to Greenlight and apparently the fee is one-time(dunno if one-time per dev or per game) and all fees are getting donated to the Child's Play charity

    Obviously some devs aren't happy about it, some are okay with it, and others are "meh" about it.
    There's also been comments of "if you can't spare this, how do you expect to fund your game?"

    I kind of agree with that. To most of us, $100 isn't pocket change, but if you're spending 7-digit figures to develop, $100 isn't going to be much
    At the same time, if a game is barely started(pre-alpha, etc) and you're already having money troubles, why worry about getting it on Steam? Might be better off listing on Kickstarter first.


    Thoughts?
  2. gluteusmaximums

    gluteusmaximums New Member

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    $100 is chump change

    brb my average pair of shoes are $200
    brb my average pair of sunglasses are $200
  3. embox

    embox Moderator Alumni

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    $100 isn't that much and anyone serious about trying to get their game on Steam could probably provide it with no hassle at all.
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    iammclovin117 Active Member

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    killien Active Member

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    Saw that one. Looks interesting, but being a smartphone game ported up makes me cautious
  7. iammclovin117

    iammclovin117 Active Member

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    I play it on my phone with a PS3 controller (My droid's rooted) and plugged on to my TV and it runs great. Gameplay isn't clunky by any means.
    It run's like crap on the iPhone, but that's not saying much, It's a apple platform.
    But it will be great on steam.. And it might have mulit-player.

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