Steam Direct fee will be $100 per title

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UPDATE 02/06/2017 7.08pm: The $100 Steam Direct fee will be given back to developers once a title reaches $1k in sales, a Steam representative told Ars Technica.
ORIGINAL STORY 02/06/2017 5.16pm: Back in February Valve told us that it would be removing Steam Greenlight this spring and replacing it with a program called Steam Direct, which would put games and other software directly on Valve's marketplace. At the time of the program's announcement there was one big question mark hanging over the upcoming system: how much would it cost to put a game on there?
At the time Valve was thinking somewhere between $200 and $5000. In other words, they wanted it costly enough that the market wouldn't get flooded with junk, but cheap enough that skint developers could still launch their product. Now we finally have an answer to this query: the Steam Direct fee will be mere $100 per game.
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