The $100 fee is nothing after all the work you and your team could have put on your mod, and the fee can be split up anyway. Steam Direct is the all new system, which will let you put any game on steam for $100 and Valve's approval. So, with the end of greenlight, what this means for us?

Without requiring the base game installed, people didn't have to worry about any errors since valve helped make the mod being considered an actual game (for steam), allowing things such as workshop implementation and achievements. There was even the case of PS: Mel that won a award at the Games Awards 2015.Ī lot of mods benefited from it too. The influx of people mods got after this was HUGE, many youtubers making let's plays of mods and a easy way to finally play them. People that didn't even knew that mods existed, didn't know how to install them or just didn't knew how to fix a broken mod finally had a chance to play more of their favorite games. Many indie developers finally had a chance of putting their game onto what is the marketplace for any PC gamer. Altough it was yes a door for many horrible games, controversies and the monthly steam drama fest, it did actually a lot of good.

While that might sound easy for the most part, there where people who just didn't knew you could actually install mods on steam, not to mention the steam pipe update which just broke everything.Īnd then came greenlight. The only way people had to play mods was to go to some download page and install it manually on steam (great system btw, had it's own folder on the steamapps). With Greenlight nearly coming to an end, let's remind ourselves at how the great things it did for us. Heya guys! Long time no see right? Well I've been busy for the most part, but let's get this out of the way.

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