Steam Greenlight Submissions Now Cost $100

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">That&&num;8217&semi;s right&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;valvesoftware&period;com&sol;">Valve<&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi;s newest <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcommunity&period;com&sol;greenlight&sol;">Steam Greenlight<&sol;a> project will now cost developers a &dollar;100&period;00 submission fee in order to have their games listed for voting&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re unfamiliar with Greenlight&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a program that Valve initiated to give indie developers a better chance of getting noticed&period; This was originally done by allowing developers to submit their game to Steam via Greenlight for free&period; Once it was submitted&comma; Steam users could then up-or-down vote the game&comma; depending whether or not they wanted to see it available on the Steam marketplace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The system has been working quite well&&num;8230&semi; for the most part&period; Unfortunately&comma; the internet is the internet&comma; and said internet quite often ruins things when given the opportunity&period; Such was the case with Greenlight&comma; as troll submissions popped up all over the place&comma; flooding the listing of games and confusing users&period; Games like <em>Half<&sol;em>&&num;8211&semi;<em>Life<&sol;em> <em>3<&sol;em> and <em>Minecraft<&sol;em> were a few of these submissions that were not to be taken seriously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">This is where Valve stepped in&comma; announcing that all submissions must be accompanied by an entrance fee of &dollar;100&period;00&comma; in order to weed out any potential users who do not plan on monetizing their entry&period; To this end&comma; Valve has stated that all &dollar;100&period;00 of each submission fee will be donated to the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;childsplaycharity&period;org&sol;">Child&&num;8217&semi;s Play<&sol;a> charity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&lpar;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamebreaker&period;tv&sol;indie-games&sol;valve-steam-greenlightthatll-be-100&sol;">Gamebreaker&period;TV<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;