Using Steam Direct will require some financial investment.

Previously, we wrote about how Steam Greenlight’s successor, Steam Direct would take from one hundred to up to five thousand dollars to be used as a way to get rid of „fake” games. Steam’s blog went into detail and explained that the cost would be 100$ for everyone, and it could be recouped later.

Gabe Newell’s team also revamped the Trading Card system: they want to boot cheap games off Steam where the developers receive the most money with players trading the cards. These devs can hand out thousands of keys to bots to farm the cards and sell them for profit. This loophole is shutting down.

Steam Direct’s arrival, as well as the modification of the Store’s algorhythm, will hide the „garbage” from players to see recommendations worth our time. (One of our editors bought a game (?) for a euro which has over three thousand achievements – titles as such could be running into trouble from now on.)
(Source: VG247)