Valve is putting an end to its Steam Greenlight program later this year. In its place, Valve is introducing a new service called Steam Direct.

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Steam Direct is "a new direct sign-up system for developers" seeking to put games on Steam. A new application fee required for submission of new content will "decrease the noise in the submission pipeline," according to Valve . A common complaint against Steam Greenlight is a lack of quality control in games available on the service.Currently Valve is working with developers to come up with an appropriate fee, with responses coming back as low as $100 per game to as high as $5000."We’d like to gather more feedback before settling on a number," it said.While Valve considers the Greenlight program a success, it suffered from two major problems Valve needed to fix: "improving the entire pipeline for bringing new content to Steam," and connecting consumers with "the types of content they wanted."On the first anniversary of Steam Greenlight back in 2013, Valve's Gabe Newell said the ultimate goal of the program was to eliminate "bottlenecks...between developers and consumers."Last month, Newell said Valve is working on a single player game , but didn't mention a name. It's safe to assume it isn't Half-Life 3, however, since Newell joked "The number 3 must not be said."

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