Steam announced that they were killing the Greenlight program this year, to replace it with an alternative way of publishing known as Steam Direct.

When it was first announced back in February, Valve still haven’t had a figure on how much the fees were going to be for publication. Valve finally agreed on “a $100 recoupable publishing fee per game, while at the same time work on features designed to help the Store algorithm become better at helping you sift through games.”

To weed out potential abuse of the system, Valve said they will be injecting human input into the Store algorithm, to monitor the submissions, as well as making sure algorithms don’t miss something interesting.

Valve also updated the Steam Curators feature – whereby users can choose to opt in to follow certain curators. Curators can also create personal lists of games, where Curators can give general suggestions about which games to buy in the current sale, or more specific lists, like which games to play to follow the evolution of a particular type of game design, the body of a work from a certain developer, or the games in a Curator’s weekly Game Club.

For users who opt in to follow curators, you will find them more heavily featured, where a Curator’s thoughts will be more prominent.

Valve will be releasing dates on Steam Direct on a later date.