There is no guarantee that you will be provided additional keys.” After that, all Steam Key requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Now: “Games and applications launching on Steam may receive up to 5,000 Default Release Steam Keys to support retail activities and distribution on other stores. There’s a new baseline of 5,000 ‘standard’ Steam keys per game: previously, no numbers were mentioned. Reminder: you can get an amount of ‘free copies’ of your own game, in alphanumeric key form, that you can sell and keep Valve’s 30% cut of (or give a cut to someone else.)Īnd it looks like the page changes have mainly been done to get more specific with when and where you can (and can’t!) use Steam keys, with the main takeaways being: Our view? The concept of Steam keys is a generous, if platform-enhancing move. legal system disputes them - will be hotly debated there-in. And the role of Steam keys - which Valve intimated they will remove entirely if the U.S. Valve antitrust lawsuit is advancing towards trial. This rewrite is particularly interesting since the Wolfire vs.
We recommend heading over to the Steamworks Documentation page to read through those guidelines, whether you’re new to Steam or a veteran developer.”īut what exactly shifted? Lots of syntax, at least! And thanks to SteamDB’s SteamWorks Documentation project, we can see an exact list of ‘before-after’ changes to the Steam keys page - red coloring is the previous, and green is the newly inserted. ģ6 hours left: get Plus for 25% off! Steam keys: what exactly’s changed from Valve?įor those paying attention, you might have spotted a short Valve update a couple of days ago: “We’ve updated the Steam Key rules and guidelines to reflect our Steam Key policy more accurately. You get a big extra weekly game analysis newsletter, ‘live’ Steam Hype & post-release dataset, eBooks, Discord & more - read about it here. Oh, and a final reminder -our 25% off monthly/yearly Plus subscriptions deal runs out in <36 hours. We’re having a lot of fun growing our team & fact-spraying you via ‘electronic mail’. So, we’re back from DICE, where we saw Snow Crash author, ‘ metaverse ’ word coiner (and Lamina1 co-founder) Neal Stephenson give a thought-provoking keynote poking fun at crypto while still being in the ‘metaverse x blockchain’ biz - not an easy task!Īnd thanks to all the GameDiscoverCo readers - old and new friends alike - who came up to compliment us on this newsletter.
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