Valve would like to further improve it by providing you almost every piece of data that lead to you being recommended a certain game if you so desire. Valve considers it functioning relatively well, but admits there are improvements to be made. Steam for a long while has had several discovery systems in place, including a discovery queue and recommendations based on an algorithm that includes curators you follow and tags of the games you've been playing, among others. The main concern regarding Steam Direct (and in extent, the Steam Store Frontpage) is discoverability. This is particularly interesting when considering that most developers that are intent on silencing criticism, have been known to do this. Finally, he states that Valve is aware whenever a developer wipes their steam forums clean. Valve also happened to mention that, while most developers pushed for the amount to be lower, a few developers were actively pressuring Valve to push the amount higher for a submission, but Valve shared no names. The idea is to keep it affordable so there are doubts it'll change much from 100$.

While Jim notes there haven't been any specific numbers yet on the monetary charge for Steam Direct, Valve is considering lower numbers, possibly up to a 1000$, though he doubts that will be the case. The Valve staff answered that they like to be 'surprised', citing that visual novels were the reason for this as they were unaware how popular this genre was and would furthermore prove to be later down the line. Jim Sterling, who has dedicated a vast portion of his Youtube videos towards exposing terrible games and asset flips on Steam Greenlight, started out with asking why titles such as Air Control can manage to get on Steam. Starting off with Steam Direct, an upcoming feature designed to replace Steam Greenlight, requiring developers to pay a flat fee before being permitted to submit a game to the Steam store.

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