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💬 Steam has put out a bunch of important updates recently.
Big changes to how Demos work on the store, what visual assets you need, new review settings, and very importantly new rules for links on the description.
Steam is super important so make sure you keep up to date with all their rules and best practices, check out my Game Dev Report newsletter where I cover all these changes.

🔴 RELATED VIDEOS 🔴

[ragix]

I’m just here Incase I somehow finish making a game 😂

[Aeroxima]

I didn't initially like the idea of "no links", but it makes sense and seems fair enough. Since I wouldn't have spammed those kinds of links so aggressively, the section for other games or publisher games would only be a step up for me.

Not sure I get the demo stuff but it sounds positive, will look into it more as needed.

[connorjosephmyers]

For referencing a Discord server, I am pretty sure a big image advertising your Discord community saying something like "Join The Community Discord In The Social Link Section" would still be allowed. Maybe something like this would be the best strategy now.

[animanaut]

they should whitelist the links in the linkbox to be usable in the description as well. sounds like a decent middleground to me

[NoTimeLeft_]

Great stuff C.M.
Love the updates and this is def something we will factor in during the coming months as we near the launch of NTL.

[RobLang]

A great roundup, thank you. I think the updates are small but welcome. I am not convinced this is enough improvement to warrant 30% fee.

[MarushiaDark]

One thing I don't see mentioned is transitioning between solo pages and company pages. So if I recall correctly, the developer page requires you to form an LLC. Those are easy enough to setup, but the cost and maintenance for an empty shelf company could be a barrier to entry for some people (having to file and pay quarterly taxes and yearly registration fees, even if you make nothing, for instance). So they might upload games as an individual, but then later transition to a formal LLC and I don't know how easy or difficult it is to switch, if you have to redo a lot of work, if you can reassign games to another developer, etc. So like in your case, you obviously publish under Endless Loop Studios, but supposing early in your career you published under Code Monkey or even your real name. How easy / hard is it to go from that to now everything is published under Endless Loop Studios?

The reason I ask is because adding games to a Steam page and requesting wishlists in marketing is super important; but if you can't upload to Steam because you don't have an LLC or are worried it's not future-proof without a ton of reworking that could cost you reviews and wishlists and metrics, that could turn a lot of people off from uploading to Steam in favor of something like Itch that doesn't have that same requirement and is easy to rename. So could you speak to that, perhaps in a stand-alone video? Maybe you or Chris Zukowski knows.

[AnxMa]

You got an amazing channel and insight. Brings me back to the good old days when content was created by passionate ppl. Now real gamers're replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. People who, back in the day, called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved Anime. Now they use our tech to make sick money and destroy self-esteem of others. I made a deep dive video about X360 as the last great generation, hope I'm wrong...

[kaijuultimax]

Steam knows how big of a deal NextFest is to consumers and I've been glad to see all the changes they've been making to Steam to better accommodate developers.

[tossacointoyourwitcherOriginal]

I have been asking for this for over 3 years now

[DexEm]

5:13 - I think this was pushed back to October 15th.

[Aetherlight_]

2:08 lmao might want to turn off certain tags before making a video XD

[Ihasfinger]

Wait, so I have to update existing capsules by November?
I thought you could leave them

[Leomerya]

6:33

Everyone else has to suffer because of a few unreasonable people.

So many laws exist because people lack courtesy and/or common sense.

[stephanreiken]

If I wanted a discord link anyway I would link it to a steam discussion thread that has the discord link

[abiofficial-wspn]

I like code monkey. I (like to) use Godot, but I do like Code Monkey channel.

[MxzStudio]

6:00 FucK! it so sad cross promotion is working well, when you have lot of game. Man that so sad I work with play way, ..