The head of the publishing division of Epic Games in Eastern Europe and the author of the analytical service Steam Spy, Sergey Galenkin, presented data according to which the average income of indie developers on Steam has decreased by 50% over the past 2 years.

According to Daniel Ahmad, an analyst at Niko Partners, more than 1.3 thousand new games have been released on Steam since the launch of the Steam Direct service.

Steam Direct, a service for self—publishing games in the Valve store, began its work on June 13.