Valve Launches Developer Item Stores for Steam

5th November, 0 replies

Valve has launched a new developer run store on Steam that lets developers sell in-game items to users.

Modders can work alongside developers to sell their user made items on the store and get a cut of the revenue generated from them, in similar fashion to Valve's own Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 stores.

Valve released the following statement to the Steam Dev Community Group:

"This new Item Store is designed to make it easy for developers to establish an in-game economy or to just sell individual cosmetic items, keys, or consumables. And, it's designed to easily integrate with a curated Workshop (similar to Team Fortress 2) so you can accept user-made items, use that data to create item definitions and prices in the Steam Inventory Service, and set those items for sale via the Item Store.

Steam takes care of the checkout process, splitting payments to Workshop authors as appropriate, and adding the items to users' inventories. Your game then just needs to be able to call the Workshop to download item content in the right circumstances for your game."

At present only one game has implemented the new item store - Rust - where an assortment of new clothes and weapons are available for purchase.

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