Steam? Sales? No comments?

[Terminus]

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[NavalNewZ]

"..We are not planning to do anything that would create an inconvenience for our customers or tie ourselves to Steam. Feedback from our customers tells us they are very happy with the system we have now to sell game and the simple serial number check instead of any restrictive DRM. Nothing will change there..." - THIS is all I care about. I tried using Steam twice. The second time I ended up formatting my harddrive due to the various problems it created. So long as I can continue to purchase software off Matrix with the current serial system, I don't mind what they do with Steam.

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

As Iain said, we are exploring this as another distribution option. We are not planning to do anything that would create an inconvenience for our customers or tie ourselves to Steam. Feedback from our customers tells us they are very happy with the system we have now to sell game and the simple serial number check instead of any restrictive DRM. Nothing will change there, but we also have a lot of feedback that suggests we could reach other customers by also making some games available on Steam.

Regards,

- Erik

I've got no problems with you selling titles on Steam, so long as you continue to offer me the ability to buy through the Matrix online store. I much prefer dealing with Matrix than Steam.

Nothing wrong with multiple avenues to sell your products. But you can certainly count me as one of those customers who are quite happy with the current Matrix serial number check system. [:)]

[Erik Rutins]

I'll emphasize it again - this is just an additional distribution option. We are not changing how our store works, how our DRM works, etc. Our online store will be our primary store, we are just exploring Steam as an additional distribution option for titles where it makes sense. Even if all goes wonderfully with that, what you expect from us here in our store will remain the same and all our titles will be released here. [8D]

Regards,

- Erik

[Rtwfreak]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Iain remember Steam will be whacking out the game for buttons in their constant sales no doubt though. Which goes against your "price it low doesn't work once the game reaches a certain age" policy surely?

[:D]

[JFalk68]

Steam has been great for me, anytime I want to clean up my HD of games I haven't touched in over a year I can safely remove them and I can always reinstall easily from my Steam library. No problems what so ever with Steam, it's a wonderful platform to play games.

Anytime I can purchase a game on Steam vs having a hard copy, I go with Steam.

Here is a RL example of why I like Steam: Took a short mini vacation to Great Wolf Lodge, brought wife's laptop along to play "Faster Then Light" (great indie strategy game) in the late evening. I downloaded Steam on her PC, logged in to my account via her laptop. After email verification, that it was indeed me using this unrecognized PC for Steam, I was allowed to access my entire library of games and download them to her PC.

I was up and playing FTL in no time

Short story, I love Steam

[Arkblade]

i hope to see Distant Worlds(with expansion) in steam in future.
but It may also be recognized as a copy of Star Drive[:(]
many users does not know the game if that is not in the steam ...

[Rtwfreak]

I just read where they are going to do away with Greenlite and do something else to streamline the process. Something that was in a recent interview of such.

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: JFalk68

Steam has been great for me, anytime I want to clean up my HD of games I haven't touched in over a year I can safely remove them and I can always reinstall easily from my Steam library. No problems what so ever with Steam, it's a wonderful platform to play games.

Anytime I can purchase a game on Steam vs having a hard copy, I go with Steam.

Here is a RL example of why I like Steam: Took a short mini vacation to Great Wolf Lodge, brought wife's laptop along to play "Faster Then Light" (great indie strategy game) in the late evening. I downloaded Steam on her PC, logged in to my account via her laptop. After email verification, that it was indeed me using this unrecognized PC for Steam, I was allowed to access my entire library of games and download them to her PC.

I was up and playing FTL in no time

Short story, I love Steam

Where I am just the opposite. I always want to have a physical copy of my games. Its a case of to each his own. If you are comfortable using Steam, then use it. Personally I'm not comfortable using services such as Steam.

[wodin]

Distant Worlds is a obvious choice for Steam and one that will do amazing.

ORIGINAL: Arkblade

i hope to see Distant Worlds(with expansion) in steam in future.
but It may also be recognized as a copy of Star Drive[:(]
many users does not know the game if that is not in the steam ...