The Kickstarter situation is tricky because, as best as we understand Valve policy, the only way the developers can make Steam keys available to backers is if they offer their game for sale publicly to everyone on Steam with the store taking 30%.
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Yeah I don't see anywhere in their policy that it says that. Can you at least give the sentence you saw that in? Otherwise, this is another case of you lying to ppl again. Remember when you said that Metro Exodus thing was just going to be a one time thing?
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I didn’t say that. Here’s what Steam’s policy says. See the “crowdfunding” section in particular, as well as the catch-all “Valve reserves the right to reject key requests.” https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys …
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There’s a not-very-clear statement along these lines on https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys …. I emailed a Valve colleague for clarification 9 days ago but haven’t heard back.
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I also wish to know what you say is unclear. The Crowdfunding section says giving backers (and crucially only backers!) keys prior to Steam launch is fine, and that generating keys needs a confirmed Steam distribution agreement which is also true as shown by its store page.
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I mean, why would they give keys for a game technically not on their platform? 0 money in it and no store presence...
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You are the kind of guy that eats their Burger King meal at McDonalds.
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So launch it on Steam.
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Yes. But you *can* let us choose between two options - EGS key at launch OR - Steam key after the exclusivity period ends As for the physical copies of people who choose Steam, you could either ship them a year late w/ Steam code or ship it without a key and email it later.
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He shouldn't even have any say in that. So long as it's outside their super special anti-consumer year, Epic shouldn't have any say in this.
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You all said you wouldn't do this again. This would be the 3rd maybe 4th time now sweeny. Honestly faith with you and epic are at 0.
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