I honestly don't think it would be THAT hard to just let us link our freaking steam account with our Stardock account u ALREADY have steam SSO, and then let us activate the non-steam version with our Stardock account , it ensures that no more than 5 are active at any one time requires ZERO issuing of new keys nor any expense of upgrading anyone to a non-steam license there is LITERALLY no reason for it to NOT work this way, I honestly DON'T want to have steam open on 3 + computers in my office because you guys can't get your act together its a no-brainer, that requiring steam to be logged in or installed when most of these products will be used in work environments MAKES ZERO SENSE, and this is irrelevant of T&C's,
if the steam version just required me to log in with my steam account or a single install of steam and then I can UNINSTALL steam (WHICH FYI is how I assumed it would work BUT IT DOESNT at least for me), I'm not in the habit of assuming that just because the software is on steam that its implementation would be done poorly and that's all the T&C says -> steam key, not steam is required to always be installed and & logged in and FYI there are programs that work JUST FINE after steam is uninstalled or in some cases not even installed at all - cause they GOD DAM LET U LINK your shit cause we are in 2018, not 1995