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It's highly doubtful. Steam does provide free keys to developers if they want to sell them directly, but one of the stipulations is that they can't be used to favor non-Steam customers (since Valve isn't making any money off them). If they offer a discount or deal using those keys, then there should be a comparable discount or deal offered to Steam customers within a reasonable time frame. Also, if it appears the developer is abusing the system, Valve will stop issuing keys.

Reply to Early Access is Now Available for Galactic Civilizations IV in GalCiv News GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="lord999" reply="23" id="3808941"]Epic has better revenue terms and if it is going the exclusive, Stardock gets better revenue out of it compared with Steam. [/quote] Not necessarily true. Steam has a much larger userbase and higher spending per user. This isn't the kind of game that will necessarily appeal to the Fortnight crowd (the largest group of users on EGS). A wider release would have resulted in more sales, and even if some of

Reply to Early Access is Now Available for Galactic Civilizations IV in GalCiv News GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="gilly775" reply="16" id="3808758"] Yeah, not too happy about this myself. I really wanted to support this but not on Epic. Sigh. I would have been willing to pay the Founder's Access like I did with GC3 but now I'll just wait. ugh [/quote] Same here. I'd be downloading this right now if it were through Steam, but I don't trust the long-term viability of EGS, and I have no interest in getting burned by them like I did with my Impulse library. Hell, doe