Please no Steam, or at least let people decide to not have it on Steam.
Pretty please no Steam. Maybe I'm just old, but I don't understand this need to know who/what/where/when/why/to what extent someone else (even a friend) is playing a game. And 'but it's a social aspect' doesn't cut it' 8-).
--- My opinions are not humble, they are just my opinions. ---
Game companies save money w/ Steam, GoG, and others because it saves money on not needing infrustructure for dealing with payments, hosting the game's files, and traffic management.
Pantheon, by it's very essence, already has all that infrustructure. Thus it would cost VR more to have the game on Steam (which takes a 30% cut) than to just do everything themselves (since it's just the cost of traffic, storage, and dynamic hardware allocation which is pennies per download on AWS)
I geuss i'm neutral. I'll prefer to start it from steam and then it starts a standalone launcher, which you could run standalone to start with a shortcut, would work just fine. I don't see an immediate benefit for me in either situation. Unless i'd be owning a LAN cafe or something of the sorts due to Steam Caching to save my own bandwidth.
I would love to run Pantheon under Steam, as I do all my other games. Not because of the community, though. That means nothing to me.
I prefer to have all my gaming investments available with a single user account, and I like that everything is kept updated automatically. If it could be made in such a way that I wouldn't have a separate login to my Pantheon account, and if the subscription fee could be handled through my Steam account, that would be even better.
Having said that, it's not a big deal for me, as long as downloading, installation, account creation and client updates are implemented in a convenient manner.
Tanix said:Please no Steam, or at least let people decide to not have it on Steam.
I don't mind if they want it on Steam so long as it has its own stand alone player. I prefer it that way to be honest. I worry about Pantheon going to Steam in some ways. You're getting a whole different community of players there, and they likely won't be kind in the review section. In fact, I'm certain if it releases in an early access state given how that system has been abused to no end by countless developers that they'll get raked over the hot coals just out of general principle.
Maybe I am just old and don't get understand steam. I thought you can buy the game through steam and play as normal. I was playing EQ on Lockjaw and someone asked me for my steam account name. I didn't have a steam account at the time but we were still able to play togetherwith no issues. Since then I got a steam account and bought a few games and play with no interaction or problems with other people.