Bonus Steam Keys From Choice of Games Website?

[FairyGodfeather]

I know it’s frustrating. Ideally Choice of Games would have all of the games released on Steam. I’m sure if it was possible they would be giving away free Steam keys if you purchase the game on their website. They’ve got to have their reasons why they aren’t.

I know that Choice of Games wants as many people as possible to be playing the games, on Steam. They directly benefit from people playing the games there, the more people playing their games on Steam, the more games they can release on Steam.

It’s likely going to be a very long time until we see any of the Hosted Games on Steam (if we ever do) so I’d suggest if you do want to purchase any games, and are worried about that game then being released on Steam so you’d need to purchase it twice, go for the Hosted Games.

Incidentally

@dfabulich

Here’s the deal. Valve gives us “app credits” which we can use to release games on Steam. They’ll give us N credits, which is always fewer than the number of games we have coming out, so we have to pick and choose how we use them.

Our goal is to maximize the number of app credits they’ll give us in the future, so we try to pick games that will appeal to Steam buyers. We prefer to do simultaneous releases, launching the game on Steam, iOS, and Android all on the same day, but we also like to choose games that are already known to be bestsellers on other platforms. These goals contradict each other.

If we had unlimited app credits, we’d release everything on Steam at launch.

Having just launched Robots and Psy High, we’re currently tapped out. If/when Valve gives us more credits, we’ll release more games on Steam. If The Last Monster Master is a big hit, that will bode well for an early 2015 Steam release. If not, it’ll still be on the list, but other games might jump ahead of it in line.

You can help us by buying our games on Steam and by following us on Steam which increases our visibility on the Steam store.