Elite Dangerous VIA Steam?

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sidearm7

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As a Gamer on PC we lack a single roof over our heads with Devs using diffrent clouds to sell there games from or using there own sites / Retail box.
However i strongly believe if we had everthing under one roof and Origin, Battle.net, STEAM , other clouds, standalone merged would make the PC community a hole lot bigger. PC users like there to be a choice and not being rail roaded into one area and i understand this but as a platform for DEVS to bring the PC back to the front in the gaming world i think this would help in many ways.
 

gazzareth

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Pretty sure that ED will make it to Steam pretty quickly after release, although it seems that at the moment they just want to sell direct so they can maximise profits...

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Seonid

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gazzareth said:
Pretty sure that ED will make it to Steam pretty quickly after release, although it seems that at the moment they just want to sell direct so they can maximise profits...

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I'm pretty sure you are just making things up.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-26-elite-dangerous-the-david-braben-interview
Will you launch the game on Steam?

David Braben: No. We've got to support the game with our own back end anyway, so I don't see the benefit of it.

Well, I would suggest the benefit is 100m users, which is a huge potential audience.

David Braben: Yes, that's true. It's something we would look at, but it would have to then interface with what we're doing, and the two would potentially conflict. We have to provide the back end.
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Edit: Have another 52 pages of the same discussion here.
 
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Moriendor

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I believe the problem might be the same reason EA is no longer on Steam. If Frontier want to sell DLC (or generally content) from any links within the game that bypass Steam then that violates Steam's TOS. So they probably want to have it all under their own control and not worry about making sure that Valve always get their cut.
 

Toumal

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Yes. Let's have Steam be the sole distributor for PC games. Because Monopolies have always worked out so well for us consumers.

Heck, you can see it happen even now. Steam sales (sic) that sell you old games for an incredible markup of up to 100%, and tell you that you're "saving" 20%... (over the usual markup of 120%, that is). Or heck, even new indie titles that are on Desura for a good amount less than on Steam, and that even though most of the time the developers get a bigger cut on Desura than what Steam gives them.

No thanks. If you like Steam, good for you, convenience is a valid argument, but let's not put all our eggs into one basket. I'm not paying $29 for a game that costs $19 on Desura. For example, Steam sells "Depth", a very fun sharks vs. divers game, for 23 Euros. The developer gets 8 per copy. I paid 10 Euros, and the developer still got 8 euros from my purchase. Why, I hear you ask?

Because Steam. That's why.
 
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Underking

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The game MUST come to Steam, Origin or uPlay. The only way I can purchase Elite: Dangerous in my country is through any of these digital stores.
 

Underking

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The problem is I don't have a foreign credit card. I can use Paypal, but the taxes are too high in my country. I'd have to pay almost twice the price for the game.
 

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Sparafucile

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I only play games I can buy on Steam, and I know many other do. Elite Dangerous is not a multiplatform EA game that will make millions of DLC: Frontier is losing far more in sales from not having a PC exclusive on Steam.
 

Maleor

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I agree that Steam would be nice, if it were on steam i would already have gifted copies to my good friends for xmas.. on Frontier's site there is no option to gift the game for xmas or for any other reason for that matter.
 
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Tiamat

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Maleor said:
I agree that Steam would be nice, if it were on steam i would already have gifted copies to my good friends for xmas.. on Frontier's site there is no option to gift the game for xmas or for any other reason for that matter.
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There was but they disabled the coded for some reason. Must have been a problem.

Steam would be nice but as I understand it FD would be giving up around 30% of the purchase code for no real benefit other than advertising. That is a pretty steep gouge.
 
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