Quote Originally Posted by Youkulm View Post
I'd like to see the source on the Steam policy/contract with SE for this if you have it, thanks! Would clear up a lot of frustration with the dev team and forum GMs refusing to respond to these threads when they pop up.
I wish i would find the source, there was some protest some years ago when you were still able to play the windows version even if you had a steam account and that was also against their policy with the overlay as far as i remember and there was a statement from support where this reasoning was presented. But i really can't find it and obviously we don't have access to the contracts SE has with Steam where this would be probably written down.

All i know is that Steam doesn't allow this cause they make money over the wallet purchases and ofc over the expansionpack sells and even over the subscriptions over steam. So if you could cut them as a steam account user completely out that would mean they lose all profit they can make from the game which would be a obvious problem for a corporation that wants to make money. So they hold us basically as hostages and it's either all in or all out and SE probably also wouldn't like to lose a big platform like steam completely.

As i said i also made the mistake of buying the game over steam and i am not happy with it either. And i wish i could buy the game just for windows and be done with it. But that problem was a hot topic some years ago already and people screamed for this and nothing was done so...at some point you accept that you have to pay for your sins...