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Hi there,
Googling for some tycoonlike games i ended up on your website, and i must say this looks like a very promising game.
I am planning on buying the alpha but i have a question before i want to do that:
Q) Assuming this game will also be submitted to steam sooner or later (it will right?) would i be able to add it to my library when i already have bought it now?

thank you in advance for the info.

https://www.factorio.com/faq

Even if Steam doesn't give out keys, this game would be worth loosing half of my steam library

Choumiko wrote:https://www.factorio.com/faq

Even if Steam doesn't give out keys, this game would be worth loosing half of my steam library

Thanks for the quick reply!
I guess it depends on how big your steam library is i love steam as the central place to manage all my games, but looking at the plans i see its worth getting it in this early stage

I wouldnt mind not having it on my steam....(i dont want to be judged by 800+ hrs played time )

Garm wrote:I wouldnt mind not having it on my steam....(i dont want to be judged by 800+ hrs played time )

Haven't thought about it that way, won't add it to steam then. There are already to many games where the displayed hours should be replaced with "Get a life"

Choumiko wrote:

Garm wrote:I wouldnt mind not having it on my steam....(i dont want to be judged by 800+ hrs played time )

Haven't thought about it that way, won't add it to steam then. There are already to many games where the displayed hours should be replaced with "Get a life"

If your bothered by that you can just turn it off if i recall correct

one of the main reasons why i really hope to get it on steam later on is steams home streaming functionality. So i start the game on steam on my strong desktop and stream it to my old crappy laptop. Afterall, it way more relaxing to game on the couch

I'm pretty sure you can also use in-home streaming if it is a non-steam game. Also that way it wouldn't count your play time but you'd have it show up in your library, too!
Only reason to get it on steam might be trading cards (for those who don't think they're nonsense, like me) and achievments.

I'm still not sure if I'm gonna give up the freedom of having the game without any launcher for trading cards, though :/

You can add non-steam games to your library list so there isn't really a problem there,.