Panzer Corps series goes to Steam Greenlight

[Lord Zimoa]

No... never say never, but we are more or less family after so many years growing up together, we do some things with other publishers, but Slitherine Group is our home and most likely will be for many years to come. In this case we both believed it was the right time and the right series to see if we can reach and attract a larger, more mainstream audience, but our focus will always be the fun niche of wargaming, that is our core business and first love.

[JasonPratt]

Already did.  Interesting move.

Interesting and smart move.  I hope Code Force does the same with Distant Worlds!

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My mind. It just boggled.

(Meanwhile, I hope the Lordz sell a blue million on Steam without feeling like they're getting ripped off by the way Steam radically discounts games on occasion. The Lordz deserve all the money.)

[Arctic Blast]

Already did.  Interesting move.

Interesting and smart move.  I hope Code Force does the same with Distant Worlds!

Agreed. Distant Worlds and Battle Academy seem like the other obvious picks to try releasing beyond just the Matrix/Slitherine/dev stores.

[Steelgrave]

After just having to go through all the crap of getting new downloads of all my Matrix/Slithereine games via Plimus (and I have a ton!), all I can say is that I welcome Steam.

Steam isn't perfect, but if I want to delete a game and reinstall it at a later time....no problem! After having to look up proof of purchase emails and zip back and forth between the Matrix, Slitherine and Plimus sites, I'm pretty frustrated with the amount of jumping through hoops I had to go through simply to install games which I've purchased and faithfully supported. Hell, even GoG keeps track of what you've bought...and it's one stop to reinstall! Someone has forgotten the guiding business principle of KISS....keep it simple, stupid! Steam is a far more simple process and it's no coincidence that 90% of my game purchases over the last two years have been downloaded from Steam or GoG.

So for the simple reason of not having to deal with Plimus and quickly-expiring download codes again....I hope this happens quickly.

[jomni]

I suspect they already reached their profit target and are willing look into mass distribution already.