I wish for people who have bought the game from Stardock aka Gamestop will give people who have bought the game before this update will be given free copies.

Oops, accidental double post caused by forum lag.

That's great news.  Will those of us who purchased Sins and all of the expansions previously be able to just register them at STEAM now?  Will updates also be available there?

I hope this means we can finally get a dedicated Sins forum at the Steam forums.  Earlier I created a Steam group to advertise Sins online multiplayer:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SinsOnline

Hmm, should I complain that we might start getting steam fanbois or happy that the community might grow even larger now?

I am curious though will Sins still be DRM free if gotten on steam (I.e. can uninstall steam and still play like on Impulse/Gamestop or the stardock store).

No, only Steam purchases will be available there.  You cannot register the games which were bought previously.

I can't tell you how happy this makes me, I can finally remove gamestop from my machine and still enjoy the awesomeness that is Sins.

While getting a free copy on steam would have been nice simply being able to remove gamestop is so awesome I'm rebuying Sins right now.

What about Rebellion? If we already pre-ordered that can we get a Steam code for it once it's out?

Considering we preordered it through the Sins site and not gamestop that might be a possibility. At the least we should be able to use the upcoming Stardock Store.

Pre-orders for Rebellion are only going through our (Stardock) store right now.  I don't have any other information about future plans.

Yeah that's my thinking. If we bought it through the Stardock store (which we did), they're not losing any money by giving us a Steam key. All it does is means I don't have to start up another client to update it, which I'd really like.

Nothing personal against SDC coming back, I just don't want yet another client.

Are you sure about that... Key's sold through Stardock store generate revenue towards Stardock only. Key's sold/registered with Steam require Steam make a portion of that sell. I'm pretty sure that's why Steam doesn't want non-Steam sold keys being registered on their site.

If it means that much though you can probably cancel your pre-order with Stardock and wait for Rebellion on Steam.

No, not sure at all. But with other games I've had and wanted to do this they've been able to simply give me a key that lets me register it on Steam as if I bought at retail, in which case Steam doesn't get any money out of it. That was how I got stuff like AI War moved over.

So it's strictly from a user POV that I talk, I don't know how it works behind the scenes. But I figured it was worth asking. The actual money is going through Stardock's store, all it'd do is let me download/patch in Steam instead of SDC.

Interesting, well that's a good example. I was just trying to come up with a reasonable explanation as to why this wasn't allowed for Sins.

I understand the bulk of those are steamworks games.

I would assume that if you buy direct from Stardock that you can only download from Stardock.

<insert standard anti-steam rant here>

sigh.