Desura no longer handing out Steam keys

Thanks for the heads up!

This means less Greenlight games will be sold if they won't give you Steam keys.

They had to do this at some point if they want to seriously compete with Steam on some level, they've chosen now as they believe they're sufficiently big enough. Good luck to them, I think they'll struggle but I hope they don't.

I don't think that there is no reason, desura doesn't want to be a steam key platform, thats all, lot of people only use desura/collection to have a key so that's the problem desura is a game platform and they want to be only that, selling there own games.

WEll .. I have a desura account with a ton of games.. all of them were from bundles.. I dont think I ever bought a game from them. I have played my bundle games from them though but Im not their target audience.
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That kinda sucks. The only reason I have a Desura account anymore is so I can collect future Steam releases.

It's really not clear what Desura are hoping to achieve with this. Part of me thinks they're just trying to kill it off, or at least cut support costs and such. It would be interesting if they actually had some big plan, like trying to secure the self-publishing market before Steam manages to figure it out, but it's hard to imagine them having much success.

And i was just wondering how can i get my keys on desura. thanks :D

Not to be surprised. I mean, i already have too much stuff. Starcraft 2 as stand alone. League. Steam, origin. on top facebook (yes, i play there too), my emulators, even though i have a desura account with some 20 + games, i really dont even open it (have nearly 400 games in steam already. and the desura games i have are mostly dups from the ones i have in steam).

To be honest, i do like the desura idea. However, although i like indie games, im really not that crazy about them. Desura has no AAA games as long as i know, so really little reason for me to have it.

And most people i guess have a similar mindset than me. if you have a steam code instead a desura code, you will keep on steam.

It is just a logical move what they will do.

I'm only a few games short of 300, and I've bought like 25 games there (all of them Longshot while it was 5 cents a copy). I demand they reconsider this, as a paying customer, and someone who actually plays some games in their client.

Desura is a decent system, but it always felt more independent-friendly than Steam's Greenlight program. I mostly stalk Desura for interesting free games but once I got some money in my paypal I got a couple commercial stuff through the site.

The disconnect between Steam and Desura doesn't bother me, although it does make the crossed-over games an choice between achivements and lack of them.

Good bye desura :D

Desura might not have a huge support stuff. I sent them an email just once, and I got a reply directly from Scott Reismanis's account.

There's only 24 hours in a day and they have better things to do than handling the kind of raging mob that you see on Steam foaming at the mouth, demanding their rightful bundle key OR ELSE.

. . . Why would Desura give people keys for Steam in the first place?

Doesn't bother me any. I use Desura for games not on Steam. I've played some pretty cool games on there and will still use it. People were using it before Steam started greenlight and people will still use it after.

Without having more information it seems to me that only Winter Wolves made the comment that Desura wouldn't be handling bundle keys for Steam anymore. The cited source has very little information, and I can't find anywhere else where Desura has made that claim. Maybe what the author was actually saying was that he wouldn't use Desura to handle the Steam keys for his games.

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Maybe we should start to download some games from Desura and backup them. I smell "termination" ^^

Given that a good chunk of IndieRoyale's (Desura's) bundles are advertised under the premise of being Greenlit (the debut bundles, they have green lights all over the bundle's page) it'd be a real dick move on their part to stop.

I think they stop giving out steam keys for bundles other than the Indie Royale?

It's not entirely accurate, anything from Indie Royale or bought direct from Desura can/will still have Steam keys available there. Anything from other bundles won't. This is the original post that people asking about Always Remember Me keys found out about.

Good now I can actually get multiple keys when a game is in more than one bundle