Will I get a Steam key (eventually, once it launches on Steam) if I buy it now here on itch?
Short answer is yes.
Long answer: Steam takes 30%, while we’re currently paying itch 15% (it’s a PWYW scale). When we go live on Steam, we may increase the price there to cover that. It would be nice to be able to keep itch’s price lower, but my current understanding is that if you’re selling the game for less than it is on Steam on a different storefront, you’re not supposed to provide Steam keys.
Our options, then:
- Increase the price on itch to match, and say “thank you” for the extra tip from people who get it there. Provide Steam keys as normal.
- Keep the price low on itch and “grandfather in” everyone who’s already bought it on itch before it was available on Steam, but not provide more going forward.
- Keep the price low on itch but have a second tier where if you pay a little more (matching the Steam price) you unlock a Steam key. I haven’t seen anyone do this before and I’ve been advised to not play too many games with schemes like this because you wanna stay on Steam’s good side, but who knows how much of that is hearsay.
But whatever we end up doing, we’ll make sure that people don’t have to buy it twice and are able to get it on Steam if they bought it on itch first.