Steam

It will not be on Steam as the Beta it will most likely be there when released to the gaming populations. 

There are many discussions of this.

What it boils down to is that because of the Steam review system is a POS, Stardock does not want every butthurt poster to put up a negative review for a game, they first have not played because second, they do not even own it but have heard from a friend of a friend whose cousin heard that something is in the game they do not like. 

Do not spread misinformation. You can't make a review for a game that's not on your account.

I am expressing my complete frustration over threads devoted to which store Stardock chose to put their ALPHA and BETA versions on.

Don't want to join in?  Then please don't clutter the forums.

I doubt there's going to be too much forum clutter, what with a whole five to six people posting here.  I'm not sure what Stardock is thinking, but they've essentially ensured that they have no audience for their game.  Probably just happy to get some Epic cash.  Hopefully in the future GalCiv4 will see a wider release.

There is just short of 500 people following and posting on Discord where the main conversation is happening.

Stardock doesn't need starter cash...  They really don't even need to make money from games. (yes they are a company yes they would very much like to but they don't need to)   I bet they have yet to make back their investment in Star Control...

They make far more income from Start 11, Groupy, Fences, Windows Blinds, and custom licensed products and technology like  the actual Aero gui used in Windows that Microsoft licensed FROM Stardock.


But again they want to make more money cause they are a company and that's the only way companies can survive and grow.

Epic Games is a superior platform that uses less active resources, downloads faster and has a review system that is less easily manipulated in comparison to steam.  They also take a smaller cut of the sale from games.

the "ok boomer" phrase comes to mind for those who insist they will only ever use Steam....

If by superior platform, you mean has mostly Early Access titles, and games they've paid for, has no mod support, and no community.  And also way fewer games with much more difficulty searching them, and a barely implemented achievement system. And by review system, you mean literally no review system whatsoever beyond weblinks to external review sites.  I suppose I would agree.  Otherwise, Steam blows Epic out of the water.  

Note, I use both platforms.  It's a joke to compare them, functionality-wise.

This question has been asked before.

Right now the game is available via EGS, if that changes we will make an announcement.