When Can We Expect BOK On Steam?

[Poochnboo]

Got a Steam gift card for my Birthday, but I'm not interested in buying any game, right now, but BOK. Will it be offered on Steam, soon? These cards don't expire, do they? I really don't want to buy something just for the hell of it. 

[-TBC-AeroAce]

It should be out soon. Save your card.

[Fern]

Realized I had a $20 Steam gift card laying around, I was about to pull the trigger on the G6 and was let down because I cant even buy it through Steam.

[InProgress]

Yeaa wish that steam thing would be sorted out. I get devs want 100% money. I don't mind buying keys here but would be nice to get steam key as well. Other thing is that steam is popular, when they put sale it's showed on main page and more people can see it and find this game. How can you find this game here if you don't know it even exists..

 

This is how I found this game few years ago, because steam sale.

[blitze]

Be sure to make purchases when not using Steam Gift Cards direct to the guys here.  So they get the lions share of the purchase money for their development income.

 

I purchased Battle of Stalingrad on Steam but then all other purchases I made through the il2sturmovik.com store.  The buying is easy and the license key have no issue with my initial Steam purchase of which I run Il2 BoX through.

[MarderIV]

Just keep your gift card as prepaid expenses in your accounting then save up and buy Kuban through the Il-2 web store. Your gift card won't expire, but since it's stored credit anyway and you'll only be using it for a steam game you can just enter it as an expense and not worry about it that much. It's sunk cost already. 

 

I don't think BoK will come to steam any time "soon", and as far as regional pricing is concerned there's none of that on Steam with regards to Il-2 products (as compared to stuff like CMANO which costs ~$80 in the US and ~$35 in the Philippines) so the only difference will really be whether or not you give Steam their distribution fee for buying Il-2 through the service, or give everything to the Devs when you buy it through their webstore. Il-2 products seem to price 1:1 on Steam vs their webstore in terms of foreign exchange and pricing policies so there's no arbitrage here.

 

And considering that you'll be linking accounts directly to Il-2 anyway and there are Premium planes on it which aren't on Steam yet, the webstore is practically a better market. 

[DaGengster]

On 4/7/2018 at 2:39 PM, InProgress said:

 don't mind buying keys here but would be nice to get steam key as well.

 

similar to what marder said, just buy one base version from steam (Stalingrad, Moscow etc) and then whenever u buy something from this site, its automatically updated on steam without needing to request a steam key because ur steam game is linked to your IL2 account.

For example heres what I did:

I bought BOS on a steam sale, downloaded the game.

Then bought BOM, some collector planes and BOK on this site. When I opened the BOS I bought on steam, everything was there. No keys requests or extra downloads needed.

All the files are already on your computer (probs to make multiplayer easier), your account unlocks the content you have bought.

Edited April 9, 2018 by DaGengster

[Wolf8312]

You dont need to buy it on steam to play it on steam. I bought both BOM and BOK off steam, and play them both on steam.

 

So to all intents and purposes BOK is already on steam...

[Poochnboo]

'You dont need to buy it on steam to play it on steam. I bought both BOM and BOK off steam, and play them both on steam.

 

So to all intents and purposes BOK is already on steam...'

 

     I don't think you understand. I don't want to buy it on Steam because I want to play it on Steam. I don't really care where I play the game. I have a 50 dollar Steam card I'd like to use. I don't want to waste it on something that I don't want, just to use it. I don't really understand how "BOK is already on Steam."

   I already have BOS, have BOP on pre-order, and just recently bought the Spitfire on the IL-2 site, so I'm familiar with how all this works as far as activation. I was just hoping someone had info as to whether it's gonna be up at Steam any time soon. Aero Ace is a founder, so I assume he may be in the know.  He said, "It should be out soon" so I'll be watching for it.

 

 

[esk_pedja]

Buying and playing this or that way, is one topic - but another one is the fact that this community deserves some explanation what is currently going on with a steam options, both for BoK and extra planes !

So far I have not seen even one letter of explanation or prediction, at least - very strange relation with a community ?

[SnoopyPilot]

I also hope it's released on Steam soon. I can see where the devs are coming from though. It's disgusting that Steam takes 33% of the profits from every game, dlc etc sold on their platform. So greedy and a kick in the nether regions to developers everywhere.

 

Anyway, regardless of where we buy it, aren't we all still playing through the 1C servers?

[InProgress]

On 9.04.2018 at 2:54 AM, DaGengster said:

similar to what marder said, just buy one base version from steam (Stalingrad, Moscow etc) and then whenever u buy something from this site, its automatically updated on steam without needing to request a steam key because ur steam game is linked to your IL2 account.

I already own BoS, BoM, BoK, all german premium planes, few russian and 10 days of autumn. My point is, i would like to get steam keys for these stuff. Like you buy a game here on website but you also get a steam key  (it even says that you will get steam key when you preorder, but you get nothing since devs don't put it on steam anymore).

[Herne]

9 hours ago, Sambot88 said:

 

Disclaimer: This post is me stepping entirely out of my lane. Disregard if you don't want an uneducated opinion.

 

It seems to me that the way this works is that Steam is supposed to be happy with having gotten their cut from the base game, and that this is an end-around to give the developers a larger (and fairer) cut of the profits from their work. These are some of the most complex games ever made and the people who make and maintain them certainly deserve a bigger cut if that's what they're after. I totally support that.

 

However, as a paying customer, I am wary of the possibility that I could buy the DLC from the website only to find myself locked out on Steam down the road because Steam decided to make a point about going around its distribution policies. Some clarification from the developers about the seriousness of that risk or what their response would be in case of such a thing would go a very long ways towards me purchasing it from their website instead of waiting for it to be on Steam. Had I done my research beforehand I would have bought it all from the website to begin with in order to help the developers... but the fact is that if this game hadn't been advertised on Steam i wouldn't have bought it, so there it is.

 

If you want people to follow you into the breach you have to show them you have their back. I applaud everyone who is willingly taking the risk to give these guys a bigger cut but I would like to know more first.

 

My understanding is that there is one game client. So lets say you have BoS on steam already installed, and you then purchase and activate BoK through the game website, there will be nothing for steam to download. Everything you need is already there. You simply unlock these things through your game (not steam) account for you to use.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

8 hours ago, InProgress said:

I already own BoS, BoM, BoK, all german premium planes, few russian and 10 days of autumn. My point is, i would like to get steam keys for these stuff. Like you buy a game here on website but you also get a steam key  (it even says that you will get steam key when you preorder, but you get nothing since devs don't put it on steam anymore).

 

You won't get separate keys for any of that stuff. It is all technically Battle of Stalingrad. The additional purchases are simply content you now have access to. It's not intuitive but it is all one game. The purchases are just access to different rooms in the same house. BoS is the key card to the front door. Everything else is adding your name to the access card readers on the interior doors. In a matter of speaking....................

[InProgress]

8 minutes ago, II/JG17_HerrMurf said:

You won't get separate keys for any of that stuff. It is all technically Battle of Stalingrad.

Pre-Order customers will have the option to receive a Steam key for this productafter its release.

 

This is what you can see on store page under every preorder product.

[Herne]

6 minutes ago, Sambot88 said:

 

So are you saying that there is no real risk of Steam locking people out in the future because they mixed distribution methods? If that is what you're saying then I am relieved and thank you for your answer, but I want to make sure that's what you're saying.

 

Essentially yes. It's a single game client that contains all maps, and all planes. In MP for example if you only owned BoS, you would still be able to fly on all maps, with and against players using any of the other planes not included with your game.

All the assets are already in your client. It's the game account with Il2 which tells your client what you may or may not fly.