I posted the following in the comments section of the first Steam code giveaway back in April 2017. The giveaway turned out to be a bit of a disaster because at the time, you could apply for as many keys as you wished because your URL wasn't taken into account. By mid day of the giveaway, it became known that some community members were applying for multiple keys (and I'm not talking just a few); then they were trying to resell those keys on various Steam key sites where you could buy keys from the many indie bundles that offered Steam keys. Because of this the giveaway was stopped and from what I remember all the keys that had already been distributed were made void so couldn't be redeemed.
During that first giveaway of a Steam game called Amygdala (April 23rd 2017) a lot of community members were unhappy about Steam, saying they would never install it or other remarks saying Steam wasn't for them. I felt the same when I first came across Steam back in late 2008/early 2009 and would have said the same, but I inadvertently purchased two Steamworks games from a distributor called Direct to Drive and the rest is history.
The following is what I posted that day trying to expound the virtues of using Steam:
By 2007, most AAA game developers had decided to use some sort of DRM due to losing millions through gamers hacking their games and basically stealing their property. There are now few AAA games available without DRM. Steam is just one DRM method, but it is so much more. It's obvious that I'm a Steam lover. The community is obviously split on this issue. Why you hate Steam, I really don't understand, but if you don't then that is your prerogative. All I can say is that since installing Steam seven years ago, I've moved away from buying most of my games as hard copies. You won't find many AAA games that don't have DRM attached, either via other clients such as Origin or uPlay, or having to sign into some sort of verification account such as Gamersgate or Direct to Drive. If I had hard copies for all the digital games I have I would have no shelf space , even if my 15' x 15' study had wall to ceiling shelves on every wall.
Steam is one of the most secure clients around at this time (and more so since I posted this comment). Valve, who own Steam. Valve are the creators of some of the biggest game franchises around for example Counterstrike, Left 4 Dead, DOTA and Team Fortress that have literally millions of games playing at any one time. When you sign up for a Steam account not only do you get a great way to store your games, you get a fantastic community of dedicated gamers, who are there to help if you have any issues with a game. You also get a market where you can sell stuff that you get free when you play certain games, for example if you play any of Valves games you get items dropped while playing the game, some of which can be quite valuable. for example, some items will sell for hundreds of dollars, though most sell for cents. Many games available on steam now have Steam trading cards that you get free after playing the games. These can either be collected to create sets which can then be exchanged for discount coupons that can save you up to 66% off games, or you can sell the cards on the Steam market. I sold my first card almost 2 years ago (2015) and made over £1400 (over $2000) by 2017; there's no catch, though now as added security you validate the sale via a mobile phone if you want it on the market by the following day. If you don't validate it takes 15 days before you can sell anything. TRhis was instigted to stop scammers getting items and not paying for them.
Games are kept up to date whenever a patch is released for that game; though you can turn off auto updating. There is a workshop where modders can post their mods. If you want to add that mod to your game you just click the subscribe button and the mod is automatically added to your game; if you don't like the mod, or it causes problem, unsubscribe and it's removed from your game at the push of a button. There are thousands of mods now available via the workshop for countless games. Apart from all of the frills (there are others that I've not mentioned) you can install the client to any computer anywhere in the world, sign into your account and after verifying that it is you that owns the account (various security measures that protect your account) you can sign into your account and access all of your games.
Oh and I nearly forgot, Steam has several different sales, some of which are weekly, some over a couple of days not to mention the major sales at Christmas and the summer sales where you can get games with 'over' 90% off. The weekly sale usually includes well over a hundred games that are on sale all week. There's a mid week sale and a weekend sale that usually includes a couple of games and at weekends there's often a major title that you can play for free for three or four full days. There are also over a hundred free to play games available via the Steam client. A lot although free to play are what we call pay to win as to win you usually need to buy in game items to ensure your survival, that said, there are also loads of free games. I usually split free games up into Free to paly which are mainly multiplayer only games (though some free to play games also have a single player element and the second category are free games which are generally single player only. There are Steam groups within the Steam client that can tell you every free game available on Steam, you can also probably Google it as well. If you don't yet have a Steam account, installing it will give you access to this large resource of free games as well as fantastic sale bargains.
In my opinion it's a very neat way of storing your digital games with so much more to offer. Valve added the ability to categorise your games so that you could lump them into genres, or if you're like me and can't remeber half the game s I've purchased, categorise by various key words for example snow, helicopters, sport, open world, etc
For those giveaway community members who swear they will never install Steam and I presume any other client (such as Origin or uPlay) that attitude will deny them access to some of the best games available today and in the future.
Whenever there is change, there will always be those who oppose it. You just have to look through history to see those, e.g. the industrial revolution, the train and car. People actually died in those disagreements. and more recently and much less important, there are still those that argue that vinyl is better than digital (in some ways it is), cathode ray to LED monitors, diesel 'v' petrol etc etc.
Unfortunately we can never satisfy everyone. To those that say they will never install Steam (an other clients), I don't see the gaming industry reverting back to the old ways. They lost billions because of people stealing their games. DRM is here to stay and you are missing out on some of the most amazing games I've ever seen and I've been around since the first computer based games were available to the general public. It's you choice and I respect that choice, so will say no more about it. To those that have no problem with Steam. We should look forwards to more Steam keys in the future, but most game giveaways will remain the same as we've always had.
I used to be totally against game clients. I actively refused to install them until one day I purchased some Steamworks games not realizing I'd have to install Steam to play them. I really wanted to play those games so I reluctantly installed the client (after writing a complaint to Valve about having been forced to installed the client, though in reality it was my choice), within a short time I realized the advantages of the client and now swear by Steam. The only downside i see with any game client is that you have to install the client in the first place before you can gain access to your games. once installed you have to create an account and unless you have set your computer to automatically log into your account which I don't as it's more secure that way) you have to log into your account. those are the only negatives I see with respect to using a game client. Opposed to that is the very large positive aspects to using a game client, which I've attempted to explain above. There are a lot more positives that I could expound upon, but this is meant to be a comments page for the actual game, so I will not labour the point any more today.