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Actually Brad, that argument doesn't really hold water. As mentioned above, it seems to be entirely down to the publisher. I bought Supreme Commander Gold years ago via Impulse. Then about a month ago it was released on Steam, and a couple of weeks after that, it was possible to use the key provided via Impulse to activate Supreme Commander on Steam. Just opened the Gamestop Downloader, and used the 'look up serial number' command to get it to email me a list of all the CD keys fo

Out of interest, why would you want to do this? As I understand it, the expansions only made the game better by adding new features and so on, there's no real reason to just play the base game, is there?

Wouldn't this cost Stardock though? I mean, when someone registers their copy of a game bought elsewhere, they then use Steam's bandwidth to download and update the game who knows how many times, plus it means they don't buy the game seperately on Steam. With steamworks games which you buy retail but then have to activate on steam to play, the cost of this is included in the game price, but I would assume that Valve would charge Stardock an ammount to generate steam keys for peopl

Well, the game has had a couple of patches recently. Given the shift towards steam as you've noted, I can only assume that they are making back-end changes in preparation for its release on Steam :p