Of course, nobody's forcing anyone to care about them, but it's not necessarily a benefit to everyone. I feel that they suit some games and not others - ETS2 would be better without them. Game key management: yeah, Steam's easier, but it comes at the expense of having to put up with some marketing, a client which doesn't necessarily benefit the player, and some privacy issues.Īchievements - not everyone cares about achievements. It's perfectly reasonable that not everyone wants it. I think Steam is great from a devs point of view, but it's a compromise for players - it does offer some benefits, but also a lot of undesirable features and some bloat. In fact, we did invest considerable development capacity to come up with a new feature: the Updater. But for the time being and foreseeable future, we are not going 100% Steam exclusive with Euro Truck Simulator 2 ecosystem. As a result we expect the numbers of actively played non-Steam copies of the game used in the wild to dwindle further, eventually freeing us from the need to provide two alternate game update methods. We plan to keep adding cool features into the game relying on Steam infrastructure and therefore be Steam-exclusive.

We do not guarantee that this support will last indefinitely. We therefore feel that we have the obligation to sustain the availability of non-Steam edition of ETS2 and the big map add-ons, and to provide regular game updates outside of Steam. They have already bought into ETS2 and we do not want to punish them by refusing them access to critical ETS2 updates and additions. Seeing this, it's tempting to just concentrate on our core skill of developing and evolving the game further rather than expanding our legacy key authentication system to handle more DLCs, and to just stick with Steam service for future updates and releases.īut there is still also a considerable number of hardcore ETS2 fans who swear that they will never use Steam or Origin or any comparable system.

Majority of active players appreciate the simple automatic updates as compared to clumsy download mirror hunt, slow patch downloads and installation, the hassle-free migration to a new computer without having to find the misplaced activation keys, and of course the availability of additional DLC bonus packages. Our stats suggest that over 80% of copies purchased in retail were registered on Steam. Today we would like to talk about the future of non-Steam edition of Euro Truck Simulator 2. With Scandinavia DLC release, everyone will benefit from this community cooperation on polishing the graphics engine upgrade. Several issues we had not been aware of were already spotted thanks to you.

We are delighted to see your feedback for ongoing open beta of ETS2 update 1.17 on our forums.

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