Expanding 0AD community to Steam

[Pithawk]

Perhaps 0 AD would benefit from a presence on steam?

http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/faq/#developers

[dvangennip]

Putting 0 A.D. on Steam has come up a couple of times, for example here, and here. Unless the team's position has changed, the perspective is that bringing 0 A.D. to Steam would require a more mature version of the game. The current work-in-progress state of the game might be detrimental to the public's opinion, which could hurt the long term prospects. I don't think it's ruled out for a (near) final version of the game.

[plumo]

I think dvangennip summed it up nicely

[feneur]

What dvangennip said + we'll have to look into whether or not it's at all possible to have an open source game on Steam. If nothing else I think Steam might force games on there to use their DRM, but I could be wrong.

When it comes to what the actual title says though: the 0 A.D. community is already on Steam:http://steamcommunity.com/groups/0AD It's not yet very active, but it does exist =) If you have any ideas for that group, feel free to add them And you're definitely encouraged to join the group (if you add 0 A.D. to your list of games on Steam as a non-Stream game it will show up when you're logged in and others should be able to see that you are online and could join you for a multiplayer match).

[iNcog]

This should definitely get to steam quickly however before that, performance issues need to be fixed or at least greatly stemmed.

[Stan`]

Steam tends now to have the habit of releasing broken games, or too far from beta games, making it so there are only that on the market. I'd rather 0ad be not one of them in the current state

[Lion.Kanzen]

there aren't  enough rts for  free in Steam , with good quiality of course and indie