Will they be available for both the drmfree and steam ccount?
Also, if I start playing now on steam account, can I later redeem on this account the loyalty items and then move the same to the no drm version?
I’d like to know this as well.
edited because I found the answer to my question. See my post below
Ok, so please forgive me for my last post. I didnt search for an answer well enough. Here is post by an grim dawn person referencing those items I was asking about.
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With Grim Dawn release coming tomorrow, naturally there are questions about backer rewards and DRM-free copies. It occurred to me that I posted about this on KS but there are also website backers who will want this information. So, sorry for the delay, here’s what to expect:
Virtual Rewards - The items themselves are actually finished but we need to set up a way to distribute them both on and off Steam. We know how it’s going to work on Steam and just need to configure it. How we will get the actual codes to people is a little more complicated. That will have to happen through Humble Store. They actually have a nice system to set up distribution for backer rewards… except we were one of their original customers and first Kickstarters, so our stuff was not originally set up using that system. It’s set up in a more convoluted manner and we’re just going to have to work with them to make sure everything goes out to the right backer tiers. It’s not a real issue, it’s just something that I don’t have time to set up yet. I’ll be handling all this logistical stuff after release. I’m thinking we’ll be able to get this set up within two weeks though, maybe less depending on how things go.
DRM-Free copy - Part of this is setting up distribution, which requires a little work but should be much less complicated than the virtual goods since we’re just sending out one thing to all backers. We do however want to make sure we wrap up any significant hotfixes so we don’t package up a DRM-free build that immediate needs to be updated… which would be a problem since there is no service, like Steam, that you can just connect to for automatic updates. In the future we’ll probably just have to distribute updates as full builds or set up some sort of patcher. I think we can have this out by the end of next week (March 4th), if not sooner.
On a related note, we are also planning a GoG release. We should have a version of GD out on the GoG store sometime in March.
Physical Goods - I have not sent out surveys yet for backer addresses. I will wait to do this until we are ready to ship the goods to make sure we have the most up to date information. So, don’t worry about address until you receive the survey.
Sandcaster got samples from the print shop this week for the map and poster. He says the map looks awesome but wants to up-res the poster, so it’s a little higher quality. When that’s done, it will be set to print and then we’ll package them up to ship.
The boxed version is something we still need to figure out. We haven’t decided yet who we will use to print the boxes and discs. It’s probably good to have some lag after release anyway so the build can become more finalized before we master it to disc. I’ll post another update when we get closer to shipping those and, of course, will survey addresses again when they’re ready to mail.
That’s all for now!
People should go read the thread medierra posted about these issues. It should answer most of your questions: Backer Rewards and DRM-Free Copy.
Thanks for giving the link to the post. I just copy pasted the text in my post above.