it's also only an 8-man team apparently... not being a fanboy here but that usually means game will go no where in terms of MMO.
mmo's need big teams... to keep releasing expansions/updates/addons... how is an 8 man team going to afford everything? how long is it going to take to release the...
was originally supposed to be an mmo but now its single player only with stargates like eve... they even announced the fact that it will have 5000 solar systems... like eve.
meh.
yes of course it's for advertising but steam offers a lot of extra stuff... since you're connected through steam, you'll have the ability to open up steam community with shift+tab and the friends list.
steam is good.