Not to rain on your parade, but that first link is just a press release written by 2k - and to add insult to injury they're throwing around useless stats like "more than 70 percent of consumers purchasing [sic] the game digitally" to which I can only say: I *think* (it's been that long) the last time I bought a game and received a "physical" copy was starcraft II, so way to provide some insight 2k. We'll never know what the sales "could" have been if it had been available on multiple platforms, but since even the hardcore Valve haters aren't talking about how feature-rich and exciting the EGS is we're looking at a best-case scenario of no difference to sales. I'm sure some accountant somewhere crunched the numbers to show that they could make more in interest from a lump sum than the anticipated loss of sales by being an EGS exclusive. Either way I can't be bothered to install yet another launcher, so if I remember this game when it's finally released on steam I might buy it, but odds are I just won't care by then. The general trend of EGS buying exclusives on PC is annoying enough that it would take a seriously exciting game to make me change course from my current trend of "that's more effort than I'm willing to put in to buying a game I was mildly interested in."