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option 2, focus on steam. Integrate everything including out account win our steam accounts.

Where did you get that information?

I'm daily on Steam. For example over 700 hours of just playing Dota2... and i very rarely have an issue.

In my experience Steam is one of the most reliable clients available. Another plus is that it has a very fast download for games.

Only Steam is fine to me!

While I don't mind using steam, as I use it for most of my games anyway, isn't there a way so it can be still a still game, but in steam you call the launcher?. It's not like there aren't games in steam that work in that way, say, War Thunder, Crusader Kings II or Europa Universalis IV. They have a launcher, and you can even launch the game from the launcher directly, without steam running. I don't know if it's too complicated, but other games can do it.

Edit: I see what you mean now, it's changing your small servers to a Steam server. If that's the case, then, by all means, do it. As I said, I'm almost always running steam anyway.

Option 1
I'm expecting addons and whatnot with the community through Workshop. Very convenient.

I would focus purely on Steam, having your own launcher is neat, but it does add workload. You have to keep the launcher updated, you have to maintain a server which does all the version checking and all that jazz.

With steam you can theoretically do away with the launcher and just use the Steam API to deliver updates and such. With the added benefit that Steam can do "Verify Local Game Files" or somesuch which can fix just a single corrupted file, instead of having to re-download and re-install the entire game from scratch.

I say ditch the stand-alone launcher, go full Steam ahead.

Personally, I think Steam is the more logical option, as it provides many good features that can improve the users experience, and I think the positives far outweigh the negatives of privacy, and inconvenience for a tiny fraction of people.

I do think torrented may be an issue with steam, but there are ways to work around that, and so I think we should focus on steam and optimise the game for that.

Option 2: Convert ALL keys to Steam and focus on that platform.

In my opinion, I think that Steam would improve the users experience with the chat and the workshop. The game will also have more visibility so more people can buy it.

ok, just to be clear: It is irrelevant to me which platform should I start to play the game.

I just said: it is not good to being dependent on 3rd party system and make it exclusive for Steam.

Using Steam is the best way to go

Option 2: Convert all keys to steam
Best way to go, most people already have it and itll get seen by more people

Nothing wrong with making the game Steam-compatible. However, I am strongly opposed to Steam-exclusivity and would like the standalone launcher to be retained. I do not have a Steam account, nor do I want to have to make one just to launch a single game.

I discovered the game on Steam Greenlight. So i've nothing against a Steam only version

Go for steam and concentrate all your eforts onto it.