What about the Steam users of The Software Formerly Known As SONAR?

so with all the talk about what's coming next, i was wondering - what about the Steam version of Sonar (or TDFKAS, i suppose :P)?
 
i suppose that's a question mainly for Meng.
 
i'm guessing Steam users were a rather small portion of Sonar users, but it would be nice to be able to continue to use "whatever-comes-next" on Steam still ... honestly - i don't even care about lifetime passes all that much ... but i do care about having the new one on Steam (i mean, obviously ... if i didn't, i would've bought it somewhere else, and probably much cheaper too) - even just for the easy update process alone (... and having all the addons as DLC etc. etc.) 

no to mention other stuff like z3ta, all the plugins and loops that were being sold as DLC for Sonar etc.

it's bad enough image-line went through Steam Greenlight (and got accepted) back in the day and then proceeded to completely ignore steam because "we'll put it on steam when the sales slow down" (i'm paraphrasing but that's basically what their argumentation was) ... i need at least one DAW on steam, goddammit! ;)
 
with all that being said - the Steam version did have almost 10,000 users and i do realize that's probably not that many, but it would be nice of BandLab guys to not just tell all of those people (myself included) to go somewhere else (as in - download some other client or something for the new one) from now on
 
thanks in advance for the reply

meng
Hey lashman, 

In terms of making sure Steam users are able to get the cross-grade to the new version - the way we're setting up, we're already thinking about that and it's a priority for us to make sure there are no issues there - but whether we will/can support Steam as an install client in the future for TDFKAS I honestly don't know yet. We need to do some work there before I can give you a solid answer as to what direction we will go with that.
 
That's not a fully baked answer but I hope it's at least a bit more helpful than the complete unknown!

yeah, i understand there would be a lot of things to potentially work out between you guys and Valve ... naturally :)
 
but the fact that you're at least thinking about it (and willing to put TDFKAS on Steam if possible) is all i needed to hear :) it just would be nice if you guys could be on Steam as well and support the users that decided to buy SONAR there (can't speak for others, but i specifically chose to buy it on steam for a variety of reasons) and the community that has built up there (each piece of software on Steam has its own community forums etc.)
 
thanks!