Let's be real, many of you wondered why the hell we put Unitystation on Steam. Quite honestly it was more out of necessity than it was out of "already wanting too". Unitystation is all about improving the user experience while also reproducing the Space Station 13 experience. Asking players to redownload every time we bring out a new version, is just not the experience we are going for. We tried standalone updaters but none of which really gave us the result we were hoping for. The things that put us off in regards to standalone updaters were thing like: them being badly maintained, putting (unneeded) load on our server(s), not being able to have beta branches in any efficient way and, above all, adding a lot of time to our release workflow. All those problems were not present with Steam and Steam also offers us a lot of really awesome features on the side! We actually don't like the requirement of having a steam storefront at this stage, but we also don't like limiting access to Unitystation to those who dare to request a key. Now the really interesting part: What does this get me? Well, First off I can tell you we will release version 0.2.2 on Thursday February 8th, 2018. This means that people from all timezones will have the ability to try out Unitystation when they come home from work Friday the 9th! Also I would like to add that, now that we can distribute updates faster, we'll try to crush little bugs with incremental updates as soon as possible. Besides we really hope to put out more big updates this year, which will automatically get into your hands as soon as they get done! The Unitystation staff and, I hope, all contributors look forward to working with the community to get this thing as good as we all want it to be.