Ok I thought if I planned 4 weeks to get all the stores I want to release on ready to go, it should be plenty of time as I knew STEAM would be a week or 2 before it was ready to release. STEAM's website informed me it would be a few days to approve the games store page and a few days after that to approve my builds that I want to release. After I started getting into setting up my game on STEAM I realized it's going to take more time than that.
After a week of working on getting my game ready to upload to STEAM I found out I will have to push back my release date as there is more waiting that is not made clear when setting up your first app.
Store page and game build have been reviewed and approved
Store page has been visible as 'Coming Soon' for at least two weeks
Minimum of 30 days since the first purchase of an app credit
The bottom 2 are not made clear when you set up your very first game on SETAM. At least I never saw anything about those two while setting everything up. So after you purchase your very first app credit which allows you to upload one game, you must wait a minimum of 30 days after that. So now STEAM is telling me the earliest date I can release on is October 1st. I am posting this in the hopes that anyone looking to release a game on STEAM and has not done so yet, take this information and make sure you plan for this delay when picking a release date.
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