Workshop free keys possible?

[AggrorJorn]

Is it possible to send out free keys for paid workshop items? I would like to give away a paid item to severall people, but I can't find an option for it.

[Josh]

Not supported.

[Phodex Games]

Ok this may be a little stupid answer, but why not just send them a zip file with your files, included in the workshop file?

[Genebris]

They won't get updates then.

[AggrorJorn]

On 9/3/2017 at 10:49 AM, Phodex Games said:

Ok this may be a little stupid answer, but why not just send them a zip file with your files, included in the workshop file?

Because of the administrative overhead this creates. I have to manually email all those persons with every update. It might be 1 person and zip file. But once there are more zip files and different people, thinks get messy. You would have to keep track of who you have mailed, somewhere in a file. It is not that this is a complex task, but these 'small' administrative tasks take valuable time. Time I would rather spend on development. 

[Phodex Games]

Yeah I know, thats why I said its a stupid answer ^^, especially because you knew that already didn't you :P. But don't you have a website maybe? You can make a password saved area there where you upload the newester version or something like that? I gues thats a more smart solution.

[AggrorJorn]

I am looking again at my own webshop or services that allow easily selling and updating digital content (Amazon etc.)

[Thirsty Panther]

He has one.

http://www.aggror.com/

but it was hijacked at one point.

[AggrorJorn]

yeah that was www.aggrortutorials.com. But that one only supported paypal. If I would use my own shop again, I would pay for a better ecommerce system that has more payment options and has better security.

[Josh]

I don't expect Valve will add this since it is a way to go around the Steam store, and it probably just isn't a priority for them.