I was disappointed at first when I bought the box version of Warband and found it was tied to steam. I tried to use the steam key to activate the Taleworlds download version but didn't work, found out later that if you right click on your steam list, you can find a CD key for your version of warband, which will activate the download version, yay!!
Very much looking forward to this one, at first I wasn't interested because I didn't like the idea of guns but after watching a few clips, I'm definitely interested now.