Galactic Civilizations 2 Now Available on Steam

How are they crawling to Steam?
They have several other outlets their using to sell their games right now. It's not as though they have any desperate need for Steam.
And considering how profitable Impulse was financially, it's tough to call it a failure unless everything other then the market leader is a failure regardless of finances.

"Probably" being the main word. Stardock themselves lost a crap ton of money by attempting to attract customers with their own niche products.

They're not going to allow Impulse keys to be activated on Steam as far as I've heard on the boards.

The first time I played it I spend probably 80% of my time designing new ships. The second play through I ignored shipbuilding as much as possible.

Either way, it is one of my favorites. Also, the space mod for Civ 4 (whatever one came in the Beyond the Sword expansion) was pretty cool too. Not as extensive as GalCiv, but pretty decent.

release sale of $15 isn't too bad... if you think you'll enjoy it and you're gonna play it in the next week... GET IT! :P
enjoyment > sales

Everything eventually 'goes on sale' Depends on hwo long you want to wait vs how much you want to play.

The codes given in the retail box only work on Impulse. And the devs have already indicated that these keys are not tranferrable to Steam. You can try but I'm a tad doubtful it will work. Your key should already be in the Impulse client soyou acn just look it up there.