...or buy FE as a gift (steam) for a friend. I will do the same in december ... perfect christmas gift. His wife will hate me.

nope all my friends bought the original connection edition war of magic too so they will have fallen enchantress too but yeah ok! I'll buy rebellion on steam (even if real time strategy games aren't my thing!)

and seriously.. can I get a donation button please? or a kickstarter for one of your projects I can donate to!

This is correct.  In general, it's a good idea to buy from the source (or donate to a source), rather than through a distributor, since in the latter case you're paying for the pipeline.

i also got that email and was suprised in a good way, so i decided to buy rebellion from stardocks homepage not cus i enjoy that sort of games, but for the reason to sponsor the company. i think company's that has such a goodwill and really stands behind their software are rare, another company would just say "oh crap this game sucked, well who cares as long as we can milk money out of people" while stardocks actually gave us another game only cus the first one was a fail.

i do salute you (stardocks) and i will remain a paying customer to your company.