I think exceptions have been made in some cases, yes, but absent a reply from support, it's hard to say what your situation is.
Sorry I couldnt come back earlier, health issues kept me away, and I see, thank you, I know, that as I dont get any input from staff, besides yours I mean, Im somehow on hold forever, I will think if its worth for me to put my files on sale here, in that case I assume the release date is updated, right? I mean would be listed as new release etc
Speaking of which, it turns out the tech support system has been non-functional as of late due to a service provider messing up. Your ticket wasn't being ignored, but simply unreachable. Barring a more authoritative answer, I think you should just sell your game here as you said. Make a devlog marked as major release, and it will even be treated as newly published, not to mention all the extra traffic. Hope this helps!
I see, thanks again for the big help, well in any case as you said probably the only option I have left right now is to sell the game here following your advice, I never feared piracy to be honest but just now after I made a bigger project and put it on steam I started noticing that piracy is there, just a slight sample, I got several fake emails from people claiming to be youtubers streamers etc asking for steam keys and after checking the real people or contacting the real streamers I noticed those were fake, to be honest Im lost as what they wanted if its just people wanting a free game or just people going to put this up in pirate sites, but then again if I dont do it as you suggest and possibly risk piracy etc the game wont be sold properly here and I really like this site in many ways so I think I will proceed as you suggest even if that means hitting a pirate site as well, I assume there is nothing we can do to avoid that from here, right?.