People assume this means they're looking for community feedback, as well.
A poll regarding Steam keys for Elite : Dangerous owners
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There should be some kind of migration to Steam option, but I don't see how they can just hand out Steam keys. What's to stop people just selling them?
The keys they give out to existing customers should assume you already have a username and password to be used with the Elite launcher, rather than asking you to register a new account. That would be the easiest way to go about it, anyway.
Voted No. Actually I voted "Don't Care" as there wasn't an option for "No".
Has it been confirmed that E: D will update from Steam's CDN? Or is it just the launcher?
can't be that hard to do. also they would take load off their download servers on a new release, get an in game chat and so on. i think steam offers even cheat protection.
(the option "switch completely to steam and take down the own launcher" is missing, i would vote for that)
Has it been confirmed that E: D will update from Steam's CDN? Or is it just the launcher?
Steam is like my personal game center. Steam has a wide community and additional functional around it. Like easy acces to your games, videos, streams, discussions, guides, achievements, trade cards. Finally I just got used to it. So now, when I bought the game, but do not have the opportunity to add it to the Steam with full functionality, I have the feeling that I was deceived. I really hope that it gets better.
I vote "yes" to the option of a Steam key.
They actually said they expect community feedback: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=133500&page=13&p=2044428&viewfull=1#post2044428
Hell yes I want a Steam key. 95% of my 300+ PC games are on Steam and that's where I'd like to keep them. Besides E: D and Star Citizen all of my currently installed games are via Steam. And I don't want to sound rude but, I paid $160 for this game, so excuse me (and I hate to say it) but I think I should be entitled to a Steam key. In fact, why is it even a question of do we want one? Just post them to our E: D accounts and let those that want to redeem their game on Steam do so. It's not going to cost Frontier or Valve a dime; in fact Valve encourages these migrations when existing games debut on Steam.
It's actually somewhat annoying that we have to "ask" FD to do this for us. I find it a little bit rude they didn't think in advance that their existing playerbase/alpha/beta backers would want a complimentary key, as the game WAS NOT available on Steam until now.
I want to see my hours played, I want to upload screenshots and videos to the *correct* hub (as "adding a non-steam game won't post the SS's and vids to the actual hub), I want "official" support of streaming, I want to write a review, I want achievements (if there are to be any). Why should I not get all the features a new steam-purchaser gets @ $59.99, while my version doesn't support these features yet cost $159.99?
If you don't care about Steam features, then fine - don't redeem your key. But don't be a d**k and act like there is no personal advantage to some of us to have the game on Steam.
Um...you know you can disable automatic game updates while in-game, don't ya? (obviously not lol)
It's actually somewhat annoying that we have to "ask" FD to do this for us. I find it a little bit rude they didn't think in advance that their existing playerbase/alpha/beta backers would want a complimentary key, as the game WAS NOT available on Steam until now.
I want to see my hours played, I want to upload screenshots and videos to the *correct* hub (as "adding a non-steam game won't post the SS's and vids to the actual hub), I want "official" support of streaming, I want to write a review, I want achievements (if there are to be any). Why should I not get all the features a new steam-purchaser gets @ $59.99, while my version doesn't support these features yet cost $159.99?
If you don't care about Steam features, then fine - don't redeem your key. But don't be a d**k and act like there is no personal advantage to some of us to have the game on Steam.
Um...you know you can disable automatic game updates while in-game, don't ya? (obviously not lol)
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no, not confirmed (and i'm not well informed). i was just guessing what would make sense. i think most of us are frustrated about download speed on release day. some of us are worried about cheats. (from the poll) i guess 3/4 of us are already steam users.
so FD may save on IT-costs for download servers and benefit from functionality steam provides. FD may not make it exclusive, as they would probably loose the xbox users (i would be ok with that)
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it is also an era where you do not expect something for nothing.
Thankfully some learn to adapt with time without throwing money at triple A garbage they call games today.
Games like Elite Dangerous wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my "throwing money at the screen".
Maybe they want to wait a while so all the bitter trolls don't steam in with their negative reviews.
Yes I would...Posted.
Would absolutely love to get a Steam Key for Elite Dangerous. 99% of the games I own are on Steam. I understand why other might not necessarily need it, but I would definitely prefer it as I'd like to keep my game library all in one place (and that also keeps my desktop clean and tidy). So yes, Steam Keys please!
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