News Elite: Dangerous Steam Keys

[Edward Lewis]

Greetings Commanders

All EliteDangerous.com store players can now generate a Steam key to add it to their Steam library.

By generating a Steam key all future purchases made with your Frontier account will also be associated with your Steam account. This won't affect how much you pay for the game or for paint jobs, but sticking with the EliteDangerous.com store remains the best way to support ongoing development with 100 percent of your money on future purchases. We especially appreciate it when you buy direct from us, but we're happy for you to play how and where you like. Just enjoy the game, and fly safe Commanders!

Instructions to redeem:

Log into the Elite: Dangerous store.

Go to your account dashboard.

Click on ‘Partner Keys’

Click ‘Claim an Elite: Dangerous’ key.

You can redeem your code by selecting 'Games > Activate a Product On Steam' in the Steam UI.

Note: the key you generate will add Elite: Dangerous to any Steam library but WILL NOT grant access to the game without an existing registered Frontier account and copy of the game. For this reason, please don’t give your keys away to friends! They won’t be able to play without having already bought the game from Steam or the EliteDangerous.com store!

*mod edit*

Just a little summary of the conversations Ed's had in this post to clear up some things:

I expect that generating steam keys is free, but by doing so any future FD store purchases become subject to the "valve tax". A bit of confirmation on that point wouldn't hurt but it makes sense to me.

Yeah, that's a fair interpretation. We don't think of it as a tax though, just part of working with third party retailers.

Not really sure what the confusion is about the use of Steam keys, I think the above 2 quotes sum it up succinctly, but maybe I'm missing a hidden message somewhere .

I feel a bit crude talking about 'cuts' and 'percentages' but yes, once you've linked an account, any future purchases on the FD store are affected by this.

Sorry, should've been clear on this one too! This doesn't apply to physical merchandise. Valve don't touch on that, only in-game content.

 

[RealNC]

Awesome, thanks! Having all my games in one place is the way to go for me.

Edit:
As expected, the server is getting flooded, can't get in for the life of me

 

[Sir.Tj]

Thanks for the update Ed.

 

[crush_overider]

Thanks for make it real .

 

[AndreyATGB]

Thank you and RIP store.

 

[mbpoblet]

So, will this mean a second installation besides the one from the launcher? If that the case, could that cause conflicts? Should we uninstall our current installation first?

And, could you clarify what "all future purchases made with your Frontier account will also be associated with your Steam account" means, from a practical point of view? Will we still be able to purchase from the FD store with a credit card? Will we lose our FD account if our Steam account gets hijacked or cancelled something?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ape808]

Thank you for the update Ed, and thanks to Fdev for delivering.

But poor Store is being hugged to death

 

[terence44]

Very nice ! Thx !

 

[InstantFoodstuff]

Sweet. Hopefully eventually I will be able to log in and claim it

 

[Elmasri]

Thank you!

 

[Kraut]

Thanks SO much!

 

[Jp1138]

Thanks!!!

 

[Darth Sidious]

what is the advantage actuary?

 

[salad]

aaaand the store is down

 

[Elderoy]

Awww yeah ! Thanks guys !

 

[Phoenix_Dfire]

If you use a steam Key, will you still have access to the present and future Betas?

 

[RealNC]

And, could you clarify what "all future purchases made with your Frontier account will also be associated with your Steam account" means, from a practical point of view?

When you buy something from the ED store, it will also get activated in the Steam version of the game. Both are synced.

 

[Grabpot]

RIP in peace E: D store.

 

[zzzombie1989]

Thx FD, but..... Tango down. RIP FD Store T___T

 

[Ruxton]

Kaboom.