News Elite: Dangerous Steam Keys

[*Legion*]

Because the post advises you not to give your key to a friend, I think you are supposed to get an actual key to redeem through Steam. Click around in your account history and see if you can find anything like that. I'd attribute any errors atm to the sheer server load.

Personally I would wait until much later today to try and redeem mine just to avoid tempting fate.

The top post said:

Click ‘Claim an Elite: Dangerous’ key.

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

I've never been offered a "Claim an Elite: Dangerous key" thing to click, only "link to Steam". We're missing this part.

 

[bossbrigand]

Where does it say this?

See here:

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.

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The top post said:



I've never been offered a "Claim an Elite: Dangerous key" thing to click, only "link to Steam". We're missing this part.

Yes, I am in agreement with you. You are supposed to have gotten a key, and you did not, either because it's not obvious enough where to get it or because the traffic overflow caused it to not be issued to you when it was supposed to.

 

[*Legion*]

... and it's not him, or you.

While I suspect it is true that Valve does not take a cut from sales on FDEV's store, Edward's posts seem to suggest otherwise.

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

100 percent.

Future purchases.

Can't lay it out any clearer.

 

[GoatFace]

Ed's reply to try and clarify this wasn't very clear, and Commanders seem to be taking the moderator's interpretations of Ed's murky reply to heart only compounding the confusion.
Let's wait for Ed to properly clarify, before making a decision. Actually, all this confusion and people holding off generating their Steam key may be the break the store was needing.

 

[Alshain]

The top post said:



I've never been offered a "Claim an Elite: Dangerous key" thing to click, only "link to Steam". We're missing this part.

You have to log into your Steam account through your browser first (having the Steam client doesn't count). Once that is done your account will be linked and you will get a link that lets you claim the key at the same location. That is as far as I have gotten.

EDIT: Take that back, just got my key finally. Good luck everyone.

 

[bossbrigand]

100 percent.

100 PERCENT.

Future purchases.

Can't lay it out any clearer.

smh mate what you're doing here is what's called selective retention

Ed's reply to try and clarify this wasn't very clear, and Commanders seem to be taking the moderator's interpretations of Ed's murky reply to heart only compounding the confusion.
Let's wait for Ed to properly clarify, before making a decision. Actually, all this confusion and people holding off generating their Steam key may be the break the store was needing.

Yep, that's where my money's at. I'm sure Valve isn't taking a cut from FDEV's store but we are waiting to hear confirmation one way or another.

 

[Zetta]

Calm down, gents! Valve does take its rightful cut, but only from purchases made on Steam's store.

That's why the first post on this thread tells that you that wherever you choose to play the game (Steam or Frontier download) the devs will appreciate it if you can please continue to make your purchases through the FD store.

That's not what they are saying.

By generating a Steam key all future purchases made with your Frontier account will also be associated with your Steam account.
-- Once you redeem your Steam key any future purchases will result in Valve getting 30% regardless of where you buy the content from, what matters is that the account is now active at Valve's end.

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.
-- Sticking with Frontier's store aka not linking your account to Valve will result in 100% of funds going to Frontier.

 

[Gugu]

I've got the same problem as some others :

Once I've linked my account, I don't see a key anywhere, and the game is not in my Steam Library either

Here's what it looks like :

 

[SentineI]

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.

It really sucks that Valve seem to put a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on you guys (Frontier), which prevents you from directly stating that Steam keys mean part of future ED profits always go to Valve. So you end up playing verbal games, which confuses non-English speakers (and frankly a lot of English speakers too).

 

[Daud]

The store is still down for me.

 

[Jim Steinman]

Finally, someone else who actually read the initial post.

You would appear to be wrong along with the person you quoted.

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.

 

[ricmadeira]

That's not what they are saying.

By generating a Steam key all future purchases made with your Frontier account will also be associated with your Steam account.
-- Once you redeem your Steam key any future purchases will result in Valve getting 30% regardless of where you buy the content from, what matters is that the account is now active at Valve's end.

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.
-- Sticking with Frontier's store aka not linking your account to Valve will result in 100% of funds going to Frontier.

That's not what he's saying. He's trying to say the complete opposite of that, just not very successfully.

On point 1, what he means to say is that you don't have to worry about making purchases on the FD store if you link your account to Steam because all purchases made on FD store will still apply even if you play through Steam.
On point 2, he wants to explain that making your future purchases directly through the FD store (instead of through the Steam store) is more beneficial for them, so please do keep purchasing directly from FD in the future.

 

[Alshain]

It really sucks that Valve seem to put a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on you guys (Frontier), which prevents you from directly stating that Steam keys mean part of future ED profits always go to Valve. So you end up playing verbal games, which confuses non-English speakers (and frankly a lot of English speakers too).

NDA? ROFL. Why would there be an NDA? It is strange how people think Valve should just give away their service for free. They are a company in business to make money like any other including Frontier. They provide a service that both consumers and developers want. What is with all the Valve hate?

 

[Tinman]

That's not what he's saying. He's trying to say the complete opposite of that, just not very successfully.

On point 1, what he means to say is that you don't have to worry about making purchases on the FD store if you link your account to Steam because all purchases made on FD store will still apply even if you play through Steam.
On point 2, he wants to explain that making your future purchases directly through the FD store (instead of through the Steam store) is more beneficial for them, so please do keep purchasing directly from FD in the future.

And what is Edward saying then in the comment/response that is quoted directly above your post...

 

[GoatFace]

You would appear to be wrong along with the person you quoted.

Your reply is out of context. We were referring to the original post.

 

[Beachlight7]

Maybe this format is how accounts will work on console if you are a kickstarter backer. I will get the game free on PS4 with a PSN code, then future purchases, even if on frontier store a cut will go to Sony. But this will only apply if I haven't already linked my account to Steam which is a 3rd party that won't mix contractually with Sony (or Microsoft). If this is the case we need to be told in order to not link our accounts to steam and wait for the console version to be released.

 

[xondk]

The store is still down for me.

Yup, most likely due to the same thing that lays most any store or site down, people thinking constantly hitting refresh will make them see the site faster....if people instead waited like...5-10 min between hitting refresh, sites would be up a lot faster, basically a ton of people hitting refresh is near the same as a ddos attack.

 

[bossbrigand]

Your reply is out of context. We were referring to the original post.

But people who had seen that post were the ones you called bad readers, even though it was you who failed to make yourself aware of that information.

 

[BurnyBurns]

That's not what he's saying. He's trying to say the complete opposite of that, just not very successfully.

On point 1, what he means to say is that you don't have to worry about making purchases on the FD store if you link your account to Steam because all purchases made on FD store will still apply even if you play through Steam.
On point 2, he wants to explain that making your future purchases directly through the FD store (instead of through the Steam store) is more beneficial for them, so please do keep purchasing directly from FD in the future.

I thought this had been clarified?



Edit: Too late, the quotes are above.

 

[bossbrigand]

I thought this had been clarified?

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The question is just if he really meant that or not since it seems to conflict with not only earlier statements but also general reason. It seems to be a misunderstanding to me.