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Elite Dangerous now on Steam
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I guess because of cheap peeps like you there will be never free steam key for us backers.
Perhaps they should call you first right?
I hope you are kidding me...
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Why is that? Genuine curiosity. I just don't see anything wrong with steaming up, except the flow of new customers enjoying the game they otherwise wouldn't. Could you elaborate? Thanks.
OK, meanwhile I'll scroll few pages back and look for an answer.
Would be awesome ! *fingers crossed*
Everyone chill a bit, relax and cut out the sniping. It's being looked into, patience please.
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let me make it clear.
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FD wanted more money (nothing wrong with that) they got the initial sales of the game from us lot without paying valve a premium and now want to advertise it further using Steam.
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Valve charges a cost for each license sold to the developer to use the auto update servers and their platform.
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FD would have to pay Valve to backdate the already sold licenses so didn't want a big announcement on the forums in the hope people wouldn't notice.
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Basically we just got Gem stored. Godus style
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Poor PR again
From where I'm sitting it looks like people enjoy moaning so much they go off the deep end before waiting to find out whats going to happen.
Whichever way this pans out for existing users getting steam keys, its still good news for every player.
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I wouldn't worry, when Sanderson gets woken up he makes a bear with a sore head look like a kitten
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and it hasn't while it was awaiting approval by valve?
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throw up a stink to get what we want
And this is exactly why they probably are not going to give us the keys. So people like you don't give your copy away to someone else, and then come back to complain that your account was banned or your key was rendered invalid.
Actually I'm not a backer so don't make assumptions, I'm fine with not having a Steam Key, it's not like the game is no longer functional without it.
And my method didn't even mean Frontier would give out free copies. I doubt you even read the whole thing, you just saw the words "free to play" and jumped on the offensive.
What I am saying is that if the launcher is available for free on steam then everyone can download it, regardless if they have bought it or not.
And the game files will only download after you have logged in with the account created to purchase the game from Frontier's site, so that would mean people new to the game via steam would have to do the same thing everyone else has already done.
I am in no way implying that the game should be free, nor do I mention anything about Frontier giving keys away for free.
Get your facts straight before you make an argument.
You will be playing in the same universe, add them as friends in game and play with them.
Selling the game via steam is not the same as full steam integration and nothing has been said about it having full Steam integration.
I'll be very surprised if it's not just like other games with a separate launcher where all Steam does is act as a shortcut to that and a store front.
you do realise that 99.9% of the time steam only have a certain amount of keys (especially for pre-order games)
i reccommend this FD buy a bulk set.. issue them to all the beta and alpha backers.
then those ppl simply copy their existing file structure across to the steam apps common folder.. activate and jobs done!
either that or just include the API in the structure so its already activated if steam sees it.. etiher way you need a Frontier Account so its not really a hard task to implement really !
i reccommend this FD buy a bulk set.. issue them to all the beta and alpha backers.
then those ppl simply copy their existing file structure across to the steam apps common folder.. activate and jobs done!
either that or just include the API in the structure so its already activated if steam sees it.. etiher way you need a Frontier Account so its not really a hard task to implement really !
In this case, yes. Call anyone other than whoever made this decision. Releasing this on Steam WITHOUT the support of your veteran players and most fanatic fanbase is just stupid anyway you look at it.
No you didn't help them build the game - you helped test the game they were building. BIG DIFFERENCE, Mr Self-entitled.
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