Steam Store Game Extras Purchases
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From what I read once you've tied your account to steam they get a cut of the FD store sales for that account too. It's why I'm not going to add Elite to steam as much as I'd like to.
Yes i agree, but it would boost sales due to the ability to use steams currency to purchase the paint jobs.
What you mean the steam wallet? Those are not points that is real money.
I just want a place to purchase them in USD$ or OTHER currency, the conversion rate to EURO+fees makes the vibrant packs far more expensive than if they were purchased by a player in Europe. I'd be OK with this if it were a PHYSICAL product, but it can go upwards to 10-15$+ for a skin depending on current conversion rates/fees if your in the united states.
No currency conversion in ED store when you use the change currency option CC companies charge for currency exchange. To date I have not seen currency exchange charge on my CC.
Do you mean through the Steam portal? Maybe at some point, but as CMDR Thrudd pointed out accounts linked to Steam will give Valve/Steam a cut even if its is on Frontier's online store even is it is Merch outside of the game.
No, they do generally tack on an extra $2-$3 for a Foreign Transaction on my cards. It's really not a big deal if you get a whole bunch of paint at once.
No i know, i was just saying it like that for people who might not be familiar with steam. Should have said Currency on Steam.
Ya i do. Like with Guns of Icarus or DotA. And i know, but like i said im sure it'd boost sales enough to make it worth it, especially for the people who don't have credit cards. They can buy steam wallet codes and the Cosmetics that way. Would definately boost sales in the U.S. But i digress, i was just curious as to if they were going to do it at some point since the game is on steam now.
Well I have yet to see an exchange fee on my card (AMEX) for purchases on the store. $17.00 US on the store is $17.00 US on my card. If I was paying in £GBP then I would see the fee.
I found and purchased the game through Steam. I'm unable to purchase ANY skins at all and had planned to pick up about 30-40$ worth of skins, but am unable to now. I've been trying to purchase for 4 days. No one seems to have any clue whats going on FDev side. It seems like if you bought via Steam, then you're SOL as far as skins go.
SO I just tried again, and now it lets me. It appears there is a minimum purchase price? which seems silly. On top of that, it adds 15$ USD and does not give us the choice in the steam.elite website to switch to a US currency as the person above me posted.
SO I just tried again, and now it lets me. It appears there is a minimum purchase price? which seems silly. On top of that, it adds 15$ USD and does not give us the choice in the steam.elite website to switch to a US currency as the person above me posted.
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Now that Steam takes a commission on the sales of paint work, the prices are unlikely to fall much
It doesn't "add $15". It kindly converts GBP (£) to USD ($) for you. It costs you $1.5 to buy £1, because pounds are worth more than dollars.
No minimum price here, also no mysterious +15$USD, I just tried adding the cheapest skin and went to check out, everything seemed fine.
Try adding funds to your wallet before purchasing.]
edit: forget it, as someone mentioned they just converted the currency for you.
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That's completely nonsensical. They didn't 'kindly convert' it to GBP for me when I purchased the game. I paid $59.99 USD. I'll just do without skins then.
That already happens if you bought the of Steam or linked your ED account to Steam by requesting a Steam key. It doesn't matter what store these are bought in since the account is linked.
So since this is now the case then I personally hope that they might put these paintjobs on Steam for greater exposure and hopefully more sales. Valve are going to take a cut anyway so they might as well take advantage of the exposure on the Steam platform.