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lokvette

lokvette
Ive just re-installed via steam, I have to say it did download/install a lot faster one thing I diddnt like was steam telling me to big picture to sort my controler out, I only use it in ED and thats only for the SRV
 
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yodajedifishmaster

yodajedifishmaster
Judz said:
You will be starting from scratch. That is NOT a bad thing. You will do everything 4 times quicker than before. You will know where to go, where not to go, what to buy and how to fight. It took absolutely no time at all to buy a Cutter on my Steam account compared to my main account. I actually used my Steam account to find out places to go and stuff to buy and generally make a nuisance of myself without affecting my main account. It will pay dividends I can assure you.
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What makes you think that? if when frontier launcher comes up they just use their existing login it should be just like logging in from before they got the steam version.

in fact you dont need to launch elite FROM steam. steam runs the frontier launcher. if you go in the game folder and make a desktop shortcut for the frontier launcher, you can run the game without even opening steam at all. i know because i tried that in the past, and i dont think its changed. HOWEVER doing that means steam wont be open and wont check for updates for the game. idk if the frontier launcher would then begin a slow update and thus negate the point of getting the steam version at all.

time spent in game in steam is based on how long the frontier launcher was run, NOT how long you were in the game for. steam cant tell the difference. thats why some people who use steam hours played get hammered by the anti-steam snobs. with the steam community hub, you can see how many have the steam launched frontier launcher open - but they may not all be in game for some reason. plus i chat with my friends on steam using the steam overlay sometimes, and i can stream gameplay to them if i want.

but yes you should if you log in with the same commander as before steam not start over. you dont HAVE to launch the game using steam, and maybe you could try opening steam only when you know there is a patch or big update. it is usually fast to download those.
 

yodajedifishmaster

yodajedifishmaster
lokvette said:
Ive just re-installed via steam, I have to say it did download/install a lot faster one thing I diddnt like was steam telling me to big picture to sort my controler out, I only use it in ED and thats only for the SRV
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you dont need to. once the game is installed in steam, you dont even need to run steam until theres an update you know about. just make a direct taskbar link to the frontier launcher or a desktop shortcut. it will run the same frontier launcher steam does, and you can play without steam running that way. you do need to know when a patch or update is available so you DO run steam to get it though.
 

sollisb

Banned
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nats said:
It was more to do with the very slow download times of the Frontier updates from their direct launcher that annoyed me. Also, because I dont play the game very often now - last time being about six months ago, everytime I started the game it seemed I had a new massive download to go through first. Now my game will stay completely up to date automatically. And also you get the Steam playtime log which I like to compare how long I am playing my games, of course the Steam log will be about 150 hrs short of my real play time so thats not that helpful. But also I have lost games before where they were bought directly from publishers where I lost the login/registration info, now I try to keep everything on Steam. Its a lot easier should I have to format my computer as well to reinstall everything.

So lots of reasons for going to Steam.
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Have to admit I'm the exact opposite. Steam takes over your entire game life. If I could get rid of it, I would. I have 3 PCs and a MBP. Last week I loaded up Farm Sim 19 on one of the PCs only to find Steam wouldn't let me, because it [farm sim] was open on another of the PCs. I closed it down, and had to wait while Steam updated, which took over an hour.

And I'm really not into letting them have slice of pie when they had no hand in the development of the game/product.
 

Judz

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yodajedifishmaster said:
What makes you think that? if when frontier launcher comes up they just use their existing login it should be just like logging in from before they got the steam version.

in fact you dont need to launch elite FROM steam. steam runs the frontier launcher. if you go in the game folder and make a desktop shortcut for the frontier launcher, you can run the game without even opening steam at all. i know because i tried that in the past, and i dont think its changed. HOWEVER doing that means steam wont be open and wont check for updates for the game. idk if the frontier launcher would then begin a slow update and thus negate the point of getting the steam version at all.

time spent in game in steam is based on how long the frontier launcher was run, NOT how long you were in the game for. steam cant tell the difference. thats why some people who use steam hours played get hammered by the anti-steam snobs. with the steam community hub, you can see how many have the steam launched frontier launcher open - but they may not all be in game for some reason. plus i chat with my friends on steam using the steam overlay sometimes, and i can stream gameplay to them if i want.

but yes you should if you log in with the same commander as before steam not start over. you dont HAVE to launch the game using steam, and maybe you could try opening steam only when you know there is a patch or big update. it is usually fast to download those.
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I already replied dude, I mean Cmdr. Ya too slow.
 

maboleth

maboleth
I've seen the new site and only the Steam is offered for PC.... does that mean that the regular launcher is deprecated? :-/
 

Stewart_

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You did not have to buy a Steam version of Elite if you already have the game. You can transfer the 'license' from the Frontier version to the Steam version.


nats said:
It was more to do with the very slow download times of the Frontier updates from their direct launcher that annoyed me. Also, because I dont play the game very often now - last time being about six months ago, everytime I started the game it seemed I had a new massive download to go through first. Now my game will stay completely up to date automatically. And also you get the Steam playtime log which I like to compare how long I am playing my games, of course the Steam log will be about 150 hrs short of my real play time so thats not that helpful. But also I have lost games before where they were bought directly from publishers where I lost the login/registration info, now I try to keep everything on Steam. Its a lot easier should I have to format my computer as well to reinstall everything.

So lots of reasons for going to Steam.
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Anubite

Anubite
As a reminder, Steam's cut from sales of the game, on their platform or added via key, is 30%. If you paid full price long ago, that's not an insignificant amount.
 

Jukelo

Jukelo
Anubite said:
As a reminder, Steam's cut from sales of the game, on their platform or added via key, is 30%. If you paid full price long ago, that's not an insignificant amount.
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And if Frontier weren't fine with giving Steam their 30% share, they wouldn't have put the game on their platform.
I wish this thing with trying to shame Steam buyers would stop. People are free to spend their money how they want, and companies are also free to sell their product how they want.
This thread makes me feel like we've gone full circle, and the hip thing is no longer to be a social justice warrior, but to be a corporate justice warrior.
 
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