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Please Issue Steam Keys to Pledgers!

    • 33 posts
    January 16, 2025 5:03 AM PST
    Please issue Steam Keys to Pledgers! This will solve the division, and allow people like myself on Linux system download and be supported better via Steam.
    • 33 posts
    January 16, 2025 5:07 AM PST

    VR talk to Valve/Steam about issuing keys without costs.

    • 34 posts
    January 16, 2025 8:04 AM PST

    Agree, supported the game for years and I'd like my Steam Key. 

    Also, lost my password and can't sign in other than it being from my key... when I hit lost password, it says to check my email but no email ever comes to reset my password. 

    • 2644 posts
    January 16, 2025 1:13 PM PST

    For those that aren't aware, VR wanted to issue steam keys to VR pledgers when they started the process of EA. It turned out there are significant technical obstacles to doing so. If they find a solution they will still do it, but we haven't heard of any progress on that for a while. At this point, one should not expect it soon, if ever.

    There is no 'division' of players as all are on the same servers.

    @Brooks, submit a ticket to Support and explain what your problem is.

    • 1 posts
    January 19, 2025 4:48 AM PST

    Hmm.

    So, how about I buy a Steam version and play it. Can you transfer any titles, benefits, etc from my current account to the steam account? Since I now, in this theoretical scenario, I supported you twice :). Which I am happy to do.

    • 2644 posts
    January 19, 2025 12:01 PM PST

    DLCCMind said:So, how about I buy a Steam version and play it. Can you transfer any titles, benefits, etc from my current account to the steam account?

    I seriously doubt that either VR or Steam would be willing to put out the effort to modify their systems to facilitate such a transfer. You're certainly welcome to send a ticket to Support though and ask them.

    • 25 posts
    February 7, 2025 1:44 PM PST

    I fail to understand the problems with the 2 account types. Since were all on the same servers, why is there an issue?

    Is this mostly for linux users who want easy access to the game? Does Wine not support the game at the moment?

    • 2644 posts
    February 7, 2025 2:37 PM PST

    There is no issue at all when it comes to just playing the game. The issue is that Steam has a social system. It shows what game a person is currently playing, how long they have played it, stuff like that. It also allows reviews of the games one has played, and facilitates communications between Steam members while they are playing games. People who do most of their playing thru Steam lose all of that functionality when they play a game with it's own separate launcher. There's likely other benefits as well that I don't know about, since I've never played any games on Steam.

    Besides tech issues with letting VR accounts play on Steam, I have heard (not from VR, so I could be wrong) that there are limits to the number of keys Steam can issue for a game, so giving a large number of them to VR for free distribution to the many VR players would involve a monetary loss to Steam (unless they charged VR for them).


    This post was edited by Jothany at February 7, 2025 2:38 PM PST