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Linking your Steam and ARC accounts
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As this .... https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11370083-link-your-steam-and-arc-accounts!
as yet not appeared on the forum. A couple of questions.
1. Is it optional or mandatory?
2. If mandatory. What if you have your steam account on a different email address to that of ARC and vice versa. Will merging still work?
as yet not appeared on the forum. A couple of questions.
1. Is it optional or mandatory?
2. If mandatory. What if you have your steam account on a different email address to that of ARC and vice versa. Will merging still work?
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I don't think we have a choice:
Gonna say probably not, because they would have said so in the announcement (maybe).
And... I admit I'm confused. I run the game through Steam anyway, so... what exactly would this do? Not require me to put in my password?
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I don't use Steam for STO, just for other games so this doesn't apply to me.
One other problem is that I do buy a lot of zen (not the problem) and whenever I try to buy it through Steam, I have huge problems, so I gave up on it years ago and just buy it directly from the Arc web site. If that's a problem with this new change, I would be very upset. So would their bean counters, too.
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I know of a couple of "Let's Play" style video uploaders on Youtube that have their personal Lifetime account, but mainly use a F2P account to make their videos.
I agree. I actually rarely ever launch the game through Steam. Mostly because it serves me no purpose. There's zero benefit to it.
This would actually be a nice benefit, particularly when I play over Steam Link. When your account password is random and saved in a password safe that auto-types it, that doesn't work well over Steam Link.
However, I don't want to be prevented from logging into my STO account if I don't have Steam installed. We really need some more clarification on this new feature.
I don't have problems with it myself.
Honestly it sounds to me like the only thing its doing is recognizing the account. Not going through Arc to load the game. You can still run through Steam, its just going to skip the password step of the launcher after linking Steam and Arc.
At least that's what I'm getting.
And I only keep Arc around for promo codes. Other than that I never fire it up.
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As for the Arc client itself. I've stopped using that after it crapped out and required me to reinstall just to get it functional again on Windows. I won't be using that ever again especially since Steam just works and runs Windows games under Linux with Proton.
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I imagine that if you aren't playing through Steam, then this won't affect you. I don't mind the feature, especially since the password field was never setup as the default control on the launcher, so sometimes I'd have to do my password twice because I forgot to click on the password field first. As I understand it, this is a change to the launcher used by Steam, rather then to the game itself. Not sure how launching STO through Arc client works as I've never tried it and I'm not sure if it would work with the Steam installed STO or want to install it's own copy.
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That works. I personally use Steam, but all I have to do is load the launcher, throw in a password, and I am in game. I still fail to understand why they are making this a requirement, as opposed to an option, however...
Arc has been around for a fair while which begs the question Why do this now? What incentive or purpose is there for this?
Not really seeing any real benefit to this other than the couple of seconds it takes to type in a password, unless somehow the game will be properly updated via steam instead of having to launch the launcher to get patches the way pretty much every launcher based title on steam works.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
CS may get bogged down at first... eventually you can unlink and resume as normal after?