@Eurydice

what about those who are running 2 accounts on the same pc?
we cannot make a third on steam?

News of this made it onto Joystiq.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/14/youre-free-to-play-these-free-to-play-...

Been with Steam many years, have a full friends list and I'm betting not one of them plays this game and I would of gladly recommended the game to them but not now, in fact I'll purposely go out of my way and ward them away from the game basically let them know of the limitations and how they can expect to be treated down the road.

Let that good ole' word of mouth works it's magic.

That's a little...extreme, kbe2k11. Well more then a little. A lot more. That's WAY TOO EXTREME!

I do hope we will be able to link the accounts soon, good luck!

[Magnus, this is your last warning about personal attacks. Please obey the forum guidelines. -E]

May I ask how the hell that post qualified as a personal attack? Because he commented peacefully on things he thinks that are and were done wrong, and it could look bad for Three Rings to let a BNP go around saying that stuff?

There wasn't any kind of personal attack in that post. (unless you count the "Oh nick, that's just like you" part... which is just silly. Why delete the whole post when there's only a single small joke that simply relates to this?) It was simply stating his opinion and how he views the way Three Rings is adressing it.
Last warning? But this is his first warning. Are you trying to make it seem he has a history on "rule-breaking", when he does not?
And it wasn't even a warning. You did actually revoke his posting rights already.

Are you actually willing to go that far?

@Gigafreak - I think he was commenting mostly on how Three Rings never explains the reason for choosing increasing CE prices, over material/crowns/etc prices.

a new account on steam but I don't get any offer to invite steam friends? Is it because I ain't got enough friends or I have to keep doing more? Currently in Depth 6 of the Snarby Gate, currently solo-ing with all the beginner item, if anyone wants to help, /w Xs-team

Augh. Add me to the list of people who terribly desperately want to be able to roll our existing stuff into a Steam account.

Having that seamless Steam integration (and a chance for the new mask) would be lovely, but... I can't give up my equipment, my Groundbreaker beta stuff, and my CE like that. This is awfully inconvenient.

I was excited at seeing Spiral Knights show up on Steam, but now I'm just antsy about it since one way or another I'm missing out.

I know it's been said that OOO is looking into it, but... please look more into it! Look at it! Look all up on it.

Well currently playing on your steam account doesn't seem to do anything anyway.

I was excited to see SK on steam, since I use Steam extensively. The perks and seamless integration was just icing on the cake. But then I found out that the accounts aren't linked, so anybody that already plays will need to start over to take advantage of Steam. I'm sorry, but this just isn't going to work for me. I'd love to use the Steam version, but my character is too far along to even think about restarting now.

So yes, add me to the list of people who would like to link their SK account and Steam accounts together. For all I care, you could migrate the character data from my SK account to my Steam account and then delete my SK account, so long as I can use Steam from now on.

Edit: Sorry, what I'm using is a normal SK account, not a sega pass. Corrected.

HOW YOU MONSTER?!?!

Log on the steam account, get to haven and then... what? the 'invite' tab on the news/mail/invite window is still there, but its the same email adress invite it's always been. How do you invite through steam specifically and get these mist tanks and the mask?

Quick question--what support options should Steam users turn to if they need help?
I need some assistance, but it's not something that merits an F2 bug report or a GM's attention...

Uh, i don't appear to be able to scroll through this friends list in the invite prompt window, I can only see the top 4 or 5 guys and of my dozens of friends they are probably not the ones I can get to play spiral knights.

EDIT: also it seems the mist tanks are mini 15 energy tanks not full 100 ones.

Quick question--what support options should Steam users turn to if they need help?
I need some assistance, but it's not something that merits an F2 bug report or a GM's attention...

Should the Support Portal still be a valid option?

@Dogrock: I clicked the support options in-game but was taken to the support login page that didn't accept my Steam credentials. I'm trying the regular email support portal now. (Totally forgot that was an option---thanks for saving me from my derp!)

Theme-wise, Steam was destined to become part of the Steam Punk decor of OOO as well as the mission to make OOO products more viral.
Take a tour of the Steam Punk geekiness that is OOO and Spiral Knights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6NiTn7PnQ

Anyways...
Considering that I am frequently building new UVs and trying new recipes, I don't see a problem with making a Steamy character to play with the new UVs I just created on Raspberry, my old character. I'll just have Raspberry subsidize the adventures of my steamy when I get around to making a steam account.

For MMOs that I truly enjoy, I have a tendency create an additional account anyway so I can dual box content that cannot be solo'd with one specialty class or crafting class alone. I enjoy partaking of my free time at my own pace when I am not playing with my immediate friends and family at our game room. Spiral Knights has been vying for more of my free time from my other favorite MMO lately.

@machallboyd Exactly, I was all pumped for the big announcement hoping for some great new content or some major change but then we get this. Obviously great news for Three Rings but honestly don't get our hopes up.

And I quote. "Look out for a big Spiral Knights announcement tomorrow. Exciting stuff!"

Not very exciting.......... for us. For them I'm sure it is.

I think most people were flipping out prior to FINALLY getting a response to their questions. I'm not even upset anymore just wondering how this was suppose to be big news for us when technically were not even included.... yet.

A huge influx of new players is always good, especially if they buy some energy and drive the price down a bit. We don't even know if the mask is tradeable or not yet which would render this argument down to steam tracked achievements, and we didn't even have sk specific achievements until a matter of weeks ago. Let it go.

I've tried relogging a few times in the past couple hours and retrying, there's definitely no way for me to scroll through my whole friends list in the prompt window. Is this only me?

@actinium
Influx in new players will drive the price up won't it? Unless like you say they're buying energy but that's doubtful for people expecting a free to play experience.

More demand for energy = higher prices or someone want to correct me on this?

For the time being I will at least use Steam as a platform to run SK off of. Thankfully I can use my usual login from the steam version.

I look forward to being able to integrate, though.

It's the mid to high tier players that drive energy prices up generally, they can afford the 7k+ prices. New players either buy energy with cash and increase the overall supply which can reduce prices or they don't make enough crowns / blatantly waste crowns and so can't or won't encourage the high prices by facilitating the 7k trade value. After a couple weeks, maybe prices will start climbing again from the increased population as the new players become mid to high teir players themselves but for now we should see the price drop or stay stable at 7k for a much longer stretch of time then it did 6k.

I don't have steam yet. My cohort, Thebadger, has been using Steam for a few years on his P2P games starting with HalfLife.

The thing about Steam is it has has been catering exclusively to P2Ps with over 30 million active user accounts. OOO:SK is coming in as one of the first F2Ps to be added to Steams large catalog of existing games and publishers. Thus, with the viral exposure to Steam's already 30 mil+ active P2P accounts, perhaps SK will be able to hook in more P2P players to help subsidize SK and other OOO products like the upcoming Dr. Who title.

With exposure to more new players who have connected CC access, the demand for crowns increases as new players who can readily purchase CE will be needing crowns to pay for recipes and low-level gear. In theory, the "Robber Barons" of the current CE market who don't really need crowns will have more competition from new paying players who need crowns. Thus, playing "Robber Baron" with so much more competition becomes more difficult unless the old and new barons form cartels or happen to be a wealthy prince IRL.