Spiral Knights - Converting Steam accounts, to non-Steam accounts.

Converting Steam accounts, to non-Steam accounts.

11 Antworten [Letzter Beitrag]

Di, 10/04/2011 - 21:08

Xylka-Mkii

We need an option to turn Steam accounts into non-Steam regular Spiral Knights accounts.

Steam is nice. it links all your games into an easy accessible area and allows quick in-game chat to any friend in or out of games.

But boy does it annoy me that Steam users seem to do a lot of the following

1. Certain updates are unavailable to steam users (wiki editing, testing server, etc.) until a later date when the excitement of it is basicalky gone

2. Steam trade. Nice idea. BAD implement In my opinion.
Now we have the option to trade TF2 items for 5000CE. Maybe its just me, but I dont like when 2 COMPLETELY different games 'join up'. To me it seems weird to think of and somewhat like a freebie to instant end-game.
Also I have yet to meet 1 person who has successfully used the Steam trade in Spiral Knights.

3. Lag. Its bad enough to have it already with small servers, so add 900,000 people on Steam servers that are not the best, fail on us CONSTANTLY. And overall lead to a bad gaming experience.

Now from the other point of view, Spiral Knights may lose its connections with Steam altogether which is BAD.

So I was thinking, have an OPTION to convert to a non-Steam and allow all equips and items etc. to be transferred over. Also make it a one time thing, so you can't switch back for say, if were being sure Steam has a fair share, a month or two? Also to make the switch a decicive choice,create a prompt that shows some benefits of Steam (such as the overlay and screenshots) and tell the user that converting will eliminate all achievement progress on Steam for Spiral Knights.

Its late now and I'm sure im missing something or made a small error but im tired.
Whoever wants this to happen or at least share their opinion/idea post and keep this thread alive.

~Xylka

Di, 10/04/2011 - 21:49

Starlinvf

Converting a Steam account to

Converting a Steam account to a non-steam one doesn't change any of that though. Also, theres no mechanic in Steam to allow "unawarding" of Achievements, and the closest thing to it is having valve manually blow out part of your account. I also suspect the main reason you can't unassociate accounts is a security measure to prevent potential abuse, especially when you consider the Steam accounts include your SteamID as its username.

The biggest issue with Steam accounts is that anything requiring authentication is externalized. So rather then being dependent on 1 system, your dependent on at least 2 (3 if you count the steam client), and failures in any one of those breaks the chain.

Mi, 10/05/2011 - 02:16

Master-Of

This would probably enable

This would probably enable former Steam players to play on systems Steam can't run on, but Spiral Knights can run on standalone.

So, 11/13/2011 - 11:54

Rozsda

AGREE

I agree, with Steam account I regularly can not log in to play because of some authentication error. Furthermore the Steam client lags more or performs much worse then the standalone one. Steam users are striken with numerous drawbacks, I even was a fool to spend money on this game, I would demand having a ragular account with my acquired assets, but you even can not contact Three Rings. Their support page is a blank page! This is outrageous.

(NO adblocking, javascript and cookies allowed, tried both Firefox and IE.)

So, 11/13/2011 - 14:07

Psychodestroyer

I wish there is actually a

I wish there is actually a way, and we're not slaving away at this topic for nothing.

In fact, I only used steam because I couldn't seem to download the original properly. Now the original works on my comp, and I'm stuck with Steam.

Fr, 12/09/2011 - 16:58

Raliphos

I would like to convert my

I would like to convert my steam account to regular one. Mainly because I use Linux most of the times. When I started playing, I didnt think of that. I dont care about achivements, I care about the items I have.
I installed steam only because to play Spiral Knights. I really hope that steam accounts can be converted to regular ones.

Mi, 06/20/2012 - 23:04

Delardino

Yeah.. Make an option to

Yeah.. Make an option to convert steam accounts back to the normal ones.

Do, 06/21/2012 - 00:17

Hexzyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAq9Y-m8_uk

Do, 06/21/2012 - 07:13

Asukalan

I would love this to happen,

I would love this to happen, thanks to this i would be able to convert to steam, trade for OCH expansion mission pack and then come back to official SK client.

But unfortunately, because of above, OOO probably wont do it anytime since they sold their souls to Steam.

Also, same thing should be applied to kongregate accounts. Kongregate account 1 minor advantage, you can buy SK stuff with creds that can be earned/bought with many ways, but beside of this, Kongregate accounts have way more disadvantages:
- no forum access
- no support access
- no wiki access
- and of course Kongregate forum is completly abandoned by SK officials

Do, 06/21/2012 - 07:26

Juances

Your account may be linked to steam, but you dont need steam open to login.
There are already workarounds to use the official client with a steam account wittout any problems.

Do, 06/21/2012 - 17:17

#10

Hexzyle

@Juances

That is true, seeing as the launcher connects through a different system than other steam games. You don't get verification errors when steam loses connection on spiral knights.

Do, 08/14/2014 - 03:10

#11

Dialglex

Yes

I use linux now and my bro bought me $40 of sk stuff on my steam for christmas so now I am sad... D;

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Converting Steam accounts, to non-Steam accounts.