Do we have any new information on how this will work? You're THIS close to release (about a month away), I think now's the time to give us some info. As an existing player I just want the ease of use by having the game in my Steam library permanently (personally I hate manually adding non-Steam games to library, hunting for banners, icons, etc.) I'd like to be able to download the client from Steam, and then log-in with my old accounts manually (either via command-line argument/config file or via the Gw2.exe launcher). Since GW2 has free-to-play account creation, I assume that downloading the client should be possible, just not sure how login will work. I don't care about buying future expansions on Steam, or converting accounts, or using any single sign-ons from Steam. The payment method is not a material difference to me, and the current client already saves your username/password. What's the difference? If that's what's in store for new Steam players I think that's cool, but for me personally I'm happy to use the in-game store or anet store like it has always worked. Just let me login with a Steam client. My group of 3 have been trying lots of games (thanks to COVID) and deleting & redownloading games is very common. Having it in Steam just makes life 3 minutes easier. (Yes we'll literally give up if there's a "3 minute hurdle" because it tends to snowball). Relevent story: FF14 made it very difficult to figure out how to even create accounts and login to play. We found out it let us play free with the first expac we thought that was amazeballs so we tried to sign up on 2 separate occasions, 1st time failed because some of us had FF14 1.0 Beta accounts or couldn't download the client due to network glitches. Few weeks later, 2nd time worked but only after I got us to use fresh email addresses, to make fresh accounts. When we got it all set up and working we ended up quitting within the first hour once we found out we couldn't even party together (THIS INFO should've been on the Steam storefront page. The description even actually says the opposite lol "Form a party and adventure with multitude of players" HAHAHA... /cry). I hope GW2 isn't trying the same thing. Seriously please don't make it hard to sign up or add too many hurdles to play together or OMIT information about any f2p limitations from Steam.
Do we have any new information on how this will work? You're THIS close to release (about a month away), I think now's the time to give us some info. As an existing player I just want the ease of use by having the game in my Steam library permanently (personally I hate manually adding non-Steam games to library, hunting for banners, icons, etc.) I'd like to be able to download the client from Steam, and then log-in with my old accounts manually (either via command-line argument/config file or via the Gw2.exe launcher). Since GW2 has free-to-play account creation, I assume that downloading the client should be possible, just not sure how login will work. I don't care about buying future expansions on Steam, or converting accounts, or using any single sign-ons from Steam. The payment method is not a material difference to me, and the current client already saves your username/password. What's the difference? If that's what's in store for new Steam players I think that's cool, but for me personally I'm happy to use the in-game store or anet store like it has always worked. Just let me login with a Steam client. My group of 3 have been trying lots of games (thanks to COVID) and deleting & redownloading games is very common. Having it in Steam just makes life 3 minutes easier. (Yes we'll literally give up if there's a "3 minute hurdle" because it tends to snowball). Relevent story: FF14 made it very difficult to figure out how to even create accounts and login to play. We found out it let us play free with the first expac we thought that was amazeballs so we tried to sign up on 2 separate occasions, 1st time failed because some of us had FF14 1.0 Beta accounts or couldn't download the client due to network glitches. Few weeks later, 2nd time worked but only after I got us to use fresh email addresses, to make fresh accounts. When we got it all set up and working we ended up quitting within the first hour once we found out we couldn't even party together (THIS INFO should've been on the Steam storefront page. The description even actually says the opposite lol "Form a party and adventure with multitude of players" HAHAHA... /cry). I hope GW2 isn't trying the same thing. Seriously please don't make it hard to sign up or add too many hurdles to play together or OMIT information about any f2p limitations from Steam.