Steam to standalone purchases?

[=TF=bintynz]

Hi all,

 

I have seen some discussion on Steam & standalone but just wanted to confirm something. I bought the majority of my IL2 stuff through the website to try and prevent Steam clipping the ticket. However I did buy Bodenplate through steam. I recently got rid of steam and am running IL2 standalone now on the laptop. Now it doesn't recognise the steam purchase of Bodenplate (and therefore all its aircraft).

 

Is there any way to link steam purchases like that to the standalone game?

 

I take it that the IL2 devs have been paid by me for Bodenplate but despite having paid for it it appears I can't access that content within the game (without having to run it through Steam which I now dislike with a passion). This doesn't seem very fair - I have paid the devs for it (albeit through Steam who take a bit I'm sure) but I can't access the content.

 

Anyway, I may have the wrong end of the stick. If anyone can confirm this I'd be very appreciative. Thanks team.

[AEthelraedUnraed]

Sorry, but that's not possible. If you've bought stuff through Steam, you need to play it through Steam.

 

Thing is, IL2 doesn't have access to the purchase history of Steam users (privacy legislation and all) so doesn't know whether or not you've bought something from the Steam store. It does work the other way around - using your Steam account, the game can retrieve which items you bought from the official store (if you've linked your Steam account, that is).

 

In other words, I'm afraid you need to either install Steam, or re-purchase Bodenplatte from the official store.

[=TF=bintynz]

On 7/20/2023 at 12:49 AM, AEthelraedUnraed said:

Sorry, but that's not possible. If you've bought stuff through Steam, you need to play it through Steam.

 

Thing is, IL2 doesn't have access to the purchase history of Steam users (privacy legislation and all) so doesn't know whether or not you've bought something from the Steam store. It does work the other way around - using your Steam account, the game can retrieve which items you bought from the official store (if you've linked your Steam account, that is).

 

In other words, I'm afraid you need to either install Steam, or re-purchase Bodenplatte from the official store.

 

Thanks for the reply. I suspected that. I guess they just get paid by me twice - I enjoy the game immensely so am only a little pissy : ) Serves me right for going through steam.....

 

So the next issue - I go to buy it and they appear to recognise that I've already bought it / activated it and it won't let me buy the game again. I mean this is a good thing that they're trying to save me $50, but it seems to mean I can never have BOBP on my account (and more importantly its aircraft which I need for TAW at the moment!!) when I'm playing the non-steam version!

 

I foresee an email to the IL2 people asking how this gets sorted........

 

[=TF=bintynz]

If anyone happens to find this there were two work-arounds.

1. Raise a ticket. The IL2 crowd offered to de-link the steam account so I could re-purchase BOBP from the IL2 website. They confirmed there is no way for non-steam IL2 to recognise steam-purchased content (this despite the game knowing you’ve activated said content - grrrr).

2. Go into your steam account and find the option to completely delete your previous purchase of BOBP (I’ve forgotten the exact terminology but the option that makes it like you’ve never bought it!). I actually did it for both BOS and BOBP.

 

I ended up discovering that option 2 worked while I was waiting for a reply to my ticket. 
 

Both options mean if you’re in the same boat as me and want to stop using steam, you’ll have to re-purchase all IL2 content from the official website; who doesn’t like paying for things twice?! A frustrating situation for a great game…

[Trask]

I'm sure there could be real solutions to this if the devs wanted to. For example, Steam can provide software keys on games. If the devs enabled that, we could use our keys to register the content on the website. The devs just don't care, they'd rather make you pay twice then resolve the issue.

[AEthelraedUnraed]

On 8/13/2023 at 11:32 AM, Trask said:

I'm sure there could be real solutions to this if the devs wanted to. For example, Steam can provide software keys on games. If the devs enabled that, we could use our keys to register the content on the website. The devs just don't care, they'd rather make you pay twice then resolve the issue.

Thanks for sharing your expert opinion.

[Trask]

On 8/14/2023 at 11:14 PM, AEthelraedUnraed said:

Thanks for sharing your expert opinion.

Too easy mate. I'm here for you. I do appreciate the kind words, but to be honest with you, even though I appear to be an expert, I'm really not. I'm just basing that perspective on the fact that it's really easy in another very popular combat flight sim. You just bind the two accounts together and woila! A button pops up saying 'transfer licenses'. Let me know if you can't manage to google it bud, and I'll pm you the link.

[LukeFF]

Let's watch the tone, please. ?