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Launcher: This Steam user has no EVE Account
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Alex Cortex
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-05-26 03:44:13 UTC
What does this mean? Is there a way to link my Steam account with my EVE account? And if so, what does it do? Automatic log-in? Or is it just a placeholder feature?
rswfire
#2 - 2013-05-26 03:57:57 UTC
Alex Cortex wrote:
What does this mean? Is there a way to link my Steam account with my EVE account? And if so, what does it do? Automatic log-in? Or is it just a placeholder feature?


This thread will probably be locked. I have this error also, but it should not prevent you from logging in. The official place to post about this is here. Cheers.

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Alex Cortex
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-05-26 04:01:03 UTC
Thanks. I'm not having trouble logging in, just wondering what the message meant.
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#4 - 2013-05-26 06:47:18 UTC
Alex Cortex wrote:
Thanks. I'm not having trouble logging in, just wondering what the message meant.


Just means CCP borked the launcher release.
Sephira Galamore
Inner Beard Society
Kvitravn.
#5 - 2013-05-27 11:47:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Sephira Galamore
Actually, it's quite interesting...

http://i.imgur.com/Deju2mB.png

The message _only_ appears when Steam is running.
So there appear to be plans on Steam Community integration or such!

// Edit:

Also, when I try to close Steam while the Launcher is open and 'connected' with Steam, I get a message...
"Waiting for EVE Online to shut down"
followed by...
"Please close EVE Online before exiting Steam."
In Spirit
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-05-27 16:29:29 UTC
A sincere question, why would anyone want to go through Steam to play eve?
Erika Hamasaki
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2013-05-27 16:31:12 UTC
Some people use Steam as their primary method of storing games and collecting them...
I've used Steam for years, never had a single issue with it and any cons it may have is far outweighed by the benefits for me personally (and I understand other have had issues and do have issue with elements of it, but each to their own).
Fernando MRuiz
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-05-27 16:31:25 UTC
In Spirit wrote:
A sincere question, why would anyone want to go through Steam to play eve?


They may have bought EVE through Steam and gotten used to logging in through the Steam client. Understandable, if a few extra steps are involved.

"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering." - Mme. Germaine de Staël
GreenSeed
#9 - 2013-05-27 16:41:23 UTC
also, steam has nice community features, like seamless screenshot sharing and crap like that.

i still use it on my main.
Sephira Galamore
Inner Beard Society
Kvitravn.
#10 - 2013-05-27 19:04:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Sephira Galamore
In Spirit wrote:
A sincere question, why would anyone want to go through Steam to play eve?

While I in fact originally got into Eve via Steam, for a while now I have moved it to a different location and haven't started it from within Steam since.

What I described earlier happens when you launch Eve the normal way, completely un-steam-related. (That is, click a shell link leading to "[Eve Installation Path]\eve.exe")
If you coincidently have Steam running at that time, the above happens. If not, nothing special happens.