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Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-10-18 22:22:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Keb Banu-Ring
I want to use Steam Wallet to purchase game time and plex

Is that possible?

It seems like it is, but only if you started your account on Steam? Can I not link my account to my steam account?
Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-10-19 02:25:30 UTC
Well this is fun...
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#3 - 2014-10-19 02:39:23 UTC
I think everyone stopped reading at "Steam".





Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#4 - 2014-10-19 02:42:09 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
I think everyone stopped reading at "Steam".






there was more?!

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#5 - 2014-10-19 02:44:42 UTC
Yep. Afterwards it read "Wallet uses".





Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-10-19 04:02:51 UTC
I don't understand, some people have the privilege to buy game time through steam, but I don't?
TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2014-10-19 04:08:00 UTC
It's not possible to buy gametime through Steam and use the wallet. Period. I have a copy of EVE on Steam and it's not giving me the option, just checked it for you.

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Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-10-19 04:22:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Keb Banu-Ring
TigerXtrm wrote:
It's not possible to buy gametime through Steam and use the wallet. Period. I have a copy of EVE on Steam and it's not giving me the option, just checked it for you.


"Many of our players subscribe to EVE directly; however, some prefer to pay for their game time using other methods, such as PLEX Activation Code. This page lists the websites and services that offer EVE Starter Packs and PLEX Activation Code. Remember you can also trade PLEX Activation Code with other players or buy PLEX."

What happens when you click on the steam icon in the 3rd party section of your account page?


http://i.imgur.com/LkSLdWh.jpg

It says "Buy plex" right there...
Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-10-19 04:29:55 UTC
It's failing because I don't own EVE Online on steam...

http://i.imgur.com/0A2Rx3P.jpg

So how to I get my EVE account on Steam?
Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-10-19 05:23:08 UTC
Sorry for triple post, but CCP please help me!
Vyl Vit
#11 - 2014-10-19 05:24:14 UTC
Steam...Goonwaffle...Steam...Goonwaffle...

It's like finding a Satanic Shrine in the Vatican.

Paradise is like where you are right now, only much, much better.
Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#12 - 2014-10-19 05:25:19 UTC
Customer Service! How may we help you?

The right to free speech doesn't automatically carry with it the right to be taken seriously.
Keb Banu-Ring
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-10-19 05:26:30 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
Customer Service! How may we help you?



CCP clearly doesn't want all of my steam wallet money..
Serene Repose
#14 - 2014-10-19 05:27:15 UTC
I detect an organizational failing here. I wonder who dropped what ball... Lol

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#15 - 2014-10-19 06:52:32 UTC
Keb Banu-Ring wrote:
I want to use Steam Wallet to purchase game time and plex

Is that possible?

It seems like it is, but only if you started your account on Steam? Can I not link my account to my steam account?


You can only use this option if you have started a steam Eve account. Adding/linking a non-steam eve account to steam will not open these options to you.

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Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#16 - 2014-10-19 09:44:03 UTC
Your stoofs, i can has?





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Adrie Atticus
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#17 - 2014-10-19 14:52:09 UTC
Keb Banu-Ring wrote:
It's failing because I don't own EVE Online on steam...

http://i.imgur.com/0A2Rx3P.jpg

So how to I get my EVE account on Steam?


If you don't buy the game through Steam, you cannot link the account to Steam.

If you have the account linked to Steam, you cannot:

1) Access it outside of the Steam client
2) Access account management of the account to transfer your character or redeem CCP-only codes unless Steam is online
3) Cannot log into the test server in an easy way
4) Update the game during a patch, you need to update it when servers are alive.

Basically, having your account linked to Steam is the worst thing you can do for your Eve account.
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#18 - 2014-10-19 15:24:32 UTC
Adrie Atticus wrote:
Keb Banu-Ring wrote:
It's failing because I don't own EVE Online on steam...

http://i.imgur.com/0A2Rx3P.jpg

So how to I get my EVE account on Steam?


If you don't buy the game through Steam, you cannot link the account to Steam.

If you have the account linked to Steam, you cannot:

1) Access it outside of the Steam client
2) Access account management of the account to transfer your character or redeem CCP-only codes unless Steam is online
3) Cannot log into the test server in an easy way
4) Update the game during a patch, you need to update it when servers are alive.

Basically, having your account linked to Steam is the worst thing you can do for your Eve account.


I don't know if it has changed since 2010, but I bought this EvE account on steam for £1.50 and then never installed it on steam, just ran it from the normal client. Ugh
TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#19 - 2014-10-19 16:02:26 UTC
Keb Banu-Ring wrote:
TigerXtrm wrote:
It's not possible to buy gametime through Steam and use the wallet. Period. I have a copy of EVE on Steam and it's not giving me the option, just checked it for you.


"Many of our players subscribe to EVE directly; however, some prefer to pay for their game time using other methods, such as PLEX Activation Code. This page lists the websites and services that offer EVE Starter Packs and PLEX Activation Code. Remember you can also trade PLEX Activation Code with other players or buy PLEX."

What happens when you click on the steam icon in the 3rd party section of your account page?


http://i.imgur.com/LkSLdWh.jpg

It says "Buy plex" right there...


If I go through the EVE Online store page on Steam and select to buy PLEX or Gametime it lets me make a transaction, but doesn't list the Steam Wallet as a payment option. Only credit cards are accepted. Not even the payment options Steam usually offers (Paypal and local bank transfer methods) are offered.

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#20 - 2014-10-19 16:10:12 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:


If I go through the EVE Online store page on Steam and select to buy PLEX or Gametime it lets me make a transaction, but doesn't list the Steam Wallet as a payment option. Only credit cards are accepted. Not even the payment options Steam usually offers (Paypal and local bank transfer methods) are offered.


It's an old thing by now. CCP scrapped those options a few years back, something to do with it creating too much trouble (financial crisis etc etc & Iceland being mean to bankers)

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