EVE General Discussion

After the latest EVE Launcher update any accounts created and used which where not tired to the steam client version of the game are being denied access to the game.

"we were unable to log you in with your Steam account. If you have just purchased the game through Steam, Please try again in a few minutes. If you added the game as a non-Steam game, please launch the game directly instead of launching it through Steam."

What this means to those who have lost there steam account version of eve online...

No support for steam overlay for those who own the game but don't have a steam account connected.

No access to the game for those who do not have access to the steam client.

Because of these events I am reevaluating playing EVE Online after 638 hours. This change has seriously damaged my ability to play the game.

Eve thru steam has been nothing but problems. You used to not even have a user account to do things like login to the forums. Your ID was steamuser54363879023709821 and that was it. Payments were different too if I recall.


And while I do use steam, I can't imagine it injecting itself into the several eve clients I like to open up. It's good for some things but its a bit too bloated for eve. What is so wrong with using the launcher and a client in window mode? The steam overlay just pissed me off half the time and got in the way when I pressed the wrong buttons.

Don't get mad at CCP because eve doesn't play well with steam. IMO they should have NEVER been connected, at least not in the way they are. Thats why CCP has made moves to migrate accounts over and such.

You shoulda jumped that ship long ago, guess you're paying for it now.




Maybe in your own mind, but I have no issues playing and using out of game tools. Kinda nice being able to see both and not some shafted overlay on top of my spaceships

1 - The print screen button will save screenshots to the directory. (My documents/CCP/screenshots?) No its not auto-upload, but at least you don't have to fiddle with saving files and such. Its instant. Iv used steam screenshots, its meh at best. Using imgur from the screenshot directory doesn't bother me.
2 - You can still have steam launched, in fact the buddy window should be a pop out, and the chat boxes do too. Iv chatted with steam friends while playing eve. Its just not tied to the client.
3 - I personally don't use the trading cards, but I know ccp does keep track of some stats via the webpage/api. You can see how many hours you've logged in I'm pretty sure, and if you use a proper API tool you can get info on your current training, monies, ect without even logging in (let alone opening steam)

Sorry if I came off harsh, I just really dislike eve being thru steam as I'v seen a few threads in the past of people getting stuck/shafted from steam. (The whole steamuserid thing wouldnt let people make APIs. Well hell some corps wont even take you without an API, talk about a steam limitation) So Iv tried to steer people away best I can.

Best bet is contact CCP. Thankfuly in the age of skill extractors and such, you can somewhat easily migrate your eve-life to a new account. Even transfer characters off to a new account name not tied with steam. But to fix some of your missing features, try to add eve as a game in steam, might get some of that functionality back. But you really want them existing as two separate programs.

https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/203523662-Setting-an-account-name-for-Accounts-created-through-STEAM

Try to look into this? If not contact steam and try to get the account back? I hope you're seeing my recommendation about having the two separate

Maybe just give it some time too. If it was a recent update, maybe its a bug or hiccup. Maybe it'll go away? Probably not the best idea to be using accounts you don't have email access to :p CCP even added e-mail verification requirements for all new accounts.

I was refering to steam trading cards you can trade steam trading cards for steam wallet credit.