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question about trial upgrading
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Scumbag Staloty
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-01-25 01:10:57 UTC
I know this sounds really dumb. I have a 14 day trial account running and i need a premium account to learn caldari industrial so i have decided i will buy eve in a day or two, if i buy it on steam it will continue from my trial account right?
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#2 - 2012-01-25 01:49:18 UTC
It should so long as you use the right account info i think...

Personally I'd say use the account management page and do it direct

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Scumbag Staloty
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-01-25 02:26:42 UTC
Xercodo wrote:
It should so long as you use the right account info i think...

Personally I'd say use the account management page and do it direct



The 14 day trial on steam runs through eve online demo so if i run throught account managment and upgrade my account there wouldn't steam still think im playing the demo?
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#4 - 2012-01-25 05:15:53 UTC
Scumbag Staloty wrote:
I know this sounds really dumb. I have a 14 day trial account running and i need a premium account to learn caldari industrial so i have decided i will buy eve in a day or two, if i buy it on steam it will continue from my trial account right?


Steam will install a normal EVE client, through which you can continue to play your existing trial account. No Steam codes will upgrade your trial to premium, do that through account management. The Steam code gives you a 21 day trial, from memory.

An alternative is to add EVE as a non-Steam game.

Unless you really need your friends to see how many hours you play EVE for, I would suggest ignoring Steam altogether.

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malaire
#5 - 2012-01-25 11:29:47 UTC
Scumbag Staloty wrote:
Xercodo wrote:
It should so long as you use the right account info i think...

Personally I'd say use the account management page and do it direct



The 14 day trial on steam runs through eve online demo so if i run throught account managment and upgrade my account there wouldn't steam still think im playing the demo?

Most likely Steam has just installed normal EVE client which is only started via Steam - so in that case upgrading via account management will make also your Steam-EVE work as full version. These is no "demo" version of EVE, just different accounts (trial vs paid).

Also your account name + password combination is also valid for non-steam client which you can download separately. So if you want to get rid of Steam, you can just download full client from EVE website and continue playing with that. (Some settings will be reset like window positions.)

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-01-30 11:11:56 UTC
Sorry don't have an idea on topic but would like to post something that is still linked to the topic.

I really suggest using a non-Steam version of the game. You can download the game client from the account management page linked above.

I started using the Steam version of the game, the biggest problem is that it happened a lot that the Steam version didn't patch at the same time the normal client does, which means you can't play the game after any upgrade of the game until the Steam-patch is actually updated. It also (maybe for the future) prevents you from playing with 2 (or more) accounts in the same time as you can't launch the steam-version multiple times while the non-steam version can be runned as much as you want (and your PC can handle).

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