ED Store Modules to Steam Game

[Jetliner]

The support text out there around this issue is terrible so I'm just going to make a whole post about it!

The End of Summer Sale is coming to an end (lawl) and I want to pick up some modules for my friend and I.  STEAM is no longer honoring the sale the ED site has, therefore it makes sense that I'd rather purchase these modules on the ED Store - but I prefer the STEAM launcher.

SO!  If I buy myself and my friend modules from the ED Store to take advantage of the EoS Sale - will these be activated when I play the STEAM version by proxy of being tied to my account, or can I only use modules purchased on the ED Store with the standalone version?

[TKhaos]

28 minutes ago, Jetliner said:

The support text out there around this issue is terrible so I'm just going to make a whole post about it!

The End of Summer Sale is coming to an end (lawl) and I want to pick up some modules for my friend and I.  STEAM is no longer honoring the sale the ED site has, therefore it makes sense that I'd rather purchase these modules on the ED Store - but I prefer the STEAM launcher.

SO!  If I buy myself and my friend modules from the ED Store to take advantage of the EoS Sale - will these be activated when I play the STEAM version by proxy of being tied to my account, or can I only use modules purchased on the ED Store with the standalone version?

No they won't, buy from the ED store and play DCS Stand-alone only, every module on the site says it doesn't work with Steam. You can't transfer licenses from ED to Steam but you can transfer Steam to Stand-alone.

As for Steam honouring the sale, it was two completely different sales. Steam was part of the Trains, Planes and Auto mobiles festival and ED was an end of summer sale.

Edited September 27, 2024 by TKhaos

[Rudel_chw]

34 minutes ago, Jetliner said:

If I buy myself and my friend modules from the ED Store to take advantage of the EoS Sale - will these be activated when I play the STEAM version by proxy of being tied to my account

 

No, Steam is not able to detect the license you have on your ED account, so on Steam you can only use modules you have purchased at Steam Store.

 

34 minutes ago, Jetliner said:

, or can I only use modules purchased on the ED Store with the standalone version?

 

On the Standalone version of DCS you can use both modules purchased at ED's Store, plus modules purchased at Steam.

[Jetliner]

What an odd system. I figured the point of the login on the main screen when booting DCS was to grab all your licensed content tied to your account.  Guess we will skip the modules till next sale this time around!  Thanks guys.

[Rudel_chw]

31 minutes ago, Jetliner said:

Guess we will skip the modules till next sale this time around!

or you could ditch Steam, like I did 10 years ago

[Jetliner]

Nah, I like the organization and dont see any reason the standalone is better.

[Rudel_chw]

16 minutes ago, Jetliner said:

dont see any reason the standalone is better.

 

• You get back 10% off the purchase of ED modules (and also those of most third parties), in the form of store credit.
• You can try (most) modules for free, for up to 15 days every 6 months.
• It offers Sales more often and for longer than Steam.
• You can run DCS without the overhead of the Steam overlay.
• It has a better repair tool than Steam's

 

The only aspect where Steam is better, is its download speed.

[TKhaos]

3 hours ago, Jetliner said:

I figured the point of the login on the main screen when booting DCS was to grab all your licensed content tied to your account

The login is for multi-player, I've never logged into it at all as I don't have enough time for multi-player so will have ot wait until I retire

2 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

Steam is better, is its download speed

Yeah Steam makes use of my 1.6Gbps full fibre connection, unlike another well known flight sim that downloads at 1990's dial up modem speeds

[Jetliner]

On 9/27/2024 at 2:21 PM, Rudel_chw said:

 

• You get back 10% off the purchase of ED modules (and also those of most third parties), in the form of store credit.
• You can try (most) modules for free, for up to 15 days every 6 months.
• It offers Sales more often and for longer than Steam.
• You can run DCS without the overhead of the Steam overlay.
• It has a better repair tool than Steam's

 

The only aspect where Steam is better, is its download speed.

All really great reasons to someone, but none that are particularly convincing to me.  Since Steam and Standalone share the same sales, Ill just wait till the next one and make sure I act faster.  The trials would be nice, but I own almost every module now anyway, and I like the Steam overlay in case any of my friends want to message me while I'm flying!

On 9/27/2024 at 4:59 PM, TKhaos said:

The login is for multi-player, I've never logged into it at all as I don't have enough time for multi-player so will have ot wait until I retire

Yeah Steam makes use of my 1.6Gbps full fibre connection, unlike another well known flight sim that downloads at 1990's dial up modem speeds

Ahhhh gotcha!  I dont do any MP either, I'll just close out of the login from now on too! haha

[MAXsenna]

4 hours ago, Jetliner said:

and I like the Steam overlay in case any of my friends want to message me while I'm flying

You can manually add Standalone to the Steam Launcher, though I'm not sure how the overlay works.

[Goetsch]

It feels like whenever people talk about indie vs steam, it's like an argument between ios users and android...