Any news on Steam users and the Beta?

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Why wouldn't steam users just get the same standalone beta client that non-steam users get? This entire issue doesn't make any sense to me. I think they just don't have a solution yet for running the beta through steam(though steam absolutely has infrastructure for this sort of thing).

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Would be nice to have clarification on this before Monday.

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k1rage wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Would be nice to have clarification on this before Monday.

indeed, im almost starting to get worried

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Odoakar wrote:

Am I the only one that has two instances of PoEx installed, one in Steam folder and the other in GGG folder?

I usually play though Steam, but when Steam goes mad from time to time and insist I use it offline, then I start my regular PoEx installation.

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Odoakar wrote:

Am I the only one that has two instances of PoEx installed, one in Steam folder and the other in GGG folder?

I usually play though Steam, but when Steam goes mad from time to time and insist I use it offline, then I start my regular PoEx installation.

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Odoakar wrote:

Am I the only one that has two instances of PoEx installed, one in Steam folder and the other in GGG folder?

I usually play though Steam, but when Steam goes mad from time to time and insist I use it offline, then I start my regular PoEx installation.

Are you able to do this with the same account? Or do you play two separate accounts?

If there is a way to get a GGG-specific password assigned to my account, I would be happy to do that. But I'm not going to make a brand new account.

The only time I've had a problem with steam, though, is during the 15-minute weekly steam updates. Which is not nearly enough for me to care.

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Why wouldn't steam users just get the same standalone beta client that non-steam users get? This entire issue doesn't make any sense to me. I think they just don't have a solution yet for running the beta through steam(though steam absolutely has infrastructure for this sort of thing).

Here, let me spell it out for you: steam users literally never auth directly through GGG. For anything. At all. When we log into the forums, we have to log into steam first and steam sends an authentication token. When we log into the game client, we don't even have to type our username+password at any point because our steam login (we have to already be logged into steam to even boot up the game) generates an auth token for us.

So, now does it make sense why steam users would be concerned? If there's just a secondary beta client, but that client is not available through steam, we won't be able to "just log in". Our entire account is bound to steam authentication tokens. GGG does not have a hash of our steam password _or any other password of ours_ in any database anywhere, so they can't just say "Oh, yeah, that's steam user HikaruYami all right!" if I were to try to log in with my steam details to the beta client.