If you happen to’ve been ready all this time to play Kickstarted indie MMO Embers Adrift on Steam and for some motive didn’t wish to strive it whereas it’s been free-to-play for months, then immediately is your day.
Readers will certainly recall that final October, Stormhaven Studios informed gamers that its cost processor, Digital River, had been withholding participant buy/sub funds to it (and apparently to plenty of different purchasers) since June of 2024. Presumably, the studio remains to be pursuing a authorized treatment there, however within the meantime, it set the sport free-to-play in an effort to ensure gamers’ entry to the sport wasn’t disrupted, then started work on a Steam model. All these months later, it’s lastly right here – in “smooth launch” type.
“The objective of the Steam ‘smooth launch’ is to permit us the time to work by way of any main points with the sport, purchases, or accounts earlier than we begin deprecating legacy login & obtain flows,” Stormhaven says. “By this time subsequent month our standalone launcher will not let you obtain the most recent model of the sport; Steam might be required to obtain all future patches. Lastly, sooner or later throughout the subsequent few weeks legacy logins utilizing the discussion board username & password will not be thought-about a subscriber in recreation.”
There are some caveats right here. If you happen to already purchased the sport earlier than the Digital River enswindlement, you do not need to purchase it once more; you possibly can observe the group’s walkthrough on the best way to declare a key to use it and be sure to correctly hyperlink your accounts so your characters present up by way of Steam. Likewise, in the event you by no means purchased a replica – in the event you’ve been taking part in F2P since October – you then’ll want to purchase one (it’s $29.99) after which observe related directions for ensuring your account hyperlinks to Steam. The sport will even resume its subscription charge.
“The previous few months everybody who has logged in has been in a position to get pleasure from our subscriber advantages for free of charge (for the why see right here). Now that we’re spinning up a brand new cost supplier it turns into essential to make these advantages a part of a month-to-month subscription as soon as once more. And whereas we attempt to make the Embers Adrift expertise gratifying for all of our prospects no matter your subscription standing, we additionally acknowledge the necessity to broaden our attraction to those that are usually not presently supporting us. For non-subscribers now we have expanded the energetic character restrict from one to 2; which means in case your subscription lapses you possibly can have two energetic characters to get pleasure from. […] One other issues to notice is that to ensure that your account to be acknowledged as a subscriber you should log in with Steam credentials and have an energetic subscription. If you happen to login with the legacy methodology (discussion board username & password) then you’ll have to activate characters and lose subscriber advantages till you login along with your Steam credentials once more. Be aware that this solely applies after we deprecate legacy logins as subscribers throughout the subsequent few weeks.”
We’re assuming the account bits are the tough a part of the transition and why it took so lengthy – however hopefully, it’ll inject some money into the indie studio in a rush.
