ArenaNET account on steam...

[tejofi]

So I just started playing on Steam with my old ArenaNet account by putting "-provider Portal" into the launch option. I already own the first 2 expansions Path of fire and heart of thorns. If I would want to buy the other expansions can I buy theme here on steam or on arenanet ?

[Q]

No, you can't buy the dlc on steam and add it to your gw2 arena net account, it wont work and you just goin to waste money.

Buy the expansions, dlc etc in Anet official site if you already playing with non-steam account.
The "provider portal" trick just works to let you launch the game with anet accounts through steam and add it to library but that it.

[tathen]

yeah gotta do it via official site/ingame store

[ah_puch]

Tons of people using the provider portal which makes the steamcharts numbers much smaller than the already tiny 3k. Feels bad

[Gh0st.exe]

Originally posted by ah_puch:

Tons of people using the provider portal which makes the steamcharts numbers much smaller than the already tiny 3k. Feels bad

Would you mind providing a source for that claim while also providing proof that the FF14 and ESO community doesnt do exactly that? And while we are at it, an explanation on why Steamnumbers even matter to any extent / reason beyond something laughable like "number has to be big because only big number means good, context be damned" would also be welcome.
Not to mention the very simple fact that there is a difference between "concurrent players" and "total players".

[tathen]

Originally posted by Gh0st.exe:

Originally posted by ah_puch:

Tons of people using the provider portal which makes the steamcharts numbers much smaller than the already tiny 3k. Feels bad

Would you mind providing a source for that claim while also providing proof that the FF14 and ESO community doesnt do exactly that? And while we are at it, an explanation on why Steamnumbers even matter to any extent / reason beyond something laughable like "number has to be big because only big number means good, context be damned" would also be welcome.
Not to mention the very simple fact that there is a difference between "concurrent players" and "total players".

cant use FFXIV steam to connect to non steam client, IDK about ESO,

id bet there is less then a million People* actively playing GW2,

steamcharts are only valid if the game is only playable via steam anyway

people want alot of people playing the MMO so it doesn't feel abandoned, also company's tend to stop making new content if the game has "not enough" players

[Gh0st.exe]

cant use FFXIV steam to connect to non steam client, IDK about ESO,

Judging by the guides on Steam (and some statements i found via Google) there seems to be at least some kind of workaround about that, similar to the "-provider Portal" thing in GW 2. But even if such an option doesnt exist, that still leaves the main-point of "providing a source about the supposed number of people that use their non-steam account on Steam" and the fact that concurrent players arent total players.

people want alot of people playing the MMO so it doesn't feel abandoned, also company's tend to stop making new content if the game has "not enough" players

True, but that applies to playernumbers in general, not Steam exclusive numbers. A player is a player, from ArenaNets POV it doesnt matter whether that player is on Steam or standalone. Yet a certain poster likes to imply that especially Steamnumbers should be pushed in order to show that many people play it on Steam because of reasons that they mostly refuse to elaborate on (or that - in the rare cases they did elaborate - were rather incoherent and boiled down to "because games HAVE to have a big number on Steam!").
And the game has survived just fine for 10 years without Steam and is, as far as i can interpret the earning-call numbers, the biggest source of income for the devs. I doubt we have to worry about it getting shut down / no new content at this point.