Steam Users don't need a Key & What's up with the Triumph Accounts

[sikbok]

No need for a key if you bought it on steam. Even if you bought it during the Steam give-away. You just have to link your steam and triumph accounts. To do so:

• In the AoW3 Launcher, click 'Register Key / DLC / Account Settings'.
  
• Then you'll be asked whether you want to link your steam account. Click 'yes'.
  
• If you clicked no or you don't get prompted you can link manually by clicking the Link STEAM Account button at the bottom of the new screen.

If at any time you have under Registered Products 'Age of Wonders' displayed you can just go back and press play to start the game. Some people reported having to restart the launcher.

Note that your 'Link STEAM Account' button will be greyed out after correctly linking to indicate there's nothing left to link.

On linking account

We are using a feature in the Steam API when we 'link' accounts. This gives us the option to verify ownership of products linked to the AoW3 game - i.e. the game and and linked DLC - nothing more, because Gabe wouldn't stand for it.

On the need for a Triumph Account.

This is because we are running our own servers for online features. This makes it possible - for example - to have both Steam and GoG players to play together. It will also allow us to expand our online features in the future.

But I don't want a Triumph account.

You don't need one. As noted, you only need one to play multiplayer. You can use the 'Guest (offline) account' if you are just here for the single player experience.

[tzening]

I didn't create a Triumph account and when i click "Register Key / DLC / Account Settings" it kept saying "invalid username".
Is it because there is no Triumph account?
Also is the save data stored in the computer or the Steam cloud? That might be a second reason why many newcomers want to have an online account secure instead of a guest account.

[vybes]

Originally posted by tzening:

I didn't create a Triumph account and when i click "Register Key / DLC / Account Settings" it kept saying "invalid username".
Is it because there is no Triumph account?
Also is the save data stored in the computer or the Steam cloud? That might be a second reason why many newcomers want to have an online account secure instead of a guest account.

Even if you created a Triumph account, they won't let you play online with the Free version. You also cannot link DLC with the Offline only account. Non of your settings will save with the Offline account too.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by sikbok:

• Then you'll be asked whether you want to link your steam account. Click 'yes'.
  
• If you clicked no or you don't get prompted you can link manually by clicking the Link STEAM Account button at the bottom of the new screen.

Neither of these are true. You do not get asked to link your Steam account, and the button you're supposed to click in the second step is greyed out.

[sikbok]

Originally posted by tzening:

I didn't create a Triumph account and when i click "Register Key / DLC / Account Settings" it kept saying "invalid username".
Is it because there is no Triumph account?

I would assume so. There's nothing to do there unless you have a Triumph account.
A 'no account found' message would have been more informative.

Originally posted by tzening:

Also is the save data stored in the computer or the Steam cloud? That might be a second reason why many newcomers want to have an online account secure instead of a guest account.

By default everything is stored on the PC. If you enable cloud saves, those will be stored by Steam using their back-end. No Triumph account required for cloud saves.

Originally posted by deepvybes:

Even if you created a Triumph account, they won't let you play online with the Free version.

That is incorrect. Not being able to play online might be due to other issues, such as your connection not being 'open' for a p2p connection or an issue with your account.

Originally posted by deepvybes:

You also cannot link DLC with the Offline only account.

That is incorrect. You should be able to play with any DLC you own - on the same platform, i.e. Steam game with DLC bought via Steam - independent of the account you use. We use your Steam account to check which products you own.
You can check in the top left of the main menu to see which DLC the game thinks you have activated.

Originally posted by deepvybes:

Non of your settings will save with the Offline account too.

Which settings are you referring to?
Also, the game saves settings in your profile, which is linked to the account you use. So if you switch between guest and triumph accounts each of those will initialize with its own settings.

@deepvybes, with the issues you are having, I'd advice starting a new discussion here on the Steam forum so we can help you work through them there.

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

Neither of these are true. You do not get asked to link your Steam account, and the button you're supposed to click in the second step is greyed out.

That is odd. Typically that will only occur if an account was already linked. Are you having any trouble with the game due to this? If so, please contact us on [e-mail] so we can sort this out.

[Vexesz]

I did all of the above and I cannot log in to play because it says it can't activate. I've reinstalled twice. I did the full linking and everything.

[test]

Does the devs instructions for linking to steam work for anyone? Because like other repliers I get "Could not open account: Invalid username." When I click the register key link

Tarshana
Click the Use guest (offline) account box

[Dokigs]

So why can I play in multiplayer? cause in the free version whe can't (your actual promotion) or i need to do something

your instruction up don't help me :/

[Cruduxy Pegg]

You should be able to play multiplayer even fi you got it free.

[KRasta]

Originally posted by sikbok:

• Then you'll be asked whether you want to link your steam account. Click 'yes'.
  
• If you clicked no or you don't get prompted you can link manually by clicking the Link STEAM Account button at the bottom of the new screen.

yea that also doesn't work for me

[Dokigs]

me to :/

[sikbok]

Hi everyone,


Sorry to hear some are still having trouble playing.

Do need a bit more information to be able to help you all out. Might be worth starting new discussion - so things are less confounded - but I can try to help you here.

Main thing is I need to know the exact working or errors and the exact moment they occur at.

Originally posted by Tarshana:

I did all of the above and I cannot log in to play because it says it can't activate. I've reinstalled twice. I did the full linking and everything.

Could you post a screenshot with this error message?
My best guess - based on the information so far - is that your account hasn't been activated. To fix that:

1. Open the AoW3Launcher
   
2. Open 'Account Settings'. You can check your activation status there.
   
3. If you have not activated your account you can press the 'resend account activation email' button.

Originally posted by myconv:

Does the devs instructions for linking to steam work for anyone? Because like other repliers I get "Could not open account: Invalid username." When I click the register key link

If that is the 'Register' button under the text input field named 'Register Key', that's the key you don't need if you play on Steam.
Beside that button throwing an error, is there any other issue you have with your account? If so, could you give details on that?

Originally posted by Dokigs:

So why can I play in multiplayer? cause in the free version whe can't (your actual promotion) or i need to do something

your instruction up don't help me :/

As noted, you should be able to play MP. Can you tell us where you get stuck? Again, a screenshot would be lovely.

Originally posted by KRasta:

Originally posted by sikbok:

• Then you'll be asked whether you want to link your steam account. Click 'yes'.
  
• If you clicked no or you don't get prompted you can link manually by clicking the Link STEAM Account button at the bottom of the new screen.

yea that also doesn't work for me

Can you tell me what is not working? Also:

Originally posted by sikbok:

Note that your 'Link STEAM Account' button will be grayed out after correctly linking to indicate there's nothing left to link.

[test]

"Beside that button throwing an error, is there any other issue you have with your account?"

Do you mean my Steam account? If so, not that I can think of other than some trouble with quest points last event. I do use Linux, and that results in me having to get any free games (including trial run times) through the client itself else it doesn't work. When logged into steam website through a browser, it thinks I don't have the client installed. So if you call that an issue?

BTW, do you devs still work on this game/take player suggestions? If so, where is the best place to post suggestions?

[sikbok]

Originally posted by myconv:

Do you mean my Steam account?

No, do you have trouble with your Triumph account. Anything we need to help you with so you can enjoy the game.

Originally posted by myconv:

BTW, do you devs still work on this game/take player suggestions? If so, where is the best place to post suggestions?

We do bug fixes. Perhaps some quality of life updates. But no updates are scheduled at the moment, with Planetfall and all that.
You can post here on the forum. Preferable in a new discussion, so we can link to that discussion if we go and make a ticket based on your suggestions.

[KRasta]

Yesterday when i started launcher i didn't have any popup with linking steam to triumph, there wasn't even "link to steam account" button in the account settings, today however i started launcher and everything is fixed.

[ParaReality]

i downloaded the game today, but cant register with key...yeah i want to play MP.
got it for free...