Swap from Epic to Steam?

[Johnny Havoc]

We've owned this game and the season 1 pass for a year now on EPIC games. Is there a way to migrate this to steam? 1. Its cheaper for the Season 2 pass than Epic and 2. Steam allows you to buy games and content for friends.

[Bench]

No you can't. I had to buy it again here on steam.

[EVII]

Originally posted by Bench:

No you can't. I had to buy it again here on steam.

Why would you do that? You can play with steam people and the game is not really on sale with it's 10%. No reason to not wait IMO

[Dgo]

Originally posted by Johnny Havoc:

We've owned this game and the season 1 pass for a year now on EPIC games. Is there a way to migrate this to steam? 1. Its cheaper for the Season 2 pass than Epic and 2. Steam allows you to buy games and content for friends.

Different platforms. You have to buy it again, but if you already have it why re-purchasing?

[Bench]

Originally posted by eviitec:

Originally posted by Bench:

No you can't. I had to buy it again here on steam.

Why would you do that? You can play with steam people and the game is not really on sale with it's 10%. No reason to not wait IMO

So I can finally uninstall the Epic Games Launcher.
Epic is just crap. No Player Profiles, you don't even see who's exactly adding you as a friend, you can't buy gifts for friends, there is no cloud option for savegames etc.

[EVII]

Originally posted by Bench:

Originally posted by eviitec:

Why would you do that? You can play with steam people and the game is not really on sale with it's 10%. No reason to not wait IMO

So I can finally uninstall the Epic Games Launcher.
Epic is just crap. No Player Profiles, you don't even see who's exactly adding you as a friend, you can't buy gifts for friends, there is no cloud option for savegames etc.

If that's all important for you, then go for it. I only add friends for my main game usually and thats not ZA. Cloud save is the first thing you should disable even on steam if you are smart. It's not hard to remember to move your savegames from your userfolder in windows before you decide to make a fresh windows install. Otherwise the risc is high losing your savegames bcs there was a problem with the cloud. The gift thing on steam is not what it used to be anyways and steam seems to get worse and worse with any update. Anyway I got you. My plan was to move over as well, just so it's easier sharing screenshots etc, but I already paid 51€ for the deluxe edition and the 3 aditional maps they release with season 2. I love the game, but I don't see myeself buying only the base game this time only for about the price I got the super deluxe and all DLC maps for about the same price on the last epic sale.
I added the launcher to steam renaming it do the actual gamename and i can boot the game like my other steam games just fine with overlay etc. plus I can play with steam people just fine.
I'll buy it again when it's cheaper, just to have a slightly better integration into steam like I have now, bcs the game is amazing.

[Dgo]

Btw you can play cross steamxepic in case you didn't know it.

[SlashBlack]

why would you buy this game 2 times lmao....

[EVII]

It's priciple. Nothing to do with rich or not. But yea there are many cheapos on steam. One more reason to hate. They want a still very well supported 1 year old game for 10-25 bucks.

[General Plastro]

Originally posted by Bench:

Originally posted by eviitec:

Why would you do that? You can play with steam people and the game is not really on sale with it's 10%. No reason to not wait IMO

So I can finally uninstall the Epic Games Launcher.
Epic is just crap. No Player Profiles, you don't even see who's exactly adding you as a friend, you can't buy gifts for friends, there is no cloud option for savegames etc.

Same boat.

At least i can justify myself a bit, because it was about the same price buying the game again on Steam as buying Season Pass 1 & 2 on Epic due lack of regional pricing.

At least i can enjoy the 6 "new" levels without having the pain of that interface (it was literally better to use discord to actually find people online with that.

[Johnny Havoc]

Ok so you guys went off the rails. Sorry for the lack of clarity. I bought this game for myself, my girlfriend and my dad 1 year ago on Epic because we all loved and played the hell out of ZAT on Steam. I heard Epic would have exclusivity rights for a year but I didn't want to wait that long to play it. In that year myself and my girlfriend bought season pass 1 and were looking to get the 2nd season pass. At the same time I wanted to catch my dad up on both seasons but there are rarely sales on Epic.
Fast forward to now... Zombie Army 4 is on Steam. I prefer Steam as its an account I've had for nearly 20 years. I like that I can gift games through Steam because its often how I provide presents on birthdays and holidays. I like the ease with which my friends can chat, voip and join games on Steam. I'd prefer IF all my games were through Steam. My hope was that I could port over Zombie Army 4 to steam then buy the season 2 pass for myself and others through Steam.

So yeah I was just hoping for a way to add the game to Steam and buy the DLC's through Steam.

[Dgo]

You can do something else and it's what I've done with Magic Arena. You add the epic game into steam through "add non-steam game" problem solved to me.

Ofc if the game needs an update you will need to launch epic client from to time but that's it.

[EVII]

Originally posted by Daegoth Vilfariel:

You can do something else and it's what I've done with Magic Arena. You add the epic game into steam through "add non-steam game" problem solved to me.

Ofc if the game needs an update you will need to launch epic client from to time but that's it.

I mentioned that in one of my posts as well, but I highly doubt you can just ignore epic that way and only run it for updates. Back then with Borderlands 3 I tried many things and the only way to do it was to add the laucher itself to steam and rename it to the games name. Then making sure the epic launcher is not on in the background. Always start through steam first, otherwise the game will run, but it would stop being shows in your gameinfo status and steam overlay would stop working as well.

[Dgo]

Originally posted by eviitec:

I mentioned that in one of my posts as well, but I highly doubt you can just ignore epic that way and only run it for updates. Back then with Borderlands 3 I tried many things and the only way to do it was to add the laucher itself to steam and rename it to the games name. Then making sure the epic launcher is not on in the background. Always start through steam first, otherwise the game will run, but it would stop being shows in your gameinfo status and steam overlay would stop working as well.

It worked perfectly with the game I tried. I guess it may vary with different games though. I only launched the epic client when the games asked me for updates, and it was from time to time, not always.

[Johnny Havoc]

I know about the add non-steam game technique. That will launch the game but it doesn't notify friends of what you're playing and by extension it also doesn't allow friend to join you. I was hoping for a better migration. One where I could also buy the DLC's through Steam. Thanks anyways everyone.

[三无Marblue]

epic give free game and take less income from game developer.this is good.

but if you really wants to win steam you need to add more function like review like communicate like player page.

now you just spend money for nothing and you make good game only on epic . that makes player hate you.

hope some better game develop tools can win the epic one and make they have no money.