Lifetime Subscription for Steam Accounts?

[wisterian_dark]

Yeah, so I'm one of those who don't have an Arc account and started playing the game through Steam directly about 2 years ago or so. There's a sale for the lifetime subscription going on now, and it *is* tempting, but I need to know if there's a way for Steam accounts to get the lifetime sub in the first place. I know this question has been asked many times before in many different ways, but is there a way to link my current STO account to Arc at this point in time? The browsing I did leads me to a very frustrating "not really", but maybe I'm missing out something, cus I've read so many contradicting answers and tips on the topic that I'm not sure what to make of it anymore. Is it worth asking customer support about the credentials my Steam log-in had generated for STO when I first booted it up? Is that what I need to do? Or are there any other alternatives that don't require me to start fresh and say goodbye to all my progress? I literally want to throw money their way, but I can't do it on my own account just because I didn't know Arc existed when I downloaded the game It's kind of silly, really...

[Emperor Trump]

Dont even think about getting lifetime, this game is about to die and that would be the worst investement possible

[Darkmaster]

I was thinking this too

[swclesley]

Just curious about what indicators there are of the game being about to die, as chat is busy and task forces normally pop open within a minute.

[The Field Marshal]

Originally posted by wisterian_dark:

Yeah, so I'm one of those who don't have an Arc account and started playing the game through Steam directly about 2 years ago or so. There's a sale for the lifetime subscription going on now, and it *is* tempting, but I need to know if there's a way for Steam accounts to get the lifetime sub in the first place. I know this question has been asked many times before in many different ways, but is there a way to link my current STO account to Arc at this point in time? The browsing I did leads me to a very frustrating "not really", but maybe I'm missing out something, cus I've read so many contradicting answers and tips on the topic that I'm not sure what to make of it anymore. Is it worth asking customer support about the credentials my Steam log-in had generated for STO when I first booted it up? Is that what I need to do? Or are there any other alternatives that don't require me to start a fresh and say goodbye to all my progress? I literally want to throw money their way, but I can't do it on my own account just because I didn't know Arc existed when I downloaded the game :p4g_frown: It's kind of silly, really...

Ignore Captian Trump, the game isn't gonna die any time soon. Star trek online requires an arc account, in order to get a lifetime subscription you need to log in to the arc account that is connected to your steam account.

Basically contact arc games customer support.

[jonnin]

lifetime may or may not be a good investment. Do the math for yourself -- if you ignore everything else as minor fluff junk, the lifetime provides about $5USA per month and costs, at its current sale price, $200USA. That means that in 40 months, a little over 3 more years of gaming, it will pay for itself. Do you believe it has more than 3 years left in it? People been saying it is dying for over a decade. It is still providing new content and fun in spite of them.

I bought mine off steam, but maybe they changed it.. I have yet to get an arc account unless it auto provided one somewhere along the way. But my info is all years old on this stuff...

[cnroddball]

And although I don't have it (money is tight) I'd LOVE to have lifetime. Mostly for the perks that come with it, like liberated borg characters, a captains yacht other small stuff like that. It'd just add to the experience. I look at it less from a min/maxer dps kinda player and more from a quality of life perspective. You need to decide what you want out of it, and think about if it'll give you that.

[Metallicus]

I have had lifetime for 10 years and it has paid for itself many times over. I also think I got it for half price on a sale. I take a year off from time to time and come back with tons of Zen. It’s a great deal in my opinion.

[Tiberius Lacedaemon]

Take a look at the benefits before you actually decide that it's worth it. (It's not)

Lifetime Subscriber is incredibly outdated in every way. There are only two features that are actually convenient.

The monthly Zen and the automatic dilithium refine.

Here's the problem, though. Nothing else really matters or makes a difference. You'd think for a LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION, they would keep it up to date, but this is what you get.

Let's do the math, though.

$300 USD would be 30,000 Zen. You get 500 Zen monthly for the lifetime sub.

$300 Option would take you 60 months to get your investment back.
$200 (20,000 Zen) Option (in a few days) would take you 40 months.
$150 (15,000 Zen) Option (right now) would take you 30 months.

I wouldn't listen to the doomsayers that the game is dying, that doesn't matter. It's always a gamble, but this is just one gamble that isn't worth your investment in the slightest, especially if you regularly spend money.

As for Steam, I don't have an answer for you. It should've already asked you to merge with Arc, as it did for me. You're gonna have to look this up, tbh, or if nothing else, make a support ticket asking for assistance.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Tiberius Lacedaemon:

Take a look at the benefits before you actually decide that it's worth it. (It's not)

But, it obviously is if you believe the game is going to last a while yet. If you believe the game will make 5 more years, for example, and you need 30 months to break even, you will come out ahead.

its only 'not worth it' if the game dies suddenly, or, you stop playing after paying into it and never come back (ive quit a couple times and come back to a great deal of zen from months away). Alternately its 'not worth it' if you don't plan to spend that much on zen. But in that case, I don't think the conversation makes sense... you have to assume the buyer was planning on spending at least $150 in real cash on zen anyway, or it makes no sense.

Also, you may not care for it, but the t6 ship has at least some value (I wouldn't go so far as to say a full price 3k zen, but even if you give it a 1K zen value... )
the other stuff is fluff, but its not outdated nor worthless: inventory slots of various kinds (ships, raw inventory, bank, etc), EC cap removed, and important, character slots (each one is 9k more dil/day. Ive earned a 3k zen ship each month since december with admiralty dil, 500/month using 10 char slots churning the 500+ a pop admiral jobs). Granted it was a good time for it with events and such.

[Omega Man]

Deca just today put out out a mini statement on the game today, and they slapped down the bs that the game is dead, they slapped down that the game is in sunset mode, and they stated quite clearly that once everything is moved to deca, they will be producing content for the game and expect the game to be here for many years to come as well as grow.

So the only thing that has ended here is the doom and gloom brigades obsession with wanting this game to die for some reason, so unlucky doom and gloom mob.

[cap-boulanger]

I will simply say these two things:

- If you don't have an Arc login associated with the same STO account that your Steam goes to, contact Arc support. Some people have reported better results with the German support rather than English. (Google Translate maybe?)

- I have had lifetime for years, well beyond being repaid (heck, I think my break-even date was in 2017). There's a lot of small useful perks to it. Remember what it really is: not a subscription in the traditional sense, but a bundle of purchase-ables. It's called a "lifetime subscription" because it's a compilation of the timed rewards that were previously given to long term subscribers (but they don't sell timed subscriptions anymore).

The (semi-automatic) dilithium refining and the zen stipend aren't the only useful ones, only the most obvious.

[Salty]

Originally posted by Captain Trump:

Dont even think about getting lifetime, this game is about to die and that would be the worst investement possible

This..

[NIkto Barada]

two or so yrs back before sto bought more servers i saw the amount of lifetimers in queue before me it was well over 10k.but since there arent any queues anymore, do what you please. the server are a bit overloaded though . when steam players couldnt login everything was more responsive, sry to say it

[wisterian_dark]

Okay guys, I wasn't exactly trying to start a debate on the merits of buying the lifetime sub here, but I appreciate the input nonetheless :) I'm not here to declare whether or not the game is dead. All I'm gonna say is that I'm having fun with it and the fleet i'm in is alive and well, so I can't complain too much.

What I was trying to find out was whether or not linking my Steam-generated STO account with Arc was possible. That was the thing I was most interested in, since I couldn't even entertain the idea of buying a sub if it was impossible to do it on the account I spent so much time (and a bit of money) into.

I'm happy to report that it is! Support helped me out after submitting a ticket yesterday night, and they just got back to me about an hour ago and told me the linking is complete. I tried entering a giveaway code I couldn't use before to see if it the whole process went well, and yup, it all works as it should. Lost no progress and all my characters are all alive and well. I've seen my fair share of people dealing with the same problem saying that they couldn't get the steam -> arc linking done, so I was genuinely surprised when they got back to me and actually helped me out

[NIkto Barada]

DAYUM, could you copy paste the way to do it in a new post here=?