Frontier Developments Giving Existing Users Elite: Dangerous Steam Key

Recently Elite Dangerous became available on Steam, and players wondered if they would be getting a key, or whether they would have to drop another £30 just to have it included in their Steam Library.

Well, the following tweet went out just the other day!

Thanks for your patience. We’ll soon offer Steam keys to anyone who bought Elite: Dangerous from our store. https://t.co/TjigCCcHlp

— Elite Dangerous (@EliteDangerous) May 8, 2015

And, of course, the forum post went into more detail:

Hi everyone,

Some breaking news for you:

We’ll soon be offering Steam keys to anyone who bought Elite: Dangerous from the EliteDangerous.com store who would like a key, and to anyone who buys the game from our store in the future.

We always appreciate it when you buy direct from our store because it means we can put more into supporting and developing Elite: Dangerous, but we know a number of long-time players and backers like to play through Steam and we think it’s fair everyone has that option, not just new players.

Elite: Dangerous runs on Frontier’s servers, so we’ve been working with Valve to give you a way to seamlessly connect your Steam and existing Frontier accounts in a way that’s easy. It’s coming soon. From May 28 you’ll be able to generate a Steam key from your account page, and we’ll have full instructions right here on the forums closer to the time.

The team really has been working hard on this one, and we’re all super happy to finally have an answer for you. Thanks for bearing with us and thanks for playing, as always.

Edit: This applies to Kickstarter backers, too.

Ed

So everyone, even Kickstarter backers, will be able to generate a Steam key from their account page from 28th May.

The key you generate is not useable for other players, however. For instance, if you give the key to a friend and you both log into the game, one of you will be disconnected - the key is linked directly to your account, not a generic Elite: Dangerous key.