EVE's Quantum Rise on Steam at reduced price, 21-day trial
by James Egan 
Nov 15th 2008 at 12:00PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, MMO industry
EVE Online's latest expansion Quantum Rise is here. We've written a fair amount on this expansion thus far, but it's primarily been a multi-staged release that introduces some new features and enhancements to benefit EVE's industry-focused players. We just noticed EVE Online's Quantum Rise pricing on Steam -- it's $9.99, down from Steam's already reduced $14.99; the initial cost when directly dealing with CCP Games is $19.99.
Steam also offers a 21-day trial which trumps the standard 14-day trial you get from CCP Games. Based on these numbers, Steam certainly looks like a good way to go. However, none of us at Massively have ever gotten our MMOs via Steam to date. We're curious, have any of our readers done so, and were the the lower pricing and other perks worth going through Steam in your opinion?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John said on 12:26PM 11-15-2008
I like Steam but what I don't like is that the steam application as to run everytime I play and it has to remain running while I play. It's not a big thing but I'm a freak about extra applications running while I'm playing games...I hate it. I suspect they can offer it cheaper because you're forced to look at Steam everytime and it gives them the chance to sell you other things.
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W. Graves said on 12:52PM 11-15-2008
Just get the account using steam and then load the normal client?
if this works please post so i can let some of my steam friends know.
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Nadril said on 1:20PM 11-15-2008
You both realize that steam only takes up 20K of memory usage, right?
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mbp said on 2:08PM 11-15-2008
I bought EVE from Steam last year and I highly recommend it. Having to start steam to get into EVE was a bit tedious at first but even though it installs the game to the Steam directory you can create a desktop shortcut directly to the game client and voila no more steam. No need to re install the client. The normal CCP patcher works fine from within the game so you really don't have to bother with Steam if you don't want to.
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Merkur said on 2:02PM 11-15-2008
What payment are this guy talking about? You can download the client for free from the CCP Homepage!
http://www.eve-online.com/download/
Evary Eve-Expansions is free for every subscriber. You only pay a monthly subscription fee...
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James Egan said on 2:05PM 11-15-2008
Right the download itself and 14-day trial are free, but that first paid month is $19.99 last time I checked. It's $9.99 through Steam, with the normal monthly sub price thereafter.
Disteeler said on 5:04PM 11-15-2008
Updating EvE is always the same, regardless you launch it via classic mode or via Steam: launch it and then it autopatches itself. Steam doesen't do the patching.
Also, the 9.99$ offer runs up to 18 november, then it goes up to the regular 14,99$ (also a great deal I must add)
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Carl said on 12:00AM 11-16-2008
I have an account made through the non-steam method from 2 years ago, can I download the trial through steam and play that way? would actually *like* going through steam to be able to use its features in-game.
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Rozo said on 12:40PM 11-16-2008
I actually just did this right now. It's great, I wanted an alt account for mining/trading so last week I had signed up with the 14 day trial via the EVE-Online website. so I decided to check out steam. It DOES allow you to upgrade your trial account signed up via anywhere else through steam for 9.99, don't even need to download the client if you don't want to. so hey, save about $5. not bad. really easy process, let me pay for it via paypal too.
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James Egan said on 3:02PM 11-18-2008
Thanks for all the input, everyone.
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