Cancelling Steam and Going Directly thru Zenimax

Talyndor

I am tired of the Steam issues every single time a patch or update comes out. Cancelling Steam is easy.
My question is:
Do I need to re-buy the game thru Zenimax?
What happens to the Summserset and Morrowind expansions I bought? Do I need to re-buy them?
What happens to the items I have purchased? Do they stay with me?
I assume my character levels remain the same and aren't touched?

imredneckson

For the expansions, items, and characters you should still have them since they are bound to your account which is in Zenimax's system and Steam doesn't have any control over that. As for buying the game again, I don't know and that maybe something you'll want to send a message about to a ZOS employee. Since you do have an account through ZOS, you may be able to delete ESO from Steam, open you account on the ESO website, download the client, and enter your username and password but that being said, I'm not sure if that is possible or what Steam will do about it since I've never had to do it.

Vapirko

You’ll need to rebuy the base game. Anything you’ve purchased including chapters and crown store items will remain with you. Your level will not change. You should just buy it directly from ZOS and there shouldn’t be any issues. I did it some time ago.

Drakkdjinn

I'm not cool with shelling out more $ because ZoS/Steam don't feel like QA'ing their integration. Y'all shouldn't either, you already paid for this product.