Playing steam account without steam installed

rhymer · February 2017

Hello! I have 2 PCs, with Steam installed on one of them. I've got 2 accounts (my and my wife's actually). One account was purchased in Steam, the other is from the site. So, there are 2 different installations of ESO (Steam and usual). Can I launch the game and play from steam account without installing steam, just launching it from the ordinary launcher?

Elephant42 · February 2017

Remag_Div wrote: »

Pretty sure the Steam account needs to be played through Steam.

It does NOT. You can launch from the .exe with no issues - I bought ESO through steam and I do it all the time.

rhymer · February 2017

Actually, I bought one of those game copies through steam but never linked it with steam account (in-game). Now I launch it from non-steam launcher. Will I still have an opportunity to launch it the same way if I link it with steam in-game?

Remag_Div · February 2017

Pretty sure the Steam account needs to be played through Steam.

Remag_Div · February 2017

Elephant42 wrote: »

Remag_Div wrote: »

Pretty sure the Steam account needs to be played through Steam.

It does NOT. You can launch from the .exe with no issues - I bought ESO through steam and I do it all the time.

Really?

I would think if you launch from the .exe it would automatically open up Steam in the background.

Kaymorolis · February 2017

I'm going to find the .exe and see if this works tonight. I'd rather avoid using Steam if I can.

Kaymorolis · February 2017

I signed up through Steam, but when I try to run the .exe stand-alone it forces me to go through the steam client.

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