Oh, and here's another question:

4. The biggest selling point for me in Pre-Ordering the Chapter is getting Morrowind and Summerset, neither of which I have yet unlocked. However, since I already have an ESO account I should get the Upgrade instead of the Full Edition, yet it seems like neither the Standard nor the Collector's Edition Upgrades feature Morrowind and Summerset. How can I approach this problem?

In regards to your additional question (4):
The FULL Collectors Edition (NOT the upgrade) includes Morrowind, Summerset, and the base game PLUS the Collectors Edition items from ALL THREE chapters.
The Collectors Edition Upgrade contains ONLY the Elsweyr Collectors Edition (and pre-order) bonuses.

As to your original question, it depends on how important the things youve acquired on your Steam account are to you. If it is simply quest rewards and such, then those can always be earned again.
If you have a number of crown only, limited time items, or account upgrades/unlocks (inventory and bank space, the assistants, special mounts etc) Then the question becomes whether or not those things are worth keeping, while continuing to struggle with the Steam related issues with regard to ESO.

All those things can be re-purchased on a new account of course, either in the crown store or by sending a ticket to support. They will allow you to buy limited time items on your new account, but you would be charged crowns for them. So the potential investment could be much greater than simply the cost of the Chapter, depending on how many items you would be intent on reacquiring.

Finally, I would do some research, and see if there is a way to disconnect your ESO account from Steam, thus solving all your problems. Then is is simply a matter of choosing whether you want all the CE bonuses from Morrowind and Summerset, or just the bonuses from Elsweyr.

Earrindo wrote: »

In regards to your additional question (4):
The FULL Collectors Edition (NOT the upgrade) includes Morrowind, Summerset, and the base game PLUS the Collectors Edition items from ALL THREE chapters.
The Collectors Edition Upgrade contains ONLY the Elsweyr Collectors Edition (and pre-order) bonuses..

You misunderstood me. My problem is that I want to get Elsweyr, Summerset and Morrowind all together, but that deal is only for the full editions, not the upgrades, and I can't get the full edition since I already have an account. That's the problem:

Either buy the Upgrade to get Elsweyr and keep my items, but not get Morrowind and Summerset
Or buy the Full Edition to get Elsweyr, Morrowind and Summerset but have to start on a new account.

Meanwhile what I want is to keep my items and get Elsweyr AND Morrowind and Summerset

And I've already spent over a million gold on DLCs through gifting, have fully upgraded bank, have like 50 different crown store collectibles (only two of which are full-time things; rest are from time-restricted crown crates and such), and have close to 700 Champion Points that took hundreds of hours to get. It'd be a shame to leave all that behind.

xcalibur007 wrote: »

I think you can apply the full edition code to your current account. I did that with physical collectors edition of morrowind and summerset when they came out.

On side note, I disappointed that there might not be a physical collectors edition for elsweyr.

Yes, it's possible to buy the full edition outside Steam and apply it to an existing account. That way you will keep everything, but you can leave Steam behind.

@OP - what game packages exactly do you have and where did you buy those? On Steam or here?

Is your Steam account linked to your ESO account here?

I bought the base game + Morrowind on Steam and linked my Steam account to my ESO account here. A few months after that I found out that I was able to buy the same package here, and I did so.

If you bought ESO on Steam and your Steam account is linked, all your game data is safely stored outside Steam. You may have two options now:

1. If you do not own any package containing the base game here, only on Steam, you should be able to buy the full CE package here.

2. If you do own any package containing the base game here, remove ESO from your Steam Library. You won't lose any data or items. You should then be able to buy the full CE package on Steam.

Worth repeating...

Jazdia wrote: »

Found this, maybe it’ll help...

It’s a copy and paste.

“jaye63jaye63
December 2017
Did this myself.


Step 1
Uninstall the game from Steam
Step 2
With steam COMPLETELY TURNED OFF (open task manager to make sure no steam process is running) install and update the game from your disk or directly from the ESO site
Step 3
Login with your current login

You are going to lose your save variable from your addons unless you copy the files and save them elsewhere so actually, doing that should be step one.


Your welcome.”

Or maybe try an easy option. Download the Launcher from the official website and using your current account see if you can login.

Ydrisselle wrote: »

It won't work if you bought ESO on Steam after December 2016, since you didn't get a standalone ESO-account and don't have an account name or a password.

That's possible, since launching the game through Steam doesn't lead me to a login screen, I get logged in automatically, so there's nothing for me to type in to log in.