That's fine for me, and anyone else who is used to doing that, but what about the new players coming in with steam? They buy an account, decide they want another one, and have to go to thru the website?

Like I said, I just wanted to bring this up so certain people aren't scrambling to fix it after the fact.

DeV's officially told about that. It will be possible regiester 1 account on steam and use others through old system.

yeah...

...and yes Zoom, i try to speculate this.

Actually I'm not sure where we said that, I remember only stating that using Steam will be optional. But yes, truth is that you will be able to connect any and all of your accounts to your Steam account, mostly for convenience reasons. But Steam allows only one instance of any game that is launched from it.

Obviously you could still run one client from Steam and multiple others off-Steam, unless we explicitly prevent running multiple clients simultaneously.

As for the original question of this topic: purchasing multiple accounts on Steam probably won't be possible as Steam will generate an account for you, and once you have the game in your library, you won't be able to get it again. However, registering a new account on our website will still work like now.

edit: Yeah this wasn't about running multiple clients but I reckon that would have been the next question.

Just do it old school style, I have 4 clients installed on my computer, I see no reason to delete any of them in favor of Steam.

Honestly in my oppinion I think the steam release is to boost population, Once it's boosted people will simply do like they do with Eve online, and download extra clients from the website.

The initial explosion in numbers is what will matter, Players are creative and ingenuitive, and after they see how great the game is, they'll simply figure out a way to multibox, just like we all did.