Steam activation on D2D games?

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#1 mglas72
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Hello,

I would like to buy Men of War and Anno 1701 Gold from D2D which are now also available on Steam at double the cost. I don't want another game activation method and would like to be able to activate and manage these games thru Steam - will this be possible?

Thanks.

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#2 adrake4183
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not really. You can manage any non steam game through steam if you just want to lauch it from there but you can't activate it through steeam and you won't be able to play it on any pc or redownload it later from steam.
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#3 lawlnametaken
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not really. You can manage any non steam game through steam if you just want to lauch it from there but you can't activate it through steeam and you won't be able to play it on any pc or redownload it later from steam.adrake4183
you will have to re download from direct2drive. but once added to steam you get the steam friends list and UI
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[QUOTE="adrake4183"]not really. You can manage any non steam game through steam if you just want to lauch it from there but you can't activate it through steeam and you won't be able to play it on any pc or redownload it later from steam.lawlnametaken
you will have to re download from direct2drive. but once added to steam you get the steam friends list and UI

You'll get absolutely no support for that game on Steam, nothing. Yes you do get your list of friends and the UI (as in Steam client) that's obvious since you can get that without actually having a game on Steam, but you can't interact with friends that are playing the game, Steam won't track how much you played it, you won't get achievements (if they have any). In short, no, adding the game to Steam (a shortcut) would be the same as installing the game and putting a shortcut on your task bar.