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Texorcist50
May 16th, 2018, 16:21
Am I the only one who finds shopping on steam a tedious process. I would definitely buy more add-ons if it were even slightly easier to shop for them. Everything is on one long list with no rhyme or reason. How great would it be to be able to shop by category or character level. A tool to look for a 5e adventure for character levels 6-8 or map packs... Has anyone else had this thought?
Doswelk
May 16th, 2018, 16:30
Personally I buy all my stuff here, stops steam getting a cut and is easier to search for stuff :)
Trenloe
May 16th, 2018, 16:33
Welcome to the forums Thedogfood!

Unfortunately, Steam is designed for computer games with a handful of DLC items. It is not really designed to cope with the number and details of DLC that Fantasy Grounds and pen-n-paper RPGs have.

A couple of people have mentioned better filtering on Steam. Will it happen? Realistically - probably not. It's all in Steams' hands...
LordEntrails
May 16th, 2018, 17:11
What you can do is search the store here using the better filtering tools. Then when you find the item your interested, go to Steam and search their for the specific item name.
JohnD
May 16th, 2018, 17:16
Just buy here. Smiteworks gets more of your purchase dollars and can better carry on working to better FG.
gqwebb
May 17th, 2018, 02:19
Just buy here. Smiteworks gets more of your purchase dollars and can better carry on working to better FG.

And might I say the magic word... unity ;)
OldJarhead
May 18th, 2018, 14:09
Just buy here. Smiteworks gets more of your purchase dollars and can better carry on working to better FG.

For those of us who are "tech challenged", once purchased here, how is it added to a STEAM Purchased account?
Talyn
May 18th, 2018, 14:19
Where you buy the client doesn't matter. In fact, you can mix and match buying DLC from both the FG Store and Steam with the notable exception of Bundles. The two stores do not talk to each other (which answers your immediate question above) so if you think you may want one of the Bundles one day, all DLC within that Bundle needs to be purchased from the same store.

I initially bought my FG client from Steam, for example, but then I learned more how things work, how small a company SmiteWorks is and how awesome all the employees are to speak with, etc. so I now buy all my DLC from the FG Store so the guys get all the money rather than Valve taking their 30% cut off the top.
Nylanfs
May 18th, 2018, 17:01
Note the DLC is NOT communicated between the stores, only the main licenses are.
Mortar
May 18th, 2018, 17:14
Note the DLC is NOT communicated between the stores, only the main licenses are.

True, but send an email to support and sweet-talk Doug a bit (or a lot) and he might be able help with that.


Now Doug is really going to hate me!
LordEntrails
May 18th, 2018, 17:27
The core licenses are synced about every six weeks. It's a manual process on the Steam side so they only do it so frequently.
Trenloe
May 18th, 2018, 17:31
True, but send an email to support and sweet-talk Doug a bit (or a lot) and he might be able help with that.


Now Doug is really going to hate me!
Yeah, but realize this is the exception, not the norm. And all Doug can do is add Steam purchases to your FG purchase history - to aid in "Complete the bundle" purchases in the FG store. I don't think he can apply FG store purchases to your Steam purchase history.
Mortar
May 18th, 2018, 19:59
Yeah, but realize this is the exception, not the norm. And all Doug can do is add Steam purchases to your FG purchase history - to aid in "Complete the bundle" purchases in the FG store. I don't think he can apply FG store purchases to your Steam purchase history.

This is all that I was implying :)