{
"post": {
"title": "Preload when bought on Steam?",
"selftext": "Hi guys,\n\nI bought the game/support package via Steam. Is there anyway to download the game beforehand as steam purchaser? (as i do not have an early acces key/its \"inside\" my steam account)\n\nPossible to download the game via PoE2 client early and then connect via Steam? \n\nThank you in advance :) Could not find anything on reddit or the public discussion",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1h7gbdb/preload_when_bought_on_steam/"
},
"comments": [
{
"body": "Still unknown when preload will be available",
"replies": [
{
"body": "you can preload on steam now"
}
]
},
{
"body": "I'm only speculating here, but I think for us Steam users, GGG will offer preloading once early access begins, or possibly a few hours before.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "If they offer it once Early Access begins, that's not a preload, that's just a load. 😆",
"replies": [
{
"body": "😂 -Totally right"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "You have to link your STEAM account and Epic game account into POE account setting and voila !\n\n \nthat how i done mine \n\nand at the end it says \n\nYour account is eligible for Path of Exile 2 Early Access! Thank you for your (or your benevolent friend's) support! \n\n\nYour account will be allowed to log in and play during Path of Exile 2 Early Access. (GREEN)\n\n\n\nYou can download and play on the standalone client once it becomes available.\n\nYour Early Access also includes keys to play on Steam or Epic which can be claimed below.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Is the standalone client not available yet? Should have been 2 hours ago and I’m not finding where to download it.\n\n\nEdit: Duh pacific time not Eastern time my bad.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "The standalone client will become available on the path of exile website\\* at 5pm PST, correct? \nI don't see any links or pages on the site right now as to where I can find it",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yeah I thought I read eastern time earlier today. My bad there."
},
{
"body": "its 5pm pst now and i don't see it."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "would I have to redownload it on steam the next day?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yes. The stand alone client and the steam version are separate. You'd have to download the SA one and then download the steam one when you go to sleep or something."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "You can preload it on steam, mine is downloading right now, not sure why people keep saying you can't do that on steam"
},
{
"body": "I just started preloading on steam, just bought it."
},
{
"body": "https://preview.redd.it/qp96ol6o255e1.png?width=666&format=png&auto=webp&s=cac4f802ab6c0f970c411275c063e7d60cbe3a1e"
},
{
"body": "I went in through my library and i was able to preload. cheers"
},
{
"body": "5 pm of some time zone i cant remember tonight, just check this evening and download it over night",
"replies": [
{
"body": "But that is for the poe client, not steam, which op is asking about",
"replies": [
{
"body": "You can preload on steam right now",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Ty for this, it works"
}
]
},
{
"body": "i think thats for steam, all poe1 releases where steam downloadable \\]"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Steam doesn't offer preload for Early Access Games. Only way to preload is Stand Alone Client. If you link Ur steam and Poe account you can also use SA-Client. Im going to start with Standalone and switching to Steam on Saturday.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "It's a dev feature. Steam allows devs to decide whether or not they want to preload the game. This game is within the boundaries where a pre-load is recommended. \n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/905718h9q35e1.png?width=1032&format=png&auto=webp&s=b572e9b7b8a521722c142328033d0056a5187f8f",
"replies": [
{
"body": "The only reason why Pre-load isn't enabled, is because GGG is wanting users to utilize their own client.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "They talked about stopping data miners in a recent interview with zizz"
},
{
"body": "its literally enabled on stream right now"
},
{
"body": "[deleted]",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Where does Steam outline that? From what I've seen, Steam says that it's up to the devs."
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Wait you can log in sa-client without unlinking from steam?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Jup, just add an email an password in your account settings"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Is it 100% confirmed that you can link steam account to poe site, and predownload via client? That doesn't make sense bc you'd need to download within steam like op said below",
"replies": [
{
"body": "no you dont, u can link your steam/poe acc vice versa and then use w/e u want. its been like this since it got added to steam, there was once a time in early days where there was an update on stand-alone client prior to steam, so it was faster to play the league by going the stand-alone route."
}
]
},
{
"body": "This is absolutely not true"
},
{
"body": "https://preview.redd.it/8iuy1qbq255e1.png?width=666&format=png&auto=webp&s=429810531e133b1223b3b328cddfce42269043cb"
},
{
"body": "Downloading now, can confirm steam does allow pre-load for early access."
},
{
"body": "But if I switch back to Steam u have to redownload the hole game. But, it's only 100gb 😂🙈"
}
]
},
{
"body": "i recently got 400 mbit fiber \nso 40 mb a sec\nill be fine i guess 😅",
"replies": [
{
"body": "You're not mathing correctly bro"
},
{
"body": "divide by 8 for bit to byte... so 50"
}
]
}
]
}