You can add any game you have to the Steam>library although you cannot redeem it through Steam for achievements if that`s what you trying to do .
To add a non steam game to the Steam Library
1) Open Steam
2) Click the games tab (upper left of Steam window)
3) Click add a non-steam game to My Library
4) Scroll through the list and make your game selections
5) Click add program selections
To add a non steam game to the Steam Library
1) Open Steam
2) Click the games tab (upper left of Steam window)
3) Click add a non-steam game to My Library
4) Scroll through the list and make your game selections
5) Click add program selections
, just for collection.Is that how it works? (Genuine question)Demut said:
I'd assumed that the developer needed to pay Steam to have it included, as Steam is effectively providing a service.
Is what how it works?dragonbird said:
You mean publishers having to pay for including Steam achievements in their games? That’d be news to me. Not only is that not very costly but the publishers also already “pay” them through the cuts that Valve gets from the sales. I doubt that Valve would ask for additional money for such a small thing.dragonbird said:
I don't know how it works, just guessing. If the specific copy of the game was sold through Steam, then Valve is making money on it, and they are expected to provide the achievements (which they do). If the game is NOT sold through Steam, then I don't expect they're making any money on it, so they may require the developer/publisher to pay for the service, and CDPR chose not to, as TANSTAAFL. Or maybe a lot of the contracts say that Steam have to do it for all copies of the game, rather than just those sold through Steam, but CDPR didn't include that clause. Or maybe it requires the use of certain APIs in the game and CDPR didn't include them in the non-Steam version.
As I don't know the reason, I was wondering if anyone here did. I'm struggling to think of a way that would make it Steam's responsibility and not CDPR's, so maybe you could clarify on your reason for thinking that? I'm not looking for an argument on it, just curious about how it works.
As I don't know the reason, I was wondering if anyone here did. I'm struggling to think of a way that would make it Steam's responsibility and not CDPR's, so maybe you could clarify on your reason for thinking that? I'm not looking for an argument on it, just curious about how it works.
Oh, that’s what you mean. Well, I said that it’s Valve’s fault you can’t add your GOG versions to Steam because they are the ones controlling the infrastructure that would be required to pull this off. Furthermore, I doubt that this has anything to do with them not wanting to provide Steam achievements (since, again, those don’t really cost them anything) but is rather a matter of Valve going “Boohoo, people might end up gifting someone a copy this way by adding it not to their but to someone else’s Steam account”. And because they just love their DRM they aren’t having any of that, apparently.
It's not impossible, since anyone who bought Witcher 2 got a serial number regardless of the store. Anyone who bought the GOG version doesn't care about steam anyway (assuming). Valve and CDPR have to come to some agreement allowing W2 keys to activate, and it is possible, for example Warner Brothers has recently converted GFWL keys for Batman Arkham CIty to Steam keys which activate on your steam account. It works, I've done it.Demut said: