New to Dawn of War

[jundswarmmaster]

Hey hive! I got DoW and its expansions through Steam but I have to log in with Windows live! Am I doing. Something wrong?

[Bot]

hmmm... It does sound a little weird. Mine doesn't run through windows live, but I didn't get mine through steam though.

[jundswarmmaster]

Yeah, i thought so, especially when steam keeps telling me the Steam authorization code i should enter

[Bot]

It might have something to do If it is Dawn of war 2 you have bought. I believe it is required to have Windows live in case. Some Updates and such runs through windows live. Also I'm not sure, but I think the Online part is connected to Windows live too.

But that's Dawn of war 2 only I believe. Not 100% sure though

[Captain Malachi]

Original dawn of war 2 and chaos rising run through windows live as well as steam, but to be honest, it takes a moment to make a free account and after that you can pretty much ignore it. You don't need to sign in to windows live to play offline and if you want to go online you'll be using retribution anyway to keep up to date with all the other players (retribution doesn't need windows live).

[Loplod]

Dawn of war II and Chaos rising use the windows live servers to set up matches and to host multiplayer servers, Its a really stupid and complicated system so they scrapped it for retribution and it runs off the steam servers.

So you're not doing anything wrong, you just need to fumble your way through making an account and set it to automatically log in for you, then you'll be set.

Alternatively: Buy Retribution.

[1deadcop]

and with the steam code thing that pops up every time. just check the box that says 'dont show me thins again'

[Loplod]

Jul 9, 2011 14:41:46 GMT 1deadcop said:

and with the steam code thing that pops up every time. just check the box that says 'dont show me thins again'

Oh dead, you're so wise!