Upcoming - Issue Tracker Steam Login!

Dear Stormworkers,

This week is announcement week, with a new feature planned for release in the minor update next week!

This week we have launched Steam login for our issue tracker. This is something that players have been asking for, ever since we launched our first issue tracker. This is something we continue to work on as we plan to continue and improve our support into the future.

Previously, the issue tracker didn't have a login, and players would just click the "report a bug" or "request a feature" buttons. They would then be asked to approve the creation their support account, where the username and password was just generated. This was super easy for players, but in the situation where you delete your settings file, change Windows user account, or reinstall Windows, your account would be lost.



With Steam sign-in, you don't need a Geometa account, and sign-in is handled by Steam. We don't see your Steam username or password, we only see your Steam account number which is just the number in the address of your public Steam profile webpage. This allows us to hold the least possible info about you, and still provide support.

This means you will be safe from losing access to your issue tracker account in the future. Signing in with Steam will also automatically connect to your existing Geometa issue tracker account so still have your current issues and comments.

This also means you can now login through the website rather than only through the game! We do need PC specs to reliably provide support, so you will need to login through the game for the first time. However, from then on, you can just login through your browser. This is a trial feature as this means that we don't get the info on what version of the game you have. We will see if this works, or if we need that info.



Steam sign-in also has the benefit to us for verifying game ownership! Stormworks piracy remains rare, but there have been occasions where we have spent hours and hours helping players solve their technical issues, only to discover the cause is a dodgy pirate exe file! Yeah, that's pretty frustrating when that happens...

We will continue hard at work on all the upcoming updates, and catch you next week!

Much love
The Stormworks Developers