Glad to see the game come to Steam, and look forward to seeing new players in the game. For those of you who somehow feel that you're being ignored by Anet because you can't link your account - would you stop being entitled for a moment and consider that there might be technical issues that stop it from being a straightforward implementation? It's not like you absolutely HAVE to play via Steam and suddenly lose all your progress over the past number of years - because going by some of the comments (here and on Facebook), some people are acting like they're being told to start over. I've got a few online games who joined Steam well after launch, so I've seen this situation happen before. Technical limitations is first on my list of probable reasons that it's not being implemented - and you never know, they might figure out a way to implement it sometime in the future.
Glad to see the game come to Steam, and look forward to seeing new players in the game. For those of you who somehow feel that you're being ignored by Anet because you can't link your account - would you stop being entitled for a moment and consider that there might be technical issues that stop it from being a straightforward implementation? It's not like you absolutely HAVE to play via Steam and suddenly lose all your progress over the past number of years - because going by some of the comments (here and on Facebook), some people are acting like they're being told to start over. I've got a few online games who joined Steam well after launch, so I've seen this situation happen before. Technical limitations is first on my list of probable reasons that it's not being implemented - and you never know, they might figure out a way to implement it sometime in the future.