Steam to App Store transition?

[ejday]

Hey all,

I purchased the Steam version of Civ5 some time ago (reluctantly, I might add - no map editor), but never really liked having to go through Steam to play it. If there had been an App Store version back then, I would've gone that route in a heartbeat.

Now with Steam getting hacked, I'd like to transition away from Steam entirely. Is there a way to transfer ownership from the Steam version to the App Store version? If not, does that mean I'd have to buy the same game twice for the sake of the porting company? If that's the case, I can't see myself actually bothering to play Civ5 at all. Hope Firaxis pulls their head out of [the clouds] and creates a version that uses a smarter development platform for Civ6...

...some time in 2015 or so...

 

[forty2j]

No, purchasing one does not entitle you to the other, and there's no way to transfer.

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In defense of Steam, I'd like to point out that this could just as easily gone the other way. Hackers with enough determination, time, and processing power will find their way in to whatever they want to find their way in to. I've already seen my wife's personal iTunes account hacked.. twice. Not a grand data theft, mind you, but there's nothing guaranteeing it can't happen.

(For the curious, apparently she ran into a key logger or phisher (we never did find the ultimate source) that got her WoW credentials.. and those were the same as iTunes, XBox, and email.. so WoW was hacked & she reset it, then iTunes was hacked & she reset it, then XBox was hacked & she reset it, then someone got into her email and clicked "reset password" on iTunes..)

 

[Mavfin]

Well, company's DB's get hacked, so it's not just internet companies that have issues sometimes. Any company that does business has databases of customer info that might get hacked into, including Apple.

 

[dojoboy]

I wish these hackers would do something useful for us peasants and delete student loans, equity lines of credit debt, etc.

 

[coffee junkie]

I wish these hackers would do something useful for us peasants and delete student loans, equity lines of credit debt, etc.

I second this

 

[achabot]

Speaking of Steam, why does it have to be updated every other day? It's getting tedious.

 

[HKBvonMoltke]

Well, nothing against our friends the Hackers, but I think that some 20$ and you can get your original version now. Maybe that is a good investment...

HKBM