also something I always do as Venice is conquering Cape of Good Hope , why ? Becuase then the other colonial nations send colonists to Indonesia , and because the only passage to the Ivory Coast is Cape Of Good Hope they will send all their money there , where my merchant is becoming rich because of all that money <| sep |> Steam version is literally the same as the non steam version . Items like this are linked to your Elite account , there is no account management on steams side of things involved at all . If you play the steam version you ' re still registered with and using an Elite account on the store . The reason you get redirected to pay via Steam is probably because it is linked to it so that Valve can get its cut from the purchases . I don ' t know if you can straight up go to the store but I would assume your account contains some info that you got the game via steam and will still redirect you to it if you go there with a regular browser . Edit ufrontiersupport might be able to clear this up better .