Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked Gift Item Update

[JoeW]

Hey everybody. Today we changed how gift items for owning Don't Starve Reign of Giants and Don't Starve Shipwrecked are being handled. Players no longer have to use their game keys to claim these items and will instead have the items granted to them automatically. If you already claimed these items, this change will not affect you. If you didn't claim these items already, you should find them in your inventory after the next time you log into DST. 

 

[Bluckles]

ok

[Auth]

nice

[illusione]

yes my favorite update, i was getting so tired of getting wrapped up and lost in all that intense keyage.

[minespatch]

So is it based on the steam id or something? I'm curious how this was rectified.

[CarlZalph]

12 hours ago, minespatch said:

So is it based on the steam id or something? I'm curious how this was rectified.

I'm assuming Klei is using one of the many Steamworks' API calls to check if a given Steam user owns a specific DLC on the backend after the client login phase, then tells their item server to give the appropriate items.

[PeterA]

35 minutes ago, CarlZalph said:

I'm assuming Klei is using one of the many Steamworks' API calls to check if a given Steam user owns a specific DLC on the backend after the client login phase, then tells their item server to give the appropriate items.

That's correct, with a slight addition that the item server only does the check if the client thinks that they deserve items. The client caches what they've received so the login flow doesn't need to check every time.