Questions about the app

By LionCub, in The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth

I have some questions about the app and hoping I can get an answer to them here. I am mainly curious about having the app on different platforms.

If I have it on android and steam for example, can I continue a game started on the steam installation on my android later? This would be useful if I started a game on my computer, but then found myself at a different location and being able to continue it on my phone.

When you buy campaigns for the game, will it be linked to the platform I bought it on? If I buy the first campaign and want to play it on steam one day, and android the other, would I have to buy it a second time for the other platform?

My hopes is that all the saves and bought content is linked to an account and that the account can be shared across the various platforms. Is this the case or no?

Thanks for any help figuring this out.

I'm pretty sure the answer is no to both, data and saves are all app-specific. If you launched the app from any device and were prompted to login to an account where purchases and save files could reside that would be nice.

There’s no central account tying everything together. If you buy a new campaign on Steam it’s linked to your Steam account, but you can’t play it on Android (or nothing has been said about that by FFG so far).

The word here on the forums is that you can manually transfer save files from one device to another with the exception of iOS devices. You can go from Steam to Android, but you’ll need to look up how to do that. I saw that someone has posted instructions here a while back.

Alright. Thanks for the answers. So I get the impression that even though if I keep it to steam online, I would still have an issue if I do it on my desktop one day and then the laptop the other day?

Actually I don’t think so. I’m basing this on my experience with the Imperial Assault app though. Steam automatically does cloud saves and will actually do a comparison of the local save files with the cloud save files and give you the option to overwrite.

It's looking like I will be going with a laptop and steam to solve this issue. Thanks for all the replies. I wish the purchases and saves were account based and not app/device based, but it is what it is.