I bought the game on steam and now downloaded it, what more do I gotta do to activate my account..?

The retail key inside the first page of the game manual?

Well I got the key since I bought it on steam, it gives u the key, but where do I enter it

never, it kept bringing me to a subscription page but just learnd from google u gotta select one, so just slapped on my debit card info.

You got to go to your account and click "apply code" on left margin.

yes I know, I just said in the quoted part that I figured it out.

you need to make sure you have a subscription, as well as an activated account.

haha yea got it, and I actually just finished patching,

nice, welcome to rift.

theres a bunch of us on spitescar guardian if you're looking for somwhere to land.

yup thats where I'm going