PETITION: Regarding FINAL FANTASY XIV Steam Version (Mar. 8)

Signed. There is already enough said.

Signed too.

Sometimes I put the game in a external drive and bring with me to play in my friend's pc. Now I will have to login in his steam too. That is terrible. (and I have seen some issues with steam trying to reinstall the game).

Signed. I didn't buy the game via steam and i hardly ever touch steam in general, but it sounds like this is a big enough deal to warrant change for a lot of people.

My worry though is that this may be something on Valve's end that SE has little control over.

Signed, although we all know they won't do it and it'd cause one heck of a problem with those of us who already preordered Shadowbringers as that'll be a Steam only key.

I've just finished a webchat with SE to ask how it would work if I have one service account that isn't Steam and another service account that is Steam, both on the same Square Enix account/login (since you don't select the service account on the launcher, it's selected via the Data Center menu in game). They didn't know the answer.

They've escalated it and will come back to me at a later date via email. I feel sorry for their support people that they weren't given information about how this will work before news of it was released on the website.

We have no idea what the arrangement is with Steam, but surely this should only be applying to new service accounts going forward?

Consider this signed by me as well. I didn't personally do enough research when I first picked up the game on Steam after switching to PC from PS4 after ARR. If I had known all the BS that was going to happen I never would have picked the Steam version.

EDIT: And the only reason I've stuck by the Steam version is because I literally can't rebuy a non-Steam key and apply it to my account. No if I want to play the non-Steam version I would have to completely abandon my character I've been playing since 2014, create a new service account, and apply a non-Steam key there. Please let us at least purchase and apply non-Steam keys to our already existing accounts.

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Originally Posted by KikiKang

Dears! Please help me! I am so desperate now~T T
My FF14 account is steam version.
When I first heard of this game, I have no idea what the difference between those versions.
And a friend of mine, help me set up all the account details.
I was able to play the game since then.
Afterwards I noticed my account is steam version, even though I don't have a steam account:(
Now because of my relocation, I can't reach to that friend.. He just doesn't reply to my messages.
If I don't have access to the steam account which he originally bought the game for me, it means I am fxxked, don't I?...
Every time I think of I will never play my current account after late March, I want to jump out of the window. OTZ (ಥ_ಥ)

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If your friend installed the game on your computer using his steam account then you are screwed after march sadly. He should have set you up your own steam account to download the game and not used his own. The other problem is that even if you had his account info, two computers sharing a steam account cant run a game from that account at the same time. Also even though I dont use steam to play FF14 ..SIGNED!! :D

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Originally Posted by szalkerous

you are sentencing your entire userbase of gamers who are forced to remain on Steam into a nightmare of performance problems and issues. The Steam overlay built into the client alone has caused massive issues with many users.

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I've never experienced any problems ever. Also you can disable the Steam overlay if it's causing you problems.

Steam Settings > In-Game > Uncheck "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game"

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

I'm not calling you out personally, but I dont understand how so many people made this same mistake and thought buying the game through Steam meant having to use Steam.

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To answer you, it was a gift from my husband. He bought us both copies on sale through steam. Like Lozza said, games on steam weren't oddly bound like that previously, why would we even suspect that steam would be treated as an entirely separate platform? Windows is windows is windows, steam is not a platform. If I would have known, I would have started over well before heavensward.

This is the first time that I feel bad for having the Steam version, this change is terrible. Specially if you use VPN services like Pingzapper or similar, you will need two extra programs open now to play FFXIV and will probably have issues with it. If that's Steam decision then eh... bad luck, I guess. If it's from SE though, it makes no sense at all.

If i had known that i would be held hostage by steam i would never have bought FFXIV there. At least give us the opportunity to buy a "normal" Pc Version.