Digital CE vs Standard?

With pre-orders going live in a few hours I figured I would ask.

I like getting the most bang for my buck, but I am on the fence with the digital CE.. It's $20 more and from what I hear comes with a flying mount and some jewelry.

I believe the jewelry is just cosmetic, but if I am wrong please let me know.
The mount is what I question. How hard is it to get a flying mount in the expansion. If a standard one is given out as a quest then there is no value to me as I don' "Collect" mounts like some people do..

So for me it seems there is no real value (only my opinion) to the digital CE. Now if it costs like 200k for a flying mount or the jewelry has stats or a bonus to wearing it.. then we talking.

If your not into collecting mounts then dont worry one will be given to you in the story line. I think its a black flying chocobo. I dont know if the head peice gives stats but once they did a mog head peice and it gave a boost in exp untill level 10 so maybe might be the same

I think the Digital CE of the game came with jewelry at launch.. Anyone remember if they had stats or a bonus..
If they had like 10% exp increase to 60 I would totally send the $20 on it..
I would need that confirmed though. Think we will ever know?

extra 20 bucks for the mount is worth it to me. I find it a little strange that a chocobo is flying.

Yea, but if you can get something for free through the game play? And it does the SAME thing..
If your a collector then maybe its worth the $20..

I would also take the CE cause I want the minions and the mount looks nice :)

If you look at how they did the chocobo mount, you can't even use your CE mounts (coeurl and fat chocobo) if you haven't unlock your normal chocobo first. So my bet is that there will be a standard flying mount that everyone have to unlock first (and wouldn't be that much difficult than unlocking your first mount).

The extra $20 is so worth it for the griffin mount alone. I will be buying the CE edition.

can you order digital SE through square enix online store??

I would guess that the special flying mount would require having the standard flying mount unlocked first, the same way that regular mounts can't be used until you have the chocobo unlocked.

Anyone think that the jewelry have any special bonus?

The jewelry items usually have some minimal effect like an xp buff at low levels... the ce also comes w a fantasia if that matters to anyone. That adds a little value for anyone contemplating a race change

If you get the Digital Collectors Edition, will you still get early access ?

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Originally Posted by Shadow_Sama

If you get the Digital Collectors Edition, will you still get early access ?

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Not any earlier than anyone else who pre orders.
How does that work for anyone that didnt.. They would be on the old client? And when they bought it on release day their stuff would migrate over?

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Originally Posted by Slapped_Silly

Not any earlier than anyone else who pre orders.
How does that work for anyone that didnt.. They would be on the old client? And when they bought it on release day their stuff would migrate over?

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The necessary data will be patched in (new armor, race, mounts, etc that you need to have whether or not you have the expansion because of players who do) but otherwise they'll be on the basegame client doing the old stuff, is my guess.

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Originally Posted by chococo

can you order digital SE through square enix online store??

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Currently you can only order the PC digital CE but not the PS3 or PS4 digital CE's

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Originally Posted by Slapped_Silly

How does that work for anyone that didnt.. They would be on the old client? And when they bought it on release day their stuff would migrate over?

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I haven't played FFXI, so I'm not sure how SE handles it, but the only other MMOs I've played when they got expansions (LOTRO and DDO, both produced by Turbine), everyone got the new updated client software, so basically there was no valid "old client" anymore once the newer version existed. Those who purchased the expansion had its content unlocked, and for those who didn't purchase it, the expansion content was locked to them and unavailable, but both groups would have the same software running on their machine.

I'm not sure SE does it the same way, but it makes sense that it would be easier for them to maintain a single client program with some of its content lockable, than maintain multiple different versions of the client program that did or didn't include that content (but which would all have to get updated any time non-expansion related patches came out). So if SE follows that same approach, then everyone would be getting a big update to download as soon as Early Access is available, and then whenever you purchase the expansion, it's content becomes unlocked, regardless of whether that's before, on, or sometime after release day.

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Originally Posted by Keydah

The necessary data will be patched in (new armor, race, mounts, etc that you need to have whether or not you have the expansion because of players who do) but otherwise they'll be on the basegame client doing the old stuff, is my guess.

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This is how FFXI handled expansion releases for those who didn't have the new expansion, in that expansion packs were completely physically separate to the base game and installed in separate folders within the FFXI folder for the PC version - confusing matters was that the mini-add-on packs (Crystalline Prophecy, Moogle Kupo-de-tat, Shantotto Ascension, and the three Abyssea packs) were all included and automatically downloaded in updates regardless of whether a player purchased them or not (purchasing them simply 'unlocked' said content), no doubt an experiment in new forms of delivering expansion data.'

It seemed to have not been successful as the most recent full expansion released for FFXI (Seekers of Adoulin) used the old system of separate physical purchase and installation. I presume Heavensward will be the same for FFXIV.