I am looking for a buddy pass for my friend. He is wanting to play badly and try it out before he buys the game and commits to a monthly recurring bill. Would anyone be able to help him out? If so, please respond!!
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I am looking for a buddy pass for my friend. He is wanting to play badly and try it out before he buys the game and commits to a monthly recurring bill. Would anyone be able to help him out? If so, please respond!!
Just let him on your account for a couple days. A buddy pass is a FULL game and you are unlikely to get one free anymore.
the game is still dirt cheap...
I still got free buddy pass lol :D
$19.99 Digital Download direct from SE.
http://store.na.square-enix.com/stor...ctID.241996400
for 19.99 your friend will get 30 free days to decide if he likes it. If not he will have access to ver 2.0 (beta) in October (play for free until January relaunch) to give it another go. Totally worth 19.99
Paying for it is fine if you haven't tried it out before. He was in beta and we all know what this game was like at launch. Honestly, I bought it the other day because i was bored and even the guys at my local gamestop were trying to get me to NOT buy it. Bottom line is, SE stated that at the launch of patch 1.21 they were going to do more PR to try to get more people to play. But with all the people still in the local game stores and not to mention pretty much everywhere you go (except for the FF14 forums) saying how bad it was and not to bother, They still won't make any money. They should, on the other hand, start a trial period (14 days if anything, hell, a week would work) to show people the changes that have been made. Yes, they wouldn't make any money initially off the keys, BUT they would probably make more money off subscribers that it would make up for that. Or they could require a purchase of the game after you hit 10 or something idk. But I just don't see them making anything on it without it. I had 2 buddies of mine who played it for the free time that it was F2P and they stopped when the charges came just because they said they wanted to put there money elsewhere. That's all i'm getting at though honestly. It's just smart business at this point
14days free trial wont happen to 2.0 right now is testing and rebuilding they want people who paying to give feedback and help the game grow. So anyone who want to join in the live 1 year event and want to get the stuff in it and learn and read the storyline have to pay for the game. But sadly the 14days free trial wont happen too 2.0 and i see that as a good thing and bad.
Just tell your friend to pay or wait or if you get lucky enough someone on here would give you buddy pass.
you still have one??
That was then, this is now. If you're friend doesn't want to spend 19.99, then lend it to him. Or go back to your gamestop and buy your friend a copy as a gift. When that gamestop clerk has that puzzled look on his face, thinking "that guy was in here last week and bought a copy of XIV, why is he buying another one?" tell him: for giving advice on game purchases he should be more informed when be bestows his wisdom upon customers.
/derail
I would add that SE got burned pretty bad when they added free trials to XI. Once they started them RMT flooded into the game and /tell spammed.
It was funny seeing how long it took the STF to shut down each spammer. They would go through names alphabetically, so when one of your linkshell friends whose name started with 'A' got one, you coudl see how far through the rest of the linkshell they got before they got shutdown.
Also, specificwords used to cause the /tell to not go through (brogame.com or similar). so they woudl substitute other letters in then include a 'key' at the end. After a few iterations, the /tells used to look like advanced algebra.
/endderail
The buddy pass is worth $20.00 at this point. I'm not sure why SE did it this way, but there's a lot of folks out there with their CEs, unused buddy passes, and have stopped playing the game (and do not keep up with forums so unlikely to check here).
Would there be a way to get it from you?
And also, to Fiosha and Shneibel, those codes were meant to be given away for free, not to be sold for personal profit, so in turn that could be a breach in the terms of contract/use if someone was to do that. If SE didn't want to give the "game away for free" they would not have made those passes :(
I think you may have faster.results in buying a new copy.
The Buddy Pass is literally a full copy, so it's like we're buying it for you. I think this is why you'll find no one here will part with it.
They're holding on in case they can get one of their friends to play.
It's actually like a 30 day trial of the game that just so happens to come with the game. As stated before though, why would anyone want to go out and spend money on something that they knew they didn't like when it first came out. It's completely reasonable that he doesn't wanna spend money on this until he plays to see it changed since when he played it back when it came out it was poop. The buddy passes are just that though, they are not meant to be resold for a personal profit but to be given away for people to play the game with. SE would not have made them if this was not the case.
It's an amazing trial package, pretty sure no one who bought the CE ever expected it.
There's a very low chance you'll find one here, since the folks are holding onto their buddy passes for their friends when they begin to show interest.
If there were a way to hunt down a husband/wife duo that both bought CEs or an unsubscriber that bought CE, both of which are many, but wouldn't be able to talk to them if they don't check any FF forums.
Buddy passes are retail activation codes, you add it to your SE account and get your 30 day free trial, then after that 30 days you start to get charged a sub if you dont cancel. I agree with the majority, I cannot see you getting one on here, because they are designed for us to give to friends and I hate to say it you or your friend are not my friends we arent even on the same server.
If I got a request for my buddy pass on my linkshell forums it would be differant because my LS mates are my friends.
Why would I give you it over RL friends or LS mates? also lol @ asking on these forums with no PM function, you would get some troll that would see it and use it before you, just so you cant use it.
Also I do have my CE buddy pass but its not for joo i paid £40 for my CE why should your friend I have never met get to play for free? Pay up or gtfo imo.
BUY THE GAME.....
I got one as well but im keeping it for a rainy day:p