FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Purchase Questions

[Mjollnir]

I'm still waiting to hear whether we'll have to do this unlock for expansions (ie buy two copies of each expansion) or the base game is essentially a system unlock for the Service Account.

And also if a new ARR player buys PC and PS3 and applies them to the same Service Account, do they get 60 days play before subscription starts?

[Zenaku]

I'm still waiting to hear whether we'll have to do this unlock for expansions (ie buy two copies of each expansion) or the base game is essentially a system unlock for the Service Account.

And also if a new ARR player buys PC and PS3 and applies them to the same Service Account, do they get 60 days play before subscription starts?

Na i think you only get 30days lol and the expansion thing that be dumb if you need to buy the PC and PS3 just to have access to it.

[Mjollnir]

Na i think you only get 30days lol and the expansion thing that be dumb if you need to buy the PC and PS3 just to have access to it.

In which case, is it best to buy PC version, take 30 days free and then apply the PS3 version to the Service Account for a further 30 days?

You say buying a copy of the expansion for each system is dumb, but that's what you have to do in XI for the console software (not codes) - unless you have a friend you can borrow the install discs off. What with the requirement in ARR to have a code for PS3 play, it's not unreasonable to surmise that this wouldn't be required for each release... Having said that, I kinda understand if billing and access arrangements haven't been finalised that far ahead yet.

[ArkhamNative]

In which case, is it best to buy PC version, take 30 days free and then apply the PS3 version to the Service Account for a further 30 days?

If applying both codes simultaneously won't give 60 days, I doubt applying them a month or more apart would, either.

We know that SE is including 30 days free trial for registering the PS3 code to an existing v1 service account. To me, the simplest explanation is that the 30 days free comes with each new platform registration per service account. By that policy, a new customer registering both codes at launch should get 60 days free trial, but SE might have decided to limit free trials to one per service account. We won't know until SE clarifies their policy or when new customers apply both PS3 and PC codes to their account at launch.

[Mjollnir]

We won't know until SE clarifies their policy or when new customers apply both PS3 and PC codes to their account at launch.

Hence me asking in this thread for S-E to clarify.