Questions regarding the Recruit a Friend & the Free Trial campaigns

[Bayohne]

Greetings,

It looks like there are various questions revolving the Recruit a Friend and Free Trial programs. We compiled a quick list of information that should answer some of these questions.

Recruit a Friend

• We've seen players asking about the two-person mount we showed off in a previous Letter from the Producer LIVE, and I just want to say, yes, there is still a mount planned for the Eternal Bond system.
• You can invite any friend that has purchased the game but has not paid for any subscription time. So if you had a friend that played at launch for the free 30 days, but not beyond that, they can still be recruited.
• As we mentioned in the RaF instructions, you can use game time cards to add game time immediately. Otherwise, you'll need to wait until the free 30 days has lapsed to be able to purchase game time.
• Unfortunately if a World is full, there will be times when your friend will need to wait until it opens up to new characters to join your World. It happens throughout the day and we do keep an updated list on the Lodestone to help share information.
• Recruiting a friend is done via your service account and therefore any rewards you earn will be for all characters on the service account.

Free Trial

• We don't currently have any plans to change any of the restrictions placed on Free Trial accounts as they were created to dissuade RMT spam and other issues. Linkshell chat is not restricted, so please invite them to a linkshell to chat with your Free Trial friends.
• If you're having trouble registering a Free Trial account, it's most likely that you previously had the full client installed. Please refer to this Knowledge Base article for instructions on removing the other client.

Both of these campaigns do not have an end date and are scheduled to run continuously.

If you have any additional questions, please let us know and we will do our best to answer them!

[ThomasGallant]

This may be a difficult question to answer, but is there any stance on players "recruiting" themselves; or rather making a second account in order to get the rewards? I have heard of people doing that sometimes, and not sure if there is any official comment on that.

[Shougun]

This may be a difficult question to answer, but is there any stance on players "recruiting" themselves; or rather making a second account in order to get the rewards? I have heard of people doing that sometimes, and not sure if there is any official comment on that.

SE: No! We would not like people to spend $45 to buy a mount. XD

I just hope they don't consider that as open gates to make a cash shop, cash shop and p2p at once is just insulting (whale hunting on top of that ;( ).

Edit:
Thanks for the consolidated info

[Airget]

Would it be possible to relay this suggestion to the dev team.

Could they possibly add a free world transfer to the friends recruited as part of the 90 day reward?

[TheMunimai]

This may be a difficult question to answer, but is there any stance on players "recruiting" themselves; or rather making a second account in order to get the rewards? I have heard of people doing that sometimes, and not sure if there is any official comment on that.

People can in fact do this - It's how I got my RAF mount - I'd already recruited all of my real life friends to the game so was more than happy to just make a second account.

[Warlyx]

Why i cant create a trial account w/o having to download another client? And looks like u are forced to uninstall ffxiv in order to being able to install ffxiv trial client. Is that correct?

[Cuervo78]

Why i cant create a trial account w/o having to download another client? And looks like u are forced to uninstall ffxiv in order to being able to install ffxiv trial client. Is that correct?

Why would you do a trial if you are already have an account?
If you want to recruit yourself, you would have to upgrade to an full account anyway and pay for 90 days.
So the trial client wouldn't help you at all, and because of the limitations of the trials you couldn't check out new endgame fetures

[Diexna]

I have a friend who does not possess a Square Enix account, has never played FFXIV and is attempting to create a Free Trial account. When following the steps on the Free Trial launcher it prompted her to enter a Confirmation Code which was apparently sent to her e-mail. This was never sent so thus she could never fully create her account. I personally tried to do this with a second e-mail of my own on another computer (which did not have FFXIV installed) and the exact same thing happened. No confirmation code sent, so the Free Trial account could not be created.

When I sent a message to the support about this, this is what I got back:

"We are sorry to hear that you are having issues with FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

There is no registration code for the Free Trial campaign.

Instead, permission to play the Free Trial will be allocated to the Square Enix account you enter on the launcher screen after completing the steps required to start playing."

[EZ5902]

Are there any plans to introduce this campaign on ps3/4?

[Kelesis]

It really work like that ?
I mean, buy the game first to unlock the "Enter a Friend Code" (or something like that) button in the mogstation ?
And if yes, Can I upgrade the trial version to the full game to unlock it ? Or maybe can I directly linked a 2nd full game in my main service account with the free 30 days ?