Questions regarding the Recruit a Friend & the Free Trial campaigns

[AlexionSkylark]

I have a question...

If I wanna recruit a friend, but said friend wants to enjoy the 14-day free trial, is such a thing possible?
Or recruitment codes cannot be used on free trial accounts?

[Bayohne]

I have a question...

If I wanna recruit a friend, but said friend wants to enjoy the 14-day free trial, is such a thing possible?
Or recruitment codes cannot be used on free trial accounts?

Your friend can try the free trial, and if they wish to purchase the full game they can. Once they register the full game they'll have the ability to enter a Recruitment code on the Mog Station, as long as they have not yet purchased game time (the included 30 days with a new account does not count).

[Bayohne]

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

The Free Trial campaign is currently only available for Windows, but we'll be sure to make any announcements in the future should that change!

The Recruit a Friend campaign is available on all platforms.

[AlexionSkylark]

Hey, Bayohne, thanks for the answer =) another question now...

what happens if I recruit 2 friends?

[Tempestmoon]

Hey, Bayohne, thanks for the answer =) another question now...

what happens if I recruit 2 friends?

"* Reward items can only be redeemed once per character. Inviting multiple friends will not grant additional items."

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...riend_recruit/

[Aldotsk]

Is it possible that my friend who has subscribed the game since Feb-March of 2014 to get the recruitment code? I've sent him a code, but wanted to see if he is eligible for it.

[Mijeme]

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[Niwashi]

what happens if I recruit 2 friends?

"* Reward items can only be redeemed once per character. Inviting multiple friends will not grant additional items."

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...riend_recruit/

That says you can't get a reward multiple times, but still isn't entirely clear regarding whether it can come from multiple friends. For instance, if one friend buys 30 days of subscription time and another friend buys 60 days of subscription time, do you get the 90 day reward?

[Ranebow]

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

A couple of reasons why you'd want to do the trial, even if you have the normal client installed :

A) You've been away from the game for a while and your membership expired. You're thinking about returning and you want to get the patches updated, so it's done and out of the way until you decide for sure. You can't patch without an active service account.
B) You've been away from the game for a while and your membership expired. You want a quick in-game glimpse if various things have changed, as well as how your system handles the game - maybe you upgraded over the summer. The benchmark doesn't count.
C) Your trying to introduce a friend to MMOs and FFXIV, but they are not very computer savvy. You want to see how to setup the trial client and also how it differs from the regular one, when you start teaching them about the game.


Why can't you just register a trial account online like every other game and then use your current install to play the trial?
Why does Square have to continuously be difficult and unnecessarily different from other companies that have working ideas?

[Ranebow]

First I moved my FFXIV game folder and my FFXIV folder in MyDocuments\MyGames, to somewhere temporary.
I then uninstalled FFXIV via the add/remove programs.
Next, I installed the trial, at which point it had me register a new account via the launcher program, and then proceeds to download the client.
At that point I stopped the download, removed the newly made FFXIV folder from MyDocuments\My Games. I placed my folders back to their original spots, overwriting any of the new 'trial' data.
After running the launcher again, it lets me login with my 'trial' account and start updating the client. It's showing about 9gb, so either there's been a huge patch/client refresh this past six months, or it's making me get the whole client.