PSA: Stormblood Pre Order through PSN store

[SaitoHajime]

I just got off the phone with them and they said I should be fixed when psn updates later today.

[Jhett_Magnum]

Same here, how can they possibly fuck this up when HW worked so smoothly.
I think I bought it twice too

[Inuk9]

Stormblood will download wheter you buy it or not (just like every other MMO expansion). the early access stuff you will configurate when first time log on in the serers.

[Jhett_Magnum]

So the pre load option on the 14th was a big lie. Gotcha.

[Aya-Kazuma]

Hopefully what that means is that Stormblood itself will be part of the update we all receive on Friday, and what we're buying is simply the access code to play the content. In which case we should all be fine, because it seems the one thing we all have is our account showing we have early access. The only thing I'm worried about is accessing the download itself. But if that is something that we're provided with when the game returns after Thursday's update, then that should resolve the issue.

I hope so too. I guess we'll see what happens on tomorrow or Friday. Though it seems people are getting mixed information such as what Saito said about it being fixed when the PSN updates. Some have even said that the download will be available once EA launches

[Naberrie]

It makes sense when I stop to think about it. When we log in it checks to see what our status is as far as our current version and what is registered to us. It then updates our client if necessary. This all happens through the game login itself, and the download comes from SE, not PSN. The only thing we download from PSN is a base client when we first bought the game, and even that is woefully outdated and requires a massive download from SE to patch. So that Stormblood should be coming from an SE update and all we're really buying from PSN is the code makes a kind of sense.

[Aya-Kazuma]

It makes sense when I stop to think about it. When we log in it checks to see what our status is as far as our current version and what is registered to us. It then updates our client if necessary. This all happens through the game login itself, and the download comes from SE, not PSN. The only thing we download from PSN is a base client when we first bought the game, and even that is woefully outdated and requires a massive download from SE to patch. So that Stormblood should be coming from an SE update and all we're really buying from PSN is the code makes a kind of sense.

Wasn't there a pre-load for Heavensward though? I don't remember

[RaijinSupreme]

So the pre load option on the 14th was a big lie. Gotcha.

now that i think about it, i dont think the timer was ever for expansion. I think it was always for the theme.

[RaijinSupreme]

Wasn't there a pre-load for Heavensward though? I don't remember

it wasnt. We were only able to download anything for 3.0 after the version check, the one that happens whenever we open up the launcher.

[Felis]

I think the "pre-download" was the theme itself