Quote Originally Posted by Zhainne View Post
If she buys it on steam will she continue to have to go through steam to play it? We also didn't use steam to create her trial account she's on now. So does that matter?
If she already has a trial account, she should be able to just login to that account and buy the upgrade to the full game on the mog station. You can buy a license from there for your chosen platform, AFAIK. That would put it on the account immediately and she'd be good to go.

If not, the SE store is your best bet: https://store.na.square-enix.com/