PETITION: Regarding FINAL FANTASY XIV Steam Version (Mar. 8)

[Gaethan_Tessula]

For anyone wondering "how bad could it be?", consider not only the ESO example, but that this was supposed to be implemented in March. But because of a confirmed "bug," it got delayed indefinitely.

AKA I'm betting the process is so bad and unreliable that it would have been another "4 months down for steam users" like ESO and SE didn't want that happening before ShB launch.

I fully support a petition for SE to demand Valve let Steam users switch should this change lock Steam users out of the game for any significant amount of time.

[Saccharin]

It's nice to know that even after 40 pages of comments against this, SE is still going to plough ahead with this without any new information as to why they feel they have to do this.

We've known for 5 years now that the "Steam version" was identical to the non-Steam version. Why make the change now and force additional restrictions?

Very disappointing.

I doubt it's SE but more like Steam making sure they get their cut by enforcing the rules. You chose to buy the Steam version so you have to put up with Valve. If you dont like it buy the PC version.

[worldofneil]

If you dont like it buy the PC version.

We can't! That's the problem!

An account can only have PC Steam or PC non-Steam, not both.

And Square Enix's Lodestone post about this literally starts "As part of our fraud prevention measures". Not that Valve/Steam is making them, but that they are choosing to.

[VirusChris]

I honestly can't recall where I bought my FFXIV game. Considering it's on my Steam account I bought the base game through PC yet I bought all of my expansion through the SE Store and it went through. Honestly I used the Steam for two accounts, the second one can only use the expansion bought through Steam's store, so I'm not sure how this will affect me.

I DO have the PS4 version to fallback on, but this is really ridiculous. Will I be able to play on the Steam version with expansion bought from SE Store or do I have to re-buy them? Interesting I can't use the Expansion from Steam as my Mogstation Account can't use the expansion. Really annoying.

[Krokov]

If you were to cancel your Steam version could you DL the PC version and use that or are you forced to re-use the Steam one?

[LadyBaelcrest]

If you were to cancel your Steam version could you DL the PC version and use that or are you forced to re-use the Steam one?

There's no way to "cancel" your version. Once you register that code to your account it's there to stay and you have to use that version to log in each time (on the PC)... At this point I'm willing to rebuy the expansions instead of this.

[worldofneil]

Considering it's on my Steam account I bought the base game through PC yet I bought all of my expansion through the SE Store and it went through.

If you bought the expansions direct from SE then you have a non-Steam account. I'm guessing at one point you bought the base game on Steam just to get it in your Steam library, but the account itself is still non-Steam so you're not affected by these changes.

You can confirm this by logging into the Mogstation and looking for one of these:



(First one is non-Steam, second is Steam)

If you were to cancel your Steam version could you DL the PC version and use that or are you forced to re-use the Steam one?

Unfortunately not. Once an account is flagged as Steam it's forever Steam. You can't switch between the two types.

[Krokov]

There's no way to "cancel" your version. Once you register that code to your account it's there to stay and you have to use that version to log in each time (on the PC)... At this point I'm willing to rebuy the expansions instead of this.

Oh man that sucks.

[Avidria]

If you were to cancel your Steam version could you DL the PC version and use that or are you forced to re-use the Steam one?

Once you have the steam version of the base game, you also need to get the steam version of every expansion. There is no changing to a PC version of the game unless you want to pay for a completely separate account.

Which, after sinking literal thousands of hours into the game, is not at all an option I'm willing to consider.

[Krokov]

Once you have the steam version of the base game, you also need to get the steam version of every expansion. There is no changing to a PC version of the game unless you want to pay for a completely separate account.

Which, after sinking literal thousands of hours into the game, is not at all an option I'm willing to consider.

Indeed friend.