Question for PC Players

[KRIPTICON]

Greetings to all of you,

After roughly 2 years of arguing with my stepson, I finally got him to take a break from WoW and try FFXIV so I am going to buy him the game and some sub time. However, something occurred to me and I wanted to ask around about it. I remember not too long ago that people who had the Steam version of the game were having some sort of an issue. I don't remember what it was, I just remember players being really upset about it. I play on console so it wasn't affecting me at the time but I need a PC copy of the game. I was wondering if the problem people were having had been sorted out or should I just buy from someone other than Steam?

Thanks in advance adventurers!

[StriderShinryu]

I'm not aware of any lingering issues with the game itself. Unless something has changed recently, you do, however, need to keep within the same ecosystem on PC. If you buy the main game on Steam you need to buy all of the expansions there. If you buy through somewhere that's "not Steam" you need to buy the expansions also from "not Steam."

[Hasrat]

Not a Steam user, but I believe the problem was something along the lines of, if Steam is ever having a fit, verifying users or something's down or whatever, then you're just stuck until Steam gets their shit together.

Maybe it's not a huge deal. But, would also expect it'd be better to cut the middleman regardless.

But like I said, no Steam here, so can't confirm.

[Canadane]

Steam was pretty delayed on expansion pack purchases.
Also limited releases of the physical collectors edition.

I suggest to everyone not to opt for the Steam version whenever possible. If the Steam overlay and stuff is important, you can add it as a non-steam title to the Steam client, while maintaining the regular PC client.

[RagingStallion]

A father should never force their son into anything. While FF14 is a superior game that usually indicates higher IQ, it's still at the end of their day their decision to make.

[Vahlnir]

Steam was pretty delayed on expansion pack purchases.
Also limited releases of the physical collectors edition.

I suggest to everyone not to opt for the Steam version whenever possible. If the Steam overlay and stuff is important, you can add it as a non-steam title to the Steam client, while maintaining the regular PC client.

Yeah, unfortunately I'm pretty much locked into Steam for FF XIV. If I had known ahead of time I'd have bailed but...it's there and it's what I have to use for my PC. Definitely don't recommend it for FF XIV though, that's for sure. I play FF XIV primarily on my PS4 anyway so it's not a big deal.

[SenorPatty]

So, once upon at time, you could launch FF14 directly without having Steam online. Sometime passed and a new policy came into place where FF14 would not longer have the ability to launch without Steam online first.

The issue? Steam has had some authenticating problems, meaning that people could not bypass it by launching FF14 directly. The issue has passed but the policy is still in place.

As King Canadane as advised, if you can get your hands on a copy without Steam, go for it.

EDIT:

Here, this is link to the actual change: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...727afe494a3b81

[Jin-]

Bollocks. It was 5 years ago during first expansion time when there was issues with pre-order delay and that was on Square not submitting the expansion early enough to Steam for Valve to check it.

If you want to use Steam wallet, which works with PayPal too then go ahead and buy Steam version. No need to apply credit card information.

[HeulGDarian]

I think what youre thinking about is how that , if you buy from steam you must also buy the expansion from steam ,since the steam version and non steam version isnt compatible with each other. This is the thing that usually people get mad about cause they cant refund the sale so they are basically fcked.

[lolicon09]

The only "issue" is that, if you buy the game on Steam, you're forced to buy every future expansion on Steam as well. And you must run the game from the Steam desktop app. That's it. I have the game in both Steam and PS4 and i have never had any kind of issue since 2016. Also, having Steam Wallet as a payment option is pretty nice IMO