Quote Originally Posted by Lauren View Post
It's a shame a ton of bad apples have tried to ruin his experience in game and tried to colour the community reaction out of game. I'm glad he's having a great time.

In addition, he really is right about buying the game. A few friends are hopping over and they all just bought endwalker and are confused that they don't have the game. I tried to explain it to them but they all agree (myself included) the process is silly.

Just have it so you get charged straight away for endwalker and it's applied to your account. none of this messing around!
TBF buying EW now is not much different from buying SL before it came out. That said, having to wait for a key is silly at this point.

What's really confusing is the starter vs complete vs Shadowbringers stuff.

What they should do is have two options:

Final Fantasy XIV (includes ARR>Stormblood)
Shadowbringers (is Shadowbringers)

Then when Endwalker is released, ShB rolls into the base game. So it's basically the reverse of what we have now, and I think would be a lot less confusing.