Quote Originally Posted by Lemage View Post
Having to link a steam account - another layer of potential security breach - sounds like a bad idea for the average user, OTP/AUTH are way better solutions, but even then... Phishing attempts have increased not just for Steam and Discord but FFXIV accounts too, more and more average users have their accounts hacked, and if you're going to lock game access between not one but TWO accounts now, it's going to become a nightmare for those tech illiterate users to have to contact both Steam and FFXIV to recover in unison, and in some cases steam doesn't really do much either.

Also what's to be said about region locking via steam now if a user moves countries and wants to continue playing their same steam account? Will the FFXIV game become inaccessible ala Malaysian stores? Or will they be able to continue playing from that steam account? Do we need to take Steam account locations into account now too?

Over the years lots of people I've raided with have been stationed overseas for military work or contracting, moving from USA to JP or KR mostly, or even to MY or SG. These are my concerns.

Personally, I won't be hit hard by this as it just means I click the play button on steam as usual, but for a large group of people this is a very bad idea.

It also brings one question to mind, why is FFXIV being pushed into enforcing steam launching but numerous other games and even MMORPGs running through steam are not?

Also the Steamdeck only allows you to run FFXIV via Proton if you use the old launcher layout, not the new one, rip Steamdeck?? (Just something to keep in mind if anyone on this forum uses)



TL;DR
LET ME GIVE YOU MORE GOD DAMN MONEY TO BUY A PC LICENSE SQUARE ENIX
I moved US to EU and had to buy a whole new account. Steam users can't do this with FF can they?