Quote Originally Posted by Bearded View Post
I did not say it was ideal but sadly it is all down to the contract and T&C's you agreed to when you purchased the game via Steam - they trapped you that's what they want - to be the only place you purchase content from.
No one agreed to these limitations they are implementing 8 years after the fact and there was zero communication that this would ever be a thing 8 years ago. If this was a thing from the first day FFXIV existed on steam it would be understandable like how it is on PS4, but no reasonable customer should agree to eat up limitations that were not there and had no communication that they would be there so far down the line.

And this applies not only to steam users, if SE added annoying inconveniences to non-steam users I'm sure people wouldn't be happy if i told them this is what they agreed on on the terms they agreed on when registering.

If it's not possible to add a windows license to our account i want the dev team to at least explain why it's not possible, instead of them lying to us that it's for our security when it isn't.

Until they officially explain why it's not possible we have every right to ask for a way to buy out of steam, that's why this forum exists in the first place.